This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
07/19/1592 Erhard Buttner, composer 
07/19/1735 Garret Wesley Mornington, composer 
07/19/1742 Jean-Baptiste Davaux, composer 
07/19/1750 Alessio Prati, composer 
07/19/1782 Jonathan Blewitt, composer 
07/19/1797 Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer 
07/19/1814 Samuel Colt, inventor (colt revolver) 
07/19/1817 Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, US, army nurse (union) 
07/19/1823 George Henry Gordon, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 
07/19/1828 Roger Atkinson Pryor, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1919 
07/19/1833 John Wesley Turner, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1899 
07/19/1834 Edgar Degas, France, impressionist painter (Bouquet) 
07/19/1846 Charles Edward Pickering, pioneered American spectroscopist 
07/19/1848 Cornelis A Pekelharing, artist (fabric seller) 
07/19/1849 F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian 
07/19/1851 Hendrik J Jut, Dutch murderer (head of Jut) 
07/19/1854 Dani‰l Josephus Jitta, lawyer/member Council of State 
07/19/1860 Lizzie Borden, murderer, gave her mother forty whacks 
07/19/1863 Hermann Bahr, Austria writer (That Neuen Men) 
07/19/1865 Charles Horace Mayo, surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic) 
07/19/1881 Friedrich J H Dessauer, German physicist (radiologist) 
07/19/1888 EugŠne Jungers, Belgian governor of Rwanda Urundi 
07/19/1893 Vladimir Majakovski, Russian poet (NS) 
07/19/1894 Joris [Georges] of Severen, Flemish fascist/Member of parliament 
07/19/1896 A J Cronin, England, author (Citadel, Shining Victory) 
07/19/1898 Herbert Marcuse, Berlin, communist philosopher (One-Dimensional Man)

07/19/1898 Juan Bautista Plaza-Alfonzo, composer 
07/19/1899 Paul de Great, Dutch communist politician (CPN)/Editor (The Truth) 
07/19/1900 Arno Breker, German sculptor (3rd Republic) 
07/19/1900 Marc Turfkru˜er, Flemish movie journalist/writer 
07/19/1902 Gerard[us M] Rutten, director (Miraculous Life of Willem Parel) 
07/19/1905 Boyd Neel, Blackheath, Kent England, conductor (Story of an Orch) 
07/19/1905 Edgar P Snow, US author/journalist: Red star about China 
07/19/1905 Louis Philip Kentner, composer 
07/19/1906 Klaus Egge, Gransherad, Telemark Norway, composer (Noregsonger) 
07/19/1906 Wim van Doorne, auto manufacturer (DAF) 
07/19/1907 Gunter Bialas, composer 
07/19/1909 Jeno Vecsey, composer 
07/19/1914 Josef Palenicek, composer 
07/19/1916 James D Ramage, US lt-Adm (WW II-Palau/Guam/Philippines) 
07/19/1916 Phillip Cavaretta, baseball player (NL MVP 1945) 
07/19/1917 Robert Aitken, Phila, Zen co-founder (Diamond Sangha) 
07/19/1917 William W Scranton, (Gov-R-Pa) 
07/19/1919 Patricia Medina, Liverpool England, actress (High-Low) 
07/19/1920 Robert Mann, Portland Oregon, composer/violinist (String Quartet 195

07/19/1922 George McGovern, (Sen-D-SD)/pres candidate (D-1972) 
07/19/1923 Pat Hingle, Denver Colo, actor (Baby Boom, Norma Rae, Bloody Mama) 
07/19/1924 Sybren Polet, [Sijbe Minnema], writer/poet (Mannekino) 
07/19/1926 Helen Gallagher, Bkln, actress (Ryan's Hope, Strangers When We Meet)

07/19/1926 Max Sordam, Suriname warden/writer (Dictionary Sranantongo) 
07/19/1927 Jan Myrdal, Swedish writer/journalist (Albania Defiant) 
07/19/1928 John Bratby, painter/writer (Breakdown) 
07/19/1929 Sofia Muratova, USSR, gymnist,(Olympic-6 gold/3 silv/4 bronze-1952-6

