June 19
1586 - English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island, North Carolina, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America.
1775 - George Washington was commissioned by the Continental Congress as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
1862 - Congress abolished slavery in the U.S. territories.
1865 - Gen. Gordon Granger informed the citizens of Galveston, Texas that the Civil War was over and that the slaves were freed. The celebration of the day came to be known as Juneteenth.
1910 - Father's Day was celebrated for the first time, in Spokane, Washington.
1911 - Pennsylvania became the first state to establish a motion picture censorship board.
1917 - During World War I, King George V changed the British royal family's German-sounding surname, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, to Windsor.
1934 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was created.
1945 - Millions of New Yorkers turned out to cheer Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was honored with a parade.
1953 - Julius Rosenberg, age 35, and his wife Ethel, age 37, convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, was executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York.
1961 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland's constitution requiring state officeholders to profess a belief in God.
1964 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the U.S. Senate.
1975 - Former Chicago organized crime boss Sam Giancana was shot to death in the basement of his home in Oak Park, Illinois; the killing has never been solved.
1977 - Pope Paul VI proclaimed John Neumann the first male saint from the United States.
1987 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring any public school teaching the theory of evolution to teach creationism as well.
1999 - Britain's Prince Edward married commoner Sophie Rhys-Jones in Windsor, England.
2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, barred officials from letting students lead stadium crowds in prayer before football games.
2002 - Hamid Karzai was sworn in as president of Afghanistan.
2008 - Democrat Barack Obama announced he would bypass public financing for the presidential election, even though Republican John McCain was accepting it.
2009 - Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford was indicted and jailed on charges his international banking empire was really just a Ponzi scheme built on lies, bluster and bribery. (Stanford was sentenced to 110 years in prison after being convicted of bilking investors in a $7.2 billion scheme that involved the sale of fraudulent certificates of deposits.)
2013 - Actor James Gandolfini died at age 51 while vacationing in Rome.
2014 - Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California won election as House majority leader as Republicans shuffled their leadership in the wake of Rep. Eric Cantor's primary defeat in Virginia.
2020 - Americans marked Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans, with new urgency and protests demanding racial justice. Demonstrators across the country defaced and toppled statues and busts of former U.S. presidents, a Spanish missionary and Confederate figures.
Birthdays
23 - Atticus Shaffer (actor)
25 - Sohni Ahmed (model)
32 - Giacomo Gianniotti (actor)
36 - Kaitlyn Bristowe (reality star)
36 - Kajal Aggarwal (actress)
37 - Paul Dano (actor)
37 - Tommie Lee (reality star)
39 - Macklemore (rapper)
41 - Lauren Lee Smith (actress)
41 - Neil Brown Jr. (actor)
43 - Dirk Nowitzki (basketball player)
43 - Zoe Saldana (actress)
45 - Ryan Hurst (actor)
46 - Poppy Montgomery (actress)
49 - Robin Tunney (actress)
49 - Jean Dujardin (actress)
52 - Lara Spencer (TV host)
54 - Mia Sara (actress)
55 - Samuel West (actor)
57 - Boris Johnson (British prime minister)
58 - Andy Lauer (actor)
59 - Paula Abdul (singer/dancer)
62 - Mark DeBarge (singer)
65 - Doug Stone (country singer)
67 - Kathleen Turner (actress)
71 - Ann Wilson (singer)
73 - Phylicia Rashad (actress)
74 - Salman Rushdie (author)
91 - Gena Rowlands (actress)
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Today in Sports History - June 19
1846 - The New York Knickerbocker Club played the New York Club in the first baseball game at the Elysian Field, Hoboken, NJ. It was the first organized baseball game.
1867 - The first Belmont Stakes horse race was held.
1938 - Italy defeats Hungary 4-1 in Paris to win the World Cup.
1942 - Paul Waner of the Boston Braves becomes the seventh player in major league history with 3,000 career hits.
1943 - The National Football League approved the temporary merger of the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers. (It would dissolve on Dec. 5.)
1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the anti-trust exemption that major league baseball uses was Constitutional. The court called upon the U.S. Congress to repeal the sport's special status.
1973 - Gordie Howe left the NHL to join his sons Mark and Marty in the WHA (World Hockey Association).
1985 - Reggie Jackson hits his 513th career home run to move into the top 10 on the major league career list.
1986 - University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias died of a cocaine-induced seizure.
1992 - Evander Holyfield defeats Larry Holmes in 12 rounds for the heavyweight boxing championship.
1999 - The Dallas Stars won their first NHL Stanley Cup by defeating the Buffalo Sabres in the third overtime of game six.
2000 - The Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Indiana Pacers in six games to win the NBA championship.
2006 - The Carolina Hurricanes defeat the Edmonton Oilers in seven games to win their first Stanley Cup.
2011 - Rory McIlroy ran away with the U.S. Open title, winning by eight shots and breaking the tournament scoring record by a whopping four strokes. (McIlroy shot 2-under 69 to close the four days at Congressional in Bethesda, Maryland, at 16-under 268.)
2016 - The Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the Golden State Warriors in seven games to win the NBA championship. It was the first major professional sports championship for the city of Cleveland since 1964.
