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Today in History ~ July 19
Events2781 - BC The Egyptian calendar is presumed to have started.
0064 - Circus Maximus in Rome catches fire
1510 - 38 Jews are burned at stake in Berlin
1545 - King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose is launch at Portsmouth; It sinks immediately. 73 die
1553 - 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after 9 days
1588 - The so-called "Invincible Armada," a massive Spanish fleet sent to secure control of the English Channel and transport a Spanish army to the British isle from the Netherlands was first sighted off the Cornish coast of England.
1799 - Soldiers of the French General Napoleon Bonaparte's during the Egyptian Campaign discovered a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta; the stone was inscribed by priests of Ptolemy V with a translation of the Egyptian hieroglyphic into both demotic and Greek [H]
1848 - First Woman's Rights Convention in US, Seneca Falls NY; commenced with almost two hundred women in attendance; organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1862 - Nathan Bedford Forrest's 1st raid
1864 - Battle of Winchester, VA (Stephenson's Depot) [->JUL 20]
1867 - Reconstruction enacted
1870 - France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins
1879 - Doc Holliday kills a man for shooting up his New Mexico saloon. [H]
1880 - SF Public Library starts lending books
1900 - Paris Metro Inaugurated
1909 - Neil Ball turns an unassisted triple play at 1st
1918 - German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I)
1935 - 1st parking meters installed in the Oklahoma City business district.
1939 - 1st use of Fiberglas sutures RP Scholz St Louis Mo
1940 - Hitler orders Great Britain to surrenders
1941 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his V For Victory campaign in Europe. BBC World Service begins regular broadcasting throughout Europe of opening four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony which in Morse Code spell V for "Victory"
1943 - Allied air forces raided Rome during World War II.
1944 - 1 200, 8th Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany
1944 - 500 15th Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity
1944 - A faction of German officers plotted to kill Nazi leader Adolf Hitler whom they felt was leading Germany to ruin.
1944 - Count Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem
1944 - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg 1st meets SS obersturmbannfuhrer Adolf Eichmann
1946 - Marilyn Monroe acted in her first screen test for Twentieth Century-Fox Studios.
1949 - Laos becomes associated state within French Union.
1950 - French/Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh
1955 - The "Balclutha" ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum.
1956 - US refuse to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam
1957 - 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired Yucca Flat Nevada
1961 - 1st In-flight movie is shown (on TWA).
1963 - Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km.
1966 - Gov James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot)
1967 - 1st air conditioned NYC subway car (R-38 on the F line)
1967 - Race riots in Durham NC
1969 - Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the moon.
1969 - John Fairfax of Britain arrived at Fort Lauderdale, Fla. to become the first person to row across the Atlantic Ocean all alone
1975 - The Apollo and Soyuz space capsules that were linked in orbit for two days separated.
1977 - Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 76
1977 - Yanks host 48th All Star Game NL wins 7-5
1979 - 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 TONS of oil spill
1979 - The Nicaraguan capital of Managua fell to Sandinista guerrillas, two days after President Anastasio Somoza fled.
1980 - The Moscow Summer Olympics began, minus dozens of nations that were boycotting the games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.
1985: Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard a space shuttle. (McAuliffe and six other crew members died when the Challenger exploded shortly after lifting off.)
1986 - Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John F. Kennedy, married Edwin Schlossberg in Centerville, Mass.
1987 - Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 consective games
1989 - 112 people were killed when a United Air Lines DC-10 crashed while making an emergency landing at Sioux City, Iowa; 184 other people survived.
1990 - Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion
1990 - President George Bush joined former presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon at ceremonies dedicating the Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, Calif.
1991 - Mike Tyson rapes a Miss Black America contestant [H]
1991 - President Bush toured the Souda Bay U.S. naval base during a visit to Greece.
1991 - The South African government acknowledged that it had been giving money to the Inkatha Freedom Party, the main rival of the African National Congress.
1992 - Secretary of State James A. Baker III opened a fresh round of Mideast diplomacy, meeting in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and other officials.
1993 - The Pentagon unveiled its "don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue" policy toward homosexuals in the military.
1994 - President Clinton said he could accept a health care compromise that would cover about 95 percent of the population. He'd previously said he'd accept nothing less than universal coverage.
1995 - A pair of House subcommittees held a joint hearing on the federal government's raid on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas.
1996 - A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee recommended, with some conditions, that the abortion-inducing drug RU-486 be approved.
