Daily Archives: June 19, 2014

Senate passes Civil Rights Act of 1964 50 years ago today (June 19 1964)


Image: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. reacts in St. Augustine after learning that the U.S. Senate passed the Civil Rights Act by two votes, June 19, 1964

(Friday, June 19, 1964, during the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–68)) — The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved today by the U.S. Senate, 73-27, after surviving a lengthy filibuster.

Storm destroys D-Day Mulberry Harbor 70 years ago today (June 19 1944)


Video: 'The World At War: Morning 4/5' (June 19, 1944, at 9:17)

(Monday, June 19, 1944; during the Normandy landings on the Western Front of World War II) — A raging Atlantic storm, the worst in June for 40 years, battered the D-Day beaches of Normandy today, casting about like matchsticks the 1,000-ton concrete caissons that formed the perimeter of a temporary Allied harbor, known as Mulberry Harbor, built off Omaha Beach.