| Date | Weekday | Event |
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| June 19, 240 | Friday | BC Eratosthenes estimates circumference of earth |
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| June 19, 1586 | Thursday | English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island NC |
| June 19, 1756 | Saturday | 146 English people imprisoned in Black Hole of Calcutta |
| June 19, 1778 | Friday | Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge |
| June 19, 1812 | Friday | US declares war on England |
| June 19, 1846 | Friday | 1st baseball game-NY Nines 23 Knickerbockers 1 (Hoboken - NJ) |
| June 19, 1861 | Wednesday | Anaheim PO established |
| June 19, 1862 | Thursday | Slavery outlawed in US territories |
| June 19, 1867 | Wednesday | Mexican Emperor Maximilian executed - Mexican republic restored |
| June 19, 1875 | Saturday | Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio |
| June 19, 1910 | Sunday | Father's Day celebrated for 1st time in Spokane Wash |
| June 19, 1917 | Tuesday | After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles & surnames They took the name Windsor |
| June 19, 1931 | Friday | 1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct |
| June 19, 1932 | Sunday | 1st concert given in SF's Stern Grove |
| June 19, 1934 | Tuesday | Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created |
| June 19, 1946 | Wednesday | 1st TV sports spectacular - Joe Louis vs Billy Conn |
| June 19, 1947 | Thursday | 1st plane to exceed 600 mph - Albert Boyd Muroc Ca |
| June 19, 1953 | Friday | Julius & Ethel Rosenberg executed at Sing Sing Prison Ossining NY (Julius takes 3 tries - Ethel 5) |
| June 19, 1955 | Sunday | Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 100 |
| June 19, 1961 | Monday | Kuwait gains independence from Britain |
| June 19, 1961 | Monday | US Supreme Court struck down a provision in Md's constitution requiring state office holders to belief in existence of God |
| June 19, 1963 | Wednesday | Charter members of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen |
| June 19, 1963 | Wednesday | Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to earth |
| June 19, 1964 | Friday | Civil Rights Act of 1964 survived an 83-day filibuster in Senate |
| June 19, 1970 | Friday | A Nikolayev and V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9 |
| June 19, 1973 | Tuesday | Pete Rose & Willie Davis both get career hit # 2000 |
| June 19, 1976 | Saturday | US Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from earth |
| June 19, 1977 | Sunday | Red Sox set record of 16 HRs in 3 games All against Yanks |
| June 19, 1977 | Sunday | Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cent bishop John Neumann 1st US male saint |
| June 19, 1981 | Friday | Boeing Coml Chinook two-rotor helicopter gets certified |
| June 19, 1981 | Friday | European Space Agency's Ariane carries two satellites into orbit |
| June 19, 1986 | Thursday | Artificial heart recipient Murray P Haydon died in Louisville Ky |
| June 19, 1986 | Thursday | Len Bias 1st pick of Celtics suffers fatal cocaine-induced seizure |
| June 19, 1987 | Friday | Wee Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak ends |