Editing June 19 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1903]] &ndash; [[Benito Mussolini]], at the time a radical Socialist, is arrested by [[Bern]] police for advocating a violent general strike.
*[[1910]] &ndash; The first [[Father's Day]] is celebrated in [[Spokane, Washington]].
*[[1913]] &ndash; [[Natives Land Act, 1913]] in South Africa implemented.
*[[1921]] &ndash; The village of [[Knockcroghery]], Ireland, is burned by British forces.<ref>{{cite web |title=Burning of Knockcroghery recalled in new book |website=[[Westmeath Independent]] |date=5 September 2012 |url=https://www.westmeathindependent.ie/2012/09/05/burning-of-knockcroghery-recalled-in-new-book/}}</ref>
*[[1934]] &ndash; The [[Communications Act of 1934]] establishes the United States' [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC).
*[[1943]] &ndash; The [[Philadelphia Eagles]] and [[Pittsburgh Steelers]] of the [[NFL]] [[Steagles|merge for one season]] due to player shortages caused by World War II.
*[[1947]] &ndash; [[Pan Am Flight 121]] crashes in the [[Syrian Desert]] near [[Mayadin]], Syria, killing 15 and injuring 21.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Lockheed L-049 Constellation NC88845 Mayadine |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19470619-0 |access-date=2022-06-19 |website=aviation-safety.net}}</ref>
*[[1953]] &ndash; [[Cold War]]: [[Julius and Ethel Rosenberg]] are executed at [[Sing Sing]], in New York.<ref>{{cite news|last=Conklin|first=William R.|title=Pair Silent to End|work=The new York Times|date=June 20, 1953|pages=1, 6}}</ref>
*[[1960]] &ndash; [[Charlotte Motor Speedway]] holds its first [[NASCAR]] race, the inaugural [[World 600]].
*[[1961]] &ndash; [[Kuwait]] declares independence from the United Kingdom.
*[[1964]] &ndash; The [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] is approved after surviving an 83-day [[filibuster]] in the [[United States Senate]].
*[[1965]] &ndash; [[Nguyễn Cao Kỳ]] becomes Prime Minister of [[South Vietnam]] at the head of a military junta; General [[Nguyễn Văn Thiệu]] becomes the figurehead chief of state.
*[[1978]] &ndash; ''[[Garfield]]'s'' first [[comic strip]], originally published locally as ''Jon'' in 1976, goes into nationwide [[Print syndication|syndication]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Garfield {{!}} comic strip by Davis {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Garfield |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1982]] &ndash; The [[People's Armed Police]] is de facto founded; It is officially established 10 months later on April 5, 1983<ref>{{Cite web |last=Zhang |first=Jiaoying |date=2016-04-05 |title=历史上的今天4.5：武警成立 |trans-title=Today in history April 5 - the establishment of the PAP |url=http://www.xinhuanet.com//mil/2016-04/05/c_128863571.htm |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=Xinhua News Agency}}</ref>
*[[1985]] &ndash; Members of the [[Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers]], dressed as [[El Salvador|Salvadoran]] soldiers, [[1985 Zona Rosa attacks|attack the Zona Rosa]] area of [[San Salvador]].
*[[1987]] &ndash; Basque separatist group [[ETA (separatist group)|ETA]] commits one of its [[1987 Hipercor bombing|most violent attacks]], in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, [[Hipercor]], killing 21 and injuring 45.
*  1987   &ndash; [[Aeroflot Flight N-528]] crashes at [[Berdiansk Airport]] in present-day Ukraine, killing eight people.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Yakovlev 40 CCCP-87826 Berdyansk Airport (ERD) |url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19870619-1 |access-date=2017-12-29 |website=aviation-safety.net}}</ref>
*[[1988]] &ndash; [[Pope John Paul II]] canonizes [[Vietnamese Martyrs|117 Vietnamese Martyrs]].
*[[1990]] &ndash; The current international law defending indigenous peoples, [[Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989]], is ratified for the first time by Norway.
*  1990   &ndash; The [[Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic]] is founded in Moscow.
*[[1991]] &ndash; The last [[Southern Group of Forces|Soviet army units in Hungary]] are withdrawn.
*[[2005]] &ndash; Following a series of [[Michelin]] [[tire]] failures during the [[2005 United States Grand Prix|United States Grand Prix weekend]] at [[Indianapolis Motor Speedway|Indianapolis]], and without an agreement being reached, 14 cars from seven teams in Michelin tires withdrew after completing the formation lap, leaving only six cars from three teams on [[Bridgestone]] tires to race.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The 2005 US GP farce: The full inside story|url=https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/the-2005-us-gp-farce-the-full-inside-story/4809048/|access-date=2021-06-14|website=www.motorsport.com|date=19 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[2007]] &ndash; The [[2007 al-Khilani Mosque bombing|al-Khilani Mosque bombing]] in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured.
*[[2009]] &ndash; [[Shishou incident|Mass riots]] involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in [[Shishou]], China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
*  2009   &ndash; [[War in North-West Pakistan]]: The [[Pakistani Armed Forces]] open [[Operation Rah-e-Nijat]] against the [[Taliban]] and other [[Islamist]] rebels in the [[South Waziristan]] area of the [[Federally Administered Tribal Areas]].
*[[2012]] &ndash; [[WikiLeaks]] founder [[Julian Assange]] requests asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of [[extradition]] to the US after publication of previously [[classified information|classified documents]] including footage of [[July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike|civilian killings by the US army]].
*[[2018]] &ndash; The 10,000,000th United States [[Patent]] is issued.<ref>{{cite patent |country=US |number=10,000,000 |status=patent |title=COHERENT LADAR USING INTRA-PIXEL QUADRATURE DETECTION |gdate=Jun. 19, 2018 |inventor=Joseph Marron |assign1=Raytheon Company |url=https://10millionpatents.uspto.gov/docs/patent10million.pdf}}</ref>
*  2018   &ndash; [[Shooting of Antwon Rose Jr.|Antwon Rose II]] is fatally shot in [[East Pittsburgh]] by East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld after being involved in a near-fatal drive-by shooting.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Silverman|first=Darran Simon Hollie|title=East Pittsburgh police officer fatally shot 17-year-old Antwon Rose fleeing traffic stop|url=https://www.phillytrib.com/news/east-pittsburgh-police-officer-fatally-shot-17-year-old-antwon-rose-fleeing-traffic-stop/article_bd4e3718-754a-11e8-a039-dba5899b0f90.html|access-date=2020-08-24|website=The Philadelphia Tribune|date=21 June 2018 |language=en}}</ref>
*  [[2020]]   &ndash; Animal rights advocate [[Death of Regan Russell|Regan Russell]] is run over and killed by a transport truck outside of a pig slaughterhouse in Burlington, Ontario.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-03-27 |title=Trucker pleads guilty to careless driving in 2020 death of activist outside pig slaughterhouse |url=https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/trucker-pleads-guilty-to-careless-driving-in-2020-death-of-activist-outside-pig-slaughterhouse-1.6330450 |access-date=2023-11-12 |website=Toronto |language=en}}</ref>