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1867 : Execution of the Emperor of Mexico


On June 19, 1867, Emperor Maximilian 1st of Mexico, an Austrian archduke installed by Napoleon III in 1864 was executed by Republican forces.
In 1861, the English, French and Spanish naval forces were sent to Mexico following the announcement by the new President Benito Juarez of the impossibility of continuing to repay the debt of his country. After negotiations, the British and Spanish had gone home. But France had decided to take the opportunity to take the country. The heavily armed French forces managed to take control of a large part of the country, despite some stinging defeats, as at the Battle of Puebla, and installed an emperor. In 1867, under pressure from the United States, the French withdrew and Maximilian was abandoned to its fate.

1917 : King George V changes its name


On June 19, 1917, during World War I and while the anti-German feeling is highly developed in England, King George V decided to change his Germanic-sounding surname Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor.

1938 : A flood washed away a railway bridge before the arrival of a train


On June 19, 1938, a bridge is washed away during a flash flood of the Custer Creek river in Terry, Montana. The train which arrived soon after fell into the river and was drowned in the mud. 46 people were re killed and many injured.

1953 : Execution of the Rosenbergs


On June 19, 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed for espionage in Sing Sing Prison, New York. They were arrested in 1950 for providing information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.
They were members of the Communist Party and the brother of the young woman, himself accused of spying, had testified against them. In the Cold War, these developments led to a death sentence for the couple.

1987 : A bomb exploded in the car park of a supermarket in Barcelona


On June 19, 1987, a car bomb exploded in the underground car park of a supermarket in Barcelona. The attack that killed 21 people and injured many more was claimed by the Basque separatist organization ETA. The authors of the attack were sentenced to 790 years in prison.

Citazione del giorno : 19 Giugno

George V d'Angleterre
Is it possible that my people live in such awful conditions? I tell you, ..., that if I had to live in conditions like that I would be a revolutionary myself.

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May Whitty, Attrice inglese (1865)
Charles Coburn, Attore americano (1877)
Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Chimico inglese, premio Nobel (1897)
Lou Gehrig, Giocatore di baseball americano (1903)
Louis Jourdan, Attore francese (1921)
Aage Bohr, Fisico danese, Premio Nobel (1922)
Gena Rowlands, Attrice americana (1930)
Pier Angeli, Attrice americana (1932)
Václav Klaus, Politico ceco (1941)
Aung San Suu Kyi, Politico birmano, Nobel per la Pace (1945)
Radovan Karadžić, Uomo politico serbo, che si tiene dal tribunale internazionale dell'Aia per crimini di guerra (1945)
Salman Rushdie, Scrittore indiano (1947)
Phylicia Rashād, Attrice americana (1948)
Ayman al-Zawahiri, Islamista egiziano, leader di al-Qaeda (1951)
Francesco Moser, Ciclista italiano (1951)
Kathleen Turner, Attrice americana (1954)
Paula Abdul, Cantante americana (1962)
Sadie Frost, Attrice inglese (1965)
Mia Sara, Attrice americana (1967)
Rahul Gandhi, Uomo politico indiano (1970)
Poppy Montgomery, Attrice australiana (1975)
José Kléberson, Calciatore brasiliano (1979)
José Ernesto Sosa, Calciatore argentino (1985)

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Ramón López Velarde, Poeta messicano (1921)
Thomas J. Watson, Fondatore di IBM (1956)
Michel Colucci (Coluche), Comico francese (1986)
Jean Arthur, Attrice americana (1991)
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