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Events on the 19th of July in history

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19 Jul 0064 Circus Maximus in Rome catches fire
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19 Jul 2064 Great Fire of Rome: a fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control. According to a popular, but untrue legend, Nero fiddled as the city burned.
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19 Jul 0484 Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is recognized in Antioch and makes it his capital.
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19 Jul 0514 St Symmachus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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19 Jul 0532 Start of Dionysian Pascal Cycle
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19 Jul 0711 Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Battle of Guadalete – Umayyad forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by King Roderic.
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19 Jul 0998 Arab–Byzantine wars: Battle of Apamea – Fatimids defeat a Byzantine army near Apamea.
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19 Jul 1195 Battle at Alarcos: Almohaden beats Alfons VIII of Castilia
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19 Jul 1321 -BC- origin of Era of Menophres
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19 Jul 1333 Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon Hill – The English win a decisive victory over the Scots.
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19 Jul 1425 Duke John VI van Brabant pledges Holland / Zealand to Philip the Good
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19 Jul 1510 38 Jews are burned at the stake in Berlin Prussia
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19 Jul 1525 Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau
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19 Jul 1544 Italian War of 1542–46: the first Siege of Boulogne begins.
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19 Jul 1545 The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth; in 1982 the wreck is salvaged in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology.
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19 Jul 1551 Treaty of Karlsburg: Archduke Ferdinand of Austria recognized as King of Hungary / Transsylvania
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19 Jul 1553 Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after only nine days on the throne.
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19 Jul 1553 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after 9 days
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19 Jul 1575 Spanish Viceroy Gilles of Hierges attacks Oudewater
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19 Jul 1588 Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – The Spanish Armada is sighted in the English Channel.
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19 Jul 1599 Jacob van Necks Merchant fleet leaves Java
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19 Jul 1639 French troops occupy Salses, at Perpignan
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19 Jul 1674 Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes / Spinoza / Meyer
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19 Jul 1688 Soldiers killed Governor of Aerssen in Paramaribo
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19 Jul 1701 Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.
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19 Jul 1702 Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.
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19 Jul 1816 Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days
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19 Jul 1832 The British Medical Association is founded as the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association by Sir Charles Hastings at a meeting in the Board Room of the Worcester Infirmary.
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19 Jul 1836 HMS Beagle / Charles Darwin reaches Ascension
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19 Jul 1843 Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.
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19 Jul 1848 German Parliament demands Dutch province of Limburg
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19 Jul 1848 Women's rights: a two-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York.
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19 Jul 1848 1st women's rights convention (Seneca Falls, NY)
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19 Jul 1850 Airship Elizabeth leaves in storm for Fire Island, crashes (42 die)
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19 Jul 1860 1st railroad reaches Kansas
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19 Jul 1862 Forrest's 1st raid
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19 Jul 1863 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.
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19 Jul 1864 Taiping Rebellion: Third Battle of Nanking – The Qing dynasty finally defeats the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
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19 Jul 1866 Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment, guaranteeing civil rights
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19 Jul 1867 Dutch Red Cross forms
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19 Jul 1867 Reconstruction enacted
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19 Jul 1870 Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
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19 Jul 1870 France declares war on Prussia; the Franco-Prussian war begins
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19 Jul 1875 Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, New York City
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19 Jul 1877 1st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Spencer W Gore beats Marshall (61 62 64)
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19 Jul 1877 1st Wimbledon tennis championships held
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19 Jul 1880 San Francisco Public Library starts lending books
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19 Jul 1882 J Palisa discovers asteroid #226 Weringia
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19 Jul 1899 National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, forms
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19 Jul 1900 The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
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19 Jul 1902 New York Giants lose their 1st game under new manager John McGraw
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19 Jul 1903 Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.
