June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 195 days left until the end of the year.

Railways

• June 19, 1892 EskiÅŸehir-Istanbul train services started on Sunday.

Olaylar

• 325 – End of Iznik Council meeting.
• 1097 – During the First Crusades, Iznik is taken by the Seljuk Turks.
• 1157 – The Templars are routed; Their Grand Master, Bertrand de Blanchefort, is taken prisoner by the Muslims, whose commander is Nureddin Mahmud Zengi.
• 1269 – King of France IX. Louis ordered that Jews who did not wear yellow markings in public places be fined if caught.
• 1862 – Slavery is officially abolished in the United States.
• 1868 – Mithat Pasha founds the Homeland Funds.
• 1870 – The Confederate States of America officially cease to exist after the readmission of all southern states to the United States after the Civil War.
• 1885 – The Statue of Liberty is brought to New York from France.
• 1910 – Father’s Day is celebrated for the first time in the United States.
• 1910 – The first airship named “Deutschland” in Germany made its first takeoff.
• 1911 – Molde FK is founded.
• 1926 – Mustafa Kemal makes a statement to the Anadolu agency, which follows his tour in Izmir, with his famous words: My humble body will surely be earth day. But the Republic of Turkey will remain forever.
• 1934 – Shah of Iran Reza Pahlavi and Atatürk, the first Turkish opera Ozsoy ‘They watched you at the Ankara community center.
• 1944 – II. World War II: First day of the Philippine Naval War.
• 1952 – The Act on the Exemption of Coal Mining Workers from Military Service is passed.
• 1953 – US citizens Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, convicted of espionage for the Soviet Union, are executed in New York’s “Sing Sing” prison.
• 1961 – Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1961 – Turkey began to export labor to Germany.
• 1965 – EskiÅŸehirspor was founded.
• 1966 – The Turkish National Wrestling Team wins the World Wrestling Championship in Canada.
• 1968 – It was announced that 40,000 children in Istanbul were carriers of the polio germ.
• 1972 – Pilots from 65 countries began a boycott to protest the hijackings. In the boycott, Turkish pilots also halted satellite and plane flights for 24 hours.
• 1973 – Bekir Sıtkı ErdoÄŸan wins the 50th anniversary hymn lyrics competition. The anthem will be composed by Necil Kazım Akses.
• 1973 – World Union of Love Medal, “Love brother“And”If life was a holiday»Was offered to Åženay for his songs.
• 1978 – Garfield cartoons begin to be published.
• 1979 – After the oil shortage, distribution of “ration card gasoline” began in Istanbul.
• 1981 – Thirteen defendants, tried in the same case as Tuncay Mataracı, former Minister of Customs and Monopolies, are arrested by the Supreme Court.
• 1981 – Radio Voice of Turkey; It started broadcasting in Albanian, Hungarian, Serbian, Chinese and Russian.
• 1981 – Opening of the TRT library and the radio museum.
• 1982 – The People’s Armed Police are established in China.
• 1991 – Soviet occupation of Hungary ends.
• 1992 – The opening of the parts closed by the military administration on September 12 becomes law.
• 1992 – The decision to stop construction of the Istanbul Park Hotel and demolish its 7 floors is approved.
• 2005 – 3 babies died in 8 days at Trakya University Medical Faculty Hospital. The bacteria named “Serratia Marcescens” were reported to have caused death.
• 2012 – Julian Assange, co-founder of Wikileaks, requested to be extradited to Sweden Embassy of EcuadorHe applied for asylum.^[1][2]

