June 19 in History

Animal rights advocate Regan Russell is run over and killed by a transport truck outside of a pig slaughterhouse in Burlington, Ontario.

The 10,000,000th United States Patent is issued.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured.

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 withdraw after completing the formation lap, leaving only six cars from three teams on Bridgestone tires to race.

The last Soviet army units in Hungary are withdrawn.

The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway.

The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.

Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.

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.

Aeroflot Flight N-528 crashes at Berdiansk Airport in present-day Ukraine, killing eight people.

Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.

The People's Armed Police is de facto founded; it is officially established 10 months later on April 5, 1983.

Garfield's first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication.

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.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.

Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.

Charlotte Motor Speedway holds its first NASCAR race, the inaugural World 600.

Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.

Pan Am Flight 121 crashes in the Syrian Desert near Mayadin, Syria, killing 15 and injuring 21.

The Smoke Tragedy leaves 355 workers dead in the underground copper mine of El Teniente, Chile.

The Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL merge for one season due to player shortages caused by World War II.

The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

King Roger, an opera about Roger II of Sicily by Karol Szymanowski, is premiered at the Grand Theatre in Warsaw.

The village of Knockcroghery, Ireland, is burned by British forces.

Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.

The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.

Benito Mussolini, at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by Bern police for advocating a violent general strike.

The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.

Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.

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.

President Abraham Lincoln signs the Territorial Slavery Act of 1862, which prohibits slavery in all current and future United States territories.

Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden–Norway.

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.

Decisive defeat of the Filiki Eteria by the Ottomans at Drăgășani (in Wallachia).

Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

The Carlton House Fête is held in London to celebrate the establishment of the Regency era.

War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Höchstädt results in a French victory over Austria.

The first New Church place of worship the Birmingham New Jerusalem Temple was dedicated on the 19th day of June, 1791, in Birmingham, England. The auspiciousness of this date was noted at the time.

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.

At least 73,000 people die in the 1718 Tongwei–Gansu earthquake due to landslides in the Qing dynasty.

English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.

The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.

Byzantine forces loyal to emperor Basil II under Bardas Phokas the Younger defeat rebel forces under Bardas Skleros in the battle of Pankaleia (approximate date).

The original Nicene Creed is adopted at the First Council of Nicaea.

Millie Gibson, English actress

Bennedict Mathurin, Canadian basketball player

Nuno Mendes, Portuguese footballer

Jordan Poole, American basketball player

Atticus Shaffer, American actor and YouTuber

Joshua Da Silva, Trinidadian cricketer

Lejla Njemčević, Bosnian cross-country and mountain bike cyclist

KSI, English YouTuber

Keaton Jennings, South African-English cricketer

C. J. Mosley, American football player

Ashly Burch, American actress, writer, and director

Moa Hjelmer, Swedish sprinter

Xavier Rhodes, American football player

Jacob deGrom, American baseball player

Rashard Mendenhall, American football player

Aoiyama Kōsuke, Bulgarian sumo wrestler

Lázaro Borges, Cuban pole vaulter

Marvin Williams, American basketball player

Ai Miyazato, Japanese golfer

José Ernesto Sosa, Argentinian footballer

Dire Tune, Ethiopian runner

Paul Dano, American actor

Wieke Dijkstra, Dutch field hockey player

Andri Eleftheriou, Cypriot sport shooter

Macklemore, American rapper

Aidan Turner, Irish actor

Alexander Frolov, Russian ice hockey player

Chris Vermeulen, Australian motorcycle racer

Michael Yarmush, American actor

Mohammed Al-Khuwalidi, Saudi Arabian long jumper

Moss Burmester, New Zealand swimmer

Jean Carroll, Irish cricketer

Dan Ellis, Canadian ice hockey player

Robbie Neilson, Scottish footballer and manager

Nuno Santos, Portuguese footballer

José Kléberson, Brazilian footballer

Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player

Zoe Saldaña, American actress

Claudio Vargas, Dominican baseball player

Dennis Crowley, American businessman, co-founded Foursquare

Bryan Hughes, English footballer and manager

Anita Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer

Hugh Dancy, English actor and model

Anthony Parker, American basketball player

Doug Mientkiewicz, American baseball player, coach, and manager

Mustaque Ahmed Ruhi, Bangladeshi member of parliament

Jahine Arnold, American football player

Yuko Nakazawa, Japanese singer

Yasuhiko Yabuta, Japanese baseball player

Jean Dujardin, French actor

Dennis Lyxzén, Swedish singer

Ilya Markov, Russian race walker

Brian McBride, American soccer player and coach

Poppy Montgomery, Australian actress

Robin Tunney, American actress

José Emilio Amavisca, Spanish footballer

Chris Armstrong, English footballer

Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician

Quincy Watts, American sprinter and football player

Brian Welch, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Alastair Lynch, Australian footballer and sportscaster

