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June 19 is the 170th day ... 1785 – The Boston King's Chapel adopts James Freeman's revised prayer book, ... club-woman, philanthropist, and suffragette (d. 1904 ...
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.
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.
Tobias Jonathan Ansell Wolff (born June 19, 1945) is an American short story writer, memoirist, novelist, and teacher of creative writing. He is known for his memoirs, particularly This Boy's Life (1989) and In Pharaoh's Army (1994).
Warren Thomas Farrell (born June 26, 1943) is an American political scientist and activist who initially came to prominence in the 1970s as a supporter of second wave feminism. He is the author of nine books on the issues of men, women, fathers, and couples’ communication.
William J. Mann (born August 7, 1963) is an American novelist, biographer, and Hollywood historian [1] best known for his studies of Hollywood and the American film industry, especially his 2006 biography of Katharine Hepburn, Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn. Kate was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2006 by The New York Times. [2]
Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship is a book about toxic masculinity by Clementine Ford, first published in 2018, [1] and with 2019 and 2020 editions retitled as Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and Toxic Masculinity. [2] The book was well received by critics. [3] [4]
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.