69871 | June 18 | Death | 2013 – Dave Petitjean, American actor (b. 1928) |
69872 | June 18 | Death | 2013 – Claudio Rocchi, Italian singer-songwriter and bass player (Stormy Six) (b. 1951) |
69873 | June 18 | Death | 2013 – David Wall, English ballet dancer (b. 1946) |
69874 | June 18 | Death | 2014 – Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist and engineer (b. 1923) |
69875 | June 18 | Death | 2014 – Johnny Mann, American singer-songwriter and conductor (b. 1928) |
69876 | June 18 | Death | 2014 – Claire Martin, Canadian author (b. 1914) |
69877 | June 18 | Death | 2014 – Vladimir Popovkin, Russian general (b. 1957) |
69878 | June 18 | Death | 2014 – Horace Silver, American pianist and composer (b. 1928) |
69879 | June 18 | Death | 2015 – Phil Austin, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1941) |
69880 | June 18 | Death | 2015 – Ralph J. Roberts, American businessman, co-founded Comcast (b. 1920) |
69881 | June 18 | Death | 2015 – Danny Villanueva, American football player and broadcaster, co-founded Univision (b. 1937) |
69882 | June 18 | Death | 2015 – Allen Weinstein, American historian and academic (b. 1937) |
69883 | June 18 | Holiday and observance | Christian feast day:Bernard Mizeki (Anglican and Episcopal Church)Elisabeth of SchönauGregorio BarbarigoLeontius, Hypatius and TheodulusMarina the Monk (Maronite Church, Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria)June 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) |
69884 | June 18 | Holiday and observance | Autistic Pride Day (International) |
69885 | June 18 | Holiday and observance | Foundation Day (Benguet) |
69886 | June 18 | Holiday and observance | Human Rights Day (Azerbaijan) |
69887 | June 18 | Holiday and observance | National Day (Seychelles) |
69888 | June 18 | Holiday and observance | Queen Mother's Birthday (Cambodia) |
69889 | June 18 | Holiday and observance | Waterloo Day (United Kingdom) |
69890 | June 19 | Event | 1179 – The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars. |
69891 | June 19 | Event | 1269 – King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver. |
69892 | June 19 | Event | 1306 – The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven. |
69893 | June 19 | Event | 1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America. |
69894 | June 19 | Event | 1816 – Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
69895 | June 19 | Event | 1821 – Decisive defeat of the Filiki Eteria by the Ottomans at Drăgășani (in Wallachia). |
69896 | June 19 | Event | 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. |
69897 | June 19 | Event | 1850 – Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden–Norway. |
69898 | June 19 | Event | 1857 – The 19 June 1857 law (Loi relative à l'assainissement et de mise en culture des Landes de Gascogne): A turning point in the history of the Landes forest. |
69899 | June 19 | Event | 1862 – The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford. |
69900 | June 19 | Event | 1865 – 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. |