Notable Historical Events on July 19th
July 19th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
64 |
Circus Maximus in Rome catches fire |
532 |
Start of Dionysian Pascal Cycle |
711 |
Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic. |
1195 |
Battle at Alarcos: Almohaden beats Alfons VIII of Castilia |
1380 |
Thomas of Buckingham's invasion army lands on Calais |
1425 |
Duke John VI of Brabant pledges Holland/Zealand to Philip the Good |
1510 |
38 Jews are burned at stake in Berlin, Prussia |
1524 |
Peasants' War begins in Germany's Black Forest |
1525 |
Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau |
1544 |
Italian War of 1542: The Siege of Boulogne began. |
1545 |
King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth; 73 die |
1551 |
Treaty of Karlsburg: arch duke Ferdinand of Austria recognized as King of Hungary/Transsylvania |
1553 |
15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after 9 days |
1572 |
Battle at Saint Ghislain: Spanish army beats The Genlis' mercenaries |
1575 |
Spanish viceroy Gilles of Hierges attacks Oudewater |
1590 |
King Philip Ii's secretary Antonio Perez escapes jail |
1595 |
Astronomer Johannes Kepler has an epiphany and develops his theory of the geometrical basis of the universe |
1599 |
Jacob van Necks merchant fleet leaves Java |
1639 |
French troops occupy Salses, at Perpignan |
1674 |
Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes/Spinoza/Meyer |
1688 |
Soldiers killed governor of Aerssen in Paramaribo |
1692 |
5 more people are hanged for witchcraft (20 in all) in Salem Mass |
1702 |
Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Krakow |
1760 |
The formal request to found the later city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is filed by its founders. |
1816 |
Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days |
1836 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Ascension |
1843 |
Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world. |
1848 |
1st US women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls NY, organised by Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott |
1848 |
German Parliament demands Dutch province of Limburg |
1850 |
Airship Elizabeth leaves in storm for Fire Island, crashes (42 die) |
1860 |
1st railroad reaches Kansas |
1862 |
Forrest's 1st raid |
1863 |
Battle of Buffington's Island (St George Creek), Ohio |
1864 |
Battle of Winchester, VA (Stephenson's Depot) [->JUL 20] |
1866 |
Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment to the US constitution, guaranteeing civil rights |
1867 |
US Congress passed 3rd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto |
1867 |
Dutch Red Cross forms |
1869 |
Louis Riel speaks at a meeting of Metis residents about rights, setting in motion the events now referred to as the Red River Rebellion |
1870 |
France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins |
1875 |
Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, NYC |
1877 |
1st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Spencer W Gore beats Marshall (61 62 64) |
1879 |
Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon. |
1880 |
SF Public Library starts lending books |
1884 |
8th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: William Renshaw beats H Lawford (6-0 6-4 9-7) |
1899 |
National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers forms |
1900 |
Michel Théato wins 2nd olympics marathon (2:59:45.0-40,260k) |
1902 |
NY Giants lose their 1st game under new manager John McGraw |
1904 |
Dutch Premier Kuypers disbands 1st Chamber |
1907 |
Under pressure from the Japanese, the Emperor of Korea abdicates in favor of his son, a figurehead |
1908 |
Feyenoord soccer team forms in Rotterdam |
1909 |
Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball executes an unassisted triple play |
1910 |
Cleveland Indian baseball player Cy Young registers 500th career victory against Washington 5-4 in 11 innings |
1912 |
A meteorite of estimated 190kg mass explodes over Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona, causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town. |
1913 |
Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs" Malinda's Wedding Day is #1 |
1914 |
Boston Braves begin drive from last to 1st place in NL |
1915 |
Dutch accidents at sea law enforced |
1915 |
Wash Nationals steal record 8 bases vs Cleve Indians in the 1st inning |
1918 |
German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I) |
1918 |
Wash catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Sec of War Newton D Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt |
1919 |
Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen rioted and burnt down Luton Town Hall. |
1923 |
WRC-AM in Washington DC begins radio transmissions |
1926 |
2nd French government of Herriot, forms |
1927 |
Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th hit |
1928 |
King Fuad of Egypt siezes power and disbands parliament |
1930 |
Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould, and their polar expedition team return to the United States following the first exploration of the interior of Antarctica |
1933 |
1st time brothers on opposite teams homer in the same game. Red Sox |
1933 |
Rick Ferrell homers off brother pitcher Wes of Cleve, who also homers |
1936 |
Indians' Bob Feller makes his major league debut in relief |
1936 |
Spanish premier Casares Quiroga succeeded by Jose Giral |
1937 |
Entartete Art Fair opens in Munich |
1937 |
Joris Ivens' "Spanish Earth" premieres in Hollywood |
1939 |
Dr Roy P Scholz is 1st surgeon to use fiberglass sutures |
1940 |
Hitler orders Great Britain to surrender |
1940 |
Nazi occupiers imprison 231 prominent Dutch citizens in Buchenwald |
1940 |
Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid anti-nazi films |
1941 |
1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicated (Tuskegee Ala) |
1941 |
BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) ("...-" in Morse code) (opening of Beethoven's 5th symphony) |
1941 |
British PM Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign |
1941 |
President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee |
1942 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch' 7th Symphony premieres in USA |
1942 |
German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam & Hague |
1943 |
500 allied air forces raid Rome during WW II |
1944 |
1,200+ 8th US Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany |
1944 |
500 15th US Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity |
1944 |
Allied troops occupy Faubourg de Vaucelles, at Caen |
1944 |
Danish resistance fails in assault on Taarbaek Fort near Copenhagen |
1944 |
Democratic convention opens in Chicago |
1944 |
Earl Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem |
1944 |
General Bradley flies to England |
1944 |
Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho/Shokaku sinks in Marianas |
1944 |
NY archbishop Spellman flies to Europe |
1944 |
Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg 1st meets Eichmann |
1945 |
USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue |
1947 |
Prime Minister of shadow Burma government, Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members assassinated by armed paramilitaries |
1948 |
French government of Schuman, resigns |
1949 |
Laos becomes associated state within French Union |
1950 |
French/Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh |
1950 |
NY Yanks obtain their 1st black players, Elston Howard & Frank Barnes |
1950 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Summi maeroris |
1951 |
"2 in the Aisle" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 276 perfs |
1952 |
"Paint Your Wagon" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 289 perfs |
1952 |
15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki, Finland |
1952 |
Freddie Trueman takes 8-31, India all out 58 at Old Trafford |
1952 |
India all out 82 in 2nd innings after making 52 earlier in the day |
1953 |
KIMA TV channel 29 in Yakima, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
WAKR (now WAKC) TV channel 23 in Akron, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum |
1955 |
Yarkon Water Project opens to supply water to Negev desert in Israel |
1956 |
US refuse to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam |
1957 |
1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada |
1957 |
Don Bowden becomes 1st American to break 4 minute mile (3m58s7) |
1957 |
US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
1958 |
"Oh, Captain!" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 192 performances |
1958 |
Charly Gaul wins Tour de France |
1959 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Machine International Golf Open Alliance |
1960 |
Italian government Tambroni, resigns |
1960 |
SF Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies |
1961 |
1st in-flight movie shown (TWA) |
1962 |
Hungarian communist party expels Rákosi & Gero |
1963 |
NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km |
1963 |
Philadelphia Phillies Roy Siever hits HR # 300 |
1964 |
46th PGA Championship: Bobby Nichols shoots a 271 at Columbus CC Ohio |
1964 |
Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open |
1964 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1965 |
Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before" |
1966 |
France performs nuclear Test at Fangataufa Island |
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 |
1967 |
US launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km) |
1969 |
Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit |
1970 |
Judy Rankin wins LPGA Springfield Jaycee Golf Open |
1971 |
Sudan military coup under maj Hashem al-Atta, Numeiry flees |
1973 |
Willie Mays named to NL all star team for 24th time (ties Musial) |
1974 |
Cleve Indian Dick Bosman no-hits Oakland A's, 4-0 |
1974 |
David Bowie's "Diamond Dog" tour ends in NYC |
1974 |
Soyuz 14 lands |
1975 |
