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