June 19
People born on this day are Gemini.
- 1982
The People's Armed Police is de facto founded; it is officially established 10 months later on April 5, 1983.
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Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador.
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Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
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Aeroflot Flight N-528 crashes at Berdiansk Airport in present-day Ukraine, killing eight people.
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Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.
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The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
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Following a series of Michelin tire failures during the United States Grand Prix weekend at Indianapolis, and without an agreement being reached, 14 cars from seven teams in Michelin tires withdraw after completing the formation lap, leaving only six cars from three teams on Bridgestone tires to race.
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War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requests asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army; he will remain there until 2019.
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The 10,000,000th United States Patent is issued.
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Antwon Rose II is fatally shot in East Pittsburgh by East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld after being involved in a near-fatal drive-by shooting.
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Animal rights advocate Regan Russell is run over and killed by a transport truck outside of a pig slaughterhouse in Burlington, Ontario.
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2004Millie Gibson, English actress
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2002Bennedict Mathurin, Canadian basketball player
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2002Nuno Mendes, Portuguese footballer
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1999Jordan Poole, American basketball player
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1998Atticus Shaffer, American actor and YouTuber
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1998Joshua Da Silva, Trinidadian cricketer
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1994Lejla Njemčević, Bosnian cross-country and mountain bike cyclist
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1993KSI, English YouTuber
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1992Keaton Jennings, South African-English cricketer
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1992C. J. Mosley, American football player
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1990Ashly Burch, American actress, writer, and director
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1990Moa Hjelmer, Swedish sprinter
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