On June 19, 1862, endorsed by Lincoln, Congress passed an act banning slavery on all federal territory.

Soon after their marriage on June 15, 1862, the couple moved to San Francisco, California, where Phoebe gave birth to their only child, William Randolph Hearst, on April 29, 1863.

* June 6 – Gerhart Hauptmann, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1862 )

* June 4 – George Frederick Phillips, Canadian-born military hero ( b. 1862 )

* June 3 – Mary Kingsley, English explorer and writer ( b. 1862 )

* June 5 – O. Henry, American novelist ( b. 1862 )

* June 5 – Georges Feydeau, French playwright ( born 1862 )

* June 8 – Robert Ford, assassin of Jesse James ( b. 1862 )

* June 10 – Frederick Delius, English composer ( b. 1862 )

* June 18 – Prosper Ménière, a French physician ( d. 1862 )

After the secession of the southern states, the House of Representatives on May 6, 1862, and the Senate on June 20 finally approved it.

William Sydney Porter ( September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910 ), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American writer.

James Strom Thurmond was born on December 5, 1902, in Edgefield, South Carolina, the son of Eleanor Gertrude ( Strom ) ( July 18, 1870 – January 10, 1958 ) and John William Thurmond ( May 1, 1862 – June 17, 1934 ), a lawyer.

Union ironclad gunboats captured the city in the naval Battle of Memphis on June 6, 1862, and the city remained under Union control for the duration of the war.

After being taken prisoner he was recruited at Camp Douglas, Illinois by its commander, Col. James A. Mulligan, as a " Galvanized Yankee " and joined the Union Army on 4 June 1862, but was discharged 18 days later due to severe illness.

The Seven Days Battles followed in late June and early July 1862, during which Union General McClellan threatened to take Richmond but ultimately failed.

Marie Recio, Berlioz's wife, died unexpectedly of a stroke at the age of 48, on 13 June 1862.

On April 16, 1862 Lincoln signed a bill into law outlawing slavery in Washington D. C. and freeing the estimated 3, 500 slaves in the city and on June 19, 1862 he signed legislation outlawing slavery in all U. S. territories.

Robert E. Lee's biographer, Douglas S. Freeman, asserts that the army received its final name from Lee when he issued orders assuming command on June 1, 1862.

On June 1, 1862, its most famous and final leader, General Robert E. Lee, took command after Johnston was wounded, and Smith suffered what may have been a nervous breakdown, at the Battle of Seven Pines.

James Bowman Lindsay ( 8 September 1799-29 June 1862 ) was a Scottish inventor and author.

He died on June 29, 1862, having never married, and still engaged in his various researches.

: " Departed this life, Lord's day, June 29, 1862 at his residence in South Union Street, Dundee, Mr. J.

One of the most distressing of these scenes occurred at Spring Green toward the end of the open warfare, on a beautiful day in June.

Centering around this historic old structure, a group of public-spirited Barbour County citizens have organized and planned a week-long series of events, beginning on May 28th and continuing through June 3rd, to observe most appropriately the centennial of the first land engagement of the Civil War at Philippi.

On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee tabled a resolution before the Continental Congress declaring the colonies independent ; at the same time he also urged Congress to resolve “ to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances ” and to prepare a plan of confederation for the newly-independent states.

One of the first international anti-globalization protests was organized in dozens of cities around the world on June 18, 1999, with those in London and Eugene, Oregon most often noted.

In June 1790 the Second Fleet arrived with hundreds more convicts, most of them too sick to work.

Ajmer has a hot semi-arid climate with over 55 centimetres ( 25. 4 in ) of rain every year but most of the rain occurs in the Monsoon months, between June and September.

After March it began to pass northwards, a motion quite apparent by the middle of April ; in June it passed at the same distance from the zenith as it did in December ; and in September it passed through its most northerly position, the extreme range from north to south, i. e. the angle between the March and September positions, being 40 ″.

Unlike the communist parties in most other East European states, the BCP ( changing its name to Bulgarian Socialist Party ) retained majority power after the transition in Bulgaria by winning the first free national elections in June 1990.

In the Major Leagues, the most recent example of a swing at an intentional ball resulting in a hit occurred during a June 22, 2006 game between the Florida Marlins and the Baltimore Orioles.

* A book on the history of Haley's most famous recording, Rock Around the Clock: The Record That Started the Rock Revolution by Jim Dawson was published in June 2005.

One of his most memorable broadcasts occurred on June 23, 1984 ( in what would go down in baseball lore as " The Sandberg Game ").

The red-headed Mumy came to prominence in the 1960s as a child actor, most notably as Will Robinson, the youngest of the three children of Prof. John and Dr. Maureen Robinson ( played by Guy Williams and June Lockhart respectively ) and friend of the nefarious and pompous Dr. Zachary Smith ( played by Jonathan Harris ), in the 1960s CBS sci-fi television series Lost in Space.

After a rough start, which included a brawl between Michael Barrett and Carlos Zambrano, the Cubs overcame the Milwaukee Brewers, who had led the division for most of the season, with winning streaks in June and July, coupled with a pair of dramatic, late-inning wins against the Reds, and ultimately clinched the NL Central with a record of 85 – 77.

In June 1985 most of the groups reorganized as the United Nicaraguan Opposition ( UNO ), under the leadership of Adolfo Calero, Arturo Cruz and Alfonso Robelo, all originally supporters of the anti-Somoza revolution.

The most reliable date for his death is 9 June 373.

Manager Edwin Rodriguez resigned in June, Chris Coghlan revealed his lingering knee issue when the club was to demote him and never returned back to 25 man roster that season, and Jack McKeon returned as manager where he would reclaim title as most wins as Marlins manager.

Francis Harry Compton Crick, OM, FRS ( 8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004 ) was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, and most noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 together with James D. Watson.

The greatest monthly totals are recorded throughout Grenada from June through November, the months when tropical storms and hurricanes are most likely to occur.

In June 2011, it was announced that most of the surviving Python members ( except Idle ) will perform in a 3-D animated version of Chapman's memoir A Liar ’ s Autobiography: Volume VI.

The standards development of HTTP was coordinated by the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ) and the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ), culminating in the publication of a series of Requests for Comments ( RFCs ), most notably RFC 2616 ( June 1999 ), which defines HTTP / 1. 1, the version of HTTP in common use.

By June 1920, the Polish armies were past Vilnius, Minsk and ( allied with the Directorate of Ukraine ) reached Kiev, but then the massive Bolshevik counteroffensive moved the Poles out of most of Ukraine and on the northern front arrived at the outskirts of Warsaw.

Herbert Alexander Simon ( June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001 ) was an American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist, and professor — most notably at Carnegie Mellon University — whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, computer science, public administration, economics, management, philosophy of science, sociology, and political science.

In June 1982, Saddam Hussein ordered most of the Iraqi units to withdraw from Iranian territory ; after that time, the Baathist government tried to obtain a cease-fire based on a return of all armed personnel to the international borders that prevailed as of September 21, 1979.

The operation continues until June 6 with casualties, most of them civilians, in excess of 5, 000.

His most famous blunder occurred when he altered 12 year old student William Figueroa's correct spelling of " potato " to " potatoe " at the Munoz Rivera Elementary School spelling bee in Trenton, New Jersey, on June 15, 1992.