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Today, June 19, 2026
June 19, 1865: Juneteenth (Juneteenth
Independence Day, Freedom Day, The Texas Emancipation
Proclamation): -- Over two years after the Emancipation
Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are
finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is an American
holiday celebrated as Juneteenth, which also celebrates more
generally the emancipation of enslaved African Americans
throughout the former Confederate States of America. Its name is a
portmanteau of "June" and "nineteenth", the
date of its celebration. Juneteenth is recognized as a state
holiday or special day of observance in 45 states. It is
celebrated on the anniversary of the order by Major General Gordon
Granger proclaiming freedom for slaves in Texas on June 19, 1865,
two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was
issued. Observance is primarily in local celebrations. Traditions
include public readings of the Emancipation Proclamation, singing
traditional songs such as "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and
"Lift Every Voice and Sing", and reading of works by
noted African American writers such as Ralph Ellison and Maya
Angelou. Celebrations include rodeos, street fairs, cookouts,
family reunions, park parties, historical reenactments, or Miss
Juneteenth contests. The Mascogos, descendants of Black Seminoles,
of Coahuila, Mexico also celebrate Juneteenth. The official Texas
Emancipation Proclamation reads "MILITARY ORDERS -
HEAD-QUARTERS, DISTRICT OF TEXAS - Galveston, Texas - June 19,
1865 - The people of Texas are informed that in accordance with
the proclamation from the executive of the United States. All
slaves are free. This involves absolute personal rights, and
rights of property between former masters and slaves; and the
connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between
employer and hired laborer. The freedmen are advised to remain
quietly at their homes, and work for wages. They are informed that
they will not be allowed to collect at military posts, and that
they will not be supported in idleness either here or elsewhere.
2nd: As a result of said liberation, persons formerly slaves are
guaranteed their right to make contracts disposing of their
services to their former owners or other parties, but with the
distinct understanding that they are employees, and shall be held
responsible for the performance of their part of the contract to
the same extent that the employer is bound to pay for the
consideration for the labor performed. 3rd: Unless other
regulations are promulgated by the Freedmans Bureau, the amount
and kind of consideration for labor, shall be a matter of contract
between employer and employee. 4th: All colored persons are
earnestly enjoined to remain with their former masters until
permanent arrangements can be made and thus secure the crop of the
present season and at the same time promote the interests of
themselves, their employer and the Commonwealth. - by order of
Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger - signed F.W. Emery - Major & A.A.G."
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Today, June 19, 2026
June 19, 1968: Solidarity Day: -- Civil
Rights Movements: The American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968):
The Protests Of 1968: Poverty: Poverty In The United States The
Poor People's Campaign (The Poor People's March On Washington): --
The Solidarity Day Rally is held at "Resurrection City",
a shantytown built on the National Mall in Washington, DC which
existed for six weeks (the city had its own temporary zip code,
20013). Solidarity Day was initially planned for May 30, was
postponed by SCLC leader Ralph Abernathy, who asked Bayard Rustin
to organize the rescheduled event. On June 8, however, it was
announced that Rustin had been dropped from the Poor People's
Campaign following a fallout with Ralph Abernathy, who believed
Rustin's proposal for an Economic Bill of Rights ignored many
issues important to SCLC's campaign partners, including opposition
to the Vietnam War. Following Rustin's departure, SCLC leaders
agreed to appoint Washington Urban League Director Sterling
Tucker, who was relatively unknown outside the Washington metro
area, to lead the Solidarity Day march. Solidarity Day was
ultimately held on Wednesday, June 19 (Juneteenth), and attracted
between 50,000 and 100,000 people (including many whites). The
crowd was addressed not only by SCLC leaders, including Abernathy
and Coretta Scott King (who spoke against the Vietnam War), but
also by Tijerina, Native American activist Martha Grass, and
politicians such as Eugene McCarthy (whom they applauded) and
Hubert Humphrey (whom they booed). In addition, Walter Reuther,
president of the United Auto Workers, gave a speech to the
assembled crowd. Under Reuther's leadership, the UAW brought 80
busloads of union members to the event, representing the largest
contingent from any organization. Puerto Rican and Chicano
marchers held a separate rally on the weekend before when people
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Today, June 19, 2026
June 19: Real Food Day: -- Nourish your
body with fresh, whole foods that fuel your energy and leave you
feeling satisfied, without the guilt and sluggishness of processed
foods. Does anything look as good as a table heaped with real
healthy food? From glistening greens to delectable dried fruits,
there's nothing better than getting your five a day while having a
delicious meal as part of the deal. Potentially the best thing
about real food is that you can do more than simply eat a plate of
veggies to have a healthy meal. Healthy food ingredients can turn
into some firm fakeaway favorites, from homemade pizzas to a twist
on your staple weekly Chinese. If you're looking to make some
healthier food choices, Real Food Day is the perfect day for you.
Enjoy a healthier lifestyle while still stuffing your face with
mouth-watering real food dishes. Real Food Day is all about
celebrating healthier food choices and promoting a healthy, active
lifestyle. Run by the Public Health Collaboration (registered
charity no. 1171887), it's a day for showing some love to real
food, from the classic leafy greens to some of the healthier
natural food we have on the market, like lean meats and lower-fat
dairy options. The Public Health Collaboration (PHC), led by
Samuel Feltham, spotted that health problems like Type II Diabetes
were on the rise, so they wanted to raise awareness and education
about what real food means. The PHC is trying to help people
answer the question: what is real food? Some obvious choices, like
a big bar of chocolate or your weekly fast-food splurge, would be
'fake' food, while vegetables and fruit are clearly 'real' foods.
But this day is about trying to delve deeper into real food and
encouraging people to eat as minimally processed foods as
possible, like lentils, fish, and dairy. Real Food Day was
launched in 2019 to combat the rise in fast food and
health-related conditions. The Public Health Collaboration started
the day to show that by making real food and positive lifestyle
changes, some conditions can improve and, in some cases, be
reversed entirely by living a healthier life. Samuel Feltham,
director of the PHC, ran a Fitness Bootcamp for five years, which
means he's no stranger to healthy living. In 2016, he stopped his
Bootcamp business to focus on the Public Health Collaboration.
Since then, he's founded a dream team of leading health
professionals, from Cardiologists to Psychiatrists, to dive into
and understand why people are living less healthy lives and what
they can do to fix it. But why do we love fake foods so much? From
our weekly takeaways to our daily packet of crisps, it's always
hard to put down the packet and pick up a piece of fruit. You
might treat fake food as a reward or compensation for a bad day -
how many of us order a pizza and put our feet up on a Friday night
after a manic week at work? Scientists also say that the quick-fix
sugar-hit you get with your soda gives you a rush, which then is
followed by a sugar crash that leaves you craving that feeling
again and wanting more. You can also get sugar-fix with fruit,
veggies, and dairy, but these are released more gradually, so you
can enjoy the feeling without experiencing a rollercoaster of
emotions. The increase in conditions related to an unhealthy
lifestyle is a relatively new phenomenon. From 1960 to 1970
conditions like obesity remained pretty stable, but have since
increased by 35% for adults and almost 50% for children. Obesity
can be related to health conditions like Type II Diabetes and high
blood pressure. Both conditions can be improved and even reversed
by making real food and lifestyle choices, so it's no wonder that
the PHC is so active in raising awareness. Real foods are
considered anything that is minimally altered from their original
state, while fake foods are highly processed, high in added sugar,
and highly processed oil. Fake foods are essentially high in all
the things that are bad for you but low in things that will fill
your hunger meter up. The day is for everyone from kids through to
adults, and that's why events are run in schools and workplaces to
improve everyone's awareness of Real Food. There are also activity
packs for families, workplaces, and schools, so you've got the
perfect distraction for a rainy day for the whole family (or
office). Real Food Day is about more than just healthy eating,
though, as it aims to raise awareness of how living an active
lifestyle and exercising every day can help combat health-related
diseases like Type II Diabetes. Check out the Real Food Day blog
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Today, June 19, 2026
June 19: Day For The Elimination Of
Sexual Violence (International Day For The Elimination Of Sexual
Violence In Conflict): -- Observed to raise awareness about sexual
violence in conflict and to strategize ways to end these crimes
throughout the world. On June 19, 2015, the United Nations General
Assembly proclaimed the date as the International Day for the
Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict. This date commemorates
the adoption of Security Council Resolution 1820 in which the
Council condemned sexual violence as a tactic of war and an
impediment to peacebuilding. Conflict-related sexual violence is a
devastating form of attack and repression, which has lasting,
harmful effects on survivors' physical, sexual, reproductive, and
mental health, and destroys the social fabric of communities.
Despite widespread awareness and condemnation, this grotesque
crime continues around the world. The past year has seen harrowing
reports of sexual violence from Sudan to Haiti and Israel. Far too
often, the perpetrators walk free while survivors spend their
entire lives in recovery. This year's International Day for the
Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict focuses on healthcare.
Hospitals and other healthcare facilities should be beacons of
safety and healing for all those injured in conflict, including
the survivors of sexual violence. These are fundamental tenets of
international humanitarian law. But attacks on hospitals and
healthcare facilities, and the targeting of healthcare workers,
can severely limit access to medical care and psychosocial support
for survivors. Women and girls who experience sexual violence may
become pregnant from rape and require immediate sexual and
reproductive healthcare. Men and boys may be at risk of increased
isolation if they cannot access appropriate care. On this
International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in
Conflict, let us pledge to eliminate this scourge, stand in
solidarity with survivors, and reaffirm our commitment to
protecting hospitals and healthcare facilities during conflict. On
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Today, June 19, 2026
June 19, 325: Religion: The History Of
Religion: Abrahamic Religions: Christianity: Nicene Religion: The
Council Of Nicaea: The First Council If Nicaea: The Nicene Creed:
-- The First Council of Nicaea adopts the original Nicene Creed
(Greek: "Symbol Of Nicea" or "Symbol Of Faith"),
Latin: Symbolum Nicaenum), a statement of belief widely used in
Christian liturgy, i.e. the customary public worship performed by
a religious group that represents a communal response to and
participation in the sacred through activity reflecting praise,
thanksgiving, supplication or repentance, forming a basis for a
relationship with a divine agency, as well as with other
participants in the liturgy. It is called Nicene because it was
originally adopted in Nicaea, a city in the Roman province of
Bithynia (present day Iznik, Turkey) by the First Council of
Nicaea, a council of Christian bishops convened by the Roman
Emperor Constantine I (Contantine The Great), to attain the first
consensus in the church through an assembly representing all of
Christendom. Its main accomplishments were settlement of the the
divine nature of God the Son and his relationship to God the
Father, the construction of the first part of the Nicene Creed,
establishing uniform observance of the date of Easter, and
promulgation of early canon law (a set of ordinances and
regulations made by church leadership). In 381, it was amended at
the First Council of Constantinople, and the amended form is
referred to as the Nicene or the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed.
It defines Nicene Christianity. The Oriental Orthodox and Assyrian
churches use this profession of faith with the verbs in the
original plural ("we believe"), but the Eastern Orthodox
and Catholic churches convert those verbs to the singular ("I
believe"). The Anglican and many Protestant denominations
generally use the singular form, sometimes the plural. The
Apostles' Creed is also used in the Latin West, but not in the
Eastern liturgies. On Sundays and solemnities, one of these two
creeds is recited in the Roman Rite Mass after the homily. The
Nicene Creed is also part of the profession of faith required of
those undertaking important functions within the Catholic Church.
In the Byzantine Rite, the Nicene Creed is sung or recited at the
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Today, June 19, 2026
June 19, 1566: #BOTD: #HBD: King James VI
And I, King Of Scotland as James VI from July 24, 1567 and King Of
England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and
English crowns on March 24 1603 until his death (d. March 27,
1625) is #born James Charles Stuart in Edinburgh Castle,
Edinburgh, Scotland, the only son of Mary, Queen Of Scots, and her
second husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. As the eldest son and
heir apparent of the monarch, James automatically became Duke of
Rothesay and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland, Both Mary and
Darnley were great-grandchildren of Henry VII of England through
Margaret Tudor, the older sister of Henry VIII, thus James as a
great-great-grandson of Henry VII, King of England and Lord of
Ireland, was a potential successor to all three thrones. Mary's
rule over Scotland was insecure, and she and her husband, being
Roman Catholics, faced a rebellion by Protestant noblemen. During
Mary's and Darnley's difficult marriage, Darnley secretly allied
himself with the rebels and conspired in the murder of the queen's
private secretary, David Rizzio, just three months before James's
birth. Although James wanted to bring about a closer union between
the kingdoms of Scotland and England, they remained individual
sovereign states, with their own parliaments, judiciaries, and
laws, both ruled by James in personal union. He succeeded to the
Scottish throne at the age of thirteen months, after his mother
was compelled to abdicate in his favour. Four different regents
governed during his minority, which ended officially in 1578,
though he did not gain full control of his government until 1583.