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19 Jul 1904 Dutch Premier Kuypers disbands 1st Chamber
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19 Jul 1907 K Lohnert discovers asteroid #639 Latona
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19 Jul 1908 Feyenoord soccer team forms in Rotterdam
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19 Jul 1909 Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball executes an unassisted triple play
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19 Jul 1909 1st baseman Neil Ball turns unassisted triple-play
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19 Jul 1910 Cy Young registers his 500th career victory
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19 Jul 1913 Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers
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19 Jul 1914 Boston Braves begin drive from last to 1st place in the NL
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19 Jul 1915 Dutch accidents at sea law enforced
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19 Jul 1915 Naval accident
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19 Jul 1915 Washington Nationals steal record 8 bases vs. Cleveland Indians in the 1st inning
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19 Jul 1916 World War I: Battle of Fromelles – British and Australian troops attack German trenches in a prelude to the Battle of the Somme.
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19 Jul 1918 Washington catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Secretary of War Newton D Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt
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19 Jul 1918 German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I)
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19 Jul 1919 Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen riot and burn down Luton Town Hall.
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19 Jul 1923 WRC-AM in Washington DC begins radio transmissions
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19 Jul 1925 V Albitzkij discovers asteroid #1059 Mussorgskia
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19 Jul 1926 2nd French government of Herriot, forms
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19 Jul 1927 Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th hit
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19 Jul 1928 King Fuad of Egypt grabs power / disbands parliament
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19 Jul 1928 H E Wood discovers asteroid #1305 Pongola
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19 Jul 1933 1st time, brothers on opposite teams homer in the same game. Red Sox
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19 Jul 1933 Rick Ferrell homers off brother pitcher Wes of Cleve, who also homers
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19 Jul 1936 Spanish Premier Casares Quiroga succeeded by Jose Giral
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19 Jul 1937 Entartete Art Fair opens in Munich
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19 Jul 1939 1st use of fiberglass sutures, R P Scholz, St. Louis, Missouri
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19 Jul 1939 Dr Roy P Scholz is 1st surgeon to use fiberglass sutures
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19 Jul 1940 Hitler orders Great Britain to surrenders
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19 Jul 1940 Nazi occupiers imprison 231 prominent Dutch citizens in Buchenwald
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19 Jul 1940 Nazi occupiers in the Netherlands forbid anti-Nazi films
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19 Jul 1940 World War II: Battle of Cape Spada – The Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties.
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19 Jul 1940 Field Marshal Ceremony: First occasion in World War II, that Hitler appointed field marshals due to military achievements.
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19 Jul 1940 World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.
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19 Jul 1941 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign
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19 Jul 1941 1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicted (Tuskegee Ala)
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19 Jul 1941 British PM Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign
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19 Jul 1941 President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee
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19 Jul 1942 German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam and Hague
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19 Jul 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 positions in response to the effective American convoy system.
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19 Jul 1943 500 allied air forces raid Rome during WWII
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19 Jul 1943 World War II: Rome is heavily bombed by more than 500 Allied aircraft, inflicting thousands of casualties.
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19 Jul 1944 1,200+ 8th Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany
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19 Jul 1944 500 15th Air Force Liberators / Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity
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19 Jul 1944 Allied troops occupy Faubourg de Vaucelles, at Caen
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19 Jul 1944 Danish resistance fails on assault on Taarbaek Fort near Copenhagen
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19 Jul 1944 Democratic Convention opens in Chicago
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19 Jul 1944 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem
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19 Jul 1944 General Bradley flies to England
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19 Jul 1944 Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho / Shokaku sinks in Marianas
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19 Jul 1944 New York Archbishop Spellman flies to Europe
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19 Jul 1944 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg 1st meets Eichmann
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19 Jul 1945 Edwin Schlossberg, husband of Carolyn Kennedy
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19 Jul 1945 USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue
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19 Jul 1947 The Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members are assassinated by Galon U Saw.
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19 Jul 1947 Korean politician Lyuh Woon-hyung is assassinated.
