July 19
July 19 is the 200th day (201st in
leap years) of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining.
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Events
\n*711 - Moslem forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic.\n*1333 - Battle of Halidon Hill: the final battle of the Wars of Scottish Independence\n*1553 - Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after having that title for just nine days. \n*1848 - Women's rights: The two day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York and the "Bloomers" are introduced at the feminist convention. \n*1862 - American Civil War: Morgan's Raid - At Buffington Island in Ohio, Confederate General John Hunt Morgan's raid into the north is mostly thwarted when a large group of his men are captured while trying to escape across the Ohio River. \n*1870 - Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.\n*1873 - William Gosse becomes the first European to discover Ayers Rock (Uluru) and names it in honour of South Australian Premier Sir Henry Ayers.\n*1879 - Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up Holliday's New Mexico saloon.\n*1942 - World War II: Battle of the Atlantic - German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast postions in response to the an effective American convoy system. \n*1943 - World War II: Rome is bombed by the Allies for the first time in the war.\n*1948 - Games of the XIV Olympiad opened in London.\n*1964 - Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.\n*1967 - A Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727 and a Cessna 310 collided in mid-air over Hendersonville, North Carolina killing 82\n*1976 - Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.\n*1979 - The Sandinista rebels overthrow the US-backed government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua. \n*1985 - US Vice President George H. W. Bush announces that New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe will become the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the Space Shuttle (see Space Shuttle Challenger). \n*1989 - A Douglas DC-10 carrying United Airlines flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 but due to extraordinary efforts by the pilot and his crew, 184 on board survive.\n*2001 - UK politician and novelist Jeffrey Archer, Lord Archer of Weston-Super-Mare, is sentenced to four years in prison for perjury and perverting the course of justice.
Births
\n*1789 - John Martin, English painter\n*1814 - Samuel Colt, inventor (d. 1862)\n*1819 - Gottfried Keller, writer (d. 1890)\n*1834 - Edgar Degas, impressionist painter (d. 1917)\n*1860 - Lizzie Borden, accused murderess (d. 1927)\n*1875 - Alice Dunbar Nelson, author, poet (d. 1935)\n*1883 - Max Fleischer, animator, film producer (d. 1992)\n*1893 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, poet (d. 1930)\n*1894 - Khawaja Nazimuddin, second Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1965)\n*1896 - A.J. Cronin, writer (d. 1981)\n*1898 - Herbert Marcuse, communist philosopher (d. 1979)\n*1921 - Rosalyn Yalow, medical physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1977\n*1922 - George McGovern, former US presidential candidate\n*1947 - Brian May, guitarist in rock band Queen\n*1965 - Stuart Scott, sportscaster\n*1973 - Scott Walker, NHL hockey player\n*1978 - Topher Grace, actor
Deaths
\n*1061 - Pope Nicholas II (or July 27)\n*1415 - Philippa of Lancaster, consort queen of Portugal (of the plague)\n*1857 - Stefano Franscini, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1796)\n*1810 - Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Queen of Prussia\n*1900 - King Umberto I of Italy assassinated\n*1910 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (b. 1812)\n*1947 - Aung San, Burmese nationalist, assassinated\n*1965 - Clyde Beatty, circus performer, big game hunter\n*1965 - Syngman Rhee, first President of South Korea\n*1980 - Nihat Erim, former Turkish Prime Minister assassinated\n*1985 - Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish science fiction writer\n*2003 - Pierre Graber, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1908)
Holidays and observances
\n*Malaysia - Birthday of Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Ng Sembilan\n*Myanmar - Martyr's Day\n*Nicaragua - National Liberation Day\n*Catholic - Feast of St. Vincent De Paul
July 18 -
July 20 -
June 19 -
August 19 --
listing of all days
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