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Alexander Cartwright
Lou Gehrig
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico
Michael Schumacher during qualifying races for the 2005 United States Grand Prix
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1306 – Wars of Scottish Independence: The Earl of Pembroke's English army defeated Robert the Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven. | no footnotes |
| 1850 – Louise of the Netherlands married Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway. | date not cited |
| 1978 – Garfield, created by American cartoonist Jim Davis, made its debut, eventually becoming one of the world's most widely syndicated comic strips. | multiple issues |
| 2005 – Only six race cars competed in the United States Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana, after all the Michelin-shod entrants were withdrawn due to safety concerns. | TFA for 2015 |
Eligible
- 1846 – The first officially recorded baseball game using modern rules developed by Alexander Cartwright was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, US.
- 1867 – Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico (pictured) was executed by firing squad in Querétaro.
- 1939 – Former American baseball player Lou Gehrig was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, now commonly known in the United States as "Lou Gehrig's Disease".
- 1961 – Kuwait declared independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1970 – The Patent Cooperation Treaty, an international law treaty, was signed, providing a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions.
- 1953 – Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed as spies who passed U.S. nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet Union.
- 1991 – The last Soviet Army soldiers left Hungary, ending the Soviet occupation.
- 2006 – The ceremonial "first stone" of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a facility established to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds from locations worldwide in an underground cavern in Spitsbergen, Norway, was laid.
- 2009 – The War in Afghanistan: British forces began Operation Panther's Claw, in which more than 350 troops made an aerial assault on Taliban positions in Southern Afghanistan.
- 2009 – Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers broke out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
June 19: Day of the Independent Hungary; Juneteenth in some parts of the United States
- 1269 – Louis IX of France imposed a fine of ten livres of silver on Jews found in public without a yellow badge.
- 1816 – The Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, rival fur-trading companies, engaged in a violent confrontation in present-day Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
- 1944 – World War II: The navies of the United States and Imperial Japan engaged each other off the Mariana Islands in the Philippine Sea.
- 1987 – Basque separatist group ETA detonated a car bomb at the Hipercor shopping centre in Barcelona, killing 21 people and injuring 45 others.
- 2010 – The royal wedding between Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling (both pictured) took place in Stockholm Cathedral.