In 1603, he succeeded Elizabeth I, the last Tudor monarch of
England and Ireland, who died childless. He continued to reign in
all three kingdoms for 22 years, a period known as the Jacobean
era, until his death in 1625. After the Union Of The Crowns, he
based himself in England (the largest of the three realms) from
1603, returning to Scotland only once, in 1617, and styled himself
"King of Great Britain and Ireland". He was a major
advocate of a single parliament for England and Scotland. In his
reign, the Plantation of Ulster and English colonisation of the
Americas began. At 57 years and 246 days, James's reign in
Scotland was the longest of any Scottish monarch. He achieved most
of his aims in Scotland but faced great difficulties in England,
including the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 and repeated conflicts with
the English Parliament. Under James, the "Golden Age" of
Elizabethan literature and drama continued, with writers such as
William Shakespeare, John Donne, Ben Jonson, and Francis Bacon
contributing to a flourishing literary culture. James himself was
a prolific writer, authoring works such as Daemonologie (1597) (a
study on demonology and the methods demons used to bother troubled
men, a book which endorses the practice of witch hunting), The
True Law of Free Monarchies (1598), and Basilikon Doron (1599). He
sponsored the translation of the Bible into English later named
after him, the Authorized King James Version, and the 1604
revision of the Book of Common Prayer. Anthony Weldon claimed that
James had been termed "the wisest fool in Christendom",
an epithet associated with his character ever since. Since the
latter half of the 20th century, historians have tended to revise
James's reputation and treat him as a serious and thoughtful
monarch. He was strongly committed to a peace policy, and tried to
avoid involvement in religious wars, especially the Thirty Years'
War that devastated much of Central Europe. He tried but failed to
prevent the rise of hawkish elements in the English Parliament who
wanted war with Spain. James VI And I died at Theobalds House in
Hertfordshire, England during a violent attack of dysentery, aged
58. He was succeeded by his second son, Charles I. James's funeral
on May 7 was a magnificent but disorderly affair. Bishop John
Williams of Lincoln preached the sermon, observing, "King
Solomon died in Peace, when he had lived about sixty years ... and
so you know did King James". The sermon was later printed as
Great Britain's Salomon [sic]. James is buried in Westminster
Abbey. The position of the tomb was lost for many years until his
lead coffin was found in the Henry VII vault, during an excavation
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June 19, 1586: The Colonial History Of
The United States: The British Colonization Of The Americas: The
Roanoke Colony (The Lost Colony): -- The English colonists
organized by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent
English settlement in North America, The Roanoke Colony, abandon
their settlement at Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina) to
return to England with Sir Francis Drake. Sir Walter Raleigh's
expedition to establish the Roanoke Colony had departed Plymouth,
Devon, England on April 9, 1585. The expedition consisted of a
fleet of seven ships: The galleass Tiger (fleet commander Sir
Richard Grenville's flagship, with with Simon Fernandes as pilot),
the flyboat Roebuck (captained by John Clarke), Red Lion (under
the command of George Raymond), Elizabeth (captained by Thomas
Cavendish), Dorothy (Raleigh's personal ship, perhaps captained by
Arthur Barlowe) and two small pinnaces (light boats, propelled by
oars or sails, carried aboard merchant and war vessels in the Age
of Sail to serve as a tender. The establishment of the Roanoke
Colony was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first
permanent English settlement in North America. The English, led by
Sir Humphrey Gilbert, had briefly claimed St. John's,
Newfoundland, in 1583 as the first English territory in North
America at the royal prerogative of Queen Elizabeth I, but Gilbert
was lost at sea on his return journey to England. Roanoke colony
was founded by governor Ralph Lane in 1585 on Roanoke Island in
what is now Dare County, North Carolina, United States. Lane's
colony was troubled by a lack of supplies and poor relations with
the local Native Americans. While awaiting a delayed resupply
mission by Sir Richard Grenville, Lane abandoned the colony and
returned to England with Sir Francis Drake in 1586. Grenville
arrived two weeks later and also returned home, leaving behind a
small detachment to protect Raleigh's claim. Following the failure
of the 1585 settlement, a second expedition, led by John White,
landed on the same island in 1587, and set up another settlement.
Sir Walter Raleigh had sent him to establish the "Cittie of
Raleigh" in Chesapeake Bay. That attempt became known as the
Lost Colony due to the subsequent unexplained disappearance of its
population. During a stop to check on Grenville's men, flagship
pilot Simon Fernandes forced White and his colonists to remain on
Roanoke. White returned to England with Fernandes, intending to
bring more supplies back for his colony in 1588. The Anglo-Spanish
War delayed White's return to Roanoke until 1590, and upon his
arrival he found the settlement fortified but abandoned. The
cryptic word "CROATOAN" was found carved into the
palisade, which White interpreted to mean the colonists had
relocated to Croatoan Island. Before White could follow this lead,
rough seas and a lost anchor forced the mission to return to
England. The fate of the approximately 112-121 colonists remains
unknown. Speculation that they had assimilated with nearby Native
American communities appears in writings as early as 1605.
Investigations by the Jamestown colonists produced reports that
the Roanoke settlers had been massacred and stories of people with
European features in Native American villages, but no hard
evidence was produced. Interest in the matter fell into decline
until 1834, when George Bancroft published his account of the
events in A History of the United States. Bancroft's description
of the colonists, particularly White's infant granddaughter
Virginia Dare, cast them as foundational figures in American
culture, and captured the public imagination. Despite this renewed
interest, modern research has failed to find archaeological
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Today, June 19, 2026
June 19, 1862: American Civil War: Law
Enacting Emancipation In The Federal Territories: The American
Civil War (The Civil War, The War Between The States): Slavery In
The United States: The End Of Slavery In The United States: Law
Enacting Emancipation In The Federal Territories: -- The U.S.
Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories with "An
Act To Secure Freedom To All Persons Within The Territories Of The
United States: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That from and after the passage of this act there shall
be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the
Territories of the United States now existing, or which may at any
time hereafter be formed or acquired by the United States,
otherwise than in punishment of crimes whereof the party shall
have been duly convicted.". The act nullified the landmark
Dred Scott v. Sandford decision that held that "a negro,
whose ancestors were imported into U.S., and sold as slaves",
whether enslaved or free, could not be an American citizen and
therefore had no standing to sue in federal court; and that the
federal government had no power to regulate slavery in the federal
territories acquired after the creation of the United States. The
would effectively make slavery illegal in the Confederate States
as well, but it took Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation
executive order of January 1, 1863 to change the federal legal
status of the more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in
the Confederate-held lands of the South from slave to free. On
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Today, June 19, 2026
June 19, 1881: #BOTD: #HBD! Jimmy Walker,
known colloquially as Beau James, songwriter, record executive and
mayor of New York City from 1926 to 1932 (d. November 18, 1946) is
#born James John Walker in New York City. A flamboyant politician,
James John Walker was a liberal Democrat and part of the powerful
Tammany Hall machine. He was forced to resign during a corruption
scandal mayor. Walker was the son of Irish-born William H. Walker,
a carpenter and lumberyard owner who was very active in local
politics as a Democratic assemblyman and alderman from Greenwich
Village, belying certain accounts of Walker's childhood that
stated he grew up in poverty. Walker's first passion seems to be
music; in 1905 he stormed Tin Pan Alley writing songs such as
"There's Music In The Rustle Of A Skirt" and "Will
You Love Me in December As You Do in May?". Walker was not
the best of students and dropped out of college before eventually
graduating from New York Law School in 1904. Walker's father
wanted him to become a lawyer and politician. Raised in Greenwich
Village among the bohemians, Walker at first decided that he would
rather write songs and be involved in the music industry, writing
many songs, including "There's Music In The Rustle Of A
Skirt" and the 1908 hit "Will You Love Me in December as
You Do in May?". Nevertheless, he eventually entered politics
in 1909 and subsequently passed the bar exam in 1912. Walker was a
member of the New York State Assembly (New York Co., 5th D.) from
1910-1914. He was a member of the New York State Senate from 1915
to 1925, and was Minority Leader from 1920 to 1922; Temporary
President of the State Senate from 1923 to 1924; and Minority
Leader again in 1925. In the Senate he strongly opposed
Prohibition. He also sponsored the "Walker Law" to
legalize boxing in New York. He was honored a number of times over
the years by the boxing community. Walker is a member of the
International Boxing Hall of Fame and was given the Edward J. Neil
Trophy in 1945 for his service to the sport. After his years in
the Senate, Walker set his sights on the 1925 election for Mayor
of New York and ran against fellow democrat and incumbant John
Francis Hylan. Walker's reputation as a flamboyant man-about-town
made him a hero to many working-class voters; he was often seen at
legitimate theaters and illegitimate speakeasies. Walker was a
clothes horse: his valet packed 43 suits for his trip to Europe in
August 1927. On the other hand, his reputation for tolerating
corruption made him suspect to middle-class and moralistic voters.
Governor Alfred E. Smith was his mentor. Smith was a staunch
supporter since Walker backed many social and cultural issues that
were considered politically important such as social welfare
legislation, legalization of boxing, repeal of blue laws against
Sunday baseball games, condemning the Ku Klux Klan, and especially
their mutual opposition to Prohibition. Smith developed a
successful strategy for Walker to win the election and guided
Walker's every move to overcome his tarnished reputation. Smith
used his base in the strong political machine of Tammany Hall to
secure this victory. Walker had to change some of his more
unscrupulous ways or at least provide a cover for his
indiscretions. As with many of the things in Walker's life, he
chose the latter. Instead of ending his visits to the speakeasies
and his friendships with chorus girls, he took those activities
behind the closed doors of a penthouse funded by Tammany Hall.
Walker defeated Hylan in the Democratic primary, and after
defeating Republican mayoral candidate Frank D. Waterman in the
general election, became mayor of New York City. In his initial
years as mayor, Walker saw the city prosper and many public works
projects gain traction. In his first year, Walker created the
Department of Sanitation, unified New York's public hospitals,
improved many parks and playgrounds, and guided the Board of
Transportation to enter into contract for the construction of an
expanded subway system (the Independent Subway System or IND).
Under Walker's administration, new highways and a dock for
superliners were also built. He even managed to maintain the
five-cent subway fare despite a threatened strike by the workers.
However, Walker's term was also known for the proliferation of
speakeasies during Prohibition. It is a noted aspect of his career
as mayor and as a member of the State Senate that Walker was
strongly opposed to Prohibition. As mayor, Walker led his
administration in challenging the Eighteenth Amendment by
replacing the police commissioner with an inexperienced former
state banking commissioner. The new police commissioner
immediately dissolved the Special Service Squad. Since Walker did
not feel that drinking was a crime, he discouraged the police from
enforcing Prohibition law or taking an active role unless it was
to curb excessive violations or would prove to be newsworthy. His
affairs with "chorus girls" were widely known, and he
left his wife, Janet, for showgirl Betty Compton. Walker was
re-elected by an overwhelming margin in 1929, defeating Socialist
Norman Thomas. Walker's fortunes turned downward with the economy
after the stock-market crash of 1929. Patrick Joseph Hayes, the
Cardinal Archbishop of New York, denounced him, implying that the
immorality of the mayor, both personal and political in tolerating
"girlie magazines" and casinos was a cause of the
economic downturn. It was one of the causes that led to Tammany
Hall's pulling its support for Walker. Increasing social unrest
led to investigations into corruption within his administration,
and he was eventually forced to testify before the investigative
committee of Judge Samuel Seabury, the Seabury Commission (also
known as the Hofstadter Committee). Walker caused his own downfall
by accepting large sums of money from businessmen looking for
municipal contracts. One surprise witness in the Seabury
investigation was Vivian Gordon. She informed the investigators
that women were falsely arrested and accused of prostitution by
the New York City Police Department. Police officers were given
more money in their paychecks. After her testimony, Gordon was
suspiciously found strangled to death in a park in the Bronx. That
demonstrated to New Yorkers that corruption could lead to terrible
consequences and that Walker might ultimately, in some way, be
responsible for her death. With New York City appearing as a
symbol of corruption under Mayor Walker, Governor Franklin D.
