WHAT HAPPENED ON 19. JUNE
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate. (19. June 1964)

Shiv Sena a political party in India is founded in Mumbai. (19. June 1966)

The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed. (19. June 1970)

Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut. (19. June 1978)

In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped. (19. June 1982)

The body of God's Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London. (19. June 1982)

Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador. (19. June 1985)

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. (19. June 1987)

The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, is ratified for the first time by Norway. (19. June 1990)

The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow. (19. June 1990)

The Soviet occupation of Hungary ends. (19. June 1991)

The Al-Khilani Mosque in Baghdad is bombed, killing 78 people and injuring 218 others. (19. June 2007)

Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef. (19. June 2009)

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. (19. June 2009)

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