On This Day — 19 June
2000s
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
1900s
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The last Soviet army units in Hungary are withdrawn.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
1960
Charlotte Motor Speedway holds its first NASCAR race, the inaugural World 600.
Charlotte Motor Speedway
1953
Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
Cold War
1947
Pan Am Flight 121 crashes in the Syrian Desert near Mayadin, Syria, killing 15 and injuring 21.
Pan Am Flight 121
1945
The Smoke Tragedy left 355 workers dead in the underground copper mine of El Teniente, Chile.
1945 El Teniente mining accident
1943
The Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL merge for one season due to player shortages caused by World War II.
Philadelphia Eagles
1934
The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Communications Act of 1934
1921
The village of Knockcroghery, Ireland, is burned by British forces.
Knockcroghery
1913
Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.
Natives Land Act, 1913
1910
The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
Father's Day
1903
Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.
Benito Mussolini
1800s
1875
The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
Herzegovina uprising (1875–1877)
1867
Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
Maximilian I of Mexico
1865
Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are officially informed of their freedom. The anniversary was officially celebrated in Texas and other states as Juneteenth. On June 17, 2021, Juneteenth officially became a federal holiday in the United States.
Emancipation Proclamation
1862
President Abraham Lincoln signs the Territorial Slavery Act of 1862, which prohibits slavery in all current and future United States territories.
Abraham Lincoln
1850
Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden–Norway.
Louise of the Netherlands
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.
History of baseball in the United States
1821
Decisive defeat of the Filiki Eteria by the Ottomans at Drăgășani (in Wallachia).
Filiki Eteria
1816
Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
Battle of Seven Oaks
1811
The Carlton House Fête is held in London to celebrate the establishment of the Regency era.
Carlton House Fête
1800
War of the Second Coalition Battle of Höchstädt results in a French victory over Austria.
War of the Second Coalition
Before 1800
1785
The Boston King's Chapel adopts James Freeman's revised prayer book, without the Nicene Creed, establishing it as the first Unitarian congregation in the United States.
King's Chapel
1718
At least 73,000 people died in the 1718 Tongwei–Gansu earthquake due to landslides in the Qing dynasty.
1718 Tongwei–Gansu earthquake
1586
English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
Roanoke Island
1306
The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
1179
The Battle of Kalvskinnet takes place outside Nidaros (now Trondheim), Norway. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
Trondheim
325
The original Nicene Creed is adopted at the First Council of Nicaea.
Nicene Creed