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19 Jul 1948 French government of Schuman, resigns
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19 Jul 1949 Laos becomes associated state within French Union
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19 Jul 1950 French / Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh
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19 Jul 1950 New York Yanks obtain their 1st black players, Elston Howard and Frank Barnes
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19 Jul 1950 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Summi maeroris
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19 Jul 1951 "2 in the Aisle" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 276 performances
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19 Jul 1952 "Paint Your Wagon" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 289 performances
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19 Jul 1952 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki, Finland
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19 Jul 1952 Freddie Trueman takes 8-31, India all out 58 at Old Trafford
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19 Jul 1952 India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 earlier in the day
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19 Jul 1952 The 1952 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad, were opened in Helsinki, Finland.
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19 Jul 1953 KIMA TV channel 29 in Yakima, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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19 Jul 1953 WAKR (now WAKC) TV channel 23 in Akron, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
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19 Jul 1955 Yarkon Water Project opens to supply water to Negev desert in Israel
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19 Jul 1955 Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum
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19 Jul 1956 US refuse to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam
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19 Jul 1957 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
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19 Jul 1957 Don Bowden becomes 1st American to break 4 minute mile (3m58s7)
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19 Jul 1958 "Oh, Captain!" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 192 performances
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19 Jul 1958 Charly Gaul wins Tour de France
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19 Jul 1959 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Machine International Golf Open Alliance
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19 Jul 1960 San Francisco Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies
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19 Jul 1961 Tunisia imposes a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte; the French would capture the entire town four days later.
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19 Jul 1961 1st in-flight movie shown (TWA)
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19 Jul 1963 Philadelphia Phillies Roy Siever hits HR # 300
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19 Jul 1963 Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
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19 Jul 1963 NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km
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19 Jul 1964 46th PGA Championship: Bobby Nichols shoots a 271 at Columbus Country Club - Ohio
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19 Jul 1964 Vietnam War: at a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Khánh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.
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19 Jul 1965 Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
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19 Jul 1966 50 year old Frank Sinatra marries 21 year old Mia Farrow in Las Vegas
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19 Jul 1966 Gov James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot)
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19 Jul 1967 1st air conditioned NYC subway car (R-38 on the F line)
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19 Jul 1967 Race riots in Durham, North Carolina
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19 Jul 1967 Race riots in Durham NC
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19 Jul 1967 US launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km)
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19 Jul 1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit
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19 Jul 1970 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Springfield Jaycee Golf Open
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19 Jul 1971 Sudan military coup under maj Hashem al-Atta, Numeiry flees
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19 Jul 1971 B Burnasheva discovers asteroid #2259 Sofievka
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19 Jul 1972 Dhofar Rebellion: British SAS units help the Omani government against Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman rebels in the Battle of Mirbat.
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19 Jul 1973 Willie Mays named to NL all star team for 24th time (ties Musial)
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19 Jul 1974 Cleveland Indian Dick Bosman no-hits Oakland Athletics, 4-0
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19 Jul 1974 Soyuz 14 lands
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19 Jul 1974 David Bowie's Diamond Dog tour ends in NYC
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19 Jul 1974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #3118
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19 Jul 1975 Nullified because the tar on his bat handle exceeds 18" limit
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19 Jul 1975 Apollo & Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate
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19 Jul 1976 Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
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19 Jul 1976 Rock group Deep Purple disbands
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19 Jul 1977 48th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-5 at Yankee Stadium, New York
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19 Jul 1977 All star MVP: Don Sutton (LA Dodgers)
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19 Jul 1977 Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 76
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19 Jul 1977 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2228 Soyuz-Apollo
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19 Jul 1977 NL beats AL 7-5 in 48th All Star Game (Yankee Stadium, NY)
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19 Jul 1978 Yanks start 14
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19 Jul 1979 Maritza Sayalero, 18, of Venezuela, crowned 28th Miss Universe
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19 Jul 1979 Patricia Harris, becomes Secretary of HEW
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19 Jul 1979 The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
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19 Jul 1979 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 TONS of oil spill
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19 Jul 1979 Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza
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19 Jul 1980 David Bowie appears in role of "Elephant Man" in Denver
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19 Jul 1980 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; US & others boycott
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19 Jul 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics begin, US & others boycott
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19 Jul 1981 110th British Golf Open: Bill Rogers shoots a 276 at Royal St. George
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19 Jul 1981 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic
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19 Jul 1981 In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French Prime Minister François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing that the Soviets had been stealing American technological research and development.
