Page 8: Historical Events In June - 19

2018  Canada's Senate votes to legalize recreational marijuana use, first major economy to do so on this day in history.   

2018  General Electric is dropped form the Dow Jones Index, the last original member from 1907 on this day in history.   

2018  The United States announces it will withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council on June - 19.   

2018  Canada becomes the first major industrialised country to legalise cannabis for recreational use. The Bill which legalises cannabis took effect on October 17 on June - 19.   

2019  On this day in history first debate for a decade in Congress over reparations for slavery with Danny Glover one of the witnesses   

2019  On this day in history four men are charged with murdering the 298 passengers and crew of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the airliner shot down while flying over Ukraine in July 2014.   

2020  On June - 19 australian government and companies suffer a months-long state-based cyber attack according to PM Scott Morrison   

2023  Chinese Premier Xi Jinping meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the Great Hall of The People, Beijing [1] on June - 19.   

2023  On this day in history the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopts the High Seas Treaty, the first treaty aimed towards marine conservation in international waters.   

2023  On this day in history qatar and the United Arab Emirates announce that they will restore diplomatic relations after relations were suspended during the Qatar diplomatic crisis.   

2024  Cyril Ramaphosa is sworn in for a second term as President of South Africa in Pretoria, at the head of a coalition government [1] on June - 19.   

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1301  Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (d. 1333) was born on this day in history.   

1507  Annibale Caro, Italian poet (d. 1566) was born on this day in history.   

1566  On June - 19 birth of james I Stuart, king of Scotland (James VI)/England (1567/1603-25)   

1595  On June - 19 birth of wladyslaw IV Vasa, king of Poland (1632-48)   

1606  James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (d. 1649) was born on June - 19.   

1608  Thomas Fuller, England, literary (History of the Holy War) was born on June - 19.   

1613  Christian de Placker, composer was born on June - 19.   

1623  Blaise Pascal, mathematician/physicist/religious writer (Pascal) was born on this day in history.   

1113  On June - 19 odo/Odardus van Kamerijk, French writer/bishop of Kamerijk, dies   

1312  Death of Piers Gaveston, earl of Cornwall, beheaded on this day in history.   

1341  Juliana van Falconieri, Italian saint/Swedish tenor, dies on June - 19.   

1542  On this day in history death of leo Jud[ae], Swiss pastor/church reformer   

1545  On this day in history death of abraomas Kulvietis Lithuanian reformer (b. 1509)   

1554  Sixt[us] Birck [Xystus Betulius], German writer (Judith), dies at 53 on this day in history.   

1584  On June - 19 death of françois, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)   

1608  Death of Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (b. 1551) on this day in history.