69901 | June 19 | Event | 1867 – Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro. |
69902 | June 19 | Event | 1875 – The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins. |
69903 | June 19 | Event | 1910 – The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington. |
69904 | June 19 | Event | 1911 – the Norwegian football club Molde FK was founded. |
69905 | June 19 | Event | 1913 – Natives Land Act, 1913 in South Africa implemented. |
69906 | June 19 | Event | 1917 – The solar eclipse of June 19, 1917. |
69907 | June 19 | Event | 1934 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC). |
69908 | June 19 | Event | 1936 – The solar eclipse of June 19, 1936. |
69909 | June 19 | Event | 1944 – World War II: First day of the Battle of the Philippine Sea. |
69910 | June 19 | Event | 1953 – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York. |
69911 | June 19 | Event | 1961 – Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom. |
69912 | June 19 | Event | 1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate. |
69913 | June 19 | Event | 1965 – Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state. |
69914 | June 19 | Event | 1966 – Shiv Sena a political party in India is founded in Mumbai. |
69915 | June 19 | Event | 1970 – The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed. |
69916 | June 19 | Event | 1978 – Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut. |
69917 | June 19 | Event | 1982 – In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University of Beirut, is kidnapped. |
69918 | June 19 | Event | 1985 – Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador. |
69919 | June 19 | Event | 1987 – 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. |
69920 | June 19 | Event | 1990 – The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway. |
69921 | June 19 | Event | 1990 – The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow. |
69922 | June 19 | Event | 1991 – The Soviet occupation of Hungary ends. |
69923 | June 19 | Event | 2007 – The al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured. |
69924 | June 19 | Event | 2009 – 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. |
69925 | June 19 | Event | 2009 – 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. |
69926 | June 19 | Event | 2010 – The Wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling was held at Storkyrkan in Stockholm. |
69927 | June 19 | Event | 2012 – 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. |
69928 | June 19 | Event | 2014 – Felipe VI, Prince of Asturias, rises to the Spanish throne following the abdication of his father, Juan Carlos I. |
69929 | June 19 | Birth | 1301 – Prince Morikuni of Japan (d. 1333) |
69930 | June 19 | Birth | 1566 – James VI and I of the United Kingdom (d. 1625) |