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June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) ... 1785 – The Boston King's Chapel adopts James Freeman's revised prayer book, ...
It is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the ending of slavery in the United States. The holiday's name is a portmanteau of the words "June" and "nineteenth", as it was on June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas at the end of the American Civil War.
1566 - King James I of England and VI of Scotland (d. 1625); 1623 - Blaise Pascal, (pictured) French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1662); 1861 - José Rizal, Filipino poet and national hero (d.
Events. 1846 – The first baseball game under recognizable modern rules is played in Hoboken, New Jersey, United States.; 1862 – U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying the Dred Scott Case.
José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda [7] (Spanish: [xoˈse riˈsal,-ˈθal], Tagalog: [hoˈse ɾiˈsal]; June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896) was a Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is considered a national hero (pambansang bayani) of the Philippines.
Panicker died on 19 June 1995, at age 86. [5] The Government of Kerala acknowledged his contributions and ordered that 19 June be observed, annually, as Vaayanadinam (Reading Day) with a week-long series of activities at schools and public institutions to honor his contributions to the cause of literacy, education and library movement.
1785 – The proprietors of King's Chapel, Boston, voted to adopt James Freeman's Book of Common Prayer, thus establishing the first Unitarian church in the Americas. 1838 – The Maryland province of the Jesuits contracted to sell 272 slaves to buyers in Louisiana in one of the largest slave sales in American history.
1915: birth of Julius Schwartz, American comic book editor with DC Comics; 1923: launch of Moon Mullins, American comic strip created by cartoonist Frank Willard; 1942: birth of Jack Edward Oliver, British comics creator best known for Fresco-Le-Raye; 1976: birth of Adriana Melo, Brazilian comic book artist, Colorist, and penciller.