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19 Jul 1982 1st annual Cracker Jack Oldtimers Classic 75-year-old Luke Appling hits a 250-foot HR off Warren Spahn, AL beats NL 7-2
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19 Jul 1982 Bolivian government resigns
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19 Jul 1982 David S Dodge becomes the 1st American hostage in Lebanon
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19 Jul 1983 The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
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19 Jul 1984 1st female to captain a 747 across the Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)
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19 Jul 1984 Geraldine A Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY), won Democratic VP nomination
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19 Jul 1985 Dam in Fiemme Valley Italy bursts; 200-300 die
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19 Jul 1985 The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
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19 Jul 1985 Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st schoolteacher to fly the space shuttle
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19 Jul 1986 Caroline Kennedy (28) marries Edwin Schlossberg (41)
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19 Jul 1986 Tim Witherspoon KOs Frank Bruno in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
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19 Jul 1986 Caroline Kennedy weds Edwin A Schlossberg in Centerville, Mass
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19 Jul 1986 Indian pitcher Phil Niekro wins his 307th game tying him with
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19 Jul 1987 116th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 279 at Muirfield Gullane
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19 Jul 1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
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19 Jul 1987 Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 cons games
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19 Jul 1989 Cleveland Indian Joe Carter has his 4th 3 HR game
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19 Jul 1989 United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa, kills 112
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19 Jul 1989 United Flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112.
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19 Jul 1989 United flight 232 crashes in Iowa
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19 Jul 1990 Dave Raghetti pitches in his 499th game as a New York Yankee, passing Whitey Ford in most appearances as a New York Yankee
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19 Jul 1990 Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, California
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19 Jul 1990 BASF plant in Cincinnatti explodes in flames, 1 dies
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19 Jul 1990 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion
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19 Jul 1991 Cal Ripken plays in his 1,500th consecutive game
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19 Jul 1991 Mike Tyson rapes a Miss Black America contestant (Desiree Washington)
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19 Jul 1991 With New York Yankee victory, 10 of 14 AL teams are at .500 or better
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19 Jul 1991 Miss Black America contestant accuses Mike Tyson of rape
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19 Jul 1992 "Price" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 47 performances
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19 Jul 1992 30th Tennis Federation Cup: Germany beats Spain in Frankfurt Germany (2-1)
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19 Jul 1992 Ballet dancer Peter Martins charged with beating his wife
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19 Jul 1992 Ebony P Warren, crowned 24th Miss Black America
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19 Jul 1992 Juli Inkster wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
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19 Jul 1992 New York City Ballet star Peter Martins, arrested for beating his wife
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19 Jul 1992 A car bomb placed by mafia with collaboration of Italian intelligence kills Judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort
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19 Jul 1993 Glen Chapple (Lancs) scores fastest F-C century, 21 minutes
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19 Jul 1993 President Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions
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19 Jul 1994 1st game ever cancelled at Seattle Kingdome (falling tiles)
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19 Jul 1994 Bomb explosion in Alas Airlines at Colon Panama, 21 killed
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19 Jul 1994 Leonid Kvetjsma sworn in as Ukraine President
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19 Jul 1996 Ireland beats Netherlands in 1st European Championship Final
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19 Jul 1996 Jason Gallian scores 312 in 683 minutes for Lancashire vs. Derbyshire
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19 Jul 1997 The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.
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19 Jul 1998 127th British Golf Open: at Royal Birkdale
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19 Jul 1998 JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
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19 Jul 2781 -BC- Presumed start of Egyptian calendar
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