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Friday, 19 June 2026
1979 Wings release "Old Siam, Sir". 
1979 Jack Mulhall, actor (Buck Rogers, Held for Ransom), dies at 91
1980 Barbra Striesand appears at an ACLU Benefit in Calif.
1980 H Debehogne discovers asteroids #2543 Machado and #3411.
1980 Ted Turner's Cable News Network begins broadcasting.
1980 [Richard] Rube Marquard, US baseball pitcher, dies at 90
1981 Carl Vinson, (Rep-D-Ga, 1914-64), dies at 97.
1982 Hendrik Algra, Newspaper publisher/Dutch MP (ARP), dies.
1983 Anna Seghers, writer, dies at 82
1984 Weightlifter Alexander Gunyashev of USSR snatches a record 211 kg.
1985 Richard Greene actor (Adv of Robin Hood), dies at 67
1987 Errol W Barrow, PM of Barbados (1961-76), dies at 67
1990 CNN, the Cable News Network, makes its debut today.
1990 Dow Jones Avg hits a record high of 2900.97.
1990 Eric Barker, actor/writer (Carry on Sergeant, Roommates), dies
1991 Mount Pinatubo (Phillipines) erupts for inaugural time in 600 years.
1991 David Ruffin, rock vocalist (Temptations), dies of drug overdose at 50
1992 Howard Ralston, actor (Pollyana), dies.
1994 Frances Heflin, actress (Mona Tyler-All My Children), dies at 70.
1995 Prudence Hyman, dancer, dies at 80
1996 Don Grolnick, jazz musician, dies at 48.
2005 Dutch referendum on the European Constitution votes to reject, the second country to do so
2007 A 2100 year old melon is discovered by archaeologists in western Japan[11]
2007 U.S. warships bombard a Somali village where Islamic militants had set up a base[12]
2009 Air France Flight 447 crashes into e Atlantic Ocean off e coa of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew were killed
2009 General Motors files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is e four large United ates bankruptcy in hiory
2012 New York Mets pitcher Johan Santana pitches a no-hitter against the St. Louis Cardinals
2013 Bayern Munich defeat VfB Stuttgart 3-2 to win the DFB-Pokal to become the inaugural German treble-winning team
2014 Kolkata Knight Riders win the Indian Premier League cricket championship.
2017 “Beren and Lúthien,†compiled and edited by Christopher Tolkien from his father J.R.R. Tolkien's archives is published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
2017 Amidst widespread criticism, the U.S. announces its decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement in due time.
2018 Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy forced out of office by a no-confidence vote in parliament, filed by Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez
2018 Law professor Giuseppe Conte is sworn in as Italian Prime Minister as head of a populist coalition.
2018 Rouzan al-Najjar, a 22 year-old Palestinian medic is shot and killed by Israeli forces on the Gaza border, causing widespread condmnation.
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