This day in History - June 19

403 Historic Events for June 19
1914 Birth Lester Flatt, Earl Scrugg's partner (Beverly Hillbillies theme)
1914 Birth Morgan Morgan-Giles, Brits Lt admiral/MP
1914 Birth Alan Cranston, (Sen-D-CA, 1969- )
1914 Event 54th British Golf Open: Harry Vardon shoots a 306 at Prestwick Club
1914 Birth Harry Lauter, White Plains NY, actor (Waterfront)
1915 Death Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev, Russian composer (Oresteia), dies at 58
1916 Birth Pat Buttram, actor (Mr Haney-Green Acres)
1917 Event After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames, they take the name Windsor
1917 Birth Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwan minister (ZAPUA)
1918 Birth Evelle Jansen Younger, prosecutor (Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan)
1919 Birth Pauline Kael, movie critic (NY Times, For Keeps)
1919 Birth Louis Jourdan, Marseilles France, actor (Gigi, Can-Can, Madame Bovary)
1921 Death Ram¢n L¢pez Velarde, Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota), dies at 33
1921 Event Census in Great-Britain
1921 Birth Herman Berserik, Dutch painter/graphic artist
1921 Event Turk and Christian of Palestine sign a friendship treaty against Jews
1921 Birth Allan Davis, (mayor-London)
1921 Birth Howell T Heflin, (Sen-D-Alabama, 1979- )
1921 Birth Rosalyn Yalow, famed award winning medical physicist
1922 Event Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:28.2)
1922 Death Johannes C Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer, dies at 71
1922 Birth Aage Neals Bohr, Denmark, physicist/study atomic nucleus (Nobel 1975)
1923 Event Baldwin-Mellon-agreement concerning Britain entering the war
1923 Event "Moon Mullins," Comic Strip, debuts
1924 Event Paavo Nurmi runs world record 1500m (3:52.6)