19 Juin

The 19t o Juin is the 170t day o the year (171t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 195 days ti come.

Events

1867: Execution o Maximilian I o Mexico

1961: Banner o Kuwait

2006: Svalbard Global Seed Vault

• 1306 – Scots Wars o Unthirldom: Battle o Meffin.
• 1867 – Emperor Maximilian I o Mexico is executit.
• 1910 – The first Faither's Day is held in the state o Washington in the Unitit States.
• 1938 – Italy win the FIFA Warld Cup in Fraunce, defeatin Hungary for their seicont Warld Cup teetle win.
• 1944 – Warld War II: Battle o the Philippine Sea.
• 1961 – Kuwait declares unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
• 1970 – Edward Heath becomes Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick efter the Conservatives won the previous day's general election.
• 1976 – Carl XVI Gustaf o Swaden mairies Silvia Sommerlath.
• 1978 – The Garfield comic strip debuts.
• 1991 – The Soviet Union's occupation o Hungary ends.
• 2005 – UEFA Weemen's Euro 2005 in Ingland: Germany defeat Norawa 3-1 in the final.
• 2006 – The first stane o the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is laid.
• 2010 – Victoria, Croun Princess o Swaden mairies Daniel Westling.
• 2012 – WikiLeaks foonder Julian Assange asks for asylum at the Ecuadorean embassy in Lunnon.
• 2014 – Felipe VI o Spain becomes King.
• 2017 – A man is killt, an several fowk injured, in a vehicle-rammin attack on Muslim worshippers in the Finsbury Pairk aurie o North Lunnon.
• 2018 – The Unitit States decides tae pull oot o the Unitit Naitions Human Richts Cooncil.
• 2018 – Canadae decides tae legalise cannabis for recreational use.
• 2019 – Four men are chairged wi the murthers o the 298 fowk on baird Malaysia Airlines Flicht 17, which wis shot doon ower Eastren Ukraine on 17 Julie 2014.
• 2019 – 2019 FIFA Weemen's Warld Cup: Scotland are knockit oot o the toornament in the group stage efter losin a 3-0 lead tae draw 3-3 wi Argentinae, wi the end pairt o the gemme dominatit bi refereein an VAR controversy.
• 2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: The Unitit Kinrick doongrades its alert level, frae Level 4 tae Level 3.
• 2020 – COVID-19 pandemic: Brazil becomes the seicont kintra, efter the Unitit States, tae record ower a million cases o COVID-19.
• 2020 – Response tae the Killin o George Floyd: Mass observances o Juinteent, a halyday commemoratin the abolition o sclavery, tak place across the Unitit States.

Births

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• 1566 – James I o Ingland/James VI, Keeng o Scots (d. 1625)
• 1623 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician an physicist (d. 1662)
• 1764 – José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan general (d. 1850)
• 1861 – Douglas Haig, 1st Yerl Haig, Scots militar officer (d. 1928)
• 1910 – Paul Flory, American chemist (d. 1985)
• 1922 – Aage Bohr, Dens nuclear physicist (d. 2009)
• 1945 – Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politeecian, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1947 – Salman Rushdie, Indian author
• 1954 – Kathleen Turner, American actress
• 1959 – Christian Wulff, umwhile Preses o Germany
• 1962 – Paula Abdul, American sangster, actress an choreographer
• 1964 – Boris Johnson, Inglis jurnalist an politeecian, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick
• 1972 – Jean Dujardin, French actor
• 1978 – Zoe Saldana, American actress
• 1983 – Macklemore, American rapper an sangster
• 1983 – Mark Selby, Inglis snooker player

Daiths

• 1867 – Emperor Maximilian I o Mexico (b. 1832)
• 1937 – J. M. Barrie, Scots writer (b. 1860)
• 1977 – Ali Shariati, Iranie sociologist (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Gyula Horn, Prime meenister o Hungary (b. 1932)
• 2013 – James Gandolfini, American actor (b. 1961)
• 2016 – Anton Yelchin, Roushie-American actor (b. 1989)
• 2019 – Etika, American YouTuber (b. 1990)
• 2019 – Norman Stone, Scots historian an author (b. 1941)

Halidays

• Day o Unthirl Hungary
• Never Again Day (Uruguay)
• Juinteent (Unitit States)