| 240 BC |
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Eratosthenes estimates the circumference of Earth using two sticks. |
| 1536 |
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Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife, is beheaded. |
| 1778 |
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General George Washington’s troops finally leave Valley Forge after a winter of training. |
| 1821 |
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The Ottomans defeat the Greeks at the Battle of Dragasani. |
| 1846 |
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The New York Knickerbocker Club plays the New York Club in the first baseball game at Elysian Field, Hoboken, New Jersey. |
| 1848 |
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The first Women’s Rights Convention convenes in Seneca Falls, New York. |
| 1861 |
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Virginians, in what will soon be West Virginia, elect Francis Pierpoint as their provisional governor. |
| 1862 |
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President Abraham Lincoln outlines his Emancipation Proclamation. News of the document reaches the South. |
| 1864 |
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The USS Kearsarge sinks the CSS Alabama off of Cherbourg, France. |
| 1867 |
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Mexican Emperor Maximillian is executed. |
| 1885 |
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The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York City from France. |
| 1903 |
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The young school teacher, Benito Mussolini, is placed under investigation by police in Bern, Switzerland. |
| 1919 |
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Mustafa Kemal founds the Turkish National Congress at Ankara and denounces the Treaty of Versailles. |
| 1933 |
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France grants Leon Trotsky political asylum. |
| 1934 |
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The National Archives and Records Administration is established. |
| 1937 |
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The town of Bilbao, Spain, falls to the Nationalist forces. |
| 1942 |
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Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Washington D.C. to discuss the invasion of North Africa with President Roosevelt. |
| 1944 |
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U.S. Navy carrier-based planes shatter the remaining Japanese carrier forces in the Battle of the Marianas. |
| 1951 |
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President Harry S. Truman signs the Universal Military Training and Service Act, which extends Selective Service until July 1, 1955 and lowers the draft age to 18. |
| 1958 |
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Nine entertainers refuse to answer a congressional committee’s questions on communism. |
| 1961 |
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Kuwait regains complete independence from Britain. |
| 1963 |
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Soviet cosmonaut, Valentia Tereshkova, becomes the first woman in space. |
| 1965 |
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Air Marshall Nguyen Cao Ky becomes South Vietnam’s youngest premier at age 34. |
| 1968 |
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Over 50,000 people march on Washington, D.C. to support the Poor People’s Campaign. |
| 1973 |
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The Case-Church Amendment prevents further U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. |
| 1987 |
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The U.S. Supreme Court voids the Louisiana law requiring schools to teach creationism. |
| 1995 |
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The Richmond Virginia Planning Commission approves plans to place a memorial statue of tennis professional Arthur Ashe. |
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Born on June 19 |
| 1566 |
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James I, King of England (1603-1625). |
| 1623 |
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Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. |
| 1897 |
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Moe Howard, comic actor, one of the Three Stooges. |
| 1900 |
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Laura Hobson, novelist (Gentleman’s Agreement). |
| 1903 |
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Henry Louis Gehrig, professional baseball player. |
| 1919 |
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Pauline Kael, American film critic, author. |
| 1945 |
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Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (1991). |
| 1945 |
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Tobias Wolff, American writer (This Boy’s Life: A Memoir, The Night in Question). |
| 1947 |
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Salman Rushdie, British author (Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses). |
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