Today in History

Today is Saturday, June 19, the 170th day of 2010. 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 - Valentina Tereshkova first woman in space returns to Earth 1967 - Muhammad Ali is convicted for reusing induction in U.S. Army

1981 - Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, S.Africa