1586 - English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island, North Carolina, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America.
1775 - George Washington was commissioned by the Continental Congress as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
1862 - Congress abolished slavery in the U.S. territories.
1865 - Gen. Gordon Granger informed the citizens of Galveston, Texas that the Civil War was over and that the slaves were freed. The celebration of the day came to be known as Juneteenth.
1910 - Father's Day was celebrated for the first time, in Spokane, Washington.
1911 - Pennsylvania became the first state to establish a motion picture censorship board.
1917 - During World War I, King George V changed the British royal family's German-sounding surname, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, to Windsor.
1934 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was created.
1945 - Millions of New Yorkers turned out to cheer Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was honored with a parade.
1953 - Julius Rosenberg, age 35, and his wife Ethel, age 37, convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, was executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York.
1961 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland's constitution requiring state officeholders to profess a belief in God.
1964 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the U.S. Senate.
1975 - Former Chicago organized crime boss Sam Giancana was shot to death in the basement of his home in Oak Park, Illinois; the killing has never been solved.
1977 - Pope Paul VI proclaimed John Neumann the first male saint from the United States.
1987 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring any public school teaching the theory of evolution to teach creationism as well.
1999 - Britain's Prince Edward married commoner Sophie Rhys-Jones in Windsor, England.
2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, barred officials from letting students lead stadium crowds in prayer before football games.
2002 - Hamid Karzai was sworn in as president of Afghanistan.
2008 - Democrat Barack Obama announced he would bypass public financing for the presidential election, even though Republican John McCain was accepting it.
2009 - Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford was indicted and jailed on charges his international banking empire was really just a Ponzi scheme built on lies, bluster and bribery. (Stanford was sentenced to 110 years in prison after being convicted of bilking investors in a $7.2 billion scheme that involved the sale of fraudulent certificates of deposits.)
2013 - Actor James Gandolfini died at age 51 while vacationing in Rome.
2014 - Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California won election as House majority leader as Republicans shuffled their leadership in the wake of Rep. Eric Cantor's primary defeat in Virginia.
2020 - Americans marked Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans, with new urgency and protests demanding racial justice. Demonstrators across the country defaced and toppled statues and busts of former U.S. presidents, a Spanish missionary and Confederate figures.
Birthdays
23 - Atticus Shaffer (actor)
25 - Sohni Ahmed (model)
32 - Giacomo Gianniotti (actor)
36 - Kaitlyn Bristowe (reality star)
36 - Kajal Aggarwal (actress)
37 - Paul Dano (actor)
37 - Tommie Lee (reality star)
39 - Macklemore (rapper)
41 - Lauren Lee Smith (actress)
41 - Neil Brown Jr. (actor)
43 - Dirk Nowitzki (basketball player)
43 - Zoe Saldana (actress)
45 - Ryan Hurst (actor)
46 - Poppy Montgomery (actress)
49 - Robin Tunney (actress)
49 - Jean Dujardin (actress)
52 - Lara Spencer (TV host)
54 - Mia Sara (actress)
55 - Samuel West (actor)
57 - Boris Johnson (British prime minister)
58 - Andy Lauer (actor)
59 - Paula Abdul (singer/dancer)
62 - Mark DeBarge (singer)
65 - Doug Stone (country singer)
67 - Kathleen Turner (actress)
71 - Ann Wilson (singer)
73 - Phylicia Rashad (actress)
74 - Salman Rushdie (author)
91 - Gena Rowlands (actress)
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Today in Sports History - June 19
1846 - The New York Knickerbocker Club played the New York Club in the first baseball game at the Elysian Field, Hoboken, NJ. It was the first organized baseball game.
1867 - The first Belmont Stakes horse race was held.
1938 - Italy defeats Hungary 4-1 in Paris to win the World Cup.
1942 - Paul Waner of the Boston Braves becomes the seventh player in major league history with 3,000 career hits.
1943 - The National Football League approved the temporary merger of the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers. (It would dissolve on Dec. 5.)
1972 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the anti-trust exemption that major league baseball uses was Constitutional. The court called upon the U.S. Congress to repeal the sport's special status.
1973 - Gordie Howe left the NHL to join his sons Mark and Marty in the WHA (World Hockey Association).
1985 - Reggie Jackson hits his 513th career home run to move into the top 10 on the major league career list.
1986 - University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias died of a cocaine-induced seizure.
1992 - Evander Holyfield defeats Larry Holmes in 12 rounds for the heavyweight boxing championship.
1999 - The Dallas Stars won their first NHL Stanley Cup by defeating the Buffalo Sabres in the third overtime of game six.
2000 - The Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Indiana Pacers in six games to win the NBA championship.
2006 - The Carolina Hurricanes defeat the Edmonton Oilers in seven games to win their first Stanley Cup.
2011 - Rory McIlroy ran away with the U.S. Open title, winning by eight shots and breaking the tournament scoring record by a whopping four strokes. (McIlroy shot 2-under 69 to close the four days at Congressional in Bethesda, Maryland, at 16-under 268.)
2016 - The Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the Golden State Warriors in seven games to win the NBA championship. It was the first major professional sports championship for the city of Cleveland since 1964.
