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June 19: Juneteenth in the United States (1865)
- 1785 – The proprietors of King's Chapel, Boston, voted to adopt James Freeman's Book of Common Prayer, thus establishing the first Unitarian church in the Americas.
- 1838 – The Maryland province of the Jesuits contracted to sell 272 slaves to buyers in Louisiana in one of the largest slave sales in American history.
- 1939 – American baseball player Lou Gehrig (pictured) was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, now commonly known in the United States as "Lou Gehrig's disease".
- 1987 – The Basque separatist group ETA detonated a car bomb at a Hipercor shopping centre in Barcelona, killing 21 people and injuring 45 others.
- 2009 – War in Afghanistan: British forces began Operation Panther's Claw, in which more than 350 troops made an aerial assault on Taliban positions in southern Afghanistan.
- Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (d. 1844)
- Sarah Rosetta Wakeman (d. 1864)
- Aage Bohr (b. 1922)
- Clayton Kirkpatrick (d. 2004)
Did you know?
edit- ... that the Amen break (waveform pictured) gained popularity because it offered an easy way to create jungle music?
- ... that the execution of Burkinabé trade union leader Soumane Touré was prevented by the intervention of his childhood friend, then-president Thomas Sankara?
- ... that The Amazing Digital Circus is influenced by the short story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"?
- ... that Jaelyn Brown, who was born with two club feet, now plays in the WNBA?
- ... that the U.S. Department of Labor recorded 583 sitdown strikes in the U.S. between 1936 and 1939, affecting half a million workers?
- ... that Vasantha Krishna Prasad was the richest candidate from Krishna district to contest the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election?
- ... that Megan Abbott receives the most negative letters from readers for The End of Everything?
- ... that volleyball player Madisen Skinner beat Texas in one national championship final – then won two national championships with Texas?
- ... that Pizza Hut’s most expensive pizza was a weighted blanket?