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Events on the 19th of June in history

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19 Jun 0240 -BC- Eratosthenes estimates circumference of Earth
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19 Jun 0987 Louis IV, crowned King of France
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19 Jun 1179 The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
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19 Jun 1205 Pope Innocent III fires Adolf I as Archbishop of Cologne
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19 Jun 1269 King Louis IX of Frances decrees all Jews must wear a badge of shame
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19 Jun 1269 King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
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19 Jun 1286 Rabbenu Mir of Rothenbur imprisoned in fortress of Ensisheim
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19 Jun 1306 The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
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19 Jun 1369 Duke Philip the Stout marries Margaretha van Male
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19 Jun 1464 French King Louis XI forms postal service
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19 Jun 1502 Emperor Maximilian I and England sign treaty of Antwerp
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19 Jun 1572 Garrison under Adrian van Swieten occupy Oudewater
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19 Jun 1586 English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island, North Carolina
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19 Jun 1586 English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
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19 Jun 1621 Battle at Dragetsani: Turkish army beats Greece
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19 Jun 1631 Peace of Cherasco: Charles de Gonzaga-Nevers becomes Duke of Mantua
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19 Jun 1669 Polish parliament selects Litouwer Michael Wisniopwiecki as King
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19 Jun 1754 Albany Congress held by 7 British colonies & Iroquois indians
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19 Jun 1770 General Church of New Jerusalem established
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19 Jun 1778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge
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19 Jun 1816 Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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19 Jun 1821 Decisive defeat of the Filiki Eteria by the Ottomans at Drăgășani (in Wallachia).
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19 Jun 1821 Coronation of George IV of the United Kingdom.
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19 Jun 1829 Sir Robert Peel found London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies)
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19 Jun 1835 New Orleans gives US government Jackson Square to be used as a mint
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19 Jun 1846 The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired.
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19 Jun 1846 1st baseball game (Cartwright Rules)-NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1
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19 Jun 1850 Swedish / Norwegian crown Prince Charles weds Dutch Princess Wilhelmina
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19 Jun 1850 Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden–Norway.
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19 Jun 1857 19 June 1857 law (Loi relative à l'assainissement et de mise en culture des Landes de Gascogne): a turning point in the history of the Landes forest.
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19 Jun 1861 Francis Pierpont is elected provisional Governor of West Virginia
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19 Jun 1861 Anaheim Post Office established
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19 Jun 1862 The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
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19 Jun 1862 Slavery outlawed in US territories
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19 Jun 1864 CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France
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19 Jun 1864 Skirmish at Pine Knob, Georgia
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19 Jun 1864 CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France
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19 Jun 1865 Siege of Richmond, Virginia
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19 Jun 1865 Union General Granger declares slaves are free in Texas
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19 Jun 1865 Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 41 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
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19 Jun 1865 All slaves in Texas freed
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19 Jun 1867 1st Belmont: J Gilpatrick aboard Ruthless wins in 3:05
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19 Jun 1867 Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
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19 Jun 1867 1st Belmont Stakes, Ruthless wins
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19 Jun 1868 Maj General E R S Canby removes Mayor of Columbia, South Carolina
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19 Jun 1875 The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
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19 Jun 1875 Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio
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19 Jun 1881 Muhammad Ahmad becomes Mahdi of Sudan
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19 Jun 1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Man with the Twisted Lip"
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19 Jun 1893 Lizzie Bordon acquitted
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19 Jun 1910 1st airship in service "Germany"
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19 Jun 1910 The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
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19 Jun 1910 Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash)
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19 Jun 1911 the Norwegian football club Molde FK was founded.
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19 Jun 1912 Tennessee University opened as Tennessee A&L State College
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19 Jun 1913 Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.
