Updated June 18, 2012, 2:28 pm
On June 19, 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
On June 19, 1903, Lou Gehrig, the New York Yankees first baseman from 1925 to 1939, was born. Following his death on June 2, 1941, his obituary appeared in The Times.
Go to obituary » | Other birthdays »
On This Date
By The Associated Press
1586 English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island, N.C., after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in America. 1862 Slavery was outlawed in U.S. territories. 1903 Baseball Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig was born in New York City. 1910 Father’s Day was celebrated for the first time, in Spokane, Wash. 1917 During World War I, King George V changed the British royal family’s German-sounding surname, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, to Windsor. 1934 The Federal Communications Commission was created. 1961 The Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland’s constitution requiring state officeholders to profess a belief in God. 1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after an 83-day filibuster in the U.S. Senate. 1987 The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring any public school teaching the theory of evolution to teach creation science as well. 1999 Britain’s Prince Edward married commoner Sophie Rhys-Jones in Windsor, England. 2000 The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, barred officials from letting students lead stadium crowds in prayer before football games. 2007 A truck bomb struck a Shiite mosque in central Baghdad, killing at least 87 people. 2008 Democrat Barack Obama announced he would bypass public financing for the presidential election, even though Republican John McCain was accepting it. Current Birthdays
By The Associated Press
Actor Jean Dujardin (“The Artist”) turns 40 years old today.
AP Photo/Joel Ryan
Dallas Mavericks forward Dirk Nowitzki turns 34 years old today.
AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez
1930 Gena Rowlands, Actress, turns 82 1945 Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize winner, turns 67 1947 Salman Rushdie, Author, turns 65 1948 Phylicia Rashad, Actress (“The Cosby Show”), turns 64 1950 Ann Wilson, Rock singer (Heart), turns 62 1954 Kathleen Turner, Actress, turns 58 1955 Mary Schapiro, SEC chairwoman, turns 57 1962 Paula Abdul, Singer, TV personality (“American Idol”), turns 50 1970 Michael Trucco, Actor (“Battlestar Galactica”), turns 42 1972 Robin Tunney, Actress, turns 40 1975 Poppy Montgomery, Actress, turns 37 1978 Zoe Saldana, Actress (“Avatar”), turns 34 1980 Lauren Lee Smith, Actress (“CSI”), turns 32 1998 Atticus Shaffer, Actor (“The Middle”), turns 14
Historic Birthdays
Lou Gehrig 6/19/1903 – 6/2/1941 American professional baseball player.Go to obituary »
39 Blaise Pascal 6/19/1623 – 8/19/1662
French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher89 Thomas Sully 6/19/1783 – 11/5/1872
American portrait painter83 William Henry Webb 6/19/1816 – 10/30/1899
American naval architect and shipbuilder58 Elbert Hubbard 6/19/1856 – 5/7/1915
American editor, publisher and author85 Laura Hobson 6/19/1900 – 2/28/1986
American novelist and short story writer65 James J. Walker 6/19/1881 – 11/18/1946
American politician; mayor of New York City (1925-32)89 Wallis Warfield Windsor 6/19/1896 – 4/24/1986
American who married the Duke of Windsor75 Guy Lombardo 6/19/1902 – 11/5/1977
Canadian-born American dance-band leader75 Paul Flory 6/19/1910 – 9/9/1985
American Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1974)71 Abe Fortas 6/19/1910 – 4/5/1982
American lawyer and associate justice of the Supreme Court (1965-69)38 Viktor Patsayev 6/19/1933 – 6/29/1971
Russian cosmonaut; died in space
