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On this Day ~ June 19th


240 -BC- Eratosthenes estimates circumference of Earth

1586 English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island NC

1754 Albany Congress held by 7 British colonies & Iroquois indians

1778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge

1835 New Orleans gives US govt Jackson Square to be used as a mint

1846 1st baseball game (Cartwright Rules)-NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1

1861 Anaheim Post Office established

1862 Slavery outlawed in US territories

1864 CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France

1865 All slaves in Texas freed

1867 1st Belmont Stakes, Ruthless wins

1868 Maj Gen E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia SC

1875 Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio

1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Man with the Twisted Lip"

1910 Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash)

1917 After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to
dispense with German titles & surnames, they take the name Windsor

1930 C Jackson & H E Wood discovers asteroid #1595 Tanga

1931 1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct

1932 1st concert given in SF's Stern Grove

1932 Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China PR

1934 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created

1938 "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47

1938 Italy beats Hungary 4-1 in soccer's 3rd World Cup at Paris

1940 "Brenda Starr," 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago

1943 NFL's Phila Eagles & Pitts Steelers merge, (disolves on Dec 5)

1946 1st TV sports spectacular-Joe Louis vs Billy Conn

1947 1st plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc Ca

1950 A G Wilson discovers asteroid #1980 Tezcatlipoca

1952 "I've Got A Secret" debuted on CBS with Garry Moore as host

1952 Bkln Dodger Carl Erskine no-hits Chicago Cubs, 5-0

1953 Albert W Dent, elected president of Natl Health Council

1955 Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 100

1955 Phils beat Cubs 1-0 in 15, ties longest shut out in Phillies history

1959 Senate rejects Ike's appointment of Lewis Strauss for Sec of Comm

1961 Kuwait regains complete independence from Britain

1961 US Supreme Court struck down a provision in Md's constitution
requiring state office holders to believe in God

1963 2 Russian space missions return to Earth

1963 Charter members of Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen

1963 Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to Earth

1965 KYW-AM in Cleveland Ohio returns call letters to Philadelphia

1967 Muhammad Ali is convicted for reusing induction in US Army

1967 Paul McCartney admits on TV that he took LSD

1968 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign

1969 State troopers ordered to Cairo Ill, to quell racial disturbances

1970 A Nikolayev & V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9

1970 Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" is published

1971 Mayor declares state of emergency in Columbus Ga, racial disturbance

1973 Pete Rose & Willie Davis both get career hit # 2,000

1974 KC Royal Steve Busby 2nd no-hitter beats Milwaukee Brewers, 2-0

1976 US Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from Earth

1977 Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cen bishop John Neumann 1st US male saint

1977 Red Sox set 3 game record of 16 HRs, all against Yanks

1981 Boeing commercial Chinook 2-rotor helicopter is certified

1981 European Space Agency's Ariane carries 2 satellites into orbit

1981 Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, S Africa

1981 India's APPLE satellite, 1st to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched

1984 1st live TV appearance by Chief Justice Warren Burger (Nightline)

1985 Reggie Jackson hits his 513th HR to move into 10th place

1986 Argentina beats West Germany 3-2 in soccer's 13th World Cup

1987 Geffen records sign their 1st artist (Donna Summer)

1987 Wee Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak ends

1988 Danny Spitz, heavy metal artist (Anthrax), weds Valerie

1988 In Santa Barbara, CA, a team of 32 divers finish cycling underwater

on a standard tricycle, to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins

1991 2 of Mia Farrow's daughters arrested for shoplifting lingerie