Historical timeline for June 19

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

Antwon Rose II is fatally shot in East Pittsburgh by East Pittsburgh Police Officer Michael Rosfeld after being involved in a near-fatal drive-by shooting.

The 10,000,000th United States Patent is issued.

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.

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.

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.

The al-Khilani Mosque bombing in Baghdad leaves 78 people dead and another 218 injured.

Following a series of Michelin tire failures during the United States Grand Prix weekend at Indianapolis, and without an agreement being reached, 14 cars from seven teams in Michelin tires withdraw after completing the formation lap, leaving only six cars from three teams on Bridgestone tires to race.

The last Soviet army units in Hungary are withdrawn.

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

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

Pope John Paul II canonizes 117 Vietnamese Martyrs.

Aeroflot Flight N-528 crashes at Berdiansk Airport in present-day Ukraine, killing eight people.

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.

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

The People's Armed Police is de facto founded; it is officially established 10 months later on April 5, 1983.

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

Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.

Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.