1949 - NASCAR sanctions the first "strictly stock" race, which will evolve into the modern Nextel Cup. Jim Roper wins the event.
1950 - The first commercial drag strip, the Santa Ana Drags, begins at Orange County Airport (now John Wayne Airport) at Santa Ana, in Southern California. Admission is 50 cents -- or 75 cents if the ticket holder wanted to watch the mechanics work.
Recipients of Ermanometry Research Email Alerts were notified in advance of a Macro Ezone for June 18-19, 2002.
Explanation was provided that the three day rule would be waived and that if the DJIA and S&P rallied for only two or three days into the Macro Ezone, it would be a bearish indication of the highest possible degree.
On Wednesday, June 19, recipients were further notified via a rare intra-day Alert that the requirements for the bearish scenario had been met.
June 19 is the 170th day of the year (171st in leap years A leap year (or intercalary year) is a year containing an extra day or month in order to keep the calendar year in sync with an astronomical or seasonal year.
June 19 - King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
On June 19, 1851 he married Louise of the Netherlands, granddaughter of William I of the Netherlands.