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