It happened on this day, June 19
events:
1269 – King Louis IX of France promulgates a law requiring any Jew who does not wear the yellow emblem on his clothing to pay a fine of ten silver francs or imprisonment.
1856 – The first Republican Party convention ends in Philadelphia and John Frémont of California is named party president.
1862 – The U.S. Congress outlaws slavery throughout the United States.
1885 – The Statue of Liberty, offered by the French people to the American people, arrives in New York harbor.
1919 – The first session of the Syrian General Conference is held in Damascus and Hashim al-Atassi is elected president. The conference included representatives from various regions of Greater Syria.
1940 – French forces surrender to Erwin Rommel's army in the “Battle of Dunkirk”.
1944 – American naval forces attack the Japanese fleet in the Battle of the Philippine Sea, or what is known as Operation Turkey Strike, in which they achieve a decisive victory in World War II.
1948 – Panama and Costa Rica recognize Israel It should be noted that Costa Rica is one of two countries in the world whose embassies in Israel are located in the western suburbs of Jerusalem.
1961 – Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah signs an agreement canceling the British protection treaty on Kuwait and declaring its independence.
1965 – Military coup in Algeria against President Ahmed Ben Bella, led by Houari Boumediene.
1970 – Rogers Project announcement calling for a ceasefire between the Arabs and Israel.
1976 – King Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden marries German Silvia Sommerlath.
1987 – The separatist organization ETA, which calls for the secession of the Basque Country from Spain, takes responsibility for the bombing of Madrid's largest supermarket, which leaves 25 dead and around 80 injured.
1999 – Prince Edward, the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II, marries Sophie Rhys-Jones at Windsor Castle.
2003 – Former Iraqi President Abdel Hammoud's personal secretary is arrested.
2004 – Saudi Arabia announces the assassination of Abdul Aziz Al-Muqrin, leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
2007 – A car bomb destroys the wall of the ancient Al-Khalani Mosque in Baghdad, killing around 60 people and injuring 214 others.
2014 – Philip, Prince of Asturias, becomes King of Spain under the name Philip VI after the abdication of his father, Juan Carlos I.
2015 – The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, carried out an attack on the Dolf settlement near Ramallah and managed to kill one settler and injure another.
2017 – One person was killed and 10 others were injured in an accident that crushed worshipers leaving the Finsbury Park mosque in the British capital, London, after performing Tarawih prayers. British police arrested the perpetrator the same day and reported that his name was Darren Osborne and that he was a right-wing racist hostile to Muslims and immigrants.
2021 – Ebrahim Raisi was elected the eighth elected president of Iran, with 61.95% of the votes of the participants, with popular participation amounting to 48.8% of the total voters.
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Births:
1566 – King James I, king of England.
1623 – Blaise Pascal, French physicist, mathematician and philosopher.
1846 – Antonio Abbetti, Italian astronomer and physicist.
1861 – José Rizal, Filipino poet.
1896 – Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor and wife of King Edward VIII, former king of the United Kingdom.
1899 – Robert Etherington, English footballer.
1906 – Ernest Chain, British doctor who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1945.
1910 – Paul John Florey, American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1974.
1922 – Aage Bohr, Danish physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975.
1930 – Gena Rowlands, American actress.
1936 – Hassan Hosni, Egyptian actor.
** Takeshi Ono, Japanese voice actor.
1941 – Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic.
(1945-AungSanSuuKyiBurmese politician who won the Peace Nobel Prize in 1991
1947 – Salman Rushdie, British writer of Indian origin.
** Hassan Shehata, Egyptian footballer and coach.
1948 – Nick Drake, English musician.
1951 – Ayman al-Zawahiri, leader of Al-Qaeda.
1954 – Kathleen Turner, American actress.
1957 – Anna Lindh, Swedish politician.
1959 – Christian Wulff, 14th president of Germany.
1960 – Omar Sharmarke, Prime Minister of Somalia.
1962 – Sahar Fawzi, Syrian actress. Paula Abdul, American singer.
1972 – Brian McBride, American football player.
**Robin Tunney, American actress.
1975 – Pedro Munets, Spanish footballer.
1978 – Zoé Saldana, American actress. 1979 – José Cléberson, Brazilian footballer.
1980 – Ahmed Mekky, Egyptian actor.
1984 – Muhammad Mubarak, Omani footballer.
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Death:
1867 – Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico.
1964 – Heinrich Koering, German archaeologist.
1993 – William Golding, British writer, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983.
2003 – Abdullah Al-Tayeb, Sudanese writer.
2005 – Abdul Karim Hilal Al-Jahidli, former deputy in the Kuwaiti National Assembly.
2007 – Zeev Schiff, Israeli journalist.
2010 – Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player.
2013 – James Gandolfini, American actor.
2018 – Amal Farid, Egyptian actress.
2020 – Carlos Zafón, Spanish novelist.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ Independence Day in Kuwait.
⬅️ Saint Romulad’s Day.
