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What Happened on the day you were born on This day in History
For Those With Birthdays or looking for specific year these years are Included on this date 1905, 1910, 1917, 1923, 1938, 1953, 1968, 1970, 1975, 1978, 1980, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, Born This Day,
1905 U.S.A. Nickelodeon
19th June 1905 : The world's first nickelodeon opened showing a silent film called The Great Train Robbery the name nickelodeon was used as it cost 5 cents or a nickel to watch the movie or live vaudeville acts .
1910 U.S.A. Fathers Day
19th June 1910 : The First Father's Day was celebrated for the first time in Spokane, Washington
1917 UK Royal Family
19th June 1917 : During the first World War as sentiment against Germany by the British People worsened King George V ordered the British royal family to end using the German-sounding surname, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and to take on the name Royal House of Windsor.
1923 Italy Mount Etna
19th June 1923 : Walls of lava one mile wide are descending Mount Etna towards the town of Lingauglossa in Italy, the lava is travelling slowly giving time for evacuation of the area, another flow of Lava over 50ft high and a mile wide is heading for the town of Giarre with a population of 17,000 the town will be doomed as the lava will cover all buildings in the town.
Today's Featured Images From The 1920's, a small selection of Furniture and Home Appliances you could have found for sale in 1926, Find Many More Examples On Our Home Appliances From The 1920s Page
1938 U.S.A. Train Crash
19th June 1938 : A flood in Custer Creek in Terry, Montana washes out a bridge over the Custer Creek river used by trains and when the Olympian Special came through, it crashes into the raging waters with the loss of 46 lives.
1953 U.S.A. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
19th June 1953 : Following the conviction for spying on behalf of the Soviet Union and passing U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing Prison. Spying by both sides in the 1950s was a part of the Cold War.
1968 U.S.A. The Poor Peoples March
19th June 1968 : 50,000 people participated in " The Poor Peoples March " organised by Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to address issues of economic justice. The campaign culminated on Washington, D.C. to demand economic aid be given to the poorest communities in the United States.
Unlike many of Martin Luther King Jr's campaigns The Poor People’s Campaign did not focus on just poor blacks but addressed all poor people of every minority.
1970 UK Edward Heath New Prime Minister
19th June 1970 : The conservative party led by Edward Heath wins in the general election.
The win was considered unusual because all the opinion polls held in the few days prior to the General Election had predicted an easy win for the labour party led by Harold Wilson.
1975 UK Lord Lucan
19th June 1975 : An inquest jury decides that missing Earl Lord Lucan is found guilty of the murder of the 29-year-old nanny of his three young children.
Lord Lucan has not been seen since the night the nanny Sandra Rivett died on 7 November 1974 .
Lord Lucan was never found and was officially declared dead in October 1999.
1978 U.S.A. Garfield
19th June 1978 : First Garfield comic strip appears 41 American newspapers.
1980 Iraq British Embassy Attacked
19th June 1980 : An attack on the British embassy by attackers, armed with automatic weapons and grenades, ends when three of the attackers are shot dead by Iraqi security forces. No British embassy staff were injured during the attack.
1999 Great Britain Prince Edward Marries
19th June 1999 : Prince Edward married commoner Sophie Rhys-Jones at St. George's Chapel, Windsor.
Following the wedding they take the titles of His Royal Highness The Earl of Wessex and Her Royal Highness The Countess of Wessex. Prince Edward is seventh in the line of succession to the British Throne .
2000 Great Britain Illegal Immigrants
19th June 2000 : The bodies of 58 Chinese illegal immigrants have been found in the back of a Dutch-registered lorry at the English port of Dover during a routine search of the lorry. The illegal trafficking of immigrants has been increasing through British Ports as immigration rules are tightened .
2002 Australia Solo Round The World Balloon Flight
19th June 2002 : Steve Fossett sets off in his 10-story high balloon Spirit of Freedom from Northam, Western Australia on his fifth attempt at flying a balloon solo around the world.
