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Events on June 19

• 1811 Friedrich Ludwig Jahn opens the first gymnastics ground in Germany in Berlin's Hasenheide.
• 1865 Two years after the official end of slavery in the United States, slaves in Galveston are informed of their freedom. June 19 is an official holiday in Texas and 41 other states. In 2021, it was declared a statewide holiday.
• 1927 At the first automobile race at the newly opened Nürburgring, Rudolf Caracciola wins the Eifel Race with an average speed of 96 km/h.
• 1936 German heavyweight boxer Max Schmeling defeats the supposedly undefeated Joe Louis by knockout in the 12th round.
• 1962 In the plane crash of a formation of 4 Lockheed F-104 (Starfighter) aircraft over Nörvenich, all four pilots are killed.
• 1969 Alfred Gütgemann performs the first liver transplant in Germany.
• 1974 The Bundestag concludes its parliamentary deliberations on the law on the establishment of a Federal Environment Agency and approves the agency's headquarters in West Berlin. The GDR Foreign Ministry protests against this on the following day. Nevertheless, the law is promulgated on July 22.
• 1978 The first Garfield comic strip is published.
• 1985 In departure hall B at Frankfurt Airport, a bombing takes place in which an explosive device explodes in a waste container. Three people die, and 42 others are seriously injured in some cases. Several domestic and foreign organizations claim responsibility for the attack in contradictory calls.
• 1990 In Schengen, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg agree on the complete abolition of border controls on persons between their countries as of January 1, 1992.
• 1999 The video game Counter-Strike is released, one of the most popular and most played online action games and the most played game in esports.
• 2010 Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and Daniel Westling marry in Stockholm.

Born on June 19

• 1865 Alfred Hugenberg, German entrepreneur and politician
• 1891 John Heartfield, German painter and graphic artist, Dadaist, photomontage artist, and stage designer
• 1910 Paul John Flory, American chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1922 Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel laureate
• 1940 Rainer Langhans, German author, filmmaker, and actor
• 1941 Václav Klaus, Czech politician and economist
• 1942 Muammar al-Gaddafi, Libyan military officer, coup leader, and politician
• 1962 Paula Abdul, American singer
• 1980 Milka Loff Fernandes, German television presenter and actress
• 2000 Sydney Lohmann, German football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „19. Juni“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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