Timothy Morton, American philosopher and academic

Kimberly Anne "Kim" Walker, American film and television actress (died 2001)

Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian skier and businessman

Mike Hasenfratz, Canadian ice hockey referee (died 2024)

Michalis Romanidis, Greek basketball player

Sabine Braun, German heptathlete

Sadie Frost, English actress and producer

Brent Goulet, American soccer player and manager

Boris Johnson, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and former Mayor of London

Brian Vander Ark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

Laura Ingraham, American radio host and author

Margarita Ponomaryova, Russian hurdler

Rory Underwood, English rugby player, lieutenant, and pilot

Paula Abdul, American singer-songwriter, dancer, actress, and presenter

Jeremy Bates, English tennis player

Ashish Vidyarthi, Indian actor

Andrew Dilnot, English economist and academic

Johnny Gray, American runner and coach

Luke Morley, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer

Patti Rizzo, American golfer

Mark DeBarge, American singer-songwriter and trumpet player

Christian Wulff, German lawyer and politician, 10th President of Germany

Sergei Makarov, Russian-American ice hockey player and coach

Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, 39th Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 2003)

Jean Rabe, American journalist and author

Subcomandante Marcos, Mexican insurgent and EZLN leader

Mary O'Connor, New Zealand runner

Mary Schapiro, American lawyer and politician

Mike O'Brien, English lawyer and politician, Solicitor General for England and Wales

Lou Pearlman, American music producer and fraudster (died 2016)

Kathleen Turner, American actress

Richard Wilkins, New Zealand-Australian journalist and television presenter

Bob Ainsworth, English politician, Secretary of State for Defence

Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist (died 2022)

Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist

Neil Asher Silberman, American archaeologist and historian

Ann Wilson, American singer-songwriter and musician

Nick Drake, English singer-songwriter (died 1974)

Phylicia Rashad, American actress

Salman Rushdie, Indian-English novelist and essayist

John Ralston Saul, Canadian philosopher and author

Jimmy Greenhoff, English footballer and manager

Radovan Karadžić, Serbian-Bosnian politician and convicted war criminal, 1st President of Republika Srpska

Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, Nobel Prize laureate

Tobias Wolff, American short story writer, memoirist, and novelist

Peter Bardens, British keyboardist (died 2002)

Chico Buarque, Brazilian singer, composer, writer and poet

Merata Mita, New Zealand director and producer (died 2010)

Václav Klaus, Czech economist and politician, 2nd President of the Czech Republic

Bernd Hoss, German footballer and manager (died 2016)

John MacArthur, American minister and theologian (died 2025)

Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (died 2002)

André Glucksmann, French philosopher and author (died 2015)

Marisa Galvany, American soprano and actress

Gérard Latortue, Haitian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Haiti (died 2023)

Viktor Patsayev, Kazakh engineer and astronaut (died 1971)

Pier Angeli, Italian actress, twin sister to Marisa Pavan (died 1971)

José Sanchis Grau, Spanish author and illustrator (died 2011)

Marisa Pavan, Italian actress, twin sister to Pier Angeli (died 2023)

Gena Rowlands, American actress (died 2024)

Boris Parygin, Soviet philosopher, psychologist, and author (died 2012)

Tommy DeVito, American singer and guitarist (died 2020)

Nancy Marchand, American actress (died 2000)

Luciano Benjamín Menéndez, Argentine general and human rights violator (died 2018)

Erna Schneider Hoover, American mathematician and inventor

Bob Hank, Australian footballer and coach (died 2012)

Aage Bohr, Danish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009)

Marilyn P. Johnson, American educator and diplomat, 8th United States Ambassador to Togo (died 2022)

Louis Jourdan, French-American actor and singer (died 2015)

Yves Robert, French actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2002)

Pauline Kael, American film critic (died 2001)

Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwean guerrilla leader and politician, Vice President of Zimbabwe (died 1999)

Pat Buttram, American actor (died 1994)

Julius Schwartz, American publisher and agent (died 2004)

Alan Cranston, American journalist and politician (died 2000)

Lester Flatt, American bluegrass singer-songwriter, guitarist, and mandolin player (died 1979)

Helene Madison, American swimmer (died 1970)

Don Gutteridge, American baseball player and manager (died 2008)

Virginia MacWatters, American soprano and actress (died 2005)

Sydney Allard, English race car driver, founded the Allard Company (died 1966)