07/19/1937 George Hamilton IV, NC, actor (Evel Knievel, Love at 1st Bite) 
07/19/1937 Larry Boxx, founded Land B Computer Serv 
07/19/1938 Richard Jordan, NYC, actor (Dune, Old Boyfriends, Interiors) 
07/19/1938 Vikki Carr, [Florencia Casillas], El Paso Tx, singer (Let it Be Him)

07/19/1940 Dennis Cole, Detroit, actor (Felony Squad, Brackens's World) 
07/19/1941 Jennifer Dunn, (Rep-R-Washington) 
07/19/1941 Jerry Huckaby, (Rep-D-LA, 1977-  ) 
07/19/1941 Natalya Bessmertnova, Moscow, dancer (Bolshoi, Lenin Prize 1970) 
07/19/1941 Neelie Smit-Kroes, Dutch politician (VVD)/minister of Traffic 
07/19/1943 Roy D Bridges Jr, Atlanta Ga, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 51F, STS 61F) 
07/19/1945 George Dzunda, Germany, actor (Deer Hunter) 
07/19/1946 Alan Gorrie, bass/singer (Average White Band) 
07/19/1946 Ilie Nastase, Bucharest Romania, tennis player (US Open 1972) 
07/19/1947 Bernie Leadon, guitarist/vocalist (Eagles-Take it Easy) 
07/19/1947 Brian May, guitarist (Queen-We are the Champions) 
07/19/1947 Gerard Schwarz, Weehawken NJ, trumpeter/conductor (LA Chamber Orch) 
07/19/1948 Beverly Archer, Oak Park Ill, actress (Iola-Mama's Family) 
07/19/1948 Keith Godchaux, keyboardist (Grateful Dead) 
07/19/1950 Simon Cadell, actor (Pride & Extreme Prejudice) 
07/19/1952 Alan Collins, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) 
07/19/1952 Dominic Muldowney, composer 
07/19/1952 Howard Donald Saunders, Danbury Ct, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List) 
07/19/1954 Kathleen Turner, actress (Accidental Tourist, Jewel of Nile) 
07/19/1956 Great Yatsu, [Yoshiaki Yatsu], wrestler (NJPW/WCCW/WWF) 
07/19/1956 Peter Barton, Valley Stream LI, actor (Powers of Matthew Star) 
07/19/1959 Terri Treas, KC Kansas, actress (Hannah-7 Brides for 7 Brothers) 
07/19/1961 Suzi Schott, Springfield Ill, playmate (August, 1984) 
07/19/1962 Anthony Edwards, Santa Barbara Calif, actor (It Takes Two) 
07/19/1963 Sandor Wladar, Hungary, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1980) 
07/19/1964 Teresa Edwards, Cairo Ga, basketball player (Olympic-Gold-84, 88, 92

07/19/1968 Carolie DeVonne Howe, Chugwater Wyoming, Miss Wyoming-America (1991)

07/19/1972 Andrew Kavovit, actor (Paul-As the World Turns) 
07/19/1976 R J Williams, actor (General Hospital, Full House) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
07/19/ 514 Symmachus, Italian Pope (498-514), dies 
07/19/1054 Bernold[us] Benno/Bernulphus, bishop of Utrecht (1027-54)/saint, die

07/19/1234 Floris IV, count of Holland, dies in tournament 
07/19/1346 Dirk IV, mister of Valkenburg (1332-46), dies in battle 
07/19/1374 Francesco Petrarca, [Petracco], Italian mountaineer/poet, dies at 69

07/19/1534 Willem van Andkenvoirt, cardinal/bishop of Utrecht, dies at about 70

07/19/1545 George Carew, English admiral, drowns 
07/19/1545 Roger Grenville, English captain of Mary Rose, drowns 
07/19/1625 Samuel Besler, composer, dies at 50 
07/19/1688 Cornelis van Aerssen, governor of Suriname (1683-88), murdered at 50