Roosevelt knew he had to do something about Walker and his
administration. Knowing that the State constitution could allow an
elected mayor to be removed from office, Roosevelt felt compelled
to do so but risked losing Tammany Hall's support for the
Democratic nomination. On the other hand, if Roosevelt did nothing
or let Walker off, the national newspapers would consider him
weak. Facing pressure from Roosevelt, Walker eluded questions
about his personal bank accounts, stating instead that the amounts
he received were "beneficences" and not bribes. He
delayed any personal appearances until after Roosevelt's
nomination was secured. It was then that the embattled mayor could
fight no longer. Months from his national election, Roosevelt
decided that he must remove Walker from office. Walker agreed and
resigned on September 1, 1932. He went on a grand tour of Europe
with Compton, his Ziegfeld girl. He announced on November 12,
1932, while aboard the SS Conte Grande, that he had "no
desire or intention of ever holding public office again."
Walker stayed in Europe until the danger of criminal prosecution
appeared remote. There, he married Compton. After his return to
the United States, Walker acted as head of Majestic Records, which
enjoyed its greatest commercial success in the 1940s until
expansion and supply problems created financial problems, when it
folded in 1948, two years after Walker's death. Majestic Records
featured such popular performing artists as Jimmie Lunceford,
Louis Prima, Bud Freeman, Eddy Howard, the DeMarco Sisters, George
Paxton, Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage, the Merry
Macs and more. Walker died at the age of 65 of a brain hemorrhage.
He was interred in the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New
York. A romanticized version of Walker's tenure as mayor was
presented in the 1957 film Beau James, starring Bob Hope. This was
a somewhat accurate depiction of Walker, who during his time as
mayor had become a symbol of the jazz age romanticism. The film
was based on a biography of Walker, also titled Beau James,
written by Gene Fowler. A song by Dean Martin, similarly titled
"Beau James", presented a highly idealized and romantic
interpretation of his tenure as mayor. A book was also the basis
of Jimmy, a stage musical about Walker that had a brief Broadway
run from October 1969 to January 1970. The show starred Frank
Gorshin as Walker and Anita Gillette as Betty Compton. There is
also a song about Walker in the stage musical Fiorello!,
"Gentleman Jimmy". Footage of Walker is used in the 1983
Woody Allen film Zelig, with Walker being one of the guests during
Zelig's visit to William Randolph Hearst's mansion in San Simeon,
California. The 1935 novel It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair
Lewis, lists the exiles in Paris as "Jimmy Walker, and a few
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June 19, 1897: #BOTD: #HBD! Moe Howard,
American actor and comedian best known as the de facto leader of
the Three Stooges (d. May 4, 1975) is #born Moses Harry Horwitz in
the Brooklyn, New York neighborhood of Bensonhurst, the fourth of
five sons born to the Lithuanian Jewish family of Jennie Gorovitz
and Solomon Horwitz. The Three Stooges as a farce comedy team who
starred in motion pictures and television for four decades. That
group originally started out as Ted Healy and His Stooges, an act
that toured the vaudeville circuit. Moe's distinctive hairstyle
came about when he was a boy and cut off his curls with a pair of
scissors, producing a ragged shape approximating a bowl cut. Moe
Howard died of lung cancer at age 77 at Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center in Los Angeles. He was a heavy smoker for much of his adult
life. He is interred in an outdoor crypt at Culver City's Hillside
Memorial Park Cemetery. His wife Helen Schonberger died six months
later of a heart attack, aged 75, and was interred in the crypt
next to him on the right. At the time of his death, Howard was
working on his autobiography titled I Stooged to Conquer. It was
released in 1977 as Moe Howard and the Three Stooges. Howard and
the Three Stooges received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk
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June 19, 1903: #BOTD: #HBD! Lou Gehrig, American professional baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees (d. June 2, 1941) is #born Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig at 1994 Second Avenue (according to his birth certificate) in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan. Henry Louis Gehrig was renowned for his prowess as a hitter and for his durability, which earned him his nickname "The Iron Horse." He was an All-Star seven consecutive times, a Triple Crown winner once, an American League (AL) Most Valuable Player twice, and a member of six World Series champion teams. He had a career .340 batting average, .632 slugging average, and a .447 on base average. He hit 493 home runs and had 1,995 runs batted in (RBI). He still has the highest ratio of runs scored plus runs batted in per 100 plate appearances (35.08) and per 100 games (156.7) among Hall of Fame players. In 1939, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and was the first MLB player to have his uniform number (4) retired by a team. A native of New York City and a student at Columbia University, Gehrig signed with the Yankees in 1923. He set several major-league records during his career, including the most consecutive games played (2,130) and the most career grand slams (23, since broken by Alex Rodriguez). Lou Gehrig died 17 days before his 38th birthday of what became known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease". Gehrig's had just set the record for the most consecutive games played (2,130, a record that stood for 56 years and was long considered unbreakable until surpassed by Cal Ripken Jr., in 1995) which ended on May 2, 1939, when he voluntarily took himself out of the lineup, stunning both players and fans, after his performance on the field became hampered by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, an incurable neuromuscular illness now commonly referred to in North America as "Lou Gehrig's Disease". The disease forced him to retire at age 36, and was the cause of his death two years later. The pathos of his farewell from baseball was capped off by his iconic 1939 "Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth" speech at Yankee Stadium. In 1969 the Baseball Writers' Association of America voted Gehrig the greatest first baseman of all time, and he was the leading vote-getter on the MLB All-Century Team chosen by fans in 1999. A monument in Gehrig's honor, originally dedicated by the Yankees in 1941, currently resides in Monument Park at Yankee Stadium. The Lou Gehrig Memorial Award is given annually to the MLB player who best exhibits Gehrig's integrity and character. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/wwii-films-homefront-usa-dvd.html
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June 19, 1913: South Africa: The History
Of South Africa: Segregation: Racial Segregation: Apartheid
(Racial Segregation In South Africa): The Natives Land Act, 1913:
-- The Parliament of South Africa passes an act aimed at
regulating the acquisition of land which largely prohibited the
sale of land from whites to blacks and vice-versa. Named The
Natives Land Act, 1913 (subsequently renamed 1) The Bantu Land
Act, 1913, and 2) The Black Land Act, 1913; Act No. 27 of 1913),
it was the first major piece of segregation legislation passed by
the Union Parliament, and formed an important basis for the system
of institutionalised racial segregation and discrimination that
existed in South Africa from 1948 until the early 1990s known as
Apartheid. Economic interests, political influence and racial
prejudices were main contributors to the introduction of the
Native's Lands Act. The act defined less than one-tenth of South
Africa as Black "reserves", and prohibited any purchase
or lease of land by Blacks outside these reserves. The law also
restricted the terms of tenure under which Blacks could live on
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Today, June 19, 2026
June 19, 1915: Naval History: The History
Of The United States Navy: The New United States Navy (The New
Navy, The United States Navy 1885-Present): The USS Arizona
(BB-39): -- The second and last of the Pennsylvania class of
"super-dreadnought" battleships built for the United
States Navy in the mid-1910s, is launched from the New York Navy
Yard (now known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard). The New York Times
estimated that 75,000 people attended the launch, including many
high-ranking political and military officials. Named in honor of
the 48th state's recent admission into the union and commissioned
in 1916, the ship remained stateside during World War I. Shortly
after the end of the war, Arizona was one of a number of American
ships that briefly escorted President Woodrow Wilson to the Paris
Peace Conference. The ship was sent to Turkey in 1919 at the
beginning of the Greco-Turkish War to represent American interests
for several months. Several years later, she was transferred to
the Pacific Fleet and remained there for the rest of her career.
Aside from a comprehensive modernization in 1929-1931, Arizona was
regularly used for training exercises between the wars, including
the annual Fleet Problems (training exercises). When an earthquake
struck Long Beach, California, on 10 March 1933, Arizona's crew
provided aid to the survivors. In July 1934, the ship was featured
in a James Cagney film, Here Comes the Navy, about the romantic
troubles of a sailor. In April 1940, she and the rest of the
Pacific Fleet were transferred from California to Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii, as a deterrent to Japanese imperialism. On December 7,
1941, Arizona was hit by Japanese torpedo bombers that dropped
armor-piercing bombs during the attack on Pearl Harbor. After one
of their bombs detonated in a magazine, she exploded violently and
sank, with the loss of 1,177 officers and crewmen. Unlike many of
the other ships sunk or damaged that day, Arizona was irreparably
damaged by the force of the magazine explosion, though the Navy
removed parts of the ship for reuse. The wreck still lies at the
bottom of Pearl Harbor beneath the USS Arizona Memorial. Dedicated
on 30 May 1962 to all those who died during the attack, the
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June 19, 1934: The Interwar Period (The
Interbellum, Between The Wars): The Great Depression: The Great
Depression In The United States: The New Deal: The First New Deal
(1933-1934): Telecommunications: Telecommunications In The United
States: Radio Regulations: Radio Regulations In The United States:
The Communications Act Of 1934 -- The United States' Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) is established when The
Communications Act Of 1934 is signed into law by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Act replaced the Federal Radio
Commission with the Federal Communications Commission. It also
transferred regulation of interstate telephone services from the
Interstate Commerce Commission to the FCC. The first section of
the Act reads: "For the purpose of regulating interstate and
foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make
available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United
States a rapid, efficient, nationwide, and worldwide wire and
radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable
charges, for the purpose of the national defense, and for the
purpose of securing a more effective execution of this policy by
centralizing authority theretofore granted by law to several
agencies and by granting additional authority with respect to
interstate and foreign commerce in wire and radio communication,
there is hereby created a commission to be known as the 'Federal
Communications Commission', which shall be constituted as
hereinafter provided, and which shall execute and enforce the
provisions of this Act.". On January 3, 1996, the 104th
Congress of the United States amended or repealed sections of the
Communications Act Of 1934 with the new Telecommunications Act of
1996. It was the first major overhaul of American
telecommunications policy in nearly 62 years. The Act, signed by
President Bill Clinton, represented a major change in American
telecommunication law, since it was the first time that the
Internet was included in broadcasting and spectrum allotment. One
of the most controversial titles was Title 3 ("Cable
Services"), which allowed for media cross-ownership.
According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the goal
of the law was to "let anyone enter any communications
business - to let any communications business compete in any
market against any other." The legislation's primary goal was
deregulation of the converging broadcasting and telecommunications
markets. However, the law's regulatory policies have been
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June 19, 1936: #BOTD: #HBD! Shirley
Goodman, African American R & B singer, best known as one half
of the 1950s duo Shirley and Lee, who recorded "Let The Good
Times Roll", their biggest hit single reaching #1 on the US R
& B chart and #20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart (d. July 5,
2005) is #born Shirley Mae Goodman in New Orleans, Louisiana.
After singing in church choirs, she recorded her first demo with a
group of friends in 1950. Some months later, her solo voice caught
the attention of Aladdin Records owner Eddie Messner, who tracked
her down and paired her as a duo with another school friend,
Leonard Lee (June 29, 1935 - October 23, 1976). As 'Shirley &
Lee', they recorded their debut single "I'm Gone",
produced by Cosimo Matassa, which reached #2 on the Billboard R &
B charts in 1952. The record contrasted Goodman's soprano with
Leonard's baritone, in a way in which subsequent songwriters have
suggested was influential on the development of ska and reggae.
