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June 19 is the 170th day of the ... 1785 – The Boston King's Chapel adopts James Freeman's revised prayer book, ... 2005 – Following a series of Michelin tire ...
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.
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.
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.
On June 19, 1972, the press reported that one of the Watergate burglars was a Republican Party security aide. [35] Former attorney general John Mitchell, who was then the head of the CRP, denied any involvement with the Watergate break-in. He also disavowed any knowledge whatsoever of the five burglars.
A John Wick comic book mini-series was released between November 29, 2017, and January 31, 2018 by Dynamite Entertainment. It was written by Greg Pak and illustrated by Giovanni Valletta (issues 1 and 2) and Matt Gaudio (issues 3–5). The five-book series chronicles a young John Wick after his release from prison and his first vendetta.
Book Reporter: "Lavish and abundant in documentation, readers will be delighted with the fascinating, colorful narrative in John Adams." [8] The New York Times: "...a lucid and compelling work." [9] The New York Review of Books: "This big but extremely readable book is by far the best biography of Adams ever written." [10]