Saturday 19 June is the 170th day of the Gregorian calendar, 195 days to the end of the year.
Saints of the day: San Romualdo, Santi Gervasio e Protasio
June proverb
Daûr Sant Gervâs gran calôr che al no dâ pâs
It happened today
1324 – The Kingdom of Sardinia is born
1846 – The first baseball game recognizable by modern rules takes place in Hoboken (New Jersey)
1912 – Establishment of the 8-hour working day in the United States
1926 – The opera King Roger by Karol Szymanowski makes its debut at the Great Theater in Warsaw
1938 – At the Stade olympique Yves-du-Manoir in Colombes, near Paris, the Italian national football team defeats Hungary 4-2 and wins the Rimet Cup for the second time in a row
1946 – The Tricolor without the Savoy coat of arms becomes the national flag of the Italian Republic
1970 – Firma del Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)
1982 – In Baccaiano di Montespertoli the Monster of Florence kills Paolo Mainardi, aged 22, and Antonella Migliorini aged 19.
1999 – Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, marries Lady Sophie Rhys-Jones in Saint George’s Chapel in Windsor
2000 – Datapoint, the company that commissioned the Intel 8008 microprocessor, sells its European facility and changes its name to Dynacore
2001 – The Paralympic Games are combined with the regular four-year Olympic Games
2014 – Madrid, Philip of Bourbon becomes king of Spain, succeeding the abdicator Juan Carlos I
Born
Alessandro Fullin – Italian actor and comedian (June 19, 1964)
Luigi Gigio Alberti – Italian actor (June 19, 1956)
Massimiliano Gallo – Italian actor and singer (June 19, 1968)
My Master – Argentine television and film actress (June 19, 1978)
Zoe Yadira Saldana Nazario – American film actress (June 19, 1978)
Poppy Montgomery – born Poppy Petal Emma Elizabeth Deveraux Donahue, is an Australian actress (June 19, 1975)
Anna Maria Pierangeli – was an Italian actress (June 19, 1932)
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