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On This Day in History
June 19  1586 - English colonists sailed away from Roanoke Island, NC, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America.
1778 - U.S. General George Washington's troops finally left Valley Forge after a winter of training.
1821 - The Ottomans defeated the Greeks at the Battle of Dragasani. 1846 - The New York Knickerbocker Club played the New York Club in the first baseball game at the Elysian Field, Hoboken, NJ. It was the first organized baseball game. 1862 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln outlined his Emancipation Proclamation, which outlawed slavery in U.S. territories. 1865 - The emancipation of slaves was proclaimed in Texas. 1903 - The young school teacher, Benito Mussolini, was placed under investigation by police in Bern, Switzerland. 1910 - Father's Day was celebrated for the first time, in Spokane, WA. 1911 - In Pennsylvania, the first motion-picture censorship board was established. 1917 - During World War I, King George V ordered the British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames. On July 17, 1917, the family took the name "Windsor". 1934 - The U.S. Congress established the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The commission was to regulate radio and TV broadcasting (later). 1961 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland's constitution that required state officeholders to profess a belief in God. 2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a group prayer led by students at public-school football games violated the 1st Amendment's principle that called for the separation of church and state.
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