Paul Flory, American chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1985)

Abe Fortas, American lawyer and jurist, associate member of the US Supreme Court (died 1982)

Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (died 1948)

Rūdolfs Jurciņš, Latvian basketball player (died 1948)

Clarence Wiseman, Canadian 10th General of the Salvation Army (died 1985)

Ernst Boris Chain, German-Irish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1979)

Knut Kroon, Swedish footballer (died 1975)

Walter Rauff, German SS officer (died 1984)

Mildred Natwick, American actress (died 1994)

Mary Callery, American-French sculptor and academic (died 1977)

Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (died 1941)

Wally Hammond, English cricketer and coach (died 1965)

Hans Litten, German lawyer (died 1938)

Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American violinist and bandleader (died 1977)

Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1967)

Moe Howard, American comedian (died 1975)

Rajani Palme Dutt, English journalist and politician (died 1974)

Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, American wife of the former King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, Duke of Windsor (died 1986)

John Heartfield, German photographer and activist (died 1968)

Arthur Massey Berry, Canadian soldier and pilot (died 1970)

Frank Johnston, Canadian artist, member of The Group of Seven (died 1949)

Finley Hamilton, American lawyer and politician (died 1940)

Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French painter and historian (died 1974)

Gladys Mills Phipps, American horse breeder (died 1970)

Maginel Wright Enright, American illustrator (died 1966)

Charles Coburn, American actor (died 1961)

Nigel Gresley, Scottish-English engineer (died 1941)

Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer (died 1941)

Theodore Payne, English-American gardener and botanist (died 1963)

Alajos Szokolyi, Hungarian hurdler, jumper, and physician (died 1932)

May Whitty, English actress (died 1948)

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, Scottish-English field marshal (died 1928)

Émile Haug, French geologist and paleontologist (died 1927)

José Rizal, Filipino journalist, author, and poet (died 1896)

Sam Walter Foss, American poet and librarian (died 1911)

George F. Roesch, American lawyer and politician (died 1917)

Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer and academic (died 1893)

Hjalmar Mellin, Finnish mathematician and theorist (died 1933)

Billy Midwinter, English-Australian cricketer (died 1890)

Silvanus P. Thompson, English physicist, engineer, and academic (died 1916)

David Jayne Hill, American historian and politician, 24th United States Assistant Secretary of State (died 1932)

Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer and academic (died 1928)

Cléophas Beausoleil, Canadian journalist and politician (died 1904)

Mary Sibbet Copley, American philanthropist (died 1929)

Georg Karl Maria Seidlitz, German entomologist and academic (died 1917)

Charles Spurgeon, English pastor and author (died 1892)

Mary Tenney Gray, American editorial writer, club-woman, philanthropist, and suffragette (died 1904)

William H. Webb, American shipbuilder and philanthropist, founded the Webb Institute (died 1899)

Cornelius Krieghoff, Dutch-Canadian painter (died 1872)

Hamilton Hume, Australian explorer (died 1873)

James Braid, Scottish-English surgeon (died 1860)

Joseph Earl Sheffield, American businessman and philanthropist (died 1882)

Friedrich Sertürner, German chemist and pharmacist (died 1841)

Francis Johnson, American lawyer and politician (died 1842)

Joseph Diaz Gergonne, French mathematician and philosopher (died 1859)

José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan general and politician (died 1850)

Joaquim Machado de Castro, Portuguese sculptor (died 1822)

François Rebel, French violinist and composer (died 1775)

Philipp van Limborch, Dutch author and theologian (died 1712)

Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and physicist (died 1662)

James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish soldier and politician, Lord Chancellor of Scotland (died 1649)

Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1677)

Hargobind, sixth Sikh guru (died 1644)

Philip Bell, British colonial governor (died 1678)

James VI and I of the United Kingdom (died 1625)

Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, lord of Rimini (died 1468)

Prince Morikuni, shōgun of Japan (died 1333)

Ian Holm, British actor (born 1931)

Etika, American YouTuber and streamer (born 1990)

Koko, western lowland gorilla and user of American Sign Language (born 1971)

Otto Warmbier, American college student detained in North Korea (born 1994)

Anton Yelchin, American actor (born 1989)

James Salter, American novelist and short-story writer (born 1925)

Oskar-Hubert Dennhardt, German general (born 1915)

Gerry Goffin, American songwriter (born 1939)

Ibrahim Touré, Ivorian footballer (born 1985)

Vince Flynn, American author (born 1966)

James Gandolfini, American actor (born 1961)

Gyula Horn, Hungarian politician, 37th Prime Minister of Hungary (born 1932)

Dave Jennings, American football player and sportscaster (born 1952)

