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June 19




June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) in the Gregorian
Calendar, with 195 days remaining.

Events

   * 1846 - First baseball game under recognizable modern rules in Hoboken,
     New Jersey.
   * 1865 - Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in
     Galveston, Texas are finally informed of their freedom. June 19th is
     unofficially celebrated as Juneteenth in the United States.
   * 1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
   * 1912 - establishment of the 8-hour work day in the United States.
   * 1934 - establishment of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in
     the United States. The FCC regulates radio and television broadcasts.
   * 1978 - first appearance of the comic strip Garfield.

Births

   * 1623 - Blaise Pascal, mathematician (+ 1662)
   * 1764 - Josˇ Gervasio Artigas, father of Uruguay (+ 1850)
   * 1792 - Gustav Schwab, author (+ 1850)
   * 1838 - Friedrich von Hessing, engineer (+ 1918)
   * 1865 - Dame May Whitty, entertainer (+ 1948)
   * 1896 - Wallis Warfield, Duchess of Windsor (+ 1986)
   * 1902 - Guy Lombardo, bandleader (+ 1977)
   * 1903 - Lou Gehrig, baseball player
   * 1905 - Mildred Natwick, actress (+ 1994)
   * 1914 - Alan Cranston, United States politician (+ 2000)
   * 1924 - Anneliese Rothenberger, soprano
   * 1930 - Gena Rowlands, actress
   * 1932 - Pier Angeli, actress (+ 1972)
   * 1933 - Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut
   * 1945 - Aung San Suu Kyi, politician and recipient of the Nobel Peace
     Prize 1991)
   * 1947 - Salman Rushdie, author
   * 1962 - Paula Abdul, singer
   * 1969 - Reddy Annappareddy

Deaths

   * 1902 - Frederick Augustus Albert, king of Saxony from 1873 to 1902
   * 1937 - J.M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan
   * 1953 - Julius Rosenberg, convicted spy
   * 1953 - Ethel Rosenberg, convicted spy
   * 1966 - Ed Wynn, entertainer

Holidays and observances

   * Juneteenth - celebrates the Emancipation Proclamation

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