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June 19
1846. The first officially recorded and umpired baseball match under Alexander Cartwright's rules is played in Hoboken, New Jersey. Cartwright umpires. The Abner Doubleday attribution is believed by most to be a myth. Cartwright is officially declared the inventor of modern baseball by an Act of Congress in 1953.
1865. Juneteenth, otherwise known as Emancipation Day, or Freedom Day, is named after this date in 1865 when African-Americans in Galveston, Texas, are first informed that pursuant to the Emancipation Proclamation (and the Union's victory in the Civil War), they are free.
1910. The first Father's Day is celebrated, in Spokane, Washington.
1915. The USS Arizona is launched out of Brooklyn Navy Yard. Her name was given in tribute to the state which had only joined the Union the prior year. She rests now at Pearl Harbor, having been sunk by the Japanese on the day that will live in infamy.
1964. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is passed by Congress after surviving an 83 day filibuster in the Senate. Among those involved in the filibuster effort are famed Senators Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd. After signing the act into law, President Johnson, a Democrat from Texas who had staunchly supported the bill and urged his Democrat dominated Congresss to pass it, notes "we have lost the South for a generation". This refers to the prior Democratic dominance in the former states of the Confederacy. His prediction proves far too conservative. It is now two generations and counting that the South has been effectively lost to Democrats, at least in presidential elections.
1978. Garfield appears in his first comic strip.
1870. The last of the former Confederate States are readmitted into the Union, and the CSA formally ceases to exist.
2010. Amnorix goes on a family vacation and quickly learns that he's not likely to have internet access, leaving CP deprived of updates on the This Day in History thread. The horror!
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