June 19
Juneteenth
Birthdays:
1990 ~ Darius Settles (né Darius Jamel Settles; d. July 4, 2020), custom-suit designer to pastors. He was the son and grandson of Pentecostal ministers. He was born in Donelson, Tennessee. He died of Covid-19 at age 30 in Nashville, Tennessee
1972 ~ Robin Tunney, American actress, best known for her role in the TV series, The Mentalist. She was born in Chicago, Illinois.
1964 ~ Boris Johnson (né Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He assumed the Office in July 2019. He had previously served as the 2nd Mayor of London. He was born in New York, New York when his father was studying at Columbia University.
1962 ~ Paula Abdul (née Paula Julie Abdul), American singer and choreographer. She was born in San Fernando, California.
1957 ~ Anna Lindh (née Ylva Anna Maria Lindh; d. Sept. 11, 2003), the Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs died following a knife attack against her on the preceding day. She was born and died in Stockholm, Sweden. She was 46 years old.
1954 ~ Kathleen Turner (née Mary Kathleen Turner), American actress. She was born in Springfield, Missouri.
1948 ~ Phylicia Rashad (née Phylicia Ayers-Allen), African-American actress. She was born in Houston, Texas.
1947 ~ Sir Salman Rushdie (né Ahmed Salman Rushdie), British-Indian novelist. In August 2022, he was attacked and stabbed repeatedly while giving a lecture in Chautauqua, New York. He was born in Mumbai, India.
1945 ~ Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. She was born in Yangon, Burma.
1941 ~ Václav Klaus, Czech economist and President of the Czech Republic. He was in office from March 2003 through March 2013. He was born in Prague, Czechia.
1930 ~ Gena Rowlands (née Virginia Cathryn Rowlands), American actress. She was born in Cambria, Wisconsin.
1928 ~ Nancy Marchand (d. June 18, 2000), American actress. She is best known for her roles as Margaret Pynchon on the television drama Lou Grant, and Livia Soprano on The Sopranos. She was born in Buffalo, New York. She died of lung cancer 1 day before her 72nd birthday in Stratford, Connecticut.
1926 ~ Erna Schneider Hoover (née Erna Schneider), American mathematician. She is best known for developing a computerized telephone switching method. She was employed at Bell Laboratories for over 32 years. She is an important pioneer for women in the field of computer technology. She was born in Irvington, New Jersey.
1922 ~ Aage Bohr (né Aage Niels Bohr, d. Sept. 8, 2009), Danish physicist and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was also the son of Nobel Laureate, Niels Bohr. He was born and died in Copenhagen, Denmark. He died at age 87.
1921 ~ Louis Jourdan (né Louis Robert Gendre; d. Feb. 14, 2015), French actor. He was born in Marseille, France. He died at age 93 in Beverly Hills, California.
1919 ~ Pauline Kael (d. Sept. 3, 2001), American writer and film critic. She was born in Petuluma, California. She died at age 82 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
1914 ~ Alan Cranston (né Alan MacGregor Cranston, d. Dec. 31, 2000), American journalist and politician from California. He was a United States Senator from California where he served from January 1969 until January 1993. He was born in Palo Alto, California. He died at age 86 in Los Altos, California.
1910 ~ Abe Fortas (né Abraham Fortas; d. Apr. 5, 1982), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President Lyndon Johnson. He replaced Arthur Goldberg on the Court. He served on the Court from October 1965 until May 1969. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He died at age 71 of a ruptured aorta in Washington, D.C.
1910 ~ Paul Flory (né Paul John Flory; d. Sept. 9, 1985), American chemist and recipient of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was born in Sterling, Illinois. He died at age 75 in Big Sur, California.
1906 ~ Sir Ernst Boris Chain (d. Aug. 12, 1979), German biochemist and recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in penicillin. Following the rise of Nazism in Germany, he fled to England in 1933. He was born in Berlin, German. He died at age 73 in Castlebar, Ireland.
