This day in History - June 19

403 Historic Events for June 19
1814 Birth Johannes H Weissenbruch, landscape painter
1815 Birth John William Glover, composer
1820 Death Joseph Banks, English natural historian (Cook/Australia), dies
1822 Death John Bray, composer, dies on 40th birthday
1825 Event Gioacchino Rossini's "Il viaggio a Reims," premieres
1829 Event Sir Robert Peel found London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies)
1834 Birth Edgar H G Degas, French painter (ballerina)
1835 Event New Orleans gives US govt Jackson Square to be used as a mint
1837 Death Aleksander A Bestoezjev-Marlinsky, Russian writer, dies in battle
1840 Death John Cockerill, English/Belgian industrial/orangist, dies at 50
1842 Birth Carl Johann Adam Zeller, composer
1843 Birth Charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer
1846 Event 1st baseball game (Cartwright Rules)-NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1
1848 Event Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott open 1st women's rights convention
1850 Event Swedish/Norwegian crown prince Charles weds Dutch princess Wilhelmina
1854 Birth Alfredo Catalani, composer
1856 Birth Elbert Hubbard, US, editor/publisher/author (Message to Garcia)
1858 Birth Charles Haddon George Alexander, [George Samson], British actor
1858 Birth Dirk Fock, governor-general of Neth Indies (1921-26)
1861 Event Anaheim Post Office established
1861 Birth Jos‚ Protasio Rizal, Philippine optician/author/nationalist
1861 Birth Douglas Haig, British fieldmarshal (Sudan, WW I)
1861 Event Francis Pierpont is elected provisional governor of West Virginia
1862 Event Slavery outlawed in US territories
1863 Event Battle at Middleburg Virginia (100+ casualties)