Monday, June 19, 2000
History today -- 8:03 am CST, Update by The Master
- 1623: Blaise Pascal was born.
- 1864: Off the coast of Cherbourg, France, the Confederate raider C.S.S. Alabama lost a ship-to-ship duel with the U.S.S. Kearsarge and sunk to the floor of the Atlantic, ending an illustrious career that saw over sixty Union merchant vessels destroyed by the Confederate raider. Built in secrecy for the Confederacy in Liverpool shipyards, the construction of the Alabama was uncovered by the Union, creating a significant diplomatic crisis between the U.S. government and Britain.
- 1867: Horse racing's Belmont Stakes was run for the first time in New York.
- 1910: Father's Day was celebrated for the first time, in Spokane, Washington.
- 1917: During World War I, King George V ordered the British Royal Family to dispense with German titles and surnames. The family took the name "Windsor."
- 1934: The Federal Communications Commission was created.
- 1944: In what would become known as the "Marianas Turkey Shoot," U.S. carrier-based fighters decimate the Japanese Fleet with only a minimum of losses in the Battle of the Philippine Sea.
- 1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, were executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York.
- 1956: Thomas Watson, founder and head of IBM, dies.
- 1963: Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova returned to Earth after spending nearly three days as the first woman in space.
- 1964: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day Senate filibuster.
- 1995: Chechen rebels and more than 100 human shields rode a convoy of buses back to Chechnya after the end of a hostage drama at a Russian hospital.
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