Historical Events on July 19

Events 1 - 200 of 218

• 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 begins

• 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

• 1599 Jacob van Necks merchant fleet leaves Java
• 1639 French troops occupy Salses, at Perpignan

• 1688 Soldiers killed governor of Aerssen in Paramaribo
• 1692 5 more people are hanged for witchcraft (20 in all) in Salem, Massachusetts
• 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

• 1845 Fire in NYC destroys 1,000 homes and kills many

• 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
• 1863 Battle of Buffington's Island (St George Creek), Ohio
• 1864 Third Battle of Winchester, Virginia (Stephenson's Depot) [->JUL 20]

• 1867 Dutch Red Cross forms

• 1870 France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins
• 1875 Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick children, makes trial trip, NYC
• 1877 1st Wimbledon Men's Tennis Open: Spencer Gore beats William Marshall (61 62 64)

• 1880 San Francisco Public Library starts lending books
• 1884 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: William Renshaw beats Herbert 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
• 1903 1st Tour de France: French rider Maurice Garin wins inaugural event
• 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

• 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 Cleveland Indians in the 1st inning
• 1915 The Washington Senators set a MLB record 8 stolen bases in an innings (1st) in 11-4 win v Cleveland
• 1918 World War I: German armies retreat across Marne River in France
• 1918 Wash catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Secretary 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, D.C. begins radio transmissions
• 1925 19th Tour de France won by Ottavio Bottecchia of Italy
• 1926 2nd French government of Herriot, forms
• 1928 King Fuad of Egypt siezes power and disbands parliament
• 1930 Western Open Women's Golf, Acacia CC: Lucia Mida beats June Beebe 6 & 5 to win the inaugural event and first women's major championship ever played

• 1933 1st time in MLB 2 brothers on opposite teams hit homers in same game - Rick Ferrell (Red Sox) and Wes Ferrell (Cleveland Indians)
• 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 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, Alabama)

• 1942 German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam and The 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, goes on to nominate President Franklin D. Roosevelt
• 1944 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem
• 1944 General Bradley flies to England
• 1944 Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho and Shokaku sink in Marianas
• 1944 NY archbishop Spellman flies to Europe

• 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 and Frank Barnes
• 1950 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Summi maeroris
• 1951 "2 in the Aisle" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 276 performances
• 1952 "Paint Your Wagon" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 289 performances
• 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
• 1952 39th Tour de France won by Fausto Coppi of Italy
• 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 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
• 1958 "Oh, Captain!" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 192 performances
• 1958 45th Tour de France won by Charly Gaul of Luxembourg
• 1960 Italian government of Tambroni resigns
• 1960 SF Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies
• 1961 1st in-flight movie shown on 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 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 Governor 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, North Carolina
• 1967 US launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km)

• 1970 57th Tour de France won by Eddy Merckx of Belgium
• 1971 Sudan military coup under maj Hashem al-Atta, Numeiry flees

• 1974 Cleveland Indian Dick Bosman no-hits Oakland A's, 4-0

• 1974 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 14 lands back on earth
• 1975 Apollo and Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate
• 1975 NY Yankee catcher Thurman Munson's 1st-inning single & RBI are nullified because 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, kill 76
• 1978 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
• 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 Anastasio Somoza Debayle


• 1979 Patricia Harris becomes sect of HEW
• 1980 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; US and others boycott
• 1980 David Bowie appears in role of "Elephant Man" in Denver
• 1980 USSR's Walter Polovchak is placed in US custody at 12 after his asylum application

• 1981 68th Tour de France won by Bernard Hinault of France
• 1982 1st Old Timer's All star classic - AL wins 7-2 in Washington, D.C.
• 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 as 1st school teacher to fly aboard the space shuttle
• 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

• 1987 Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 cons games
• 1989 NFL owners vote unanimously to form World League of American Football - operated 1991-2007

• 1989 United Airlines DC-10 crashes at Sioux City Iowa, kills 112
• 1990 BASF plant in Cincinnati explodes in flames, 1 dies

• 1990 Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, California

• 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 NYC ballet dancer Peter Martins is arrested for beating his wife
• 1992 Ebony P Warren, crowned 24th Miss Black America
• 1992 Juli Inkster wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
• 1992 British Open Golf, Muirfield: Englishman Nick Faldo wins his 3rd Open title, by 1 stroke from American John Cook

• 1993 Glen Chapple (Lancs) scores fastest F-C century, 21 minutes

• 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 Jason Gallian scores 312 in 683 mins for Lancashire v Derbyshire
• 1996 26th Olympic Games open in Atlanta, Georgia
• 1998 British Open Golf, Royal Birkdale GC: Mark O'Meara wins his 2nd major championship of the year (Masters) and first Open title by 2 in a 4-hole aggregate playoff with fellow American Brian Watts
• 2001 Michael Brunet discovers the skull of Sahelanthropus tchadensis in the Djurab Desert, Chad. One of the oldest known species in the human family tree, 6-7 million years ago years old
• 2001 34th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center

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