Jun 19, 2006 09:28
the 170th day of the year
1179 - The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
1269 - King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
1306 - The Earl of Pembroke's defeat Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
1770 - Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion.
1807 - Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
1816 - Battle of Seven Oaks between Northwest Company and Hudson Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
1821 - Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Drăgăşani (in Wallachia).
1846 - The first baseball game under recognizable modern rules is played in Hoboken, New Jersey, United States.
1860 - Louise of Orange-Nassau marries King Charles XV of Sweden-Norway.
1862 - U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying the Dred Scott Case.
1865 - Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is henceforth unofficially celebrated as Juneteenth.
1867 - Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
1870 - After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States of America, the Confederate States of America (AKA the CSA) ceases to exist.
1912 - The eight-hour work day is established in the United States.
1934 - The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
1939 - Lou Gehrig was diagnosed with "Lou Gehrig's disease" on his 36th birthday.
1943 - Race riots occur in Beaumont, Texas.
1944 - The Battle of the Philippine Sea takes place.
1949 - NASCAR sanctions the first "strictly stock" race, which will evolve into the modern Nextel Cup. Jim Roper wins the event.
1961 - Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
1970 - The Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) is signed.
1976 - King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Silvia Sommerlath.
1978 - First comic strip of Garfield is published.
1981 - My favorite Jew is born
1999 - Stephen King was hit in a car accident on Route 5 in North Lovell, Maine by Bryan Smith.
Yom Hooledet Samea'ach, Jennifer Samara!!!
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