births

• 1566 – James I, King of Scotland, England and Ireland (died 1625)
• 1623 – Blaise Pascal, French mathematician (died 1662)
• 1731 – Joaquim Machado de Castro, Portuguese sculptor (died 1822)
• 1764 – José Gervasio Artigas, Uruguayan military commander and politician (died 1850)
• 1782 – Robert de Lamennais, French Catholic priest, philosopher and political thinker (died 1854)
• 1846 – Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer (died 1928)
• 1854 – Alfredo Catalani, Italian composer (died 1893)
• 1861 Douglas Haig, British Field Marshal (died 1928)
• 1861 – José Rizal, Filipino journalist, author and poet (died 1896)
• 1865 – Alfred Hugenberg, German businessman and politician (died 1951)
• 1871 – Alajos Szokolyi, Hungarian athlete and doctor (died 1932)
• 1877 – Charles Coburn, American actor (died 1961)
• 1896 – Wallis Simpson, VIII. Edward’s wife (deceased 1986)
• 1896 – Erich Koch, German politician (died 1986)
• 1897 – Cyril Hinshelwood, English chemist and winner of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1967)
• 1898 – Benno von Arent, German architect and SS member (died 1956)
• 1903 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (died 1941)
• 1906 – Ernst Boris Chain, British biochemist and 1945 Nobel laureate in physiology or medicine (died 1979)
• 1906 Walter Rauff, German SS colonel (died 1984)
• 1907 George de Mestral, Swiss engineer (died 1990)
• 1909 – Osamu Dazai, Japanese writer (died 1948)
• 1910 – Paul Flory, American chemist and winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1985)
• 1921 – Louis Jourdan, French actor (died 2015)
• 1922 – Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (died 2009)
• 1924 – Vasil Bikov, Belarusian writer (died 2003)
• 1927 – Luciano Benjamín Menéndez, Argentine general and human rights violator (died in 2018)
• 1928 – Tommy DeVito, American musician and singer (d. 2020)
• 1928 – Bahaeddin Özkisi, Turkish writer (died 1975)
• 1930 – Gena Rowlands, American actress
• 1933 – Viktor Patsayev, Russian cosmonaut (died 1971)
• 1939 – Ferdi Merter, Turkish theater, film actor, writer and director (died in 2018)
• 1939 – John F. MacArthur, American theologian and minister
• 1941 – Václav Klaus, Czech economist and politician
• 1941 – Gilberto Bennetton, Italian entrepreneur and businessman (d.2018)
• 1944 – Peter Bardens, English musician (died 2002)
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• 1947 – Salman Rushdie, Indo-British writer
• 1947 – Hasan Shehata, Egyptian footballer and coach
• 1948 – Nick Drake, British singer, songwriter and composer (died 1974)
• 1951 – Ayman ez-Zawahiri, Egyptian theologian and physician
• 1951 – Monika Baumgartner, German actress and director.
• 1954 – Lou Pearlman, American producer (d. 2016)
• 1954 – Kathleen Turner, American actress and voice actor
• 1957 – Anna Lindh, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (died 2003)
• 1959 – Anne Hidalgo is a French politician and has been mayor of Paris since April 2014.
• 1959 – Christian Wulff, German politician and former president
• 1960 – Raúl Vicente Amarilla, Paraguayan football player
• 1962 – Paula Abdul, American choreographer and singer
• 1964 – Boris Johnson, British journalist and politician
• 1967 – Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian cross-country skier
• 1967 – Mia Sara, American actress
• 1967 – Ziya Kürküt, Turkish theater and film actor, voice actor and presenter
• 1970 – Antonis Remos, Greek singer
• 1970 – Ahmet Büke, Turkish writer and economist
• 1970 – Brian Welch, American musician
• 1970 – Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician
• 1971 – Ali ErcoÅŸkun, Turkish politician
• 1971 – José Emilio Amavisca, Spanish football player
• 1972 – Jean Dujardin, French actor
• 1972 – Brian McBride, American football player
• 1972 – Poppy Montgomery, Australian actress
• 1972 – Robin Tunney, American actor
• 1974 – Bülent Ataman, Turkish football player
• 1975 – Hugh Dancy, English actor and model
• 1975 – Anthony Parker, American basketball player
• 1975 – Dennis Crowley, American businessman and co-founder of Foursquare
• 1976 – AliÅŸan, Turkish singer, actress and presenter
• 1978 – Dirk Nowitzki, German national basketball player and NBA player
• 1978 – Zoe Saldana, American actress
• 1979 – Clara G, Romanian pornstar and director
• 1979 – Daniele Sottile, Italian volleyball player
• 1979 – José Kléberson, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Lauren Lee Smith, Canadian actress
• 1981 – Nadia Centoni, Italian volleyball player
• 1981 – Clémentine Poidatz, French actress
• 1983 – Macklemore, American rapper
• 1983 – Aidan Turner, Irish actor
• 1983 – Mark Selby, English snooker and pool player
• 1983 – Milan Petržela, Czech footballer
• 1984 – Birce Akalay, Turkish actress
• 1984 – Paul Dano, American actor
• 1984 – Mateus Galiano da Costa, Angolan footballer
• 1985 – José Sosa, Argentine footballer
• 1986 – Ragnar Sigurðsson, Icelandic football player
• 1988 – Åžafak Pekdemir, Turkish actress
• 1989 – Abdelaziz Barrada, Moroccan footballer
• 1992 – Carlos Ascues, Peruvian football player
• 1993 – Olajide William Olatunji, English YouTuber
• 1995 – Deniz Aygül, Turkish basketball player
• 1996 – Lorenzo Pellegrini, Italian football player
• 1998 – José Luis Rodríguez, Panamanian football player
• 1998 – Viktoriya Zeynep GüneÅŸ, Turkish swimmer

