📜 This Day in History
June 19
- 1718An earthquake on the Tibetan Plateau led to the deaths of more than 73,000 people.
- 1846The first officially recorded baseball game in U.S. history using modern rules was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, with the "New York Nine" defeating the New York Knickerbockers 23–1.
1939American baseball player Lou Gehrig was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, now commonly known in the United States as "Lou Gehrig's disease".- 1970The international Patent Cooperation Treaty was signed, providing a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions in each of its contracting states.
- 2009War in Afghanistan: British forces began Operation Panther's Claw, in which more than 350 troops made an aerial assault on Taliban positions in southern Afghanistan.
- 2012Facing allegations of sexual assault in Sweden, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, requested asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
