Today in History - History - June 19th

1985Reggie Jackson hits his 513th HR to move into 10th place

1936German boxer Max Schmeling World Champion KOs Joe Louis

1610Samuel de Champlain and his French army defeat the Mohawk people at the Battle of Sorel in New France, present-day Sorel-Tracy, Quebec

1978Garfield, created by Jim Davis, 1st appears as a comic strip

1829Robert Peel founds the London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies)

1922Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:28.2)

1961NY Yankee Roger Maris hits his 25th of 61 HRs

1973Pete Rose & Willie Davis both get career hit # 2,000

1940Hermann Goering orders seizure of Dutch horses, car, buses & ships

1992Evander Holyfield beats Larry Holmes in 12 for heavyweight boxing title

1945Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician (Nobel)

1962Paula Julie Abdul, Van Nuys California, singer/choreographer (Straight Up)

1896Wallis Simpson [Duchess of Windsor], Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, American divorcee and wife of Edward VIII (abdicated)

1861Jose Protacio Rizal, Calamba City Laguna, optician/author/nationalist (Noli Me Tángere, El Filibusterismo)

1978Zoe Saldana, Passaic, New Jersey, American actress (Avatar, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)

1897Moe Howard, [Moses Horowitz], Brooklyn New York, American actor and comedian (The 3 Stooges)

1566James Stuart, King James VI of Scotland (1567-1625) and James I of England and Ireland (1603-25)

1623Blaise Pascal, mathematician/physicist/religious writer (Pascal)

1965NBA forward Bob Pettit (32) weds Carole Crowell in Alexandria, Louisiana

1886US President William Taft (28) weds Helen Herron (25) in Cincinnati, Ohio

1999Earl of Wessex Prince Edward (35) weds Sophie Rhys-Jones (34) at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle

1969Baseball manager Leo Durocher (63) weds socialite Lynne Walker Goldblatt (40) at the Ambassador West Hotel in Chicago

1953Singer James Brown (20) weds Velma Warren at Trinity CME Church in Toccoa, Georgia

1843Philosopher Karl Marx (25) weds Jenny von Westphalen in Germany

1975Sam Giancana, American gangster, dies of multiple gunshot wounds at 67

1867Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro at 34

1993William Golding, author (Lord of the Flies, Nobel 1983), dies at 81

1820Joseph Banks, English natural historian (Cook/Australia), dies