On This Day (June 19)

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• 1623 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher born. (d. 1662) (Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defense of the scientific method.)
• 1846 - The first baseball game under recognizable modern rules is played in Hoboken, New Jersey, United States.
• 1850 – Louise of the Netherlands married Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway.
• 1944 – World War II: The navies of the United States and Imperial Japan engaged each other off the Mariana Islands in the Philippine Sea.
• 1953 – Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed as spies who passed U.S. nuclear weapons secrets to the Soviet Union.
• 1961 – Kuwait declared independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1978 – Garfield, created by American cartoonist Jim Davis, made its debut, eventually becoming one of the world's most widely syndicated comic strips.
  
  
  Garfield and Friends
  
  
• 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States Grand Prix at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana after all the Michelin-shod entrants were withdrawn due to safety concerns.

Picture of the Day



Peyto Lake, located in Banff National Park in the Canadian province of Alberta, as seen from a viewpoint at Icefields Parkway. The turquoise colour is caused by rock flour found in glacier meltwater.