This Day in History for 19th July

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 196

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 van Brabant pledges Holland/Zealand to Philip the Good
1510 - 38 Jews are burned at stake in Berlin Prussia
1524 - Boer 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
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
1702 - Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Crackow
1760 - The formal request to found the later city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is filed by its founders.
1799 - A group of Napoleon Bonaparte's soldiers discover what is now known as The Rosetta Stone, enabling the translation of hieroglyphics for the first time.
1816 - Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days
Naturalist Charles Darwin 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 (Seneca Falls NY)
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, guaranteeing civil rights
1867 - Congress passed 3rd Reconstruction Act over Pres Andrew Johnson's veto
1867 - Dutch Red Cross forms
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 Mens 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
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 - Cleveland Nap's Neal Ball makes 1st unassisted triple play
1904 - Dutch Premier Kuypers disbands 1st Chamber
1908 - Feyenoord soccer team forms in Rotterdam
1909 - Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball executes an unassisted triple play
1910 - Cy Young registers his 500th career victory
1912 - A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg explodes over the town of 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 - Naval accident
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 grabs power/disbands parliament
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 surrenders
1940 - Nazi occupiers imprison 231 prominent Dutch citizens in Buchenwald
1940 - Nazi occupiers in Neth forbid anti-nazi films
1941 - 1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicated (Tuskegee Ala)
1941 - BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) (...-) 5th of Beethoven
British war time Prime Minister Winston Churchill 1941 - British PM Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign
1941 - President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee
1942 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 7th Symphony, premieres in US
1942 - German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam & Hague
1943 - 500 allied air forces raid Rome during WW 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 - 500 15th Air Force-Liberators surround Munich
1944 - Allied troops occupy Faubourg de Vaucelles, at Caen
1944 - Danish resistance fails on 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 - Edwin Schlossberg, husband of Carolyn Kennedy
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 were assassinated by British , which resulted in the political chaos in the country lasting until now.
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