1903 ~ Lou Gehrig (né Henry Louis Gehrig; d. June 2, 1941), American professional baseball player. He was born in Manhattan, New York. He died 17 days before his 38th birthday in the Bronx, New York. He suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), now often referred to as Lou Gehrig Diseases.
1902 ~ Guy Lombardo (né Gaetano Alberto Lombardo; d. Nov. 5, 1977), Canadian violinist and bandleader. He was born in London, Ontario, Canada. He died of a heart attack in Houston, Texas at age 75.
1900 ~ Laura Z. Hobson (née Laura Kean Zametkin, d. Feb. 28, 1986), American author best known for her novel, Gentleman’s Agreement. She was born and died in Manhattan, New York. She died at age 85.
1897 ~ Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (d. Oct. 9, 1967), English chemist and recipient of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was born and died in London, England. He died at age 70.
1897 ~ Moe Howard (né Moses Harry Horwitzl; d. May 4, 1975), American comedian and one of the Three Stooges. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He died of lung cancer at age 77 in Los Angeles, California.
1896 ~ Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (née Bessie Wallis Warfield, d. April 24, 1986), American wife of Edward, Duke of Windsor, formerly Edward VIII, King of England (1894 ~ 1972), who gave up the throne of England to become her third husband. They married in 1937. Upon her marriage, she became known as the Duchess of Windsor. Her first husband, whom she married in 1916, was Earl Winfield Spencer, Jr. (1888 ~ 1950). She was his first wife. They divorced in 1927. Her second husband was Ernest Simpson (1897 ~ 1958). She was his second wife. They divorced in 1937 so she could marry into the British royal family. She was born in Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania. She died at age 89 in Paris, France.
1856 ~ Elbert Hubbard (né Elbert Green Hubbard; d. May 7, 1915), American writer and philosopher. He was killed aboard the RMS Lusitania when it was torpedoed. He was born in Bloomington, Illinois. He was 58 at the time of his death.
1856 ~ Elisabeth Marbury (d. Jan. 22, 1933), American author and theatrical and literary agent. She was a pioneer in shaping business methods of the modern commercial theater. She was born and died in New York, New York. She died at age 76.
1854 ~ Hjalmar Mellin (né Robert Hjalmar Mellin; d. Apr. 5, 1933), Finnish mathematician. He died at age 78 in Helsinki, Finland.
1834 ~ Charles Spurgeon (né Charles Haddon Spurgeon; d. Jan. 31, 1892), English Particular Baptist preacher. He was born in Kelvedon, England. He died at age 57 in Menton, France.
1833 ~ Mary Tenney Gray (née Mary Davy Tenney; d. Oct. 11, 1904), American writer, philanthropist, and suffragette. She was born in Liberty Township, Pennsylvania. She died at age 71 in Kansas City, Kansas.
1771 ~ Joseph Diaz Gergonne (d. May 4, 1859), French mathematician. He was born in Nancy, France. He died at age 87 in Montpellier, France.
1623 ~ Blaise Pascal (d. Aug. 19, 1662), French mathematician and philosopher. He died at age 39 in Paris, France.
1566 ~ James I, King England and Ireland, James VI, King of Scotland (né James Charles Stuart; d. Mar. 27, 1625). He ruled England from March 1603 until his death in 1625. He also ruled Scotland from July 1567 until his death in 1625. He was married to Princess Anne of Denmark (1574 ~ 1619). They married in 1589. They were the parents of Charles I, King of England. He was of the House of Stuart. He was the son of Mary, Queen of the Scots and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley. He died at age 58.
Events that Changed the World:
2022 ~ Father’s Day was celebrated in the United States.
2021 ~ Tropical Storm Claudette made landfall in Louisiana. As it swept through the South, it caused severe property damage and at least 9 people were killed as a result of the storm.
2021 ~ On this date in 1865, news that the American Civil War was over, and that slavery was abolished reached Texas. On June 17, 2021, Juneteenth formally became a federal holiday. Because in 2021, June 19 fell on a Saturday, the holiday was celebrated on the previous day.
2018 ~ The United States Patent office issued its 10,000,000th patent.
2016 ~ Father’s Day in the United States.