07/19/1700 Hieronymus Gradenthaler, composer, dies at 62 
07/19/1740 Fran‡ois van Aerssen, vice-admiral (Suriname), dies at 71 
07/19/1742 John-Baptist Xavery, Flemish sculptor, dies at 45 
07/19/1810 Luise, queen of Prussia/wife of Frederik Willem III, dies at 34 
07/19/1811 Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer, dies at 76 
07/19/1838 Frederic Nicolas Duvernoy, composer, dies at 72 
07/19/1844 Heinrich Domnich, composer, dies at 77 
07/19/1847 Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer, dies at 75 
07/19/1852 Anne-Fran‡ois Mellinet, French/Belgian general (Antwerp), dies at 83

07/19/1882 Ivan S Gagarin, Catholic theologist (tudes religieuses), dies at 67

07/19/1892 Thomas Cook, CEO (Cook Travel Bureau), dies 
07/19/1895 Charles T Stork, great industrialist (machine factory), dies at 73 
07/19/1907 Hector H Malot, French lawyer/author (Alone in the World), dies at 7

07/19/1914 Alexander Conze, German archaeologist, dies at 82 
07/19/1918 Joost van Vollenhoven, Neth, gov-gen (French West-Africa), dies 
07/19/1922 Cornelis A Pekelharing, artist (fabric seller), dies on 74th birthda

07/19/1940 Samuel H Chang, US newspaper magnate, murdered in Shanghai 
07/19/1944 Carl Bock, Danish Gestapo-affiliate, liquidated 
07/19/1944 Harry AP Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania), dies at 

07/19/1944 Will Marion Cook, composer, dies at 75 
07/19/1951 Max Ettinger, composer, dies at 77 
07/19/1954 Jean Roger-Ducasse, composer, dies at 81 
07/19/1955 Koos, [Jacobus J] Vorrink, Dutch social-democrat (SDAP/AJC/PvdA), di

07/19/1957 Curzio Malaparte, [Kurt E Suckert], Ital author (Kaputt), dies at 59

07/19/1958 Robert Earl Hughes, weighed 1,041 lbs (473 kg), dies at 32 
07/19/1964 Carol Veazie, actress (Maude-Norby), dies at 69 
07/19/1965 Syngman Rhee, president of South-Korea (1948-60), dies at 90 
07/19/1969 Mary Jo Kopechne, drowns at 28, in Ted Kennedy's car 
07/19/1969 Pavel I Apostolov, Russian military bandmaster, dies 
07/19/1970 Barry Wood, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 61 
07/19/1974 Earl Warren, gov of Calif/Supreme court justice (1953-68), dies at 8

07/19/1974 Joe Flynn, actor (McHale's Navy), dies at 59 
07/19/1976 Sal Bag, journalist, dies at 70 
07/19/1977 John R Powers, US director model bureau, dies at 80 
07/19/1981 Louis Cheslock, composer, dies at 81 
07/19/1984 Carol Eberts Veazie, actress (Maude Endles-Norby), dies at 89 
07/19/1984 Geert Lubberhuizen, publisher (Busy At), dies at 68 
07/19/1990 Herbert Nelson, actor (Guilding Light), dies at 76 of a stroke 
07/19/1990 Johnny Wayne, comedian (Wayne & Shuster), dies at 72 of cancer 
07/19/1992 Bert Bridgeman, puppeteer (Dutch marionette theater), dies 
07/19/1992 Heinz Galinski, Pres (Central council for Jews in Germany), dies at 

