Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 19

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 * 1718 – An earthquake on the Tibetan Plateau led to the deaths of more than 73,000 people.
 * 1846 – The first officially recorded baseball game in U.S. history using modern rules was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, with the "New York Nine" defeating the New York Knickerbockers 23–1.
 * 1867 – Second French intervention in Mexico: Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico was executed by firing squad in Querétaro City.
 * 1953 – Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (pictured) were executed as spies for passing nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet Union.
 * 1965 – Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, the commander of the South Vietnam Air Force, was appointed prime minister at the head of a military regime.
 * 1970 – The international Patent Cooperation Treaty was signed, providing a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions in each of its contracting states.
 * 2005 – Only six race cars competed in the United States Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana, after all the Michelin-shod entrants were withdrawn due to safety concerns.
 * 2009 – Mass rioting broke out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
 * 2010 – The royal wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling took place in Stockholm Cathedral.
 * 2012 – Facing allegations of sexual assault in Sweden, Julian Assange (pictured), the founder of WikiLeaks, requested asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
 * Born/died this day: | Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall |d|1312| Guru Hargobind |b|1595| Friedrich Sertürner |b|1783| Mary Tenney Gray |b|1833| Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig |b|1861| Sarah Rosetta Wakeman |d|1864| Evangelos Zappas |d|1865| Wallis Simpson|b|1896| Lou Gehrig |b|1903| Doris Sands Johnson |b|1921| Aage Bohr |b|1922| Erna Schneider Hoover |b|1926| Nick Drake |b|1948| Boris Johnson |b|1964| Jörg Widmann |b|1973| Macklemore |b|1983| Len Bias |d|1986| James Gandolfini |d|2013| Gerry Goffin|d|2014|