2003 Nigeria Oil Pipeline Blast
19th June 2003 : More than 100 People are killed when an explosion on a vandalised pipeline is ignited by a spark from a passing motorcycle in the village of Amaokwe Oghughe.
This is now the 5th explosion on state owned Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) over the last 5 years in Nigeria mostly caused by breaks in the pipelined caused by Pipeline looting "scooping" by local villagers hoping to provide additional income.
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Cuba
2007 Cuba Raul Castro's Wife Dies
19th June, 2007 : Vilma Espin, the wife of acting president of Cuba Raul Castro died at the age of seventy-seven. Espin was a figure of the Cuban revolution and headed the Cuban Women's Federation. Usually described as the first lady of Cuba, she died of an undisclosed illness that she had been battling for awhile.
United States
2009 United States Billionaire Charged With Fraud
19th June, 2009 : Sir Allen Stanford, a billionaire from Texas, was charged with several accounts of fraud in an attempt to defraud investors at his bank located in Antigua. Stanford was accused of selling seven billion dollars worth of certificates of deposit and promising unrealistic returns to investors at the Stanford International Bank in Antigua. Stanford was taken into custody by police and charged with conspiracy to obstruct an investigation, obstruction of an investigation, conspiracy to commit money laundering, seven counts of wire fraud, and ten counts of mail fraud. If convicted on all charges he could face up to two-hundred and fifty years in prison.
Sweden
2010 Sweden Sweden Celebrates Royal Wedding
19th June, 2010 : Sweden celebrated its first royal wedding since 1976 . The marriage occurred between Crown Princess Victoria and commoner. Thirty-two year old Victoria married her former personal trainer whom she met in 2002, thirty-six year old Daniel Westling. There was an extravagant ceremony attended by 1,200 guests, after which the newly married couple took the royal barge to the royal palace for a banquet.
Somalia
2011 Somalia Somalian Prime Minister Resigns
19th June, 2011 : Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, Prime Minister of Somalia, announced his resignation. Mohamed stated that he would resign in the interest of the citizens of Somalia after the president and parliament of the country agreed on a UN-sanctioned plan to kick him out of office. Much of the country is controlled by Islamist militants and it has not had an effective government since 1991.
Pakistan
2012 Pakistan Popular Singer Ghazala Javed Killed
19th June, 2012 : Ghazala Javed, a popular Pakistani singer, was shot dead in the city of Peshwar along with her father. Her family stated that men broke into the singers house and murdered both Javed and her father.
19th June, 2012 : Ghazala Javed, a popular Pakistani singer, was shot dead in the city of Peshwar along with her father. Her family stated that men broke into the singers house and murdered both Javed and her father.
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Research: Our research comes from 6 main sources
1. Time spent in the Local Library checking old newspapers.
2. BBC News Archives
3. New York Time Archives
4. Wikipedia ( We do double check )
5. Research from History books which we have a large collection
6. The People History itself
Because of our concerns over accuracy we always use at least 2 sources for verification before we include a news story
Each day we feature between 1 and 3 videos that are related to that days news stories, using this format we believe we can provide an informative and entertaining format to see the news that was important or interesting from This Day In History.
As a general rule we gather about 20 plus news stories for each day and we are always spending time to improve each day. We also include our Born on This Day with a small article on the persons achievements or the reason they are known.
We do include some popular culture references if we felt those items would have been featured on nightly news or in national newspapers. A good example would be Who Shot JR? on the TV Soap Dallas as the speculation caused a major stir around the world.
We have tried very hard to find news stories from around the world for our "This Day In History" news items and not be to US centric but as America is the largest most populated western country in the world it still does provide a significant amount of the news featured. The mix is generally slightly more news stories from around the world than America so for example if we have a total of 25 news stories we would expect 15 from around the world and 10 from the United States, but this can vary greatly for any one day.
In general we only feature natural and other disasters which would make the nightly news on our This Day In History, this does not mean the other natural disasters that may cause the loss of life of just a few poor souls is not important.
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