1996 - Bosnian Serb official Radovan Karadzic yielded to international pressure to give up all political power.
1996 - Opening ceremonies were held in Atlanta for the 26th Summer Olympic Games.
1997 - The Irish Republican Army declared a new cease-fire and opened the way for supporters to join peace talks with Northern Ireland's pro-British Protestants.
1997 - Eleven armored carriers from NATO gathered in a show of force near the home of ousted Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, Bosnia's top war crimes suspect.
1999 - Federal officials said radar data showed the plane piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr. dropped 1,100 feet in just 14 seconds.
2000 - President Clinton shuttled between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and his own experts during peace talks at Camp David after delaying his departure for an economic summit in Japan.
2001 - Japanese prosecutors charged a U.S. airman with rape in an alleged attack on a woman in Okinawa. (Air Force Staff Sgt. Timothy Woodland was later convicted and sentenced to nearly three years in prison.)
Birthdays Today
1592 - Erhard Buttner composer
1814 - Samuel Colt, US inventor (Colt 6 shot revolver) [H] [H]
1834 - Edgar Degas (artist; Impressionist: noted for his paintings of dancers in motion)
1846 - Charles Edward Pickering, pioneer American spectroscopist
1849 - F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian
1860 - Lizzie Borden, aquitted ax murderer ("She gave her mother forty whacks...")
1865 - Charles Mayo (surgeon: founded Mayo Clinic & Mayo Foundation with his brother)
1893 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet poet.
1896 - A.J. (Archibald Joseph) Cronin (author: The Citadel, Keys of the Kingdom)
1905 - Boyd Neel, Blackheath, Kent England, conductor (Story of an Orch)
1905 - Edgar P Snow, US author/journalist: Red star over China
1913 - Charles Teagarden (trumpeter, bandleader, brother of Jack)
1916 - Phil Cavaretta (baseball: Baseball Writer's Award: Chicago Cubs first baseman [1945])
1917 - William W. Scranton, (R-Gov-Pa)
1922 - George McGovern, (Sen-D-SD)/pres candidate (D-1972)
1923 - Alex Hannum (basketball: player: Syracuse Nationals; coach: only coach to win titles in both NBA [Philadelphia '76ers] and ABA [Oakland Oaks])
1926 - Helen Gallagher (actress: Ryan's Hope)
1926 - Pat Hingle (actor: Batman, The Grifters, Splendor in the Grass, On the Waterfront, Norma Rae, Of Mice and Men)
1926 - Sue Thompson (Eva McKee) (singer: Norman, Sad Movies [Make Me Cry])
1927 - Billy Gardner (baseball: former manager: California Angeles/Minnesota Twins)
1927 - Jan Myrdal, Swedish writer/journalist (Albania Defiant)
1937 - George Hamilton IV (singer: A Rose and a Baby Ruth, Why Don't They Understand, Abilene, The Teen Commandments [w/Paul Anka & Johnny Nash], She's a Little Bit Country)
1938 - Richard Jordan (actor: Captains and the Kings, The Bunker, Hunt for Red October, Dune, Logan's Run, Rooster Cogburn)
1941 - Natalya Bessmertnova, prima ballerina: Bolshoi ballet
1941 - Vikki Carr (Florencia Bisenta deCasilla Martinez Cardona) (singer: It Must be Him, With Pen in Hand, The Lesson)
1943 - Dennis Cole (actor: The Young and the Restless, The Barbary Coast)
1945 - Craig Cameron, hockey
1946 - Ilie Nastase, tennis champion: French Open [1973] U.S. Open [1972]
1947 - Bernie Leadon (musician: guitar: group: The Eagles: Take It Easy, Best of My Love, One of these Nights)
1947 - Brian Harold May (musician: guitar: group: Queen: Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Another One Bites the Dust)
1947 - Gerard Schwarz Weehawken NJ trumpeter/conductor LA Chamber Orch
Famous deaths
1545 - Roger Grenville, English captain of Mary Rose, drowns
1944 - Carl Bock, Danish Gestapo agent, liquidated
1965 - Syngman Rhee, president of South-Korea (1948-60), dies at 90
1974 - Earl Warren, gov of Calif/Supreme court justice (1953-68), dies at 83
1981 - Louis Cheslock, composer/author, dies at 81
1992 - Paolo Borsellino, Italian anti-mafia judge, murdered by mafia
1993 - Szymon Goldberg, Polish violinist/conductor, dies at 84
2001 - Circus animal trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams died in Venice, Florida, at age 66.
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