June 19

Today in History
• 1269 - King Louis IX of Frances decrees all Jews must wear a badge of shame
• 1464 - French King Louis XI forms postal service
• 1586 - English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island, North Carolina
• 1754 - Albany Congress held by 7 British colonies and Iroquois indians
• 1770 - General Church of New Jerusalem established
• 1778 - Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge
• 1835 - New Orleans gives U.S. government Jackson Square to be used as a mint
• 1846 - 1st baseball game (Cartwright Rules)-NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Artigas Birthday
• International Box Day
• Juneteenth
• National Garfield the Cat Day
• National Take Your Cat to Work Day
• National Watch Day
• Sacred Heart
• World Sauntering Day

Birthdays
• 1301 - Prince Morikuni, 9th shogun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan
• 1606 - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman
• 1623 - Blaise Pascal, mathematician/physicist/religious writer, Pascal
• 1749 - Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, revolutionary and President of the National Convention
• 1764 - John Barrow, 1st Baronet, statesman and founder of the Royal Geographical Society
• 1858 - Dirk Fock, Dutch politician and Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1921-26)
• 1889 - Enrico Celio, Swiss lawyer and President of Switzerland (1943)
• 1907 - George de Mestral, Swiss engineer (invented Velcro)