Garfield Debuts: The Laziest Cat in Comics History
Jim Davis launches Garfield, a lazy orange cat that quickly becomes the world's most widely syndicated comic strip. This explosion of feline humor reshapes newspaper comics by proving a single-panel gag about food and naps could sustain decades of global readership without needing complex storylines or human characters.
June 19, 1978
48 years ago
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What Else Happened on June 19
Emperor Constantine presided over the First Council of Nicaea, where bishops established the original Nicene Creed to standardize Christian doctrine. This agree…
couronnement de Louis IV d'Outremer comme roi de France.
fin du siège de Nicée et prise de ladite ville sur les Turcs seldjoukides par les croisés lors de la première croisade.
bataille du lac Mèron, défaite des Templiers, dont le Grand-Maître, Bertrand de Blanquefort, est fait prisonnier par Nur ad-Din.
Earl Erling Skakke was killed at the Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros, removing the most powerful opponent of King Sverre Sigurdsson and shifting the balan…
Rei Luís IX da França ordena que todos os judeus encontrados em público sem um distintivo amarelo identificador sejam multados em dez libras de prata.
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