ON JUNE 19 ...

In 1586, English colonists sailed from Roanoke Island, N.C., after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in America.

In 1862 Congress prohibited slavery in U.S. territories.

In 1865 Union Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce the end of slavery — two year after the Emancipation Proclamation. (The day has since been celebrated as “Juneteenth.”)

In 1896 Bessie Wallis Warfield, who would become the Duchess of Windsor, was born in Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.

In 1903 baseball’s Lou Gehrig was born in New

York.

In 1910 Father’s Day was celebrated for the first time, in Spokane, Wash.

In 1945 Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was born in Yangon, Myanmar.

In 1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, were executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, N.Y.

In 1961 the Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland’s constitution requiring state officeholders to profess a belief in God.

In 1963 Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, returned to Earth after nearly three days in orbit.

In 1964 the Civil Rights Act of 1964 survived an 83-day filibuster in the U.S. Senate and was approved 73-27.

In 1982, in a case that galvanized the Asian-American community, Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American, was beaten to death outside a nightclub in Highland Park, Mich., by two auto workers who thought he was Japanese. (The two assailants later received probation for manslaughter.)

In 1984 the Chicago Bulls chose Michael Jordan of the University of North Carolina third in the NBA draft, following Hakeem Olajuwon of the University of Houston and Sam Bowie of the University of Kentucky.

In 1986 the Supreme Court ruled that sexual harassment of employees violates federal law against sex discrimination in the workplace. Also in 1986 University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias, who had just become the first-round draft choice of the Boston Celtics, suffered a fatal cocaine-induced seizure.

In 2000 the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 ruling, barred officials from letting students lead stadium crowds in prayer before football games.

In 2001, strapped to the same padded gurney on which Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh died, drug kingpin Juan Raul Garza received a chemical injection and became the second inmate in eight days to be executed by the U.S. government.

In 2003 the Air Force dropped manslaughter and aggravated assault charges against two Illinois Air National Guard pilots who had mistakenly bombed Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan in 2002. (On July 6, 2004, one of the pilots, Maj. Harry Schmidt of Sherman, Ill., was convicted of dereliction of duty, issued a written reprimand and fined $5,672 in pay.)

In 2004 Clayton Kirkpatrick, former editor of The Chicago Tribune who presided over a sweeping transformation of the newspaper in the 1970s, died at 89 in Glen Ellyn.

In 2005 , 14 Formula 1 drivers refused to participate in the United States Grand Prix because of unresolved concerns over the safety of their Michelin tires. (The race was won by Michael Schumacher, one of six drivers who raced using Bridgestone tires.)

In 2008 Democrat Barack Obama announced he would bypass public financing for the presidential election, even though Republican John McCain was accepting it.

In 2013 Emmy Award-winning actor James Gandolfini, who starred as mob boss Tony Soprano in “The Sopranos,” died in Italy; he was 51. Country singer Slim Whitman, known for his yodeling and smooth falsetto, died in Orange Park, Fla.; he was 90.

In 2016 the Cavaliers led by Lebron James defeated the Golden State Warriors 93-89 to win the franchise’s first NBA championship and end Cleveland’s nearly 52 years without a title from one of its professional sports teams.