Matassa said of Goodman, "When Shirley sang a solo, you had
to feel yourself because you thought you were cut and didn't know
where the blood was." In their early songs, they pretended as
if they were sweethearts and were dubbed "the Sweethearts of
the Blues". However, they changed style in 1956 and recorded
"Let the Good Times Roll", which became their biggest
hit single reaching #1 on the US R & B chart and #20 on the
Billboard Hot 100 chart. It sold over one million copies, and was
awarded a gold disc. Although a follow-up single, "I Feel
Good" (not to be confused with their 1955 single "Feel
So Good"), also made the charts, the duo's later releases
were less successful, and the pair moved to the Warwick label in
1959. Goodman and Leonard split up in 1963. Leonard made some
subsequent solo records with little success. In the mid 1960s,
Goodman moved to California, where she worked as a session singer
on records by Sonny and Cher, Dr. John and others, and also formed
a duo for a time with Jessie Hill. She sang backing vocals on The
Rolling Stones' Exile On Main Street album, but then briefly
retired from the music industry. On October 15, 1971, Shirley &
Lee were reunited for one show only at the Madison Square Garden
in New York City, the concert that was the inspiration for Rick
Nelson's last top 40 hit, "Garden Party", and the
playbill included other musicians of the early rock era, including
Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Bobby Rydell. Later in 1974, as
Shirley Goodman Pixley, she was contacted by her friend Sylvia
Robinson, previously of the duo Mickey and Sylvia and now co-owner
of the All Platinum record label, and was persuaded to record the
lead vocal on a dance track, "Shame, Shame, Shame".
Credited to Shirley & Company, the record became an
international pop hit, reaching #12 on the Billboard chart and
presaging the disco boom. After a few further recordings and
tours, Goodman finally retired from the music industry after
returning to New Orleans in the late 1970s. After suffering a
stroke in 1994, she moved to California. She died in Los Angeles,
California, aged 69. She is buried in New Orleans, Louisiana, the
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Today, June 19, 2026
June 19, 1940: World War II: The Pacific
War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Asiatic-Pacific Theater, The
Pacific Theater Of World War II): The Asiatic-Pacific Theater: The
South-East Asian Theater Of World War II: French Indochina in
World War II: The De Facto Japanese Occupation Of French Indochina
(June 20 - September 20, 1940): -- The Japanese usurpation of
control over French Indochina begins when Japan takes advantage of
the defeat of France by Nazi Germany and the impending armistice
between them to present the Governor-General of Indochina,
Five-Star General Georges Catroux, with a "request" --
in fact, an ultimatum -- demanding the closure of all supply
routes to China and the admission of a 40-man Japanese inspection
team under General Issaku Nishihara, or else the Japanese would
resort to "other measures" in response. The Americans
were already aware of the true nature of the Japanese "request"
through their secret intercepts of the Code Purple Japanese
diplomatic cypher communications, since the Japanese had
instructed their German embassy staff to inform their German
allies of their impending actions. Governor-General Catroux
initially responded by warning the Japanese that their unspecified
"other measures" would be a breach of sovereignty. He
was reluctant to acquiesce to the Japanese, but with his
intelligence reporting that Japanese army and navy units were
moving into threatening positions, the French government was not
prepared for a protracted defense of the colony. Therefore,
Catroux complied with the Japanese ultimatum on June 20, 1940, and
The De Facto Japanese Occupation Of French Indochina began.
Following disagreements with the new Vichy government, Catroux was
ordered to hand over his post to Admiral Jean Decoux on June 25.
He initially ignored the order, and only resigned on July 20. He
did not return to France, however, but to London instead, choosing
to join de Gaulle, who was by now leader of the Free France
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June 19, 1940: World's Fairs: The 1939-40
New York World's Fair: Philippa Duke Schuyler Day: -- New York
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia declares June 19, 1940 "Philippa
Duke Schuyler Day" at the New York World's Fair, where she
performed two piano recitals. Philippa Schuyler, beautiful and
brilliant African American child prodigy, concert pianist,
composer, author, and journalist, hailed as "The Shirley
Temple Of American Negroes" (August 2, 1931 - May 9, 1967)
was #born Philippa Duke Schuyler in Harlem, New York City, the
only child of prominent black journalist George Schuyler and
Josephine Cogdell Schuyler, a white Texan heiress, one-time Mack
Sennett bathing beauty and the granddaughter of slave owners. For
three years before Schuyler's birth, her mother ate only natural
and raw food, avoided meat, and went on a body- and mind-preparing
regime to cleanse her system and prepare to bear a "superior"
child. Mrs. Schuyler believed that genius could best be developed
by a diet consisting exclusively of raw foods. As a result,
Philippa grew up in her New York City apartment eating a diet
predominantly of raw carrots, peas, and yams and raw steak. She
was given a daily ration of cod liver oil and lemon slices in
place of sweets. "When we travel," Mrs. Schuyler said,
"Philippa and I amaze waiters. You have to argue with most
waiters before they will bring you raw meat. I guess it is rather
unusual to see a little girl eating a raw steak." Her parents
believed that intermarriage would "invigorate" both
races, produce extraordinary offspring, and help solve social
problems in the United States. She was recognized as a prodigy at
an early age. In 1933, a New York Herald Tribune writer called her
the "Negro Baby." Schuyler reportedly knew the alphabet
at 19 months and was able to read and write at the age of two. By
four years old, she could play compositions by Schumann and Mozart
and was writing her own. Her intelligence quotient (IQ) at the age
of six was found to be 185. Her mother was an overbearing stage
mother who entered her in every possible music competition.
Schuyler performed public piano recitals and radio broadcasts by
the age of four. Schuyler won numerous music competitions,
including the New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts at
Carnegie Hall. In June 1936, four-year-old Schuyler won her first
gold medal at the annual tournament sponsored by the National
Guild Of Piano Teachers, where she performed ten original
compositions. She won eight consecutive prizes from the New York
Philharmonic Young People's Concerts at Carnegie Hall, then was
barred from competing because the other children had little chance
to win against her. She also won gold medals from the Music
Education League and from the City of New York. Schuyler's piano
recitals and radio broadcasts attracted press coverage. Among her
admirers was New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who visited her at
home on more than one occasion and declared June 19, 1940
"Philippa Duke Schuyler Day" at the New York World's
Fair, where she performed two piano recitals. At age nine,
Schuyler became the subject of "Evening With A Gifted Child",
a profile written by New Yorker correspondent Joseph Mitchell, who
heard several of her early compositions. He noted that she
addressed both her parents by their first names. Schuyler
completed the eighth grade at the age of 11 and by the age of 14
she had composed 200 musical selections. At 11, she became the
youngest member of the National Association for American Composers
and Conductors. By the time she reached adolescence, Schuyler was
touring constantly in the United States and overseas. In addition
to her native English language, she spoke French, Italian,
Spanish, Portuguese, and German. She was also a devout Catholic.
At 15, Schuyler graduated from Father Young S. J. Memorial High
School, the Schola Cantorum of Pius X School of Liturgical Music.
After graduating, she traveled the world performing for
dignitaries. She performed with the New York Philharmonic at
Lewisohn Stadium. Schuyler continued her studies at Manhattanville
College. Her talent as a pianist was widely acknowledged, although
many critics believed that her forte lay in playing vigorous
pieces and criticized her style when tackling more nuanced works.
Acclaim for her performances led to her becoming a role model for
many children in the United States, but Schuyler's own childhood
was blighted when, during her teenage years, her parents showed
her the scrapbooks they had compiled recording her life and
career. The books contained numerous newspaper clippings in which
both George and Josephine Schuyler commented on their beliefs and
ambitions for their daughter. Realization that she had been
conceived and raised, in a sense, as a genetic experiment, robbed
the pianist of many of the illusions that had made her earlier
youth a happy one. As she grew older, she had trouble coming to
terms with her mixed-race heritage, having grown disillusioned
with the racial and gender prejudice she encountered, particularly
when performing in the United States. She had trouble finding
acceptance by the classical elite in the United States, so she
attempted to find an audience abroad and spent much of her musical
career playing overseas. She fled to Latin America, where people
of mixed races were more prevalent. She chose a voluntary exile of
traveling and performing in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia,
Africa and Europe. She played at the inauguration of three
successive presidents in Haiti. In Africa, she performed for
various notables such as Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, at
Independence Day celebrations for Patrice Lumumba and Joseph
Kasavubu of the Congo, President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, and for
Albert Schweitzer in his isolated leper colony in Lamberene. She
began passing for white in 1959, at first so she could travel in
South Africa, then again years later thinking she would have a
better career if she reentered the American concert scene as a
white performer. As her concert schedule decreased in the early
1960s, Schuyler followed her father George Schuyler into
journalism in her thirties. She supplemented her limited income by
writing about her travels. She published more than 100 newspaper
and magazine articles internationally, and was one of the few
black writers for the United Press International. Schuyler
published four non-fiction books: Adventures in Black and White (a
biography, 1960); Who Killed the Congo? (a summary of the Belgian
Congo's fight for independence, 1962); Jungle Saints (about
Catholic missionaries, 1963); and Kingdom of Dreams (a quixotic
study of scientific dream interpretation written with her mother,
1966). Schuyler's personal life was frequently unhappy since
childhood. Her mother punished her severely with whippings, and
she never made friends because she did not attend school
regularly. When she did attend school, she was ahead of other
children her age, and was usually the only minority. Schuyler
developed an inferiority complex about her race and viewed her
blackness as a "stigma". Schuyler rejected many of her
parents' values and viewed their interracial marriage as a
mistake. She increasingly became a vocal feminist and made many
attempts to pass herself off as a woman of Ibero-American descent
named Felipa Monterro y Schuyler. Although Schuyler engaged in a
number of affairs, she never married. In 1965, she endured a
dangerous late-term abortion in Tijuana after an affair with
Ghanaian diplomat Georges Apedo-Amah, because she did not want to
have a child with a black man; Schuyler wanted to marry a white
man to boost her career and produce offspring she deemed ideal.
Schuyler and her father were members of the John Birch Society. In
1966, Schuyler traveled to South Vietnam to perform for the troops
and Vietnamese groups. She returned in April 1967 as a war
correspondent for William Loeb's Manchester Union Leader and
served as a lay missionary. In early May, Schuyler planned to
leave Vietnam, but extended her stay to bring Catholic children
from Hue, where there was tension between Catholic and Buddhist
factions. On May 9, 1967, she boarded a United States Army
helicopter on a mission to evacuate Vietnamese orphans from Da
Nang. The helicopter crashed into Da Nang Bay. She survived the
crash but could not swim and drowned. Her remains were cremated,
and the final disposition of her ashes are not publicly disclosed.
She was the second of two American women journalists to die in
Vietnam. Some 2,000 mourners attended her funeral at St. Patrick's
Cathedral in New York City on May 18, 1967. A court of inquiry
found that the pilot had deliberately cut his motor and descended
in an uncontrolled glide - possibly in an attempt to give his
civilian passengers an insight into the dangers of flying in a
combat zone - and lost control of the aircraft. Schuyler's parents
established the Philippa Schuyler Memorial Foundation in her
memory. Schuyler's mother was profoundly affected by her death and
committed suicide a few days before the second anniversary of her
death in 1969. Philippa Schuyler Middle School for the Gifted and
Talented in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York is dedicated to
preserving the memory of the child prodigy by offering an
arts-focused education to New York City children. It was reported
in 2004 that Halle Berry owned the film rights to Schuyler's
biography. Berry intended to co-produce the biopic with Marc
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June 19, 1944: World War II: The Pacific
War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Pacific Theater Of World War II):
The Pacific Ocean Theater Of World War II: The Southwest Pacific
Theater Of World War II: The Battle Of The Philippine Sea: Air
Warfare Of World War II: Air Warfare Of The Pacific War: The Great
Marianas Turkey Shoot: -- The Battle of the Philippine Sea begins
(June 19-20, 1944). It took place during the United States'
amphibious invasion of the Mariana Islands during the Pacific War.
The battle was the last of five major "carrier-versus-carrier"
engagements between American and Japanese naval forces. The aerial
part of the battle was nicknamed The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot
by American aviators for the severely disproportional loss ratio
inflicted upon Japanese aircraft by American pilots and
anti-aircraft gunners. During a debriefing after the first two air
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Today, June 19, 2026
June 19, 1945: #BOTD: Radovan Karadzic,
Bosnian Serb politician, psychiatrist, poet and convicted war
criminal, 1st President of Republika Srpska from 1992 to 1996
during the Bosnian War, is #born to a Serb family in the village
of Petnjica in the People's Republic of Montenegro, Democratic
Federal Yugoslavia, near Savnik. He was convicted of genocide,
crimes against humanity and war crimes by the International
Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He is sometimes
referred to by Western media as the "Butcher of Bosnia",
a sobriquet also applied to former Army of Republika Srpska (VRS)
General Ratko Mladic. Trained as a psychiatrist, he co-founded the
Serb Democratic Party in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was a fugitive
from 1996 until July 2008, after having been indicted for war
crimes by the ICTY. The indictment concluded there were reasonable
grounds for believing he committed war crimes, including genocide
against Bosniak and Croat civilians during the Bosnian War
(1992-1995). While a fugitive, he worked at a private clinic in
Belgrade, specializing in alternative medicine and psychology,
under an alias. He was arrested in Belgrade on July 21, 2008 and
brought before Belgrade's War Crimes Court a few days later.
