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This Week in History: June 19-25, 2017
for human events ever resemble those of preceding times.”
Machiavelli
June 19
1586 – English colonists sail away from Roanoke Island, North Carolina, after failing to establish England’s first permanent settlement in America.
1846 – The New York Knickerbocker Club plays the New York Club in the first baseball game at the Elysian Field in Hoboken, New Jersey. It is the first organized baseball game.
1867 – Ruthless wins the first Belmont Stakes horse race.
1910 – Father’s Day is celebrated for the first time in Spokane, Washington.
1912 – The U.S. government establishes the 8-hour workday.
1934 – Congress establishes the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to regulate radio and (later) TV broadcasting.

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