/ 19 June 2022

19 June 2022

19 NOV (34)

6.30pm (AEST) – Cricket 3rd ODI – Australia v Sri Lanka – Colombo

7.00pm (AEST) – 2022 TV Week Logie Awards – Gold Coast – broadcast on Nine

Leftist Gustavo Petro is up against populist Rodolfo Hernandez in the 2nd round of Colombia’s presidential election

World Sickle Cell Day

International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict

Start of Refugee Week (until June 25) 

Birthdays for disposed Myanmar leader/Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi (1945), author Salman Rushdie (1947), UK PM Boris Johnson (1964), and actor Paul Dano (1984)

Anniversary of:
• the first celebration of Father’s Day in Washington state (1910)
• the British Royal Family renouncing its German names and titles and adopting the name of Windsor (1917)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show musical debuting in London (1973)
Garfield, created by Jim Davis, first appearing as a comic strip (1978)

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