Extradited to the Netherlands, he was placed in the custody of the
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the
United Nations Detention Unit of Scheveningen, where he was
charged with 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
On March 24, 2016, he was found guilty of the genocide in
Srebrenica, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, 10 of the 11
charges in total, and sentenced to 40 years' imprisonment. On July
22, 2016, he filed an appeal against his conviction. The appeal
was rejected on March 20, 2019, and the sentence was increased to
life imprisonment. In May 2021, it was announced that he would be
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June 19, 1948: #BOTD: #HBD! Phylicia
Rashad, African American actress, singer, producer and beauty, the
first black actress to win the Tony Award for Best Actress in a
Play, Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Howard University, best
known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the sitcom The Cosby Show
(1984-1992) which earned her Emmy Award nominations in 1985 and
1986, is #born Phylicia Ayers-Allen in Houston, Texas. Her mother,
Vivian Ayers, is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated artist, poet,
playwright, scholar, and publisher. Her father, Andrew Arthur
Allen, was an orthodontist. She also played Ruth Lucas on Cosby
(1996-2000). She was dubbed "The Mother of the Black
Community" at the 2010 NAACP Image Awards. In 2004, Rashad
became the first black actress to win the Tony Award for Best
Actress in a Play for her role in the revival of A Raisin in the
Sun. In 2022, Rashad won her second Tony Award for Best Featured
Actress in a Play for her performance in Dominique Morisseau's
Skeleton Crew. Her other Broadway credits include Into the Woods
(1988), Jelly's Last Jam (1993), Gem of the Ocean (2004), and Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof (2008). Rashad won a NAACP Image Award when she
reprised her A Raisin in the Sun role in the 2008 television
adaptation. She has appeared in the films For Colored Girls
(2010), Good Deeds (2012), Creed (2015), Creed II (2018), and
Creed III (2023). She also voiced Brenda Glover on the Nick Jr.
animated children's educational television series Little Bill
(1999-2004). In the 21st century, she has directed revivals of
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Today, June 19, 2026
June 19, 1952: The Aftermath Of World War
II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1947-1953): Special Forces: The
History Of Special Forces: United States Army Special Forces: The
History Of United States Army Special Forces: -- The 10th Special
Forces Group, which became the United States Army Special Forces
(SF) and is popularly known as The Green Berets due to their
distinctive service headgear, is founded at Fort Bragg, NC as part
of the U.S. Army Psychological Warfare Division. The Green Berets
are geared towards nine doctrinal missions: unconventional
warfare, foreign internal defense, direct action,
counterinsurgency, special reconnaissance, counterterrorism,
information operations, counterproliferation of weapons of mass
destruction, and security force assistance. The unit emphasizes
language, cultural, and training skills in working with foreign
troops; recruits are required to learn a foreign language as part
of their training and must maintain knowledge of the political,
economic and cultural complexities of the regions in which they
are deployed. Other Special Forces missions, known as secondary
missions, include combat search and rescue (CSAR),
counter-narcotics, hostage rescue, humanitarian assistance,
humanitarian demining, information operations, peacekeeping, and
manhunts. Other components of the United States Special Operations
Command (USSOCOM) or other U.S. government activities may also
specialize in these secondary missions. The Special Forces conduct
these missions via seven geographically focused groups. Many of
their operational techniques are classified, but some nonfiction
works and doctrinal manuals are available. As special operations
units, Special Forces are not necessarily under the command
authority of the ground commanders in those countries. Instead,
while in theater, SF units may report directly to a geographic
combatant command, USSOCOM, or other command authorities. The
Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) highly secretive Special
Activities Center, and more specifically its Special Operations
Group (SOG), recruits from U.S. Army Special Forces. Joint
CIA-Army Special Forces operations go back to the unit MACV-SOG
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June 19, 1953: #DOTD: The Aftermath Of
World War II: The Cold War: Nuclear Espionage: Soviet Nuclear
Espionage: Atomic Spies: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg: The Trial Of
Julius And Ethel Rosenberg: -- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg #dies
when each were individually executed by electrocution using an
electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in New York. Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg were United States citizens who spied for the Soviet
Union and were tried, convicted, and executed by the Federal
government of the United States. They provided top-secret
information about radar, sonar, and jet propulsion engines to the
USSR and were accused of transmitting nuclear weapon designs to
the Soviet Union; at that time the United States was the only
country with nuclear weapons. Other convicted co-conspirators were
imprisoned, including Ethel's brother, David Greenglass, who
supplied documents from Los Alamos to Julius and who served 10
years of a 15-year sentence; Harry Gold, who identified Greenglass
and served 15 years in federal prison as the courier for
Greenglass. Klaus Fuchs, a German scientist working in Los Alamos
and handled by Gold, provided vastly more important information to
the Soviets. He was convicted in Great Britain and served nine
years and four months in prison. For decades, the Rosenbergs' sons
Michael and Robert Meeropol and many other defenders maintained
that Julius and Ethel were innocent of spying on their country and
victims of Cold War paranoia. After the fall of the Soviet Union,
much information concerning them was declassified, including a
trove of decoded Soviet cables, code-named VENONA, which detailed
Julius's role as a courier and recruiter for the Soviets and
Ethel's role as an accessory. Their sons' current position is that
Julius was legally guilty of the conspiracy charge, though not of
atomic spying, while Ethel was only generally aware of his
activities. The children say that their father did not deserve the
death penalty and that their mother was wrongly convicted. They
continue to campaign for Ethel to be posthumously and legally
exonerated. In 2014, five historians who had published on the
Rosenberg case wrote that Soviet documents show that Ethel
Rosenberg "hid money and espionage paraphernalia for Julius,
served as an intermediary for communications with his Soviet
intelligence contacts, provided her personal evaluation of
individuals Julius considered recruiting, and was present at
meetings with his sources." They also demonstrate that Julius
reported to the KGB that Ethel persuaded Ruth Greenglass to travel
to New Mexico to recruit David as a spy. There is a consensus
among historians that Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were guilty, but
their trial was marred by clear judicial and legal improprieties
and they should not have been executed. Distilling this consensus,
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June 19, 1954: #BOTD: #HBD! Kathleen
Turner, American stage, screen and television actress and beauty,
is #born Mary Kathleen Turner in Springfield, Missouri, to Patsy
(nee Magee) and Allen Richard Turner, a U.S. Foreign Service
officer who grew up in China, where Turner's great-grandfather had
been a Methodist missionary. Kathleen Turner has received various
accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to
nominations for an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, and two Tony
Awards. Turner became widely known during the 1980s, with roles in
Body Heat (1981), The Man With Two Brains (1983), Crimes of
Passion (1984), Romancing the Stone (1984), and Prizzi's Honor
(1985), the latter two earning her a Golden Globe Award for Best
Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and Peggy Sue Got
Married (1986), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award
for Best Actress. In the later 1980s and early 1990s, Turner had
roles in The Accidental Tourist (1988), The War Of The Roses
(1989), and Serial Mom (1994). She later had roles in The Virgin
Suicides (1999), Baby Geniuses (1999), Beautiful (2000), and
Marley & Me (2008). On TV she guest-starred on the NBC sitcom
Friends as Chandler Bing's drag queen father Charles Bing, in the
third season of Showtime's Californication as Sue Collini, the
jaded, sex-crazed owner of a talent agency, and on the Netflix
dramedy series The Kominsky Method as Michael Douglas's
character's ex-wife Roz Volander. Turner's voice roles include
Jessica Rabbit in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Monster House
(2006), and voicing characters on the television series The
Simpsons, Family Guy, King of the Hill, and Rick and Morty. In
addition to film, Turner has worked in the theater, and has been
nominated for the Tony Award twice for her Broadway roles as
Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and as Martha in Who's Afraid of
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June 19, 1962: The Aftermath Of World War
II: The Cold War: Nuclear Warfare: Nuclear Weapons Testing:
American Nuclear Warfare: American Nuclear Weapons Testing:
Operation Fishbowl: Starfish Test: -- In anticipation of the 1963
Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the United States concludes
Operation Fishbowl, its last above-ground nuclear weapons testing
series, with the Starfish Test, the second planned test of
Operation Fishbowl. The launch of a Thor missile with a nuclear
warhead occurred just before midnight from Johnston Island. The
Thor missile flew a normal trajectory for 59 seconds; then the
rocket engine suddenly stopped, and the missile began to break
apart. The range safety officer ordered the destruction of the
missile and the warhead. The missile was between 30,000 and 35,000
feet (between 9.1 and 10.7 km) in altitude when it was destroyed.
Some of the missile parts fell on Johnston Island, and a large
amount of missile debris fell into the ocean in the vicinity of
the island. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal and Underwater
Demolition Team swimmers recovered approximately 250 pieces of the
missile assembly during the next two weeks. Some of the debris was
contaminated with plutonium. Nonessential personnel had been
evacuated from Johnston Island during the test. Operation Fishbowl
was a series of high-altitude nuclear tests in 1962 that were
carried out by the United States as a part of the larger Operation
Dominic nuclear test program, a series of 31 quickly-scheduled
nuclear test explosions conducted in 1962 by the United States in
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Today, June 19, 2026
June 19, 1964: Civil Rights Movements:
The American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968): Anti-Racism:
Anti-Racism In The United States: Anti-Discrimination Law In The
United States: The Civil Rights Act Of 1964: -- The United States
Senate passes The Civil Rights Act Of 1964 by a vote of 73-27,
nine days after the Senate imposed cloture for first time on a
civil rights measure by a vote of 71-29 in order to break a 75-day
filibuster (a political procedure in which one or more members of
a legislative body prolong debate on proposed legislation so as to
delay or entirely prevent decision) by the "Southern Bloc"
of senators against the Civil Rights Act Of 1964, with its equal
public accommodation and fair employment provisions. On June 19,
the bill was passed by the Senate by a vote of 73-27, quickly
passed through the conference committee which adopted the Senate
version of the bill, then was passed by both houses of Congress
and signed into law by Johnson on July 2, 1964. The Civil Rights
Act Of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the
United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color,
religion, sex, or national origin. It prohibits unequal
application of voter registration requirements, racial segregation
in schools, employment, and public accommodations. Powers given to
enforce the act were initially weak, but were supplemented during
later years. Congress asserted its authority to legislate under
several different parts of the United States Constitution,
principally its power to regulate interstate commerce under
Article One (section 8), its duty to guarantee all citizens equal
protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment and its duty
to protect voting rights under the Fifteenth Amendment. The
legislation had been proposed by President John F. Kennedy in June
1963, but opposed by filibuster in the Senate. Thereafter,
President Lyndon B. Johnson pushed the bill forward, which in its
final form was passed in the U.S. Congress by a Senate vote of
73-27 and House vote of 289-126 (70%-30%). The Act was signed into
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June 19, 1965: The Aftermath Of World War
II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars: The
Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict, The
Resistance War Against America): -- Nguyen Cao Ky, Commander of
the South Vietnamese Air Force, becomes Prime Minister of South
Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyen Van Thieu
becomes the figurehead chief of state. Nguyen Cao Ky served as the
chief of the Republic of Vietnam Air Force in the 1960s, before
leading the nation as the prime minister of South Vietnam in a
military junta from 1965 to 1967. Then, until his retirement from
politics in 1971, he served as vice president to bitter rival
General Nguyen Van Thieu, in a nominally civilian administration.
Born in northern Vietnam, Ky joined the Vietnamese National Army
of the French-backed State of Vietnam and started as an infantry
officer before the French sent him off for pilot training. After
the French withdrew from Vietnam and the nation was partitioned,
Ky moved up the ranks of the Republic of Vietnam Air Force to
become its leader. In November 1963, Ky participated in the coup
that deposed president Ngo Dinh Diem and resulted in Diem's
assassination, a coup secretly supported by the United States. In
1964 Ky became prominent in junta politics, regarded as part of a
group of young, aggressive officers dubbed the Young Turks. Over
the next two years, there were repeated coup attempts, many of
which were successful, and Ky was a key player in supporting or
defeating them. In September 1964, he helped put down a coup
attempt by Generals Lam Van Phat and Duong Van Duc against Nguyen
Khanh, and the following February he thwarted another attempt by
Phat and Pham Ngoc Thao. His favored tactic in such situations was
to send fighter jets into the air and threaten large-scale air
strikes, and given his reputation for impetuosity, he usually
attained the desired backdown. After the latter attempt, he also
had the weakened Khanh forced into exile and eventually took the
leading position in the junta in mid-1965 by becoming prime
minister, while General Thieu was a figurehead chief of state.
