Associated Press

On June 19, 1775, George Washington was commissioned by the Continental Congress as commander in chief of the Continental Army.

In 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War was over, and that all remaining slaves in Texas were free — an event celebrated to this day as “Juneteenth.”

In 1910, the first Father’s Day was celebrated in Spokane, Washington.

In 1911, Pennsylvania became the first state to establish a motion picture censorship board.

In 1934, the Federal Communications Commission was created; it replaced the Federal Radio Commission.

In 2023, an experimental submersible known as the Titan imploded in the Atlantic Ocean near the wreckage of the Titanic, killing all five people on board.