Today is Thursday, June 19, the 171st day of 2008. There are 195 days left in the year.
240 B.C. _ Eratosthenes estimates circumference of Earth
1778 _ Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge
1846 _ First baseball game (Cartwright Rules) - N.Y. Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1
1862 _ Slavery outlawed in U.S. territories
1910 _ Father's Day celebrated for first time (Spokane, Wash)
1961 _ Kuwait regains complete independence from Britain
1963 _ Two Russian space missions return to Earth
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