During his period at the helm, he gained notoriety for his
flamboyant manner, womanizing, and risky and brash behavior, which
deeply concerned South Vietnam's American allies and angered the
Vietnamese public, who regarded him as a "cowboy" and
"hooligan". He cared little for public relations, and on
occasion publicly threatened to kill dissidents and opponents as
well as to flatten parts of North Vietnam and South Vietnamese
units led by rival officers with bombings, although none of this
materialized. Nevertheless, Ky and Thieu were able to end the
cycle of coups, and the Americans backed their regime. In 1966 Ky
decided to purge General Nguyen Chanh Thi, another officer in the
junta regarded as his greatest rival, from a command role. This
provoked major unrest, particularly in South Vietnam, where some
units joined with Buddhist activists supportive of Thi and hostile
to Ky in defying his junta's rule. Three months of large-scale
demonstrations and riots paralyzed parts of the country, and after
much maneuvering and some military battles, Ky's forces finally
put down the uprising, and Thi was exiled, entrenching the
former's grip on power. In 1967, a transition to an elected
government was scheduled, and after a power struggle within the
military, Thieu ran for the presidency with Ky as his running
mate--both men had wanted the top job. To allow the two to work
together, their fellow officers had agreed to have a military body
controlled by Ky shape policy behind the scenes. The election was
rigged to ensure that Thieu and Ky's military ticket would win,
and strong executive powers meant that junta, in effect, still
ruled. Leadership tensions persisted, and Thieu prevailed,
sidelining Ky supporters from key military and cabinet posts.
Thieu then passed legislation to restrict candidacy eligibility
for the 1971 election, banning almost all would-be opponents; Ky
and the rest withdrew as it was obvious that the poll would be a
sham; Thieu went on to win more than 90 percent of the vote and
the election uncontested, while Ky retired. With the fall of
Saigon, Ky fled to the United States. He continued to heavily
criticize both the communists and Thieu, and the former prevented
him from returning. However, in 2004, he became the first South
Vietnamese leader to return, calling for reconciliation between
communists and anti-communists. Ky met and married his first wife,
a Frenchwoman, in the 1950s when he was training as a pilot in
France. In the 1960s, he divorced her and married Dang Tuyet Mai
an Air Viet Nam flight attendant, who was his spouse during his
years in power. He later married for a third time. His daughter
from his second marriage, Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen, is well known in
the overseas Vietnamese entertainment industry as a mistress of
ceremonies and singer on the music variety show Paris By Night, a
popular Vietnamese-language musical variety show, produced by Thuy
Nga and hosted by Nguyen Ngoc Ngan and Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen,
featuring musical performances by modern pop stars, traditional
folk songs, one-act plays, and sketch comedy; despite being filmed
produced primarily in Vietnamese, Paris by Night is actually
banned in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, due in large part to
its occasional inclusion of dissent against the Communist Party of
Vietnam, such as song performances or skits. Many Vietnamese
Americans called for the sacking of Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen after her
father returned to Vietnam. Ky died on 23 July 2011, aged 80, at a
hospital in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he was receiving
treatment for "respiratory complications." He was
married three times and survived by six children. His ashes are
interred at the Buddhist Columbarium of Rose Hills Memorial Park
in Whittier, California, the birthplace of Richard Nixon, who was
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June 19, 1991: The Aftermath Of World War
II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1985-1991) (The End Of The Cold
War): The Dissolution Of The Soviet Union: The Revolutions Of 1989
(The Fall Of Nations, The Autumn Of Nations, The Fall Of
Communism): The Eastern Bloc (The Communist Bloc, The Socialist
Bloc, The Soviet Bloc): The Warsaw Pact: -- The Soviet Occupation
Of Hungary ends as the last units of The Southern Group of Forces
(YUGV) a Soviet Armed Forces formation formed twice following the
Second World War, most notably around the time of the Hungarian
Revolution Of 1956, are withdrawn from Hungary. The removal of
Soviet troops from Hungary began during May 1989, with the
withdrawal and disbandment of 13th Guards Tank Division. Later the
19th Guards Tank Division was withdrawn to the Belorussian
Military District and the 254th Motor Rifle Division to the Kiev
Military District. The 93rd Guards Motor Rifle Division was
withdrawn in early 1991 to the Kiev Military District, the Group
finally disbanded on June 16, 1991, and the last troops being
withdrawn on June 19, 1991. The history of Hungarian-Soviet
relations were characterized by political interventions by the
Soviet Union in internal Hungarian politics for 45 years, the
length of the Cold War. Hungary became a member of the Warsaw Pact
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June 19: International Box Day: -- Cats
and cardboard boxes, it's a classic love affair! See your furry
friend's eyes light up as they pounce, hide and play in their
favorite cardboard creation. Peanut butter and jelly, salt and
pepper, bacon and eggs, cats and_boxes? That's right! Most cat
owners will admit that their cats enjoy a cardboard box even more
than they like the fancy bed bought for them from the pet store.
So why isn't there a day to celebrate these oh-so-average, yet
delightful boxes? But there is! To some humans, a beige cardboard
box might just look like a container that is used for shipping
things. But, to cat lovers, a cardboard box is so much more than
that! International Box Day is here to show appreciation and pay
honor to this seemingly average but delightful space where cats
just love to hang out. International Box Day got its start by cat
lovers who realized that these little felines are drawn to boxes
that offer a feeling of safety and protection. In fact,
researchers have found that cats who have boxes are better able to
adapt to a new environment, offering them protection, the
preferred temperature and their own kind of personal space.
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Today, June 19, 2026June 19: National Garfield The Cat Day:
-- A day to settle in with some coffee and lasagna as a nod to the
pop culture icon Garfield, the cat who captured our hearts first
as a comic strip, then in movies and more. On June 19, 1978,
Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most
widely syndicated comic strip, made its debut. Garfield is a
famous, fun-loving, fictional cat from the famous comic strip
Garfield which was created by writer Jim Davies. The character was
named after Jim Davis' grandfather, John Arbuckle and his lovable
pet dog Odie. In the comic strip, a beagle named Odie makes a
regular appearance as Garfield's co-character. Apparently, Odie
(who has his own day in August) was originally owned by John's
roommate before John decided to adopt the cute canine as his own.
Many people don't know this, but the world-renowned comic strip
featuring Garfield is set in Muncie, Indiana. Muncie, Indiana has
a population of around 70,000, but the cat population of the city
currently remains undiscovered (shall we try and find out?!). Jim
Davis is said to have taken all of the human faculties, that we do
not like discussing and anthropomorphized them in our ginger
friend. Seems like it was a good idea as Garfield the Cat is now
well-recognized in households all over the world. Garfield, the
ginger-furred feline comes with an array of endearing and exciting
qualities. His adventures are memorable and his distinctive
personality makes him one of the most lovable furry friends in
cartoon history. You may not know some of the facts mentioned
here; Garfield The Cat certainly has a whole lot of history! So
why is June 19 the day we celebrate Garfield the cat? Well, on
this day, in 1978 the first publication of Garfield, which
chronicles the life of the lead character was released. Within the
comic strips, some of the topical subjects focused on are
obsessive eating, love for consuming food, and a distaste of
Mondays (does anybody really enjoy Monday though?!). His absolute
favorite food is lasagna and many people recognize this as his
signature trait. He also regularly expresses his hatred for going
on diets and getting up early. He is well known for his lazy
attitude and is also a self-confessed coffee addict! Food and
laziness definitely make Garfield distinctive compared to other
famous cartoon cats over the world. Garfield doesn't just love to
eat food but he also has a handful of cookbooks too. One of the
most popular Garfield recipe books is called "Garfield -
Recipes with Cattitude." Some of the recipes in the book
include lasagna (of course), pizza, meatball subs, potato salad,
banana berry smoothie, the very best stuffing, smoky grilled corn,
garlic oven friend, crispy bacon breadsticks and much more! Which
recipe would you choose to try out first if you got your hands on
Garfield the Cat's famous cookbook? You can see publications of
Garfield in nearly 3000 newspapers, magazines, and online
journals. Garfield the cat also actually holds the Guinness world
record for being the world's most widely syndicated comic strip
too, which is pretty impressive! Garfield has also been translated
into seven languages and is well-recognized across many countries
all over the world. In Sweden, Garfield is officially called
Gustav. Finland and Norway also switched up the fun-loving felines
name to reflect the local values and knowledge. The popular book
"Garfield At Large" made the New York Times bestseller
list for two years. This was a major accomplishment and milestone
for Garfield the Cat. The book was originally published by
Ballantine Books in the United States in 1980. At one point there
were seven on this list at the same time, which meant that the way
the list was done had to be changed. Publishing houses were
sending in complaints as other authors couldn't get on the list
due to Garfield the cat!
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Today, June 19, 2026June 19: National Watch Day: -- An annual
recognition of an industry that has been around for more than 500
years and is steadily evolving. Choosing a watch is very personal
as the choices are vast and numerous. Even with the advent of
smartphones and smartwatches, the classic wristwatch signals
individual taste, culture, and a rich history that cannot be
disputed. Enveloped in history and nostalgia, makers crafted
watches not only for telling time but as a symbol of something
personal. Watches present a statement of who we are. When we pass
down timepieces from generation to generation, they often become
family heirlooms. Watches also serve as a rite of passage in many
cultures, signifying the passage of more than just time - an era
perhaps. The iconic watch brands also paved the way for new trends
like vintage-inspired, slimmer profiles, and affordable luxury.
Incorporating design, re-inventing a brand's signature look often
balances traditional aesthetics with modern details. By creating
and recreating new concepts, watches became a fashion accessory
much like scarves and bags. To observe National Watch Day, indulge
in a piece that makes a statement. Even today, the watch remains a
classic and timeless gift. We often give watches for an
anniversary, graduation, or birthday gift. June 19th is the
perfect time to give this traditional gift to someone you know.
You can also share photos of your favorite watches using
#NationalWatchDay on social media. Nordstrom founded National
Watch Day on June 19th to celebrate the history and design of
watchmaking. The Registrar at National Day Calendar declared the
day to be celebrated annually in 2017.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Black
Civil Rights Films: African-American History DVD, MP4, USB Stick
Today, June 19, 2026June 19, 1953: Civil Rights Movements:
Civil Rights Movements: The American Civil Rights Movement
(1896-1954) (The Jim Crow Era): Anti-Black Racism In The United
States: Segregation: Racial Segregation: Civil Rights Protests:
Civil Rights Protests In The United States: Transport And Bus
Segregation In The United States: Transport And Bus Boycotts In
The United States: The Baton Rouge Bus Boycott: -- The African
American residents of Baton Rouge, Louisiana launch a bus boycott
that lasts for six days in order to demonstrate for integration of
the city's bus system; the boycott served as a model for the later
internationally known 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott that itself
launched the modern Civil Rights Movement. African Americans made
up about 80% of the ridership of the city buses in the early 1950s
but, under Jim Crow rules, black people were forced to sit in the
back of the bus, even when the front of the bus was empty.
Further, state laws prohibited black citizens from owning private
buses outside the city systems that might otherwise work around
the problem. Activists proposed to the city that black riders
would be allowed to ride in the front of the bus, but voluntarily
refrain from sitting next to whites. The City Council initially
approved this concept and passed Ordinance 222. But the cadre of
all-white bus drivers refused to enforce the ordinance, and they
went on strike. The ordinance was overturned after the strike went
on four days. The drivers returned to work after the Louisiana
Attorney General overturned the ordinance and declared victory.