Armed

• 1650 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss publisher (born 1593)
• 1716 – Tokugawa Ietsugu, 7th Tokugawa shogun (born 1709)
• 1747 – Nadir Shah, Shah of Iran (born 1688)
• 1820 – Joseph Banks, English naturalist and botanist (born 1743)
• 1844 – Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (born in 1772)
• 1865 – Evangelis Zappas, Greek businessman (born 1860)
• 1867 – Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico (born in 1832)
• 1886 – Hobart Pasha, British naval officer (born 1822)
• 1932 – Fazlı Necip, Turkish writer (born 1863)
• 1937 – James Matthew Barrie, Scottish writer (born 1860)
• 1953 – Ethel Rosenberg, American spy (born 1915)
• 1953 Julius Rosenberg, American spy (born 1918)
• 1956 – Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (born 1874)
• 1956 – Vladimir Obrushev, Russian geologist (born 1863)
• 1962 – Frank Borzage, American director (born 1894)
• 1973 – Tahir Alangu, literary historian and researcher of Turkish folklore (born 1915)
• 1977 – Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist (born in 1933)
• 1992 – Kathleen McKane Godfree, English badminton and tennis player (born 1986)
• 1993 – William Golding, English writer (born 1911)
• 2010 – Mubariz Ibrahimov, Azerbaijani soldier (born 1988)
• 2010 – Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (born 1962)
• 2012 – Richard Lynch, American actor (born 1936)
• 2013 – Gyula Horn, Hungarian socialist politician and former Prime Minister (born 1932)
• 2013 – James Gandolfini, American actor (born 1961)
• 2013 – Sait Maden, Turkish poet, translator, painter, photographer and graphic designer. (born in 1931)
• 2014 – Ibrahim Touré, Ivorian football player (born in 1985)
• 2015 – Jack Aeby, American physicist and photographer (born 1923)
• 2016 – Götz George, German actor (born in 1938)
• 2016 – Anton Yelchin, Russian-American actor (born 1989)
• 2017 – Ivan Dias, Indian cardinal (born 1936)
• 2017 – Tony DiCicco, former American football player, coach and television commentator (born 1948)
• 2017 – Otto Warmbier, American student (born in 1994)
• 2018 – Koko, western lowland gorilla (born 1971)
• 2019 – Norman Stone, Scottish historian (born 1941)
• 2020 – Ian Holm, English actor (born 1931)
• 2020 – Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Spanish writer (born 1964)