19 June
Notable Births
Millie Gibson
b. 2004
English actress (born 2004)
Bennedict Mathurin
b. 2002
Canadian basketball player (born 2002)
Nuno Mendes (footballer, born 2002)
b. 2002
Portuguese footballer (born 2002)
Jordan Poole
b. 1999
American basketball player (born 1999)
Atticus Shaffer
b. 1998
American actor (born 1998)
Joshua Da Silva
b. 1998
Trinidadian cricketer
Lejla Njemčević
b. 1994
Bosnian mountain bike cyclist (born 1994)
KSI
b. 1993
English boxer, influencer, and musician (born 1993)
Keaton Jennings
b. 1992
English cricketer (born 1992)
C. J. Mosley (linebacker)
b. 1992
American football player (born 1992)
Ashly Burch
b. 1990
American actress and television writer (born 1990)
Moa Hjelmer
b. 1990
Swedish sprinter (born 1990)
Xavier Rhodes
b. 1990
American football player (born 1990)
Jacob deGrom
b. 1988
American baseball player (born 1988)
Rashard Mendenhall
b. 1987
American football player (born 1987)
Aoiyama Kōsuke
b. 1986
Japanese sumo wrestler
Hugh Dancy
b. 1975
English actor (born 1975)
Subcomandante Marcos
b. 1957
Mexican insurgent and spokesperson of EZLN
John Ralston Saul
b. 1947
Canadian writer and political philosopher
Lou Gehrig
b. 1903
American baseball player (1903–1941)
Notable Deaths
Ian Holm
d. 2020
British actor (1931–2020)
Etika
d. 2019
American YouTuber and live streamer (1990–2019)
Koko (gorilla)
d. 2018
Captive gorilla studied by researchers
Otto Warmbier
d. 2017
American imprisoned in North Korea (1994–2017)
Anton Yelchin
d. 2016
American actor (1989–2016)
James Salter
d. 2015
American writer (1925–2015)
Gerry Goffin
d. 2014
American lyricist (1939–2014)
Vince Flynn
d. 2013
American author (1966–2013)
James Gandolfini
d. 2013
American actor (1961–2013)
Gyula Horn
d. 2013
Hungarian politician (1932–2013)
Dave Jennings (American football)
d. 2013
American football punter and sportscaster (1952–2013)
Filip Topol
d. 2013
Czech musician and writer (1965–2013)
Slim Whitman
d. 2013
American country musician (1923–2013)
Norbert Tiemann
d. 2012
American politician (1924–2012)
Carlos Monsiváis
d. 2010
Mexican writer
Manute Bol
d. 2010
Sudanese-American basketball player (died 2010)
Anthony Quinton
d. 2010
English political and moral philosopher, metaphysician (1925–2010)
Antonio Aguilar
d. 2007
Mexican singer and actor (1919–2007)
Terry Hoeppner
d. 2007
American football player and coach (1947–2007)
Ze'ev Schiff
d. 2007
Israeli journalist
On This Day in History
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2020
Animal rights advocate Regan Russell is run over and killed by a transport truck outside of a pig slaughterhouse in Burlington, Ontario.
Death of Regan Russell
2018
The 10,000,000th United States Patent is issued.
Patent
2018
Antwon Rose II is fatally shot in East Pittsburgh by East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld after being involved in a near-fatal drive-by shooting.
Killing of Antwon Rose Jr.
2012
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requests asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army; he will remain there until 2019.
WikiLeaks
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.
Shishou incident
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.
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
2007
The al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured.
2007 al-Khilani mosque bombing
2005
Following a series of Michelin tire failures during the United States Grand Prix weekend at Indianapolis, and without an agreement being reached, 14 cars from seven teams in Michelin tires withdrew after completing the formation lap, leaving only six cars from three teams on Bridgestone tires to race.
Michelin
1991
The last Soviet army units in Hungary are withdrawn.
Southern Group of Forces
1990
The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.
Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989
1990
The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
1988
Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.
Pope John Paul II
1987
Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
ETA (separatist group)
1987
Aeroflot Flight N-528 crashes at Berdiansk Airport in present-day Ukraine, killing eight people.
Aeroflot Flight N-528
1985
Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers
1982
The People's Armed Police is de facto founded; It is officially established 10 months later on April 5, 1983
People's Armed Police
1978
Garfield's first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication.
Garfield
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.
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ
1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
1961
Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
Kuwait