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19 Jun 1914 54th British Golf Open: Harry Vardon shoots a 306 at Prestwick Club
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19 Jun 1917 After WWI King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames, they take the name Windsor
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19 Jun 1917 After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to
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19 Jun 1921 Census in Great-Britain
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19 Jun 1921 Turk and Christian of Palestine sign a friendship treaty against Jews
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19 Jun 1922 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:28.2)
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19 Jun 1923 "Moon Mullins, " Comic Strip, debuts
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19 Jun 1923 Baldwin-Mellon-agreement concerning Britain entering the war
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19 Jun 1930 C Jackson & H E Wood discovers asteroid #1595 Tanga
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19 Jun 1931 1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven, Connecticut
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19 Jun 1932 1st concert given in SF's Stern Grove
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19 Jun 1932 Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China PR
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19 Jun 1933 Austrian government-Dollfuss bans Nazi-organizations
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19 Jun 1934 The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
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19 Jun 1934 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created
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19 Jun 1936 Dutch Premier Colijn denies relation with German call-girl
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19 Jun 1936 German boxer Max Schmeling World Champion KOs Joe Louis
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19 Jun 1936 Joe McCarthy is named to manage AL All-Stars, rather than high-strung Mickey Cochrane, who is very close to a nervous breakdown
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19 Jun 1937 Franco-troops conquer Bilbao Basques
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19 Jun 1938 "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47
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19 Jun 1938 Paul Waner (Pirates) homers off Pete Sivess (Phillies) in DH
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19 Jun 1938 Reds Johnny Vander Meer extends his string of hitless innings to 21 2 / 3 before Debs Garms singles for Boston in 4th
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19 Jun 1938 Italy beats Hungary 4-1 in soccer's 3rd World Cup at Paris
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19 Jun 1940 "Brenda Starr, " 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago
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19 Jun 1940 German 7th Armour division under General Major Rommel occupies Cherbourg
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19 Jun 1941 US President Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act
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19 Jun 1941 Cheerios Cereal invents an O-shaped cereal
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19 Jun 1941 Romania orders Jews to evacuate Darabani
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19 Jun 1942 Paul Waner, is 7th to get 3,000 hits
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19 Jun 1943 "Shiek Of Arahy" Spike Jones and City Slickers peaks at #19
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19 Jun 1943 NFL's Phila Eagles & Pitts Steelers merge, (disolves on Dec 5)
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19 Jun 1944 300 Japanese aircrafts shot down
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19 Jun 1944 French troops free Elba
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19 Jun 1944 Heavy air raid on US fleet at Guam "Turkey Shoot"
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19 Jun 1944 Japanese troops conquer Changsha China
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19 Jun 1944 World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
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19 Jun 1946 1st TV sports spectacular-Joe Louis vs Billy Conn
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19 Jun 1947 1st plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 km/h) - Albert Boyd, Muroc, California
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19 Jun 1948 Panama and Costa Rica recognize Israel
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19 Jun 1948 USSR blocks access road to West Berlin
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19 Jun 1950 A G Wilson discovers asteroid #1980 Tezcatlipoca
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19 Jun 1952 Brooklyn Dodger Carl Erskine no-hits Chicago Cubs, 5-0
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19 Jun 1952 "I've Got A Secret" debuted on CBS with Garry Moore as host
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19 Jun 1953 Albert W Dent, elected President of National Health Council
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19 Jun 1953 WCSC TV channel 5 in Charleston, SC (CBS) begins broadcasting
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19 Jun 1953 WTPA (now WHTM) TV channel 27 in Harrisburg, PA (ABC) 1st broadcast
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19 Jun 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
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19 Jun 1954 54th US Golf Open: Ed Furgol shoots a 284 at Baltusrol Golf Club - New Jersey
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19 Jun 1954 Betty Jameson wins LPGA Western Golf Open
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19 Jun 1954 Tasmanian Devil, debuts in "Devil May Hare" by Warner Bros
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19 Jun 1955 55th US Golf Open: Jack Fleck shoots a 287 at Olympic Country Club - San Francisco
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19 Jun 1955 Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 100
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19 Jun 1955 Phils beat Cubs 1-0 in 15, ties longest shut out in Phillies history
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19 Jun 1956 Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin end partnership after 16 films
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19 Jun 1959 Senate rejects Ike's appointment of Lewis Strauss for Sec of Comm
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19 Jun 1960 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
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19 Jun 1960 Loretta Lynn records "Honky Tonk Girl"
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19 Jun 1961 "Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)" by Coasters peaks at #23
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19 Jun 1961 New York Yankee Roger Maris hits his 25th of 61 HRs
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19 Jun 1961 Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
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19 Jun 1961 Kuwait regains complete independence from Britain
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19 Jun 1961 US Supreme Court struck down a provision in Md's constitution
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19 Jun 1963 Greek government of Pipinolis forms
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19 Jun 1963 2 Russian space missions return to Earth
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19 Jun 1963 Charter members of Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen
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19 Jun 1963 Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to Earth
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19 Jun 1964 Bob Dylan completes UK tour
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19 Jun 1964 Cambuur Leeuwarden BVO soccer team forms in Leeuwarden
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19 Jun 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27
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19 Jun 1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
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19 Jun 1965 Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state.
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19 Jun 1965 KYW-AM in Cleveland Ohio returns call letters to Philadelphia
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19 Jun 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
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19 Jun 1966 Shiv Sena a political party in India is founded in Mumbai.
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19 Jun 1967 Muhammad Ali is convicted for reusing induction in US Army
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19 Jun 1967 Paul McCartney admits on TV that he took LSD
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19 Jun 1968 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign
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19 Jun 1969 State troopers ordered to Cairo Ill, to quell racial disturbances
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19 Jun 1970 Conservatives win British parliamentary election
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19 Jun 1970 Yanks Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 2nd of 3 times in 28 days
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19 Jun 1970 The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.
