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