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 213

1592 - Erhard Buttner, composer
1670 - Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (d. 1758)
1688 - Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (d. 1766)
1735 - Garret Wesley Mornington, composer
1742 - Jean-Baptiste Davaux, composer
1744 - Heinrich Christian Boie, German author (d. 1806)
1750 - Alessio Prati, composer
1759 - Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint (d. 1833)
1782 - Jonathan Blewitt, composer
1789 - John Martin, English painter
1797 - Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer
1800 - Juan José Flores, military and first president of Ecuador (d. 1864)
1811 - Vincenz Lachner, composer
1814 - Samuel Colt, Hartford Connecticut, US inventor/industrialist (Colt 6 shot revolver), (d. 1862)
1817 - Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, US, army nurse (union)
1819 - Gottfried Keller, writer
1822 - Augusta of Cambridge, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1916)
1823 - George Henry Gordon, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1827 - Mangal Pandey, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1857)
Inventor/Industrialist Samuel Colt (1814) 1828 - Roger Atkinson Pryor, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1919
1833 - John Wesley Turner, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1899
1834 - Edgar Degas, France, impressionist painter (Bouquet)
1838 - Joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (Rule of Allen)
1846 - Charles Edward Pickering, pioneered American spectroscopist
1848 - Cornelis A Pekelharing, artist (fabric seller)
1849 - F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian
1849 - Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (d. 1906)
1851 - Hendrik J Jut, Dutch murderer (head of Jut)
1854 - Daniel Josephus Jitta, Dutch High Court lawyer
1860 - Lizzie Borden, Fall River Massachusetts, accused murderer (gave her mother forty whacks), (d. 1927)
1863 - Hermann Bahr, Austria writer/director (New Men)
1865 - Charles Horace Mayo, surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic)
1873 - Louis Zimmermann, violinist/1st concert master of Concert building
1876 - Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1972)
Murderer Lizzie Borden (1860) 1876 - John Gunn, Former England cricketer (d. 1963)
1877 - Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (d. 1949)
1878 - Robert H Woltjer, classical/AR-1st-Member of parliament (About Plato)
1879 - Hendrik G Cannegieter, meteorology/director (KNMI)
1881 - Adriaan J Zoetmulder, Dutch writer/directer (Eindhovens Dagblad)
1881 - Friedrich J H Dessauer, German physicist (radiologist)
1883 - Max Fleischer, Austrian animator and film producer (d. 1972)
1888 - Eugene Jungers, Belgian governor of Rwanda Urundi
1892 - Dick Irvin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1957)
1893 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet (Ode to Revolution)[OS=7/7]
1894 - Joris [Georges] of Severen, Flemish fascist/Member of parliament
1894 - Khawaja Nazimuddin, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1965)
1894 - Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin, Russian mathematician (d. 1959)
1895 - Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (d. 1953)
1896 - A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (Citadel, Shining Victory) (d. 1981)
1898 - Juan Bautista Plaza-Alfonzo, composer
1899 - Paul de Groot, Dutch communist politician (CPN)/Editor (The Truth)
1900 - Arno Breker, German sculptor (3rd Reich sculptor
1900 - Charles Barnet "Roscoe" Harvey, soldier
1900 - Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist/writer
1902 - Gerard[us M] Rutten, director (Miraculous Life of Willem Parel)
1905 - Boyd Neel, Blackheath, Kent England, conductor (Story of an Orch)
1905 - Edgar P Snow, US author/journalist: Red star over China
1905 - Louis Philip Kentner, composer
1906 - Klaus Egge, Gransherad, Telemark Norway, composer (Noregsonger)
1906 - Wim van Doorne, Dutch car manufacturer (DAF)
1907 - Gunter Bialas, composer
1907 - Isabel Jewell, American actress (d. 1972)
1909 - Jeno Vecsey, composer
1912 - Norman Carr, British conservationist (b. 1997)
1914 - Josef Palenicek, composer
1914 - Marius Russo, baseball player (d. 2005)
1916 - James D Ramage, US lt-Adm (WW II-Palau/Guam/Philippines)
1916 - Phillip Cavaretta, baseball player (NL MVP 1945)
1917 - Robert Aitken, Phila, Zen co-founder (Diamond Sangha)
1917 - William W Scranton, (Gov-R-Pa)
1919 - Patricia Medina, Liverpool England, actress (High-Low), (d. 2012)
1919 - Robert Pinget, novelist/playwright
1919 - Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet (d. 2005)
1920 - Robert Christiani, cricketer (brother of Cyril WI batsman in 22 Tests)
1920 - Robert Mann, Portland Oregon, composer/violinist (String Quartet 1952)
1921 - Rosalyn Yalow, medical physicist
1922 - George McGovern, (Sen-D-SD)/pres candidate (D-1972), (d. 2012)
1922 - Rachel Robinson, social activist/humanitarian/Mrs Jackie Robinson
1922 - Harold Camping, American evangelist, founder of Family Radio
1923 - Pat Hingle, Denver Colo, actor (Baby Boom, Norma Rae, Bloody Mama)
1923 - William A. Rusher, American columnist
1924 - Sybren Polet, [Sijbe Minnema], Dutch writer/poet (Mannekino)
1924 - Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (d. 2005)
1925 - Sue Thompson, American pop and country music singer
1926 - Helen Gallagher, Bkln, actress (Ryan's Hope, Strangers When We Meet)
1926 - Max Sordam, Suriname warden/writer (Dictionary Sranantongo)
1926 - Sue Thompson, [Eva Sue Mckee], rocker
1927 - Jan Myrdal, Swedish writer/journalist (Albania Defiant)
1928 - John Bratby, painter/writer (Breakdown)
Gymnast Sofia Muratova (1929) 1929 - Sofia Muratova, USSR, gymnist,(Olympic-6 gold/3 silv/4 bronze-1952-60), (d. 2006)
1932 - Buster Benton, singer/guitarist
1934 - Willem Nijholt, actor (De Nietsnut, Respect, Op Afbetaling)
1934 - Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)
1935 - Vasily Livanov, Russian and Soviet film actor
1937 - George Hamilton IV, NC, actor (Evel Knievel, Love at 1st Bite)
1937 - Larry Boxx, founder (Land B Computer Serv)
1938 - Richard Jordan, NYC, actor (Dune, Old Boyfriends, Interiors)
1938 - Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist
1938 - Nicholas Bethell, British historian (d. 2007)
1940 - Vikki Carr [Florencia Vicenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona)], El Paso Texas, singer (Let it Be Him)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 7 of 7