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19 Jun 1970 A Nikolayev & V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9
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19 Jun 1970 Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" is published
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19 Jun 1971 Mayor declares state of emergency in Columbus Ga, racial disturbance
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19 Jun 1972 40,000 pilots strike against naval officer
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19 Jun 1973 "Rocky Horror Picture Show, " stage production opens in London
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19 Jun 1973 Pete Rose & Willie Davis both get career hit # 2,000
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19 Jun 1974 Kansas City Royal Steve Busby 2nd no-hitter beats Milwaukee Brewers, 2-0
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19 Jun 1974 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) suspends constitution
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19 Jun 1976 King Charles XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Dutchess Silvia Sommerlath
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19 Jun 1976 US Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from Earth
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19 Jun 1977 77th US Golf Open: Hubert Green shoots a 278 at Southern Hills Tulsa
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19 Jun 1977 Indians fire manager Frank Robinson and replace him with Jeff Torborg
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19 Jun 1977 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
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19 Jun 1977 Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cen bishop John Neumann 1st US male saint
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19 Jun 1977 Red Sox set 3 game record of 16 HRs, all against Yanks
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19 Jun 1978 "Best Little Whorehouse..." opens at 46th St. NYC for 1577 performances
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19 Jun 1978 Garfield, created by Jim Davis, 1st appears as a comic strip
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19 Jun 1978 Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.
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19 Jun 1979 In New York 36,211 show up to witness return of Billy Martin as Yank mgr
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19 Jun 1980 Battle between police and demonstrators in Cape Town, 34 killed
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19 Jun 1981 Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, South Africa
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19 Jun 1981 Boeing commercial Chinook 2-rotor helicopter is certified
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19 Jun 1981 European Space Agency's Ariane carries 2 satellites into orbit
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19 Jun 1981 India's APPLE satellite, 1st to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched
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19 Jun 1982 In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University of Beirut, is kidnapped.
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19 Jun 1982 The body of "God's Banker", Roberto Calvi, is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
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19 Jun 1983 "Octopussy" premieres in US
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19 Jun 1983 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
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19 Jun 1984 "Weird Al" Yankovic gives free live performance at Del Mar Fair
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19 Jun 1984 1st live TV appearance by Chief Justice Warren Burger (Nightline)
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19 Jun 1985 Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
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19 Jun 1985 Reggie Jackson hits his 513th HR to move into 10th place
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19 Jun 1986 Argentina beats West Germany 3-2 in soccer's 13th World Cup
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19 Jun 1987 ETA bomb attack in Barcelona, 15 killed
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19 Jun 1987 Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation
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19 Jun 1987 Geffen records sign their 1st artist (Donna Summer)
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19 Jun 1987 Wee Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak ends
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19 Jun 1988 88th US Golf Open: Curtis Strange shoots a 278 at Country Club, Massachusetts
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19 Jun 1988 Namphy takes control of Haitian government
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19 Jun 1988 Shirley Furlong wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
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19 Jun 1988 Danny Spitz, heavy metal artist (Anthrax), weds Valerie
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19 Jun 1988 In Santa Barbara, CA, a team of 32 divers finish cycling underwater
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19 Jun 1989 Mets Dwight Gooden wins his 100th game (100-37)
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19 Jun 1990 The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
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19 Jun 1990 The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
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19 Jun 1991 Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar surrenders to police
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19 Jun 1991 New York Yankee Steve Howe records his 1st major league save since 1987
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19 Jun 1991 The Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
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19 Jun 1991 2 of Mia Farrow's daughters arrested for shoplifting lingerie
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19 Jun 1992 "Batman Returns, " opens
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19 Jun 1992 Evander Holyfield beats Larry Holmes in 12 for heavywgt boxing title
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19 Jun 1992 Guardian Angel Curtis Sliwa is shot twice in New York City
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19 Jun 1992 Inkhata-blood bath in Boipatong South-Africa
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19 Jun 1994 "Sally Marrand Her Escorts" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 50 performances
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19 Jun 1994 "She Loves Me" closes at Atkinson Theater NYC after 294 performances
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19 Jun 1994 "Twilight - Los Angeles 1992" closes at Cort NYC after 72 performances
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19 Jun 1994 94th US Golf Open: Ernie Els shoots a 279 at Oakmont Country Club - Oakmont, Pennsylvania
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19 Jun 1994 Ernesto Samper elected President of Colombia
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19 Jun 1994 Lisa Kiggens wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament
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19 Jun 1994 Tigers tie record of hitting HRs in 25th consecutive games
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19 Jun 1995 New York Yankees announce agreement with Darryl Strawberry
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19 Jun 1997 "Forever Tango!, " opens at Walter Kerr Theater, New York City
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19 Jun 2007 The al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured.
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19 Jun 2009 Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
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19 Jun 2009 War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
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19 Jun 2010 The Wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling was held at Storkyrkan in Stockholm.
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19 Jun 2012 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requested asylum in London's Ecuatorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army.
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19 Jun 2014 Felipe VI, Prince of Asturias, rises to the Spanish throne following the abdication of his father, Juan Carlos I.
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