1846 – The first officially recorded, organized baseball game is played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23–1. Cartwright umpired.
1862 – The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.
1865 – Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 41 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
1893 – Madeleine Astor, American survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (d. 1940) is born.
1897 – Moe Howard, American comedian (d. 1975) is born.
1903 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941) is born.
1910 – The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
1917 – The solar eclipse of June 19, 1917.
1947 – Salman Rushdie, Indian-English author and academic is born.
1949 -- The first ever NASCAR race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
1953 – Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
1976 – Dennis Crowley, American businessman, co-founded Foursquare is born.
1978 – Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.
1979 – Paul Popenoe, American explorer and scholar, founded Relationship counseling (b. 1888) dies.
2012 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requested asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army.
2013 – James Gandolfini, American actor and producer (b. 1961) dies.
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