1913 - Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs" Malinda's Wedding Day is #1
1932 - "Rebecca" author Daphne DuMaurier (25) weds commander of the I Airborne Corps Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning (35)
1966 - 50 year old Frank Sinatra marries 21 year old Mia Farrow in Las Vegas
1971 - "The Who" lead singer Roger Daltrey (27) weds model Heather Taylor
1986 - Caroline Kennedy (28) weds Edwin Schlossberg (41) at the Church of Our Lady of Victory in Centerville, Massachusetts
2003 - "King of Queens" actress Leah Remini (33) weds actor/salsa musician Angelo Pagan (45) at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas
2003 - "Sabrina, The Teenage Witch" actress Melissa Joan Hart (27) weds "Course of Nature" lead singer-guitarist Mark Wilkersonin (26) in Florence, Italy

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 121

514 - Symmachus, Italian Pope (498-514), dies
931 - Uda, Emperor of Japan (b. 867)
1054 - Bernold[us] Benno/Bernulphus, bishop of Utrecht (1027-54)/saint, dies
1234 - Floris IV, count of Holland, killed in tournament
1346 - Dirk IV, mister of Valkenburg (1332-46), dies in battle
1374 - Francesco Petrarca, [Petracco], Italian mountaineer/poet, dies at 69
1415 - Philippa of Lancaster, wife of John I of Portugal (plague) (b. 1359)
1534 - Willem van Enkenvoirt, cardinal/bishop of Utrecht, dies at about 70
1543 - Lady Mary Boleyn, mistress of King Henry VIII of England
1545 - George Carew, English admiral, drowns
1545 - Roger Grenville, English captain of Mary Rose, drowns
1625 - Samuel Besler, composer, dies at 50
1627 - Dirck R "Didericus" Camphuysen, poet/printer/vicar, dies at about 41
1631 - Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (b. 1550)
1687 - Laura Martinozzi, Duchess of Modena (b. 1637)
1688 - Cornelis van Aerssen, governor of Suriname (1683-88), murdered at 50
1700 - Hieronymus Gradenthaler, composer, dies at 62
1730 - Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer, dies at 49
1740 - Francois van Aerssen, Dutch vice-admiral (Suriname), dies at 71
1742 - John-Baptist Xavery, Flemish sculptor, dies at 45
1742 - William Somervile, English poet (b. 1675)
1810 - Luise, queen of Prussia/wife of Frederik Willem III, dies at 34
1811 - Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer, dies at 76
1814 - Matthew Flinders, English cartographer (Australia coast), dies at 40
1838 - Frederic Nicolas Duvernoy, composer, dies at 72
1844 - Heinrich Domnich, composer, dies at 77
1847 - Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer, dies at 75
1850 - Giovanni Ossoli, Italian marquis/revolutionary, drowned
1850 - [Sarah] Margaret Fuller Ossoli, US feminist/revolutionary, dies
1852 - Anne-Francois Mellinet, French/Belgian general (Antwerp), dies at 83
1857 - Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1796)
1868 - Soji Okita, Japanese samurai, 1st Captain of the Shinsengumi (b. 1842 or 1844)
1892 - Thomas Cook, CEO (Cook Travel Bureau), dies at 83
1895 - Charles T Stork, great industrialist (cotton mach factory), dies at 73
1895 - Ernest H Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants), dies at 67
1896 - Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (b. 1859)
1906 - Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (b. 1849)
1907 - Hector H Malot, French lawyer/author (Alone in the World), dies at 77
1913 - Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia (b. 1852)
1914 - Alexander Conze, German archaeologist, dies at 82
1918 - Joost van Vollenhoven, Neth, gov-gen (French West-Africa), dies
1922 - Cornelis A Pekelharing, Dutch histologist, dies on 74th birthday
1930 - Robert Stout, NZ prime minister (1884-87), dies at 85