Rev. T. J. Jemison helped organize the United Defense League and a
bus boycott after the integration ordinance was overturned. Black
residents met in four mass meetings and raised 6K USD for the
boycott in just two days. About 14 residents refused to board the
city's buses and instead accepted rides in free taxis set up by
the community and in private car pools. About 25 private cars were
used to transport people while the boycott was in force. After six
days, the boycott ended when the city passed Ordinance 251. It
directed that black riders would fill the bus from the rear
forward and whites from the front toward the back. Blacks and
whites were prohibited from sitting next to each other in the same
row. Two front seats were declared off-limits to black riders, and
only black riders could occupy the wide rear seat that spanned the
back of the bus. The boycott had a very small impact on the city's
transportation system and on the broader civil rights movement.
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. became aware of the bus boycott and
spoke with Rev. Jemison about the fight for social justice in
Baton Rouge. He especially wanted to discuss the free car ride
system, which was a key part of enforcing the Baton Rouge bus
boycott. The 1953 Baton Rouge Bus boycott served as a model for
the internationally known 1955 Montgomery bus boycott. The 1953
Baton Rouge Bus boycott also inspired residents to mobilize around
other issues, such as securing the right to vote. In recognition
of the importance of the 1953 Baton Rouge Bus Boycott in African
American history and world history, the Toni Morrison Society's[1]
"Bench by the Road" project selected Baton Rouge as a
site to memorialize. The project places benches at sites with
historical significance for people of African ancestry. The
permanent site of the bench commemorating the bus boycott is the
McKinley High School Alumni Center.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Eyes On
The Prize II: America At The Racial Crossroads DVD MP4 USB
Today, June 19, 2026June 19, 1971: Civil Rights Movements:
The American Civil Rights Movement: The Post-Civil Rights Era
(1969-Present): Anti-Black Racism In The United States: Employment
Discrimination: The Afro-American Police League Protest March: --
Hosea Williams, regional vice president of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference (SCLC), holds a Saturday protest march in
Columbus, Georgia in support of demands made in a class-action
lawsuit against the city for discimination and poor treatment
regarding the city's Black police officers and to protest the
city's failure to address grievances of The Afro-American Police
League. The lawsuit's plaintiffs sought to eliminate longstanding
discriminatory practices in the department, and to reinstate
officers who had protested against said practices. Although the
protest march was peaceful, racial tensions were high in Columbus,
and violence escalated dramatically after the demonstration.
Rioting reached a height on June 21, 1971, when a white officer,
L. A. Jacks, shot and killed a twenty year old African American
youth named Willie J. Osborne after an alleged armed robbery.
Riots, arson attacks, police violence, and further protests
impacted the city for several months, prompting the Columbus City
Council to invoke an emergency ordinance, and Columbus mayor J. R.
Allen to declare a state of emergency. Racial discrimination and
inequality brewed throughout daily life in Columbus, especially
within the police department. African American policemen made up
only about eight percent of the total police force in a city that
was about thirty-five percent African- American. Policemen did not
ride in integrated patrol cars on a regular basis, and black
policemen were continuously assigned to work in predominately
black areas. Black policemen complained of discrimination during
promotions and overall favoritism to white policemen. The season
of racial hostility that occurred during 1971 commenced on May 31
when seven black policemen, all members of the Afro-American
Police League (AAPL), ripped the American flags from their
uniforms during a picket outside of their headquarters and were
all fired on the basis of "conduct unbecoming of a police
officer." They argued that there was no justice in the
Columbus police department and that they would not wear the flag
until they received the equality, justice, and respect for which
it stood. The many conflicts that ensued were due to the racial
tension caused by the policemen's gesture.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
American Adventure: TV History Series 1607-1876 DVD MP4 USB Drive
Today, June 19, 2026June 19, 1811: #DOTD: #RIP: Samuel Chase,
American lawyer and jurist, Founding Father of the United States,
signer of the Continental Association and United States
Declaration Of Independence as a representative of Maryland, and
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. April 17,
1741) #dies of a heart attack in Baltimore, Maryland, aged 70. He
is interred in what is now Baltimore's Old Saint Paul's Cemetery.
The World War II Liberty Ship SS Samuel Chase was named in his
honor. Samuel Chase was born near Princess Anne, Maryland, Chase
established a legal practice in Annapolis, Maryland. He served in
the Maryland General Assembly for several years and favored
independence during the American Revolution. He won election to
the Continental Congress before serving on the Baltimore District
Criminal Court and the Maryland General Court. In 1796, President
George Washington appointed Chase to the United States Supreme
Court. After the 1800 elections, President Thomas Jefferson and
the Democratic-Republicans sought to weaken Federalist influence
on the federal courts. Chase's actions on the court had been
accused of demonstrating partisan bias, and Jefferson believed
that Chase should be removed from office, a process that required
a vote in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. The
House passed eight articles of impeachment, all centering on
Chase's alleged political bias. The Senate voted to acquit Chase
on all counts, and Chase served on the Supreme Court until his
death in 1811. Some historians have argued that Chase's acquittal
set an important precedent regarding the independence of the
federal judiciary.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: World
War II: The War Years 17 Part TV Series MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, June 19, 2026June 19, 1995: #DOTD: #RIP: Peter
Townsend, Burmese-English Royal Air Force captain, flying ace,
courtier and author, one of the most capable squadron leaders of
the Battle Of Britain (b. November 22, 1914) #dies of stomach
cancer in Saint-Leger-en-Yvelines, France at the age of 80. He is
buried at Saint-Leger-en-Yvelines, Departement Des Yvelines,
France. Group captain Peter Wooldridge Townsend, CVO, DSO, DFC &
Bar was born Peter Wooldridge Townsend in Rangoon, Burma. Townsend
served throughout The Battle Of Britain as commanding officer of
No. 85 Squadron RAF, flying Hawker Hurricanes. He was Equerry to
King George VI from 1944 to 1952 and held the same position for
Queen Elizabeth II from 1952 to 1953. Townsend also had a romance
with Princess Margaret but was prevented from marrying her because
he was a commoner. He appears throughout the television
documentary series "World War II: The War Years" episode
"A Killing Of Eagles".
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: War
Props: The Junkers Ju 88 Multirole Aircraft DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, June 19, 2026June 19, 1941: Aviation: The History Of
Aviation: The History Of Military Aviation: Maiden Flights: -- The
Junkers Ju 188 Racher (Raecher; German: "Avenger"), the
German Luftwaffe high-performance medium bomber built as the
follow-up to the Ju 88 Schnellbomber (German: "Fast Bomber"
with improved performance and payload capacity, makes its first
flight. Introduced into service with the German Luftwaffe in
February 1943, the Junkers Ju 188 was produced only in limited
numbers, due both to the presence of improved versions of the Ju
88, as well as the increasingly effective Allied strategic bombing
campaign against German industry and the resulting focus on
fighter production. Of the over 1,000 built, it last saw service
as part of France's captured German aircraft fleet in 1951,
serving with the French Air Force and its Aviation Navale (French
Naval Aviation) air arm.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: TV
Cigarette Commercials 1950s-70s Film Collection DVD, MP4, USB
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Today, June 19, 2026June 19, 1966: #DOTD: #RIP: Ed Wynn,
American actor and comedian, noted for his Perfect Fool comedy
character, his pioneering radio show of the 1930s, and his later
career as a dramatic actor (b. November 9, 1886) #dies in Beverly
Hills, California of esophageal cancer, at the age of 79. He is
interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, in The Great
Mausoleum, Daffodil Corridor, Columbarium of the Dawn, alongside
his son Keenan Wynn, his granddaughter Emily Wynn (February 13,
1960 - November 27, 1980), who died from lupus and his older
sister Blanche Leopold (May 18, 1880 - December 26, 1973). His
bronze grave marker reads "Dear God: Thanks... Ed Wynn".
According to his granddaughter Hilda Levine, Walt Disney, who
would die just a few months later, served as one of his casket
bearers. Red Skelton, who was discovered by Wynn, stated: "His
death is the first time he ever made anyone sad.". Ed Wynn
was born Isaiah Edwin Leopold in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, into
the Jewish family of Joseph, a milliner born in Bohemia (modern
Czech) and Minnie Greenberg, of of Romanian and Turkish ancestry
from from Istanbul, Turkey. Wynn began his career in vaudeville in
1903 and was a star of the Ziegfeld Follies starting in 1914.
During The Follies of 1915, W. C. Fields allegedly caught Wynn
mugging for the audience under the table during his "Pool
Room" routine and knocked him unconscious with his cue Wynn
wrote, directed, and produced many Broadway shows in the
subsequent decades, and was known for his silly costumes and props
as well as for the giggly, wavering voice he developed for the
1921 musical review, The Perfect Fool. Although many gag writers
later provided material for Wynn's performances in radio,
television and movies, he was proud to boast that he had written
every line he ever spoke during his early career as a stage
performer. In the early 1930s Wynn hosted the popular radio show
The Fire Chief, heard in North America on Tuesday nights,
sponsored by Texaco gasoline. Like many former vaudeville
performers who turned to radio in the same decade, the
stage-trained Wynn insisted on playing for a live studio audience,
doing each program as an actual stage show, using visual bits to
augment his written material, and in his case, wearing a colorful
costume with a red fireman's helmet. He usually bounced his gags
off announcer/straight man Graham McNamee; Wynn's customary
opening, "Tonight, Graham, the show's gonna be different,"
became one of the most familiar tag-lines of its time; a sample
joke: "Graham, my uncle just bought a new second-handed
car... he calls it Baby! I don't know, it won't go anyplace
without a rattle!". Wynn reprised his Fire Chief radio
character in two movies, Follow the Leader (1930) and The Chief
(1933). Near the height of his radio fame (1933) he founded his
own short-lived radio network the Amalgamated Broadcasting System,
which lasted only five weeks, nearly destroying the comedian.
According to radio historian Elizabeth McLeod, the failed venture
left Wynn deep in debt, divorced and finally, suffering a nervous
breakdown. Wynn was offered the title role in MGM's 1939 screen
adaptation of The Wizard Of Oz, but turned it down, as did his
Ziegfeld contemporary W. C. Fields. The part went to Frank
Morgan.After the end of Wynn's third television series, The Ed
Wynn Show (a short-lived situation comedy on NBC's 1958-59
schedule), his son, actor Keenan Wynn, encouraged him to make a
career change rather than retire. The comedian reluctantly began a
career as a dramatic actor in television and movies. Father and
son appeared in three productions, the first of which was the 1956
Playhouse 90 broadcast of Rod Serling's play Requiem for a
Heavyweight. Ed was terrified of straight acting and kept goofing
his lines in rehearsal. When the producers wanted to fire him,
star Jack Palance said he would quit if they fired Ed. (However,
unbeknownst to Wynn, supporting player Ned Glass was his secret
understudy in case something did happen before air time.) On live
broadcast night, Wynn surprised everyone with his pitch-perfect
performance, and his quick ad libs to cover his mistakes. A
dramatization of what happened during the production was later
staged as an April 1960 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse episode,
"The Man in the Funny Suit", starring both senior and
junior Wynns, with key figures involved in the original production
also portraying themselves. Ed and his son also worked together in
the Jose Ferrer film The Great Man, with Ed again proving his
unexpected skills in drama. Requiem established Wynn as a serious
dramatic actor who could easily hold his own with the best. His
role in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) won him an Academy Award
nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Also in 1959, Wynn appeared
on Serling's TV series The Twilight Zone in "One for the
Angels". Serling, a longtime admirer, had written that
episode especially for him, and Wynn later in 1963 starred in the
episode "Ninety Years Without Slumbering". For the rest
of his life, Wynn skillfully moved between comic and dramatic
roles. He appeared in feature films and anthology television,
endearing himself to new generations of fans. Wynn provided the
voice of the Mad Hatter in Walt Disney's film, Alice In Wonderland
and played The Toymaker alongside Annette Funicello and Tommy
Sands in Walt Disney's Babes in Toyland released in 1961. Possibly
his best-remembered film appearance was in Walt Disney's Mary
Poppins (1964), in which he played eccentric man Uncle Albert
floating around just beneath the ceiling in uncontrollable mirth,
singing "I Love to Laugh". Re-teaming with the Disney
team the following year, in That Darn Cat! (1965) featuring Dean
Jones and Hayley Mills, Wynn filled out the character of Mr.
Hofstedder, the watch jeweler with his bumbling charm. He also had
brief roles in The Absent Minded Professor (as the fire chief, in
a scene alongside his son Keenan Wynn, who played the film's
antagonist) and Son of Flubber (as county agricultural agent A.J.
