June 19: Day of the Independent Hungary; Juneteenth in some parts of the United States
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- 1269 – Louis IX of France imposed a fine of ten livres of silver on Jews found in public without a yellow badge.
- 1816 – The Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company, rival fur-trading companies, engaged in a violent confrontation in present-day Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
- 1944 – World War II: The navies of the United States and Imperial Japan engaged each other off the Mariana Islands in the Philippine Sea.
- 1987 – Basque separatist group ETA detonated a car bomb at the Hipercor shopping centre in Barcelona, killing 21 people and injuring 45 others.
- 2005 – Only six race cars competed in the United States Grand Prix (winner Michael Schumacher pictured) at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Indiana, after all the Michelin-shod entrants were withdrawn due to safety concerns.
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