1991 ~ The Soviet occupation of Hungary ended.
1978 ~ The comic strip, Garfield, was first published.
1964 ~ The Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
1961 ~ Kuwait declared its independence from the United Kingdom.
1953 ~ Convicted spies Julius (1918 ~ 1953) and Ethel Rosenberg (1915 ~ 1915) were executed at Sing Sing Prison in New York.
1917 ~ George V, King of the United Kingdom (1865 ~ 1936), during World War I, changed the British royal family’s surname from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor. Additionally, the family was ordered to dispense with the use of all German titles.
1910 ~ The first Father’s Day celebration occurred in Spokane, Washington.
1905 ~ The first nickelodeon opened in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
1862 ~ The United States Congress prohibited slavery in United States territories, thereby nullifying the prior United States Supreme Court decision of Dred Scott v. Sanford.
1850 ~ Princess Louise of the Netherlands (1828 ~ 1871) married Crown Prince Carl of Sweden-Norway (1826 ~ 1872). He later became Charles, King of Sweden and Norway.
1829 ~ Sir Robert Peel (1788 ~ 1850) introduced the Metropolitan Police Act that established a unified police force in London. He was also the namesake for the officer’s nickname “bobby”.
1775 ~ George Washington (1732 ~ 1799) was appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.
1269 ~ Louis IX, King of France (1214 ~ 1270) ordered all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined.
325 ~ The original Nicene Creed was presented at the First Council of Nicaea. The Creed affirms the co-essential divinity of Jesus.
Good-Byes:
2018 ~ Koko (b. July 4, 1971), female western lowland gorilla who was taught and learned a modified version of American Sign Language. She died 2 weeks after her 46th birthday.
2017 ~ Otto Warmbier (né Otto Frederick Warmbier; b. Dec. 12, 1994), American student who had been arrested and tortured by the North Korean regime. In 2016, he was arrested for trying to take a propaganda banner from a hotel in Pyongyang. In 2017, he was returned to the United States in a coma just six days before his death. He was born and died in Cincinnati, Ohio. He died at age 22.
2016 ~ Anton Yelchin (b. Mar. 11, 1989), Russian-born actor. He was killed in a freak accident when he was pinned to a wall by his Jeep Cherokee. He was born in Leningrad, USSR. He died at 27 years old in Los Angeles, California.
2013 ~ James Gandolfini (né James Joseph Gandolfini, Jr.; b. Sept. 18, 1961), American actor most famous for his role as Tony Soprano and changed television. He stared in the cable TV series, The Sopranos. He was born in Westwood, New Jersey. He died of a heart attack at age 51 while in Rome, Italy.
2013 ~ Gyula Horn (b. July 5, 1932), Prime Minister of Hungary from July 1994 until July 1998. He was born and died in Budapest, Hungary. He died 16 days before his 81st birthday.
2010 ~ Manute Bol (b. Oct. 16, 1962), Sudanese professional basketball player. At 7 ft 7 in, he was one of the tallest NBA basketball players. He died of kidney failure at age 47 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
2007 ~ Ze’ev Schiff (b. July 1, 1932), Israeli journalist. He was born in Lille, France. He died 12 days before his 75thbirthday in Tel Aviv, Israel.
1995 ~ Peter Townsend (né Peter Wooldridge Townsend; b. Nov. 22, 1914), English military officer. He is best well-known for his ill-fated romance with England’s Princess Margaret. He died at age 80.
1993 ~ Sir William Golding (né William Gerald Golding, b. Sept. 19, 1911), English writer and recipient of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is best known for his novel, The Lord of the Flies. He died at age 81.
1986 ~ Lennie Bias (né Leonard Kevin Bias; b. Nov. 18, 1963), American basketball player. He was born in Landover, Maryland. He died in Riverdale, Maryland at age 22. He died from a cocaine overdose two days after being selected to play for the Boston Celtics in the NBA Draft.
1984 ~ Lee Krasner (née Lenora Krassner; b. Oct. 27, 1908), American painter. She was the wife of Jackson Pollack. She was born and died in New York, New York. She died at age 75.
