FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 2009

Today is Friday, June 19, the 170th day of 2009. There are 195 days left in the year.

240 B.C. _ Eratosthenes estimates circumference of Earth

1846 _ First baseball game (Cartwright Rules)-NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1

1862 _ Slavery outlawed in U.S. territories

1910 _ Father's Day celebrated for first time (Spokane, Wash.)

1917 _ After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames, they take the name Windsor

1931 _ First photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven, Conn.

1961 _ Kuwait regains complete independence from Britain

1963 _ Two Russian space missions return to Earth

1967 _ Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army

1967 _ Paul McCartney admits on TV that he took LSD