June 19
| 240BC | Eratosthenes estimates the circumference of Earth using two sticks. | |
| 1778 | General George Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge after a winter of training. | |
| 1821 | The Ottomans defeat the Greeks at the Battle of Dragasani. | |
| 1846 | The New York Knickerbocker Club plays the New York Club in the first baseball game at Elysian Field, Hoboken, New Jersey. | |
| 1848 | The first Women's Rights Convention convenes in Seneca Falls, New York. | |
| 1861 | Virginians, in what will soon be West Virginia, elect Francis Pierpoint as their provisional governor. | |
| 1862 | President Abraham Lincoln outlines his Emancipation Proclamation. News of the document reaches the South. | |
| 1864 | The USS Kearsarge sinks the CSS Alabama off of Cherbourg, France. | |
| 1867 | Mexican Emperor Maximillian is executed. | |
| 1885 | The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York City from France. | |
| 1903 | The young school teacher, Benito Mussolini, is placed under investigation by police in Bern, Switzerland. | |
| 1919 | Mustafa Kemal founds the Turkish National Congress at Ankara and denounces the Treaty of Versailles. | |
| 1933 | France grants Leon Trotsky political asylum. | |
| 1934 | The National Archives and Records Administration is established. | |
| 1937 | The town of Bilbao, Spain, falls to the Nationalist forces. | |
| 1942 | Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Washington D.C. to discuss the invasion of North Africa with President Roosevelt. | |
| 1944 | U.S. Navy carrier-based planes shatter the remaining Japanese carrier forces in the Battle of the Marianas. | |
| 1951 | President Harry S. Truman signs the Universal Military Training and Service Act, which extends Selective Service until July 1, 1955 and lowers the draft age to 18. | |
| 1958 | Nine entertainers refuse to answer a congressional committee's questions on communism. | |
| 1961 | Kuwait regains complete independence from Britain. | |
| 1963 | Soviet cosmonaut, Valentia Tereshkova, becomes the first woman in space. | |
| 1965 | Air Marshall Nguyen Cao Ky becomes South Vietnam's youngest premier at age 34. | |
| 1968 | Over 50,000 people march on Washington, D.C. to support the Poor People's Campaign. | |
| 1973 | The Case-Church Amendment prevents further U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. | |
| 1987 | The U.S. Supreme Court voids the Louisiana law requiring schools to teach creationism. | |
| 1995 | The Richmond Virginia Planning Commission approves plans to place a memorial statue of tennis professional Arthur Ashe. |
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