Read about history and pick out a good one!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_19
1964 – The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
When the bill came before the full Senate for debate on March 30, 1964, the "Southern Bloc" of 18 southern Democratic Senators and one Republican Senator led by Richard Russell (D-GA) launched a filibuster to prevent its passage.[15] Said Russell: "We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states."
Strong opposition to the bill also came from Senator Strom Thurmond (D-SC): "This so-called Civil Rights Proposals, which the President has sent to Capitol Hill for enactment into law, are unconstitutional, unnecessary, unwise and extend beyond the realm of reason. This is the worst civil-rights package ever presented to the Congress and is reminiscent of the Reconstruction proposals and actions of the radical Republican Congress.
2018 – The 10,000,000th United States Patent is issued.
Charles H. Duell was the Commissioner of US patent office in 1899. Mr. Deull's most famous attributed utterance is that "everything that can be invented has been invented."
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.
Take me out to the ball game Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer
1943 – The Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers in the NFL merge for one season due to player shortages caused by World War II.
War is Hell. William T. Sherman
1949 – The first NASCAR race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is an American auto racing sanctioning and operating company that is best known for stock-car racing. Its three largest or National series are the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, the Xfinity Series, and the Gander Outdoors Truck Series.
George Washington marched the troops out of Valley Forge to win the Revolution
Great to see all this activity on our history page today.
How far do you live from Valley Forge Mike?
Note the bottom map below, it's in the far Southeast corner of PA, just nw of Philly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valley_Forge
