Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
69871June 18Death2013 – Dave Petitjean, American actor (b. 1928)
69872June 18Death2013 – Claudio Rocchi, Italian singer-songwriter and bass player (Stormy Six) (b. 1951)
69873June 18Death2013 – David Wall, English ballet dancer (b. 1946)
69874June 18Death2014 – Stephanie Kwolek, American chemist and engineer (b. 1923)
69875June 18Death2014 – Johnny Mann, American singer-songwriter and conductor (b. 1928)
69876June 18Death2014 – Claire Martin, Canadian author (b. 1914)
69877June 18Death2014 – Vladimir Popovkin, Russian general (b. 1957)
69878June 18Death2014 – Horace Silver, American pianist and composer (b. 1928)
69879June 18Death2015 – Phil Austin, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1941)
69880June 18Death2015 – Ralph J. Roberts, American businessman, co-founded Comcast (b. 1920)
69881June 18Death2015 – Danny Villanueva, American football player and broadcaster, co-founded Univision (b. 1937)
69882June 18Death2015 – Allen Weinstein, American historian and academic (b. 1937)
69883June 18Holiday and observanceChristian 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)
69884June 18Holiday and observanceAutistic Pride Day (International)
69885June 18Holiday and observanceFoundation Day (Benguet)
69886June 18Holiday and observanceHuman Rights Day (Azerbaijan)
69887June 18Holiday and observanceNational Day (Seychelles)
69888June 18Holiday and observanceQueen Mother's Birthday (Cambodia)
69889June 18Holiday and observanceWaterloo Day (United Kingdom)
69890June 19Event1179 – The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
69891June 19Event1269 – King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
69892June 19Event1306 – The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
69893June 19Event1586 – English colonists leave Roanoke Island, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in North America.
69894June 19Event1816 – Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
69895June 19Event1821 – Decisive defeat of the Filiki Eteria by the Ottomans at Drăgășani (in Wallachia).
69896June 19Event1846 – 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.
69897June 19Event1850 – Princess Louise of the Netherlands marries Crown Prince Karl of Sweden–Norway.
69898June 19Event1857 – 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.
69899June 19Event1862 – The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
69900June 19Event1865 – 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.

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