1956
Jun 19, Marilyn Monroe& Arthur Miller were married.


1963
Jun 19, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova returned to Earth after spending nearly three days as the first woman in space.


1991
Jun 19, Two of Mia Farrow's daughters were arrested in Danbury, Conn., for shoplifting lingerie.


1995
Jun 19, Jennifer Lea Evans (21), a vacationing college student, was killed outside a Virginia Beach nightclub. Navy SEAL trainees Dustin Turner and his best friend, Billy Joe Brown, were convicted for the same crime. When they were arrested, each man accused the other of being the killer. In 2009 Brown said he killed Evans with no help from Turner. Brown said he wanted to tell the truth after almost 13 years because he had found religion in prison. A court soon overturned the convictions against Turner (33).


2011
Jun 19, Alyssa Campanella (21) of Los Angeles topped a field of 51 beauty queens to take the title at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.




2013
Jun 19, Britain's Girl Guides unveiled their new pledge. Gone is the reference to loving God, replaced by a call to "be true to myself and develop my beliefs." It also retained a reference to serving the queen.


2014
Jun 19, A California state auditor blasted federal and state oversight of sterilization surgeries for female prison inmates after finding more than a quarter of 144 tubal ligations, performed from 2006 to 2013, were done without lawful consent.




2014
Jun 19, In Spain divorced former journalist, Letizia Ortiz, became Spain's first commoner queen when her husband, Felipe VI (46), was sworn in as king.