1903<\/strong> – The young school teacher, Benito Mussolini, was placed under investigation by police in Bern, Switzerland.<\/p>\n 1910<\/strong> – The first Father’s Day was celebrated in Spokane,\u00a0Washington.<\/p>\n 1911<\/strong> – In Pennsylvania, the first motion-picture censorship board was established.<\/p>\n 1912<\/strong> – The U.S. government established the 8-hour work day.<\/p>\n 1917<\/strong> – During World War I, King George V ordered the British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames.<\/p>\n 1933<\/strong> – France granted Leon Trotsky political asylum.<\/p>\n 1934<\/strong> – The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration was established.<\/p>\n 1934<\/strong> – The U.S. Congress established the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The commission was to regulate radio and TV broadcasting (later).<\/p>\n 1937<\/strong> – The town of Bilbao, Spain, fell to the Nationalist forces.<\/p>\n 1939<\/strong> – In Atlanta, GA, legislation was enacted that disallowed pinball machines in the city.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – Norma Jeane Mortenson (Marilyn Monroe) and her 21-year-old neighbor Jimmy Dougherty were married. They were divorced in June of 1946.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived in Washington, DC, to discuss the invasion of North Africa with\u00a0U.S. President Roosevelt.<\/p>\n 1943<\/strong> – Henry Kissinger became a naturalized United States citizen.<\/p>\n 1943<\/strong> – The National Football League approved the merger of the Philadelphia Eagles and the Pittsburgh Steelers.<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong> – The U.S. won the battle of the Philippine Sea against the Imperial Japanese fleet.<\/p>\n 1951<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Harry S. Truman signed the Universal Military Training and Service Act, which extended Selective Service until July 1, 1955, and lowered the draft age to 18.<\/p>\n 1952<\/strong> – “I’ve Got a Secret” debuted on CBS-TV.<\/p>\n 1958<\/strong> – In Washington, DC, nine entertainers refused to answer a congressional committee’s questions on communism.<\/p>\n 1961<\/strong> – Kuwait regained complete independence from Britain.<\/p>\n 1961<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland’s constitution that required state officeholders to profess a belief in God.<\/p>\n 1964<\/strong> – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n 1965<\/strong> – Air Marshall Nguyen Cao Ky became South Vietnam’s youngest premier at age 34.<\/p>\n 1968<\/strong> – 50,000 people marched on Washington, DC. to support the Poor People’s Campaign.<\/p>\n 1973<\/strong> – The Case-Church Amendment prevented further U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n 1973<\/strong> – Pete Rose (Cincinnati Reds) got his 2,000th career hit.<\/p>\n 1973<\/strong> – The stage production of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” opened in London.<\/p>\n 1973<\/strong> – Gordie Howe left the\u00a0NHL\u00a0to join his sons Mark and Marty in the WHA (World Hockey League).<\/p>\n 1978<\/strong> – Garfield was in newspapers around the U.S. for the first time.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – “Superman II” set the all-time, one-day record for theater box-office receipts when it took in $5.5 million.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – The European Space Agency sent two satellites into orbit from Kourou, French Guiana.<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – Lixian-Nian was chosen to be China’s first president since 1969.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Louisiana law that required that schools teach creationism.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – The movie “Batman” premiered.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – William Hague became the youngest leader of Britain’s Conservative party in nearly 200 years.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Gateway was fined more than $400,000 for illegally shipping personal computers to 16 countries subject to U.S. export controls.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – A study released said that smoking more than doubles risks of developing dementia and Alzheimer’s.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – Switzerland’s three largest banks offered $600 million to settle claims they’d stolen the assets of Holocaust victims during World War II. Jewish leaders called the offer insultingly low.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – Stephen King was struck from behind by a mini-van while walking along a road in Maine.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – The Dallas Stars won their first NHL Stanley Cup by defeating the Buffalo Sabres in the third overtime of game six.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a group prayer led by students at public-school football games violated the 1st Amendment’s principle that called for the separation of church and state.<\/p>\n 2007<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0al-Khilani Mosque bombing\u00a0in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured.<\/p>\n 2009<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mass riots\u00a0involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in\u00a0Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.<\/p>\n 2009<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0War in North-West Pakistan: The\u00a0Pakistani Armed Forces\u00a0open\u00a0Operation Rah-e-Nijat\u00a0against the\u00a0Taliban\u00a0and other\u00a0Islamist\u00a0rebels in the\u00a0South Waziristan\u00a0area of the\u00a0Federally Administered Tribal Areas.<\/p>\n 2012<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0WikiLeaks\u00a0founder\u00a0Julian Assange\u00a0requested asylum in London’s Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of\u00a0extradition to the US after the publication of previously classified documents including\u00a0footage of\u00a0civilian killings by the US army.<\/p>\n 2018<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The 10,000,000th United States\u00a0Patent\u00a0is issued.<\/sup><\/p>\n History of 19 June 1903 – The young school teacher, Benito Mussolini, was placed under investigation by police in Bern, Switzerland. 1910 – The first Father’s Day was celebrated in Spokane,\u00a0Washington. 1911 – In Pennsylvania, the first motion-picture censorship board was established. 1912 – The U.S. government established the 8-hour work day. 1917 – During […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[756,83,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-9792","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-19-june","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-2xW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9792"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24225,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9792\/revisions\/24225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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