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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_19" title="June 19">June 19</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth" title="Juneteenth">Juneteenth</a></b> in the United States (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1865" title="1865">1865</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1785" title="1785">1785</a> – The proprietors of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Chapel" title="King's Chapel">King's Chapel</a>, Boston, voted to adopt <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Freeman_(clergyman)" title="James Freeman (clergyman)">James Freeman</a>'s <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Common_Prayer_(Unitarian)" title="Book of Common Prayer (Unitarian)">Book of Common Prayer</a></b></i>, thus establishing the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarianism" title="Unitarianism">Unitarian</a> church in the Americas.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1838" title="1838">1838</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland" title="Maryland">Maryland</a> province of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesuits" title="Jesuits">Jesuits</a> contracted to <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1838_Jesuit_slave_sale" title="1838 Jesuit slave sale">sell 272 slaves</a></b> to buyers in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a> in one of the largest slave sales in American history.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939" title="1939">1939</a> – American baseball player <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Gehrig" title="Lou Gehrig">Lou Gehrig</a></b> was diagnosed with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALS" title="ALS">amyotrophic lateral sclerosis</a>, now commonly known in the United States as "Lou Gehrig's disease".</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987" title="1987">1987</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque_nationalism" title="Basque nationalism">Basque separatist</a> group <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA_(separatist_group)" title="ETA (separatist group)">ETA</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipercor_bombing" title="Hipercor bombing">detonated a car bomb</a></b> at a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipercor" title="Hipercor">Hipercor</a> shopping centre in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona" title="Barcelona">Barcelona</a>, killing 21 people and injuring 45 others.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009" title="2009">2009</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">War in Afghanistan</a>: British forces began <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Panther%27s_Claw" title="Operation Panther's Claw">Operation Panther's Claw</a></b>, in which more than 350 troops made an aerial assault on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a> positions in southern Afghanistan.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Geoffroy_Saint-Hilaire" title="Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire">Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1844); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Rosetta_Wakeman" title="Sarah Rosetta Wakeman">Sarah Rosetta Wakeman</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1864); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aage_Bohr" title="Aage Bohr">Aage Bohr</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1922); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_Kirkpatrick" title="Clayton Kirkpatrick">Clayton Kirkpatrick</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2004)</p>
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