1981 ~ Pamela Hansford Johnson, Baroness Snow (b. May 29, 1981), British novelist, poet and social critic. She was born and died in London, England. She died 20 days after her 69th birthday.
1981 ~ Lotte Reiniger (née Charlotte Reiniger; b. June 2, 1899), German film director and pioneer in silhouette animation. She was born in Berlin, Germany. She died less than 3 weeks after her 82nd birthday.
1966 ~ Ed Wynn (né Isaiah Edwin Leopold; b. Nov. 9, 1886), American actor, best known for his role in Mary Poppins. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died at age 79 of throat cancer in Beverly Hills, California.
1965 ~ James Collip (né James Bertram Collip; b. Nov. 20, 1892), Canadian biochemist and co-discoverer of insulin. He was born in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. He died at age 72 in London, Ontario, Canada.
1953 ~ Julius Rosenberg (b. May 12, 1918), American who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. He and his wife, Ethel (1918 ~ 1953), were executed. He was born in Manhattan, New York. He died in Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York. He was 35 years old.
1953 ~ Ethel Rosenberg (b. Sept. 28, 1915), American who was executed along with her husband, Julius (1918 ~ 1953), for allegedly spying for the Soviet Union. She was born in Manhattan, New York. She was 37 years old at the time of her execution at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York.
1939 ~ Grace Abbott (b. Nov. 17, 1878), American social worker. She was born in Grand Island, Nebraska. She died of multiple myeloma at age 60 in Chicago, Illinois.
1937 ~ Sir J.M. Barrie, 1st Baronet (né James Matthew Barrie, b. May 9, 1860), Scottish writer best known for his play, Peter Pan. He died at age 77 in London, England.
1897 ~ Charles Boycott (né Charles Cunningham Boycott; b. Mar. 12, 1832), British land agent. He was ostracized by his local community, hence the verb Boycott. He died at age 65.
1867 ~ Maximilian I (b. July 6, 1832), President of the Second Mexican Empire was executed by firing squad just 17 days before his 35th birthday.
1864 ~ Sarah Rosetta Wakeman (b. Jan. 16, 1843), American female soldier who fought for the Union during the American Civil War. She joined the army under the name of Lyons Wakeman. She was born in Chenango County, New York. She fought at the Red River Campaign. She died at age 21 at a United States Marine Hospital in New Orleans.
1811 ~ Samuel Chase (b. Apr. 17, 1741), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated to the High Court by President George Washington. He replaced John Blair on the Court. He served on the Court from January 1796 until his death in June 1811. President Jefferson believed that he should be removed from the court on grounds of demonstrating bias. In 1804, the House of Representatives voted to impeach him on alleged political bias. The Senate voted to acquit him, and he served on the court until his death a few years later. Chase was also a signatory to the Declaration of Independence. He was born in Somerset County, Maryland, British America. He died at age 70 in Baltimore Maryland.
1794 ~ Richard Henry Lee (b. Jan. 20, 1732), Early American lawyer, statesman and politician. He was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He served as President of the Continental Congress. He later served as a United States Senator from Virginia from March 1780 until October 1792. He was born in Westmoreland County in the Colony of Virginia. He died at age 62 on Chantilly Plantation, Westmoreland County, Virginia.
1786 ~ Nathanael Green (b. Aug. 7, 1742), General in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He was born in Warwick, Rhode Island, British America. He died at age 43 in Mulberry Grove, Georgia.
1364 ~ Elisenda of Montcada (b. 1292), Queen consort and regent of Aragon. She was the fourth wife of James II, King of Aragon (1267 ~ 1327). They married in 1322. There were no children of this marriage but she became stepmother to his 10 children from a prior marriage. After the king’s death, she entered the Poor Clares Monastery as a nun. She was of the House of Montcada. She was the daughter of Pere II Ramon of Montcada and Elisenda de Pinos. She was Roman Catholic. The exact date of her birth is not known, but she is believed to have been about age 73 or 74 at the time of her death.
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