What happened today, and who was born/died

BIRTHS
06/19/1623	Blaise Pascal, mathematician.
06/19/1886	Duchess of Windsor, divorcee
06/19/1902	Guy Lombardo, conductor
06/19/1903	Henry Louis Gehrig, the 'Iron Horse' of the Yankees.
06/19/1909	Osamu Dazai, Japanese novelist (Tsugaru, No Longer Human)
06/19/1922	Aage 'Nils' Bohr, Danish atomic physicist, (Nobel 1975)
06/19/1933	Viktor I. Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11)
06/19/1978	Garfield the cat. 'Big fat hairy deal'.
EVENTS
06/19/ 240	BC - Eratosthenes estimates the circumference of the earth.
06/19/1756	146 English people imprisoned in Black Hole of Calcutta.
06/19/1778	Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge.
06/19/1846	First baseball game: NY Nines 23, Knickerbockers 1 (Hoboken, NJ).
06/19/1862	Slavery outlawed in US territories.
06/19/1910	Father's Day celebrated for first time in Spokane, Washington.
06/19/1931	First commercial photoelectric cell installed in West Haven Ct.
06/19/1932	First concert given in San Francisco's Stern Grove.
06/19/1934	Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created
06/19/1947	First plane to exceed 600 mph - Albert Boyd at Muroc, CA.
06/19/1976	Viking 1 enters Martian orbit after 10 month flight from earth.
06/19/1981	European Space Agency's Ariane carries two satellites into orbit.

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