07/19/1992 Paolo Borsellino, Italian anti-mafia judge, murdered by mafia 
07/19/1993 Elmar Klos, Czech director (Shop on Main Street), dies at 83 
07/19/1993 Szymon Goldberg, Polish violinist/conductor, dies at 84 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
07/19/  64 Circus Maximus in Rome catches fire 
07/19/ 514 St Symmachus ends his reign as Catholic Pope 
07/19/ 532 Start of Dionysian Pascal Cycle 
07/19/1195 Battle at Alarcos: Almohaden beats Alfons VIII of Castilia 
07/19/1321 -BC- origin of Era of Menophres 
07/19/1380 Thomas of Buckinghams invasion army lands on Calais 
07/19/1425 Duke John VI van Brabant pledges Holland/Zealand to Philip the Good 
07/19/1510 38 Jews are burned at stake in Berlin Prussia 
07/19/1524 Boer war begins in Germany 
07/19/1545 King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth; 73 die 
07/19/1553 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after 9 days 
07/19/1572 Battle at Saint-Ghislain: Spanish army beats The Genlis' mercenaries

07/19/1575 Spanish viceroy Gilles of Hierges attacks Oudewater 
07/19/1599 Jacob van Necks merchant fleet leaves Java 
07/19/1674 Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes/Spinoza/Meyer 
07/19/1688 Soldiers killed governor of Aerssen in Paramaribo 
07/19/1702 Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Crack¢w 
07/19/1816 Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days

07/19/1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Ascension 
07/19/1848 1st women's rights convention (Seneca Falls, NY) 
07/19/1848 German Bondsdag demands Dutch county of Limburg 
07/19/1860 1st railroad reaches Kansas 
07/19/1862 Forrest's 1st raid 
07/19/1863 Battle of Buffington's Island, OH 
07/19/1864 Battle of Winchester, VA (Stephenson's Depot) [->JUL 20] 
07/19/1867 Dutch Red Cross forms 
07/19/1867 Reconstruction enacted 
07/19/1870 France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins 
07/19/1875 Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, NY

07/19/1877 1st Wimbledon tennis championships held 
07/19/1880 SF Public Library starts lending books 
07/19/1881 Sioux chief Sitting Bull twists backing to the US 
07/19/1881 Sioux indian chief Sitting Bull back to US 
07/19/1882 J Palisa discovers asteroid #226 Weringia 
07/19/1904 Dutch Premier Kuypers disbands 1st Chamber 
07/19/1907 K Lohnert discovers asteroid #639 Latona 
07/19/1909 1st baseman Neil Ball turns unassisted triple-play 
07/19/1914 Boston Braves begin drive from last to 1st place in NL 
07/19/1915 Naval accident 
07/19/1918 German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I) 
07/19/1923 WRC-AM in Washington DC begins radio transmissions 
07/19/1925 V Albitzk˜ discovers asteroid #1059 Mussorgskia 
07/19/1926 2nd French cabinet of Herriot, forms 
07/19/1927 Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th hit 
07/19/1928 H E Wood discovers asteroid #1305 Pongola 
07/19/1928 King Foead of Egypt disbands parliament 
07/19/1936 Spanish premier Casares Quiroga surrenders to Jos‚ Giral 
07/19/1937 Entartete Art Fair opens in Munich 
07/19/1937 Joris Ivens' 'Spanish Earth' premieres 
07/19/1939 1st use of fiberglass sutures, R.P. Scholz, St Louis, Mo 
07/19/1940 Nazi occupiers imprison 231 prominent Dutch citizens in Buchenwald 
07/19/1940 Nazi occupiers in Neth forbid anti-nazi films 
07/19/1941 1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicted (Tuskegee Ala) 
07/19/1941 BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) (...-) 5th of Beethoven 
07/19/1941 British PM Winston Churchill launched his 'V for Victory' campaign 
07/19/1941 President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee 
07/19/1942 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' 7th Symphony, premieres in US 
07/19/1942 German occupiers confisicates bicycles in Rotterdam & Hague 
07/19/1943 500 allied air forces raid Rome during WW II 
07/19/1944 1,200+ 8th Air Force bombers bomb Germany 
07/19/1944 500 15th Air Force-Liberators surround Mnich 
07/19/1944 Allied troops occupy Faubourg de Vaucelles, at Caen 
07/19/1944 Danish defiance fails on assault on Taarbaek Fort at Copenhagen 
07/19/1944 Democratic convention opens in Chicago 
07/19/1944 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem 
07/19/1944 General Bradley flies to England 
07/19/1944 Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho/Shokaku sinks 
07/19/1944 NY archbishop Spellman flies to Europe 
07/19/1944 Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg 1st meets Eichmann 
07/19/1948 French govt of Schuman, resigns 
07/19/1949 Laos becomes associated state within French Union 
07/19/1950 French/Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh 
07/19/1952 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki, Finland 
07/19/1953 KIMA TV channel 29 in Yakima, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting 
07/19/1953 WAKR (now WAKC) TV channel 23 in Akron, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting

07/19/1955 Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum 
07/19/1955 Yarkon water project in Negev Desert Israel opens 
07/19/1956 US refuse to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam 
07/19/1957 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada 
07/19/1957 Don Bowden becomes 1st American to break 4 minute mile (3m58s7) 
07/19/1958 Charly Gaul wins Tour de France 
07/19/1960 Italian Govt Tambroni, resigns 
07/19/1960 SF Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies 
07/19/1961 1st in-flight movie shown (TWA) 
07/19/1962 Hungarian communist party expels R kosi & Ger” 
07/19/1963 NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km 
07/19/1963 Phila Phillies Roy Siever hits HR # 300 
07/19/1964 Bobby Nichols wins PGA golf tournament 
07/19/1965 Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot 'Where No Man Has Gone Before

07/19/1966 50 year old Frank Sinatra marries 21 year old Mia Farrow in Las Vega

07/19/1966 Gov James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot

07/19/1967 Race riots in Durham NC 
07/19/1967 US launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km) 
07/19/1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit 
07/19/1971 B Burnasheva discovers asteroid #2259 Sofievka 
07/19/1971 Premier Numeiry of Sudan flees 
07/19/1971 Sudan military coup under maj Hashem al-Atta, Numeiry flees 
07/19/1973 Willie Mays named to NL all star team for 24th time (ties Musial) 
07/19/1974 Cleve Indian Dick Bosman no-hits Oakland A's, 4-0 
07/19/1974 David Bowie's Diamond Dog tour ends in NYC 
07/19/1974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #3118 
07/19/1975 Apollo & Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate 
07/19/1976 Rock group Deep Purple disbands 
07/19/1977 Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kills 76 
07/19/1977 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2228 Soyuz-Apollo 
07/19/1977 NL beats AL 7-5 in 48th All Star Game (Yankee Stadium, NY) 
07/19/1978 Yanks start 14« game comeback with 2-0 win 
07/19/1979 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 TONS of oil spill 
07/19/1979 Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza 
07/19/1979 Patricia Harris, becomes sect of HEW 
07/19/1980 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; US & others boycott 
07/19/1980 David Bowie appears in role of Elephant Man in Denver 
07/19/1982 Bolivian government resigns 
07/19/1982 David S Dodge becomes 1st American hostage in Lebanon 
07/19/1984 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer) 
07/19/1984 Geraldine A Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY), won Democratic VP nomination 
07/19/1985 Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st school teacher to fly space shuttle 
07/19/1985 Dam in Fiemme Valley Italy bursts; 200 die 
07/19/1986 Caroline Kennedy weds Edwin A Schlossberg in Centerville, Mass 
07/19/1987 Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 cons games 
07/19/1989 United flight 232 crashes in Iowa 
07/19/1990 BASF plant in Cincinnati explodes in flames, 1 dies 
07/19/1990 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion 
07/19/1990 Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, Calif 
07/19/1991 Miss Black America contestant accuses Mike Tyson of rape 
07/19/1991 With NY Yankee victory, 10 of 14 AL teams are at .500 or better 
07/19/1992 NYC Ballet star Peter Martins, arrested for beating his wife 
07/19/1993 Pres Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions 
07/19/1994 1st game ever cancelled at Seattle Kingdome (falling tiles) 
07/19/2781 -BC- Presumed start of Egyptian calendar 
  
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