Apollo & Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate |
1975 |
NY Yank catcher Thurman Munson's 1st-inning single & RBI are |
1975 |
Nullified because the tar on his bat handle exceeds 18" limit |
1976 |
Rock group Deep Purple disbands |
1976 |
Allman Brother's roadie Scooter Herring sentenced to 75 years for providing drugs for the group, based on Gregg Allman's testimony |
1976 |
Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created. |
1977 |
48th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-5 at Yankee Stadium, NY |
1977 |
All star MVP: Don Sutton (LA Dodgers) |
1977 |
Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 76 |
1978 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
1978 |
Yanks start 14 game comeback with 2-0 win |
1979 |
2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 TONS of oil spill |
1979 |
Maritza Sayalero, 18, of Venezuela, crowned 28th Miss Universe |
1979 |
Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza |
1979 |
Patricia Harris, becomes sect of HEW |
1980 |
22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; US & others boycott |
1980 |
David Bowie appears in role of "Elephant Man" in Denver |
1981 |
110th British Golf Open: Bill Rogers shoots a 276 at Royal St George |
1981 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic |
1982 |
1st Old Timer's All star classic - AL wins 7-2 in Wash DC |
1982 |
Bolivian government resigns |
1982 |
David S Dodge becomes 1st American hostage in Lebanon |
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 |
1983 |
The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published. |
1984 |
1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer) |
1984 |
Geraldine A Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY), wins Democratic VP nomination |
1985 |
Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st school teacher to fly space shuttle |
1985 |
Dam in Fiemme Valley Italy bursts; 200-300 die |
1985 |
The Val di Stava Dam collapse killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy. |
1986 |
Indian pitcher Phil Niekro wins his 307th game tying him with |
1986 |
Tim Witherspoon KOs Frank Bruno in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
1987 |
116th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 279 at Muirfield Gullane |
1987 |
Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 cons games |
1987 |
Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
1989 |
Cleveland Indians Joe Carter has his 4th 3 HR game |
1989 |
United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa, kills 112 |
1990 |
BASF plant in Cincinnati explodes in flames, 1 dies |
1990 |
Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion |
1990 |
Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, Calif |
1990 |
Dave Raghetti pitches in his 499th game as a NY Yankee, passing Whitey Ford in most appearances as a NY Yankee |
1991 |
Cal Ripken plays in his 1,500th consecutive game |
1991 |
Mike Tyson rapes a Miss Black America contestant (Desiree Washington) |
1991 |
With NY Yankee victory, 10 of 14 AL teams are at .500 or better |
1992 |
"Price" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 47 performances |
1992 |
30th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats Spain in Frankfurt Germany (2-1) |
1992 |
Ballet dancer Peter Martins charged with beating his wife |
1992 |
Ebony P Warren, crowned 24th Miss Black America |
1992 |
Juli Inkster wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic |
1992 |
NYC Ballet star Peter Martins, arrested for beating his wife |
1993 |
Glen Chapple (Lancs) scores fastest F-C century, 21 minutes |
1993 |
Last day of 1st-class cricket for Ian Botham |
1993 |
President Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions |
1994 |
1st game ever cancelled at Seattle Kingdome (falling tiles) |
1994 |
Bomb explosion in Alas Airlines at Colon Panama, 21 killed |
1994 |
Leonid Kvetjsma sworn in as Ukraine president |
1996 |
Ireland beats Netherlands in 1st European Championship Final |
1996 |
Jason Gallian scores 312 in 683 mins for Lancashire v Derbyshire |
1996 |
XXVI Olympic games open in Atlanta Georgia |
1998 |
127th British Golf Open: Mark O'Meara shoots a 280 at Royal Birkdale |
1998 |
JAL Big Apple Golf Classic |
2001 |
Michael Brunet discovers the skull of Sahelanthropus tchadensis, thought to be the oldest known species in the human family tree, in the Djurab Desert, Chad. It lived 6-7 million years ago, about the same time as the last common ancestor to apes and humans. |
2007 |
The first episode of "Mad Men" debuts. Jon Hamm stars as Don Draper |
2009 |
138th British Golf Open: Stewart Cink shoots a 278 at Ailsa Course |
2009 |
17th ESPY Awards: Michael Phelps, Nastia Liukin win |
2013 |
20 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Diyala, Iraq |
2016 |
China Begins Air Patrols Over Disputed Area of the South China Sea |
2016 |
Melania Trump convention speech similar to Michelle Obama's from 2008 |
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