Today in History: The first Father’s Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington

The following is a chronological list of notable events that occurred on June 19 throughout history:

325 – The original Nicene Creed is adopted at the First Council of Nicaea.

1811 – The Carlton House Fête is held in London to celebrate the establishment of the Regency era.

1862 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the Territorial Slavery Act of 1862, which prohibits slavery in all current and future United States territories.

1910 – The first Father’s Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington. The first-ever Father's Day in the United States was celebrated in Spokane, Washington. (President Richard Nixon would make Father's Day a federally recognized annual observation through a proclamation in 1972.)

1953 – Cold War: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.

1978 – Garfield’s first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication.

1990 – The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.

2009 – 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.

2012 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requests asylum in London’s Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents including footage of civilian killings by the US army; he will remain there until 2019.

2020 – Animal rights advocate Regan Russell is run over and killed by a transport truck outside of a pig slaughterhouse in Burlington, Ontario.