Allen). His final performance, as Rufus in Walt Disney's The
Gnome-Mobile, was released a few months after his death. In
addition to Disney films, Wynn was also an actor in the Disneyland
production The Golden Horseshoe Revue.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Vincent
Van Gogh TV Series DVD, Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, June 19, 2026June 19, 2012: #DOTD: #RIP: Victor
Spinetti, Welsh actor, author, poet, and raconteur, who appeared
in dozens of films and stage plays throughout his 50-year career,
including the three 1960s Beatles films A Hard Day's Night, Help!,
and Magical Mystery Tour (b. September 2, 1929) #dies in the
morning of prostate cancer at Monnow Vale Integrated Health and
Social Care Facility in Monmouth, Wales, aged 82. His funeral was
conducted by Ajahn Khemadhammo, a Buddhist monk and one of the
founders of the Thai Forest Tradition of Theravada Buddhism in the
West. Warm tributes came from Barbara Windsor, Rob Brydon, Britt
Ekland and Sian Phillips following his death. Paul McCartney paid
tribute to him on his website: "Victor was a fine man, a
great pal and a fantastic actor and someone I am proud to have
known for many years. His irreverent wit and exuberant personality
will remain in my memory forever. I will miss his loyal friendship
as will all the others who were lucky enough to know and love the
wonderful Mr Spinetti." At a memorial service for Spinetti,
attended by McCartney, the Beatles song "In My Life" was
sung by Michael Ball. Victor Spinetti was born Vittorio Giorgio
Andre Spinetti in Cwm, Blaenau Gwent, Wales, and was educated at
Monmouth School and the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
in Cardiff, of which he became a Fellow. After various menial
jobs, Spinetti pursued a stage career and was closely associated
with Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop. Among the productions
were Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be and Oh, What a Lovely War!
(1963), which transferred to Broadway and for which he won a Tony
Award. Spinetti's film career developed simultaneously; his dozens
of film appearances included Zeffirelli's The Taming of the Shrew,
Under Milk Wood, The Return of the Pink Panther and Under the
Cherry Moon. During his later career, Spinetti acted with the
Royal Shakespeare Company, in such roles as Lord Foppington in The
Relapse and the Archbishop in Richard III, at Stratford-upon-Avon;
and, in 1990, he appeared in The Krays. In 2008 he appeared in a
one-man show, A Very Private Diary, which toured the UK as A Very
Private Diary ... Revisited!, recounting his life story.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The
Churchills 3 Part 1996 TV Miniseries MP4 Video Download 2 DVD Set
Today, June 19, 2026June 19, 2020: #DOTD: #RIP: Ian Holm,
distinguished English actor of stage, film and television (b.
September 12, 1931) #dies in hospital in London, England at the
age of 88, having been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2007.
His remains are interred on the western side of Highgate Cemetery
in North London, England. Ian Holm was born Ian Holm Cuthbert in
Goodmayes, Essex, East Of England, to Scottish parents James
Harvey Cuthbert and his wife Jean Wilson (nee Holm). After
beginning his career on the British stage as a leading member of
the Royal Shakespeare Company, Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE
(Commander Of The Most Excellent Order Of The British Empire)
became a successful and prolific performer on television and in
films. He received numerous accolades including two BAFTA Awards
and a Tony Award, along with nominations for an Academy Award and
two Emmy Awards. He was awarded his CBE in 1989 by Queen Elizabeth
II. Holm won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his
performance as Lenny in the Harold Pinter play The Homecoming. He
won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance
in the title role in the 1998 West End production of King Lear.
For his television roles he received two Primetime Emmy Award
nominations for King Lear (1998), and the HBO film The Last of the
Blonde Bombshells (2003). He gained acclaim for his role in The
Bofors Gun (1968) winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a
Supporting Role. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actor, and won a second BAFTA Award for his role as
athletics trainer Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire (1981). Other
notable films he appeared in include Alien (1979), Brazil (1985),
Henry V (1989), The Madness of King George (1994), The Fifth
Element (1997), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), and The Aviator
(2004). He gained wider appreciation for his role as the elderly
Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The
Hobbit trilogies. He also voiced Chef Skinner in the Pixar
animated film Ratatouille (2007).
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Sam
Giancana Chicago Outfit Mob Boss Biography MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, June 19, 2026June 19, 1975: #DOTD: Sam Giancana,
American mobster who was boss of the Chicago Outfit from 1957 to
1966 (b. May 24, 1908) #dies when he is murdered in Oak Park,
Illinois, shortly before he was scheduled to testify before the
Church Committee regarding his work for the CIA regarding the
Castro assassination plots. He is buried at Mount Carmel Catholic
Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois. Sam Giancana was born Gilormo
Giangana in Chicago's West Town neighborhood of Smith Park, an
Italian immigrant community known as "The Patch", to
Antonio Giangana and Antonia DeSimmona from Castelvetrano, Sicily,
Italy, Salvatore Mooney Giancana ("Mooney" for "Looney",
meaning "Crazy") joined the 42 Gang (Forty-Two Gang)
teenage street gang started during Prohibition, and developed a
reputation in organized crime which gained him the notice of the
leaders of the Chicago Outfit, which he joined during the late
1930s. He was rejected from service in the United States Army by
his local draft board for being a psychopath. From the 1940s
through the 1950s, he controlled the illegal gambling, illegal
liquor distribution, and political rackets in Louisiana. In the
early 1940s, Giancana was involved in Chicago's African-American
lottery payout system for the Outfit, after having ousted
Giancana's African American prison mate and lottery chief, Eddie
Jones. In 1957, he became the boss of the Chicago Outfit. Giancana
and the Mafia are reputed to have been involved in John F.
Kennedy's victory in the 1960 presidential election. During the
1960s, he was recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
in a plot to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Giancana along
with Mafia leaders Santo Trafficante Jr. and Carlos Marcello are
reputed to have been directly involved with the assassination of
of John F. Kennedy. In 1965, Giancana was convicted of contempt of
court, serving one year in prison. After his release from prison,
Giancana fled to Cuernavaca, Mexico. In 1974, he was deported to
the United States, returning to Chicago.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title:
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Today, June 19, 2026June 19, 1990: The Aftermath Of World War
II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1985-1991) (The End Of The Cold
War): The Dissolution Of The Soviet Union: -- The Communist Party
Of The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (The Communist
Party Of The RSFSR) is founded in Moscow. It was a republican
level branch of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. The Communist Party
of the RSFSR was founded in 1990. At this point, the Communist
Party of the RSFSR organized around 58% of the total Communist
Party of the Soviet Union membership. The party was popularly
known as the 'Russian Communist Party'. Politically, it became a
centre for opponents of Gorbachev's rule. It dissolved 25 August
1991 when President of Russia Boris Yeltsin issued three
presidential decrees resulting in the disbanding of the party. On
23 August 1991, he issued a decree titled 'On suspending the
activities of the Communist Party of the RSFSR'. On 25 August
1991, Yeltsin issued a Decree no. 90 declared that the activities
of the party were suspended and that all the properties of the
Communist Party of the RSFSR would become RSFSR state property.
And on 6 November 1991, he issued a decree that banned the already
defunct party. On 14 February 1993, the Communist Party of the
Russian Federation was formed at a 'Second Extraordinary
Congress', declaring itself as the successor to the Communist
Party of the RSFSR. The new party was led by Gennady Zyuganov,
formerly the chief ideologue of the Communist Party of the RSFSR
and a member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the
RSFSR. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation continues to
exist as a communist and Marxist-Leninist political party in
Russia. It is the second largest political party in the Russian
Federation after United Russia. The youth organisation of the
party is the Leninist Young Communist League. The party is
administered by the Central Committee. As of 2015, the party has
160,000 members. The party's stated goal is to establish a new,
modernised form of socialism in Russia. Immediate goals of the
party include the nationalisation of natural resources,
agriculture and large industries within the framework of a mixed
economy that allows for the growth of small and medium enterprises
in the private sector.
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EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Mary
Martin As Peter Pan 1955 & 1960 DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, June 19, 2026June 19, 1937: #DOTD: #RIP: J. M. Barrie,
Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator
of Peter Pan (b. May 9, 1860) #dies of pneumonia at a nursing home
in Manchester Street, Marylebone, London, England, aged 77. He is
buried at Kirriemuir Cemetery, Angus next to his parents and two
of his siblings in the burgh of his birth, Kirriemuir, in Angus,
Scotland. Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was born and
educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote a
number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn
Davies Boys, the five orphaned sons of handsome barrister Arthur
Arthur Llewelyn Davies and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, the beautiful
daughter of French cartoonist George du Maurier. The family
inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures
in Kensington Gardens (first included in Barrie's adult novel The
Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who
Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play" about an ageless boy
and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the
fantasy setting of Neverland. Peter Pan is a free-spirited and
mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan
spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the
mythical island of Neverland as the leader of the Lost Boys,
interacting with fairies, pirates, mermaids, Native Americans, and
occasionally ordinary children from the world outside Neverland.
Peter Pan has become a cultural icon symbolizing youthful
innocence and escapism. In addition to two distinct works by
Barrie, the character has been featured in a variety of media and
merchandise, both adapting and expanding on Barrie's works. These
include the 1924 silent film, 1953 Disney animated film; a 2003
dramatic/live-action film; two television specials starring Mary
Martin, Cyril Ritchard and Sondra Lee; a television series and
many other works. Although he continued to write successfully,
Peter Pan overshadowed his other work, and is credited with
popularising the name Wendy. Barrie unofficially adopted the
Davies Boys following the deaths of their parents. Barrie was made
a baronet by George V on 14 June 1913, and a member of the Order
of Merit in the 1922 New Year Honours. Before his death, he gave
the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital
for Children in London, which continues to benefit from them.
Great Ormond Street Hospital (informally GOSH or Great Ormond
Street, formerly the Hospital for Sick Children) is a children's
hospital located in the Bloomsbury area of the London Borough of
Camden, and a part of Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
NHS Foundation Trust. The hospital is the largest centre for child
heart surgery in the UK and one of the largest centres for heart
transplantation in the world. In 1962 they developed the first
heart and lung bypass machine for children. With children's book
author Roald Dahl, they developed an improved shunt valve for
children with water on the brain (hydrocephalus), and non-invasive
(percutaneous) heart valve replacements. They did the first UK
clinical trials of the rubella vaccine, and the first bone marrow
transplant and gene therapy for severe combined immunodeficiency.
It is closely associated with University College London (UCL) and
in partnership with the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child
Health, which is adjacent to it, is the largest centre for
research and postgraduate teaching in children's health in Europe.
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Today's
EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Great
Moments From NOVA DVD 1990 Best-Of Collection DVD, Download, USB
Today, June 19, 2026June 19, 2018: #DOTD: #RIP: Koko
(Hanabiko), female western lowland gorilla famous for having
learned a large number of hand signs from a modified version of
American Sign Language (ASL) (b. July 4, 1971) #dies in her sleep
during the morning at the Gorilla Foundation's preserve in
Woodside, California, at the age of 46. The Gorilla Foundation
released a statement that "The impact has been profound and
what she has taught us about the emotional capacity of gorillas
and their cognitive abilities will continue to shape the world."
Despite her comparatively old age, her death took staff members of
the Gorilla Foundation by surprise. Born at the San Francisco Zoo,
she lived most of her life in Woodside, California, at The Gorilla
Foundation's preserve in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The name
"Hanabiko" (lit. "Fireworks Child") is of
Japanese origin and is a reference to her date of birth, the
Fourth of July. Koko gained public attention upon a report of her
having adopted a kitten as a pet and creating a name for him
(All-Ball). Her instructor and caregiver, Francine Patterson,
reported that Koko had an active vocabulary of more than 1,000
signs of what Patterson calls "Gorilla Sign Language"
(GSL). In contrast to other experiments attempting to teach sign
language to non-human primates, Patterson simultaneously exposed
Koko to spoken English from an early age. It was reported that
Koko understood approximately 2,000 words of spoken English, in
addition to the signs. Koko's life and learning process has been
described by Patterson and various collaborators in books,
peer-reviewed scientific articles, and on a website. As with other
great-ape language experiments, the extent to which Koko mastered
and demonstrated language through the use of these signs is
disputed. It is generally accepted that she did not use syntax or
grammar, and that her use of language did not exceed that of a
young human child. However, she scored between 70 and 90 on
various IQ scales, and some experts, including Mary Lee Jensvold,
claim that "Koko...[used] language the same way people do".
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