History Events on June 19

The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.

#United_States_Congress

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

#Roanoke_Island

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

#Benito_Mussolini

Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented.

#Natives_Land_Act,_1913

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requested 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.

#WikiLeaks

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

#Communications_Act_of_1934

World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea.

#World_War_II

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

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

#Battle_of_Seven_Oaks

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

#Philadelphia_Eagles

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

#Patent

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

#Father's_Day

Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.

#Pope_John_Paul_II

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

#Louise_of_the_Netherlands

USS Arizona (BB-39) is launched.

#USS_Arizona_(BB-39)

Decisive defeat of the Filiki Eteria by the Ottomans at Dr?g??ani (in Wallachia).

#Filiki_Eteria

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.

#Emancipation_Proclamation

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

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

#Maximilian_I_of_Mexico

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

#Nicene_Creed

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)

Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.

#Kuwait

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

#War_of_the_Second_Coalition

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

#Earl_of_Pembroke

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

#Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

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

#Cold_War

Nguy?n Cao K? becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguy?n V?n Thi?u becomes the figurehead chief of state.

#Nguy?n_Cao_K?

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.

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.

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

The Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.

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

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

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

Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.

The first NASCAR race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.