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- ... that the Amen break (waveform pictured) gained popularity because it offered an easy way to create jungle music?
- ... that the execution of Burkinabé trade union leader Soumane Touré was prevented by the intervention of his childhood friend, then-president Thomas Sankara?
- ... that The Amazing Digital Circus is influenced by the short story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream"?
- ... that Jaelyn Brown, who was born with two club feet, now plays in the WNBA?
- ... that the U.S. Department of Labor recorded 583 sitdown strikes in the U.S. between 1936 and 1939, affecting half a million workers?
- ... that Vasantha Krishna Prasad was the richest candidate from Krishna district to contest the 2019 Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly election?
- ... that Megan Abbott receives the most negative letters from readers for The End of Everything?
- ... that volleyball player Madisen Skinner beat Texas in one national championship final – then won two national championships with Texas?
- ... that Pizza Hut’s most expensive pizza was a weighted blanket?
In the news
- American baseball player Willie Mays (pictured) dies at the age of 93.
- A fire in a residential building in Mangaf, south of Kuwait City, kills fifty people.
- A plane crash near Chikangawa, Malawi, kills nine people, including Vice President Saulos Chilima.
- In tennis, Iga Świątek wins the women's singles and Carlos Alcaraz wins the men's singles titles at the French Open.
On this day
June 19: Juneteenth in the United States (1865)
- 1785 – The proprietors of King's Chapel, Boston, voted to adopt James Freeman's Book of Common Prayer, thus establishing the first Unitarian church in the Americas.
- 1838 – The Maryland province of the Jesuits contracted to sell 272 slaves to buyers in Louisiana in one of the largest slave sales in American history.
- 1939 – American baseball player Lou Gehrig (pictured) was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, now commonly known in the United States as "Lou Gehrig's disease".
- 1987 – The Basque separatist group ETA detonated a car bomb at a Hipercor shopping centre in Barcelona, killing 21 people and injuring 45 others.
- 2009 – War in Afghanistan: British forces began Operation Panther's Claw, in which more than 350 troops made an aerial assault on Taliban positions in southern Afghanistan.
- Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (d. 1844)
- Sarah Rosetta Wakeman (d. 1864)
- Aage Bohr (b. 1922)
- Clayton Kirkpatrick (d. 2004)
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The six-spot burnet (Zygaena filipendulae) is a moth of the family Zygaenidae. It is a common species throughout Europe, except the Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula, northern Scandinavia and the Great Russian North, and is also present in Asia Minor, through the Caucasus to Syria and Lebanon. It inhabits meadows, woodland clearings, sea-cliffs and area rich in grasses and flowers, up to 2,000 m altitude. The adults fly on hot, sunny days and are attracted to a wide variety of flowers such as knapweed and scabious, as well as the larval food plants bird's foot trefoil, Dorycnium, Coronilla and clover. This six-spot burnet was photographed in Kulna, Estonia. Photograph credit: Ivar Leidus
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