July 19

is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining.

Events

711 - Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic.
1333 - Battle of Halidon Hill: the final battle of the Wars of Scottish Independence.
1544 - The Siege of Boulogne began.
1553 - Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after having that title for just nine days.
1588 - The Spanish Armada was sighted in the English Channel.
1692 - Salem Witch Trials – Five women are hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.
1760 - The formal request to found the later city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico is filed by its founders.
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.
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.
1870 - Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
1873 - William Gosse becomes the first European to discover Ayers Rock (Uluru) and names it in honour of South Australian Premier Sir Henry Ayers.
1879 - Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up Holliday's New Mexico saloon.
1912 - A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg exploded over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
1940 - World War II: Battle of Cape Spada between the Royal Navy and the Regia Marina; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualities.
1940 - World War II: Army order 112 comes into effect forming the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.
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.
1945 - Montgomery Ward is seized by United States Army troops at the direction of Attorney General Francis Biddle because of its refusal to obey National War Labor Board orders. Montgomery Ward chairman Seward Avery is carried out of his office by troops
1947 - Burmese nationalist Aung San and 6 of his cabinet members were assassinated.
1963 - Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 metres (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
1964 - Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.
1967 - A Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727 and a Cessna 310 collided in mid-air over Hendersonville, North Carolina killing 82
1976 - Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
1979 - The Sandinista rebels overthrow the US-backed government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
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).
1985 - 268 people are killed after a dam collapse in Val di Stava, Italy.
1989 - A Douglas DC-10 carrying 296 aboard crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 but due to extraordinary efforts by the pilot and his crew, 184 on board survive. (See United Airlines flight 232)
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.
2005 - Death Valley, California registers a temperature of 53.9°C (129°F). A total of 12 days of 50°C (122°F) or higher was reported. Overnight temperatures of 37.8°C (100°F) or higher were also observed.

Births

1670 - Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (d. 1758)
1688 - Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (d. 1766)
1789 - John Martin, English painter (d. 1854)
1814 - Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor (d. 1862)
1819 - Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (d. 1890)
1834 - Edgar Degas, French painter (d. 1917)
1860 - Lizzie Borden, American accused murderess (d. 1927)
1876 - Joseph Fielding Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1972)
1877 - Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (d. 1949)
1883 - Max Fleischer, Austrian animator and film producer (d. 1972)
1893 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Georgian poet (d. 1930)
1894 - Khawaja Nazimuddin, second Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1965)
1896 - A.J. Cronin, Scottish writer (d. 1981)
1898 - Herbert Marcuse, German-born philosopher (d. 1979)
1914 - Marius Russo, baseball player (d. 2005)
1917 - William Scranton, American politician
1921 - Rosalyn Yalow, American physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1922 - George McGovern, U.S. Presidential candidate
1924 - Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician
1926 - Helen Gallagher, American actress, Ryan's Hope
1934 - Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)
1938 - Jayant Narlikar, Indian Astrophysicist
1941 - Vikki Carr, American singer
1946 - Ilie Năstase, Romanian tennis player
1947 - Brian May, English guitarist (Queen)
1950 - Per-Kristian Foss, Norwegian Minister of Finance
1950 - Freddy Moore, American songwriter
1952 - Robert A. Ficano, County Executive for Wayne County, Michigan (Detroit and environs)
1954 - Srđa Trifković, Serbian-American journalist and political commentator
1956 - Nikki Sudden, Singer/Songwriter, Rolling Stones fan
1960 - Atom Egoyan, Canadian filmmaker
1961 - Maria Filatova, Soviet gymnast
1962 - Anthony Edwards, American actor
1965 - Stuart Scott, American sportscaster
1973 - Martin Powell, English keyboardist (Cradle of Filth)
1973 - Scott Walker, Canadian hockey player
1974 - Preston Wilson, Baseball player
1976 - Vinessa Shaw, American Actress
1977 - Tony Mamaluke, Wrestler
1979 - Luke Young, English footballer
1982 - Stuart Parnaby, English footballer
1984 - Adam Morrison, American basketball player

Deaths

514 - Symmachus, Italian Pope (b. 498)
931 - Uda, Emperor of Japan (b. 867)
1374 - Petrarch, Italian poet (b. 1304)
1415 - Philippa of Lancaster, wife of John I of Portugal (plague) (b. 1359)
1543 - Lady Mary Boleyn, mistress of King Henry VIII of England
1742 - William Somervile, English poet (b. 1675)
1810 - Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Queen of Prussia (b. 1776)
1814 - Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer of Australia (b. 1774)
1838 - Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist (b. 1785)
1850 - Margaret Fuller, American writer (b. 1810)
1857 - Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1796)
1868 - Soji Okita, Japanese samurai (b. 1842 or 1844)
1910 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (b. 1812)
1947 - Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1915)
1965 - Syngman Rhee, first President of South Korea (b. 1875)
1972 - Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (b. 1884)
1980 - Nihat Erim, Prime Minister of Turkey (assassinated) (b. 1912)
1985 - Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer (b. 1938)
1998 - Elmer Valo, baseball player (b. 1921)
2002 - Alan Lomax, American folksong collector (b. 1915)
2003 - Bill Bright, American evangelist (b. 1921)
2003 - Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1908)
2004 - Reverend Francis Marzen, American Catholic prelate (b. 1924)
2004 - Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)
2005 - John Tyndall, British politician (b. 1934)

Holidays and observances

Roman festivals - Lucaria
Malaysia - Birthday of Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Ng Sembilan
Myanmar - Martyr's Day
Nicaragua - National Liberation Day
Catholic - Feasts of St. Vincent de Paul

19 July - World Fenerbahce Supporters Day

Events in Fiction

According to sitcom Father Ted, previous events that occurred on July 19 included Galway being liberated by the Indians, Marathon was renamed Snickers and the Ice Age ended.

External links

July 18 - July 20 - June 19 - August 19 -- listing of all days

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