Today In History
Today is Friday, June 19, the 171st day of 2020. There are 195 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
› 1964: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved by the U.S. Senate, 73-27, after surviving a lengthy filibuster.
ON THIS DATE
› 1775: George Washington was commissioned by the Continental Congress as commander in chief of the Continental Army.
› 1865: Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War was over, and that all remaining slaves in Texas were free — an event celebrated to this day as “Juneteenth.”
› 1952: The U.S. Army Special Forces, the elite unit of fighters known as the Green Berets, was established at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The celebrity-panel game show “I’ve Got A Secret” debuted on CBS-TV.
› 1987: The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law requiring any public school teaching the theory of evolution to teach creation science as well.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Pop singer Tommy DeVito (The Four Seasons) is 92. Actress Gena
Rowlands is 90. Hall of Fame race car driver Shirley Muldowney is 80. Singer Elaine “Spanky” McFarlane (Spanky and Our Gang) is 78. Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is 75. Author Sir Salman Rushdie is 73. Actress Phylicia Rashad is 72. Rock singer Ann Wilson (Heart) is 70. Musician Larry Dunn is 67. Actress Kathleen Turner is 66. Country singer Doug Stone is 64. Singer Mark DeBarge is
61. Singer-dancer-choreographer Paula Abdul is
58. Actor Andy Lauer is
57. Rock singer-musician Brian Vander Ark (Verve Pipe) is 56. Actress Mia Sara is 53. TV personality Lara Spencer is 51. Rock musician Brian “Head” Welch is 50. Actor Jean Dujardin is 48. Actress Robin Tunney is 48. Actress Poppy Montgomery is 45. Alt-country singer-musician Scott Avett (The Avett Brothers) is 44. Actor Ryan Hurst is 44. Actress Zoe Saldana is 42. Former NBA star Dirk Nowitzki is 42. Actor Neil Brown Jr. is 40. Actress Lauren Lee Smith is 40. Rapper Macklemore (Macklemore and Ryan Lewis) is
38. New York Mets pitcher Jacob DeGrom is 32. Actor Giacomo Gianniotti is 31. Actor Chuku Modu (TV: “The Good Doctor”) is 30. Actor Atticus Shaffer is 22.