Filip Topol, Czech singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1965)

Slim Whitman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1923)

Norbert Tiemann, American soldier and politician, 32nd Governor of Nebraska (born 1924)

Manute Bol, Sudanese-American basketball player and activist (born 1962)

Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton, English philosopher and academic (born 1925)

Carlos Monsiváis, Mexican writer, journalist and political activist (born 1938)

Barun Sengupta, Bengali journalist, founded Bartaman (born 1934)

Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer-songwriter, actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1919)

Alberto Mijangos, Mexican-American painter and educator (born 1925)

Terry Hoeppner, American football player and coach (born 1947)

Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist and author (born 1932)

Clayton Kirkpatrick, journalist and newspaper editor (born 1915)

Stanley Mosk, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (born 1912)

John Heyer, Australian director and producer (born 1916)

Peter Townsend, Burmese-English captain and pilot (born 1914)

William Golding, British novelist, playwright, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)

Jean Arthur, American actress (born 1900)

George Addes, American trade union leader, co-founded United Automobile Workers (born 1911)

Isobel Andrews, New Zealand writer (born 1905)

Betti Alver, Estonian author and poet (born 1906)

Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist and academic (born 1922)

Gladys Spellman, American lawyer and politician (born 1918)

Margaret Carver Leighton, American author (born 1896)

Len Bias, American basketball player (born 1963)

Lee Krasner, American painter and educator (born 1908)

Anya Phillips, Chinese-American band manager (born 1955)

Subhash Mukherjee, Indian scientist and physician who created India's first, and the world's second, child using in-vitro fertilisation (born 1931)

Paul Popenoe, American explorer and scholar, founded Relationship counseling (born 1888)

Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist and philosopher (born 1933)

Sam Giancana, American mob boss (born 1908)

Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Haitian writer (born 1916)

James Joseph Sweeney, American bishop (born 1898)

Ed Wynn, American actor and comedian (born 1886)

Frank Borzage, American film director and actor (born 1894)

Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (born 1874)

Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (born 1915)

Julius Rosenberg, American spy (born 1918)

Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet and playwright (born 1884)

Syed Zafarul Hasan, Indian philosopher and academic (born 1885)

C. V. Hartman, Swiss botanist and anthropologist (born 1862)

Otto Hirsch, German jurist and politician (born 1885)

Maurice Jaubert, French composer and conductor (born 1900)

Grace Abbott, American social worker and activist (born 1878)

J. M. Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright (born 1860)

Sol Plaatje, South African journalist and activist (born 1876)

John Mackenzie Moore, Canadian architect (b. 1857)

Hitachiyama Taniemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna (born 1874)

Ramón López Velarde, Mexican poet and author (born 1888)

Francesco Baracca, Italian fighter pilot (born 1888)

Herbert Vaughan, English cardinal (born 1832)

Juan Bautista Alberdi, Argentinian-French politician and diplomat (born 1810)

Ferdinand Stoliczka, Moravian palaeontologist and ornithologist (born 1838)

Miguel Miramón, Unconstitutional president of Mexico, 1859-1860 (born 1832)

Maximilian I of Mexico (born 1832)

Evangelos Zappas, Greek-Romanian businessman and philanthropist (born 1800)

Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, American soldier (born 1843)

Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French zoologist and biologist (born 1772)

Joseph Banks, English botanist and author (born 1743)

Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter and educator (born 1724)

Nathanael Greene, American general (born 1742)

Benjamin Tasker Sr., American soldier and politician, 10th Colonial Governor of Maryland (born 1690)

Johann Ernst Eberlin, German organist and composer (born 1702)

Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer and educator (born 1669)

Nader Shah, Persian leader (born 1688)

Matthäus Merian, Swiss-German engraver and publisher (born 1593)

Alberico Gentili, Italian lawyer and jurist (born 1551)

Anna of Brandenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg (born 1507)

Abraomas Kulvietis, Lithuanian Lutheran lawyer and jurist (born 1509)

Leo Jud, Swiss theologian and reformer (born 1482)

Bernhard Walther, German astronomer and humanist (born 1430)

Elisenda of Montcada, queen consort and regent of Aragon (born 1292)

Juliana Falconieri, Italian nun and saint (born 1270)

Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall, English politician (born 1284)

Eleanor de Montfort, Welsh princess (born 1252)

Taira no Munemori, Japanese soldier (born 1147)

Romuald, Italian mystic and saint (born 951)

Xiao Qing, chancellor of Later Liang (born 862)

Soga no Umako, Japanese son of Soga no Iname (born 551)

Huan Xuan, Jin-dynasty warlord and emperor of Huan Chu (born 369)