WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2013

Today is Wednesday, June 19, the 170th day of 2013. There are 195 days left in the year.

240 B.C. ― Eratosthenes estimates circumference of Earth

1846 ― First baseball game (Cartwright Rules); N.Y. Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1

1862 ― Slavery outlawed in U.S. territories

1889 ― Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure “The Man with the Twisted Lip”

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

1932 ― Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China

1961 ― Kuwait regains complete independence from Britain

1967 ― Muhammad Ali is convicted for reusing induction in U.S. Army

1967 ― Paul McCartney admits on TV that he took LSD

1986 ― Argentina beats West Germany 3-2 in soccer’s 13th World Cup