1939 - Tom Hayward, cricketer (35 Tests for England, 1999 runs), dies
1939 - Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (b. 1850)
1940 - Samuel H Chang, US newspaper magnate, murdered in Shanghai
1944 - Carl Bock, Danish Gestapo agent, liquidated
1944 - Harry CA Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania), dies at 87
1944 - Will Marion Cook, composer, dies at 75
1945 - George Barbier, actor (Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 80
1947 - Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1915)
1947 - U Razak, Burmese politician (b. 1898)
1951 - Max Ettinger, composer, dies at 77
1954 - Jean Roger-Ducasse, composer, dies at 81
1955 - Koos [Jacobus J] Vorrink, Dutch soc-democrat (SDAP/AJC/PvdA), dies at 64
1957 - Curzio Malaparte, [Kurt E Suckert], Ital author (Kaputt), dies at 59
1958 - Robert Earl Hughes, weighed 1,041 lbs (473 kg), dies at 32
1964 - Carol Veazie, actress (Maude-Norby), dies at 69
1965 - Syngman Rhee, president of South-Korea (1948-60), dies at 90
1969 - Mary Jo Kopechne, in Ted Kennedy's car, drowns at 28
1969 - Pavel I Apostolov, Russian military bandmaster, dies
1970 - Barry Wood, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 61
1972 - Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (b. 1884)
1973 - Clarence White, rocker (Byrds), killed by drunken driver at 29
1973 - Vasily Dmiotriyevich Shcheglov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 33
1974 - Earl Warren, gov of Calif/Supreme court justice (1953-68), dies at 83
1974 - Joe Flynn, actor (McHale's Navy), dies at 59
1974 - Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (b. 1904)
1975 - Lefty Frizzell, American country music singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
1976 - Gene Roth, actor (Rosie, Tormented, Nightfall), dies at 73
1976 - Sal Tas, Dutch journalist, dies at 70
1977 - John R Powers, US director model bureau, dies at 80
1981 - Louis Cheslock, composer, dies at 81
1981 - Roger Doucet, French Canadian tenor (b. 1919)
1982 - John Harvey, stage and film actor (b. 1911)
1984 - Carol Eberts Veazie, actress (Maude Endles-Norby), dies at 89
1984 - Geert Lubberhuizen, Dutch publisher (Busy Bee), dies at 68
1984 - Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)
1985 - Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer (b. 1938)
1989 - Carl-Heinz Schroth, dir/actor (Strafverteidiger), dies at 87
1989 - Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (b. 1913)
1990 - Eddie Quillan, actor (Brigadoon, Summer Magic), dies of cancer at 83
1990 - Herbert Nelson, actor (Guilding Light), dies of a stroke at 76
1990 - Johnny Wayne, comedian (Wayne & Shuster), dies of cancer at 72
1992 - Bert Brugman, Dutch puppeteer (Dutch marionette theater), dies
1992 - Heinz Galinski, Pres (Central council for Jews in Germany), dies at 79
1992 - Paolo Borsellino, Italian anti-mafia judge, murdered by mafia
1993 - Elmar Klos, Czech director (Shop on Main Street), dies at 83
1993 - Szymon Goldberg, Polish violinist/conductor, dies at 84
1994 - Christian-Jaque, [Christian Maudet], French director (Nana), dies
1994 - Frederik "Frits" van der More, archaeologist/art historian, dies at 87
1994 - Gottfried Reinhardt, theatre Producer, dies at 81
1994 - Nathan Susskind, Slovak/US linguist (Yiddish), dies at 87
1994 - Nick Banton, founder of Body Positive, dies at 37
1995 - Dorothy McHugh, actress (I Fallen & I Can't Get Up), dies at 87
1995 - James Smiddy, high school basketball coach (1,216 wins), dies at 71
1995 - Michael Andrews, painter, dies at 66
1995 - Sydney Lipton, bandleader/violin, dies at 89
1995 - Yusef Bedri, educationist, dies at 82
1996 - David Lancaster Nicolson, businessman/politician, dies at 73