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  If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.

  — Auberon Herbert
• Today in Freedom

  In 1910 on this date, the first Father’s Day was celebrated in Spokane, Washington. On the same day, in Tennessee, future Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas was born.

  In 1941, Václav Klaus was born; other June 19 births include Salman Rushdie in 1947, Kathleen Turner in 1954, and Laura Ingraham in 1964.

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