July 19th Events |
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| July 19th, 1989 (July 19 1989) | Event | United Airlines flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 of the 296 passengers. | |
| July 19th, 1985 (July 19 1985) | Event | The Val di Stava Dam collapse killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy. | |
| July 19th, 1983 (July 19 1983) | Event | The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published. | |
| July 19th, 1979 (July 19 1979) | Event | The Sandinista rebels overthrow the U.S.-backed government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua. | |
| July 19th, 1976 (July 19 1976) | Event | Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created. | |
| July 19th, 1964 (July 19 1964) | Event | Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam. | |
| July 19th, 1963 (July 19 1963) | Event | 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. | |
| July 19th, 1947 (July 19 1947) | Event | Burmese nationalist Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members were assassinated. | |
| July 19th, 1942 (July 19 1942) | Event | World War II: Battle of the AtlanticGerman Grand Admiral Karl Donitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to the effective American convoy system. | Karl Donitz Quotes |
| July 19th, 1940 (July 19 1940) | Event | World War II: Twelve men were promoted Generalfeldmarschall by Adolf Hitler, see List of German Field Marshals. | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| July 19th, 1940 (July 19 1940) | Event | World War II: Battle of Cape SpadaThe Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties. | |
| July 19th, 1940 (July 19 1940) | Event | World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army. | |
| July 19th, 1919 (July 19 1919) | Event | Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen rioted and burnt down Luton Town Hall. | |
| July 19th, 1912 (July 19 1912) | Event | 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. | |
| July 19th, 1908 (July 19 1908) | Event | Dutch footballclub Feyenoord Rotterdam is founded. | |
| July 19th, 1879 (July 19 1879) | Event | Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon. | |
| July 19th, 1870 (July 19 1870) | Event | Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia. | |
| July 19th, 1863 (July 19 1863) | Event | American Civil War: Morgan s RaidAt 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. | |
| July 19th, 1848 (July 19 1848) | Event | 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. | |
| July 19th, 1843 (July 19 1843) | Event | 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. | |
| July 19th, 1799 (July 19 1799) | Event | A group of Napoleon Bonaparte s soldiers discover what is now know as The Rosetta Stone, enabling the translation of hieroglyphics for the first time. | Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| July 19th, 1760 (July 19 1760) | Event | The formal request to found the later city of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico is filed by its founders. | |
| July 19th, 1692 (July 19 1692) | Event | Salem Witch Trials: Five women are hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. | |
| July 19th, 1588 (July 19 1588) | Event | Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of GravelinesThe Spanish Armada sighted in the English Channel. | |
| July 19th, 1553 (July 19 1553) | Event | Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after having that title for just nine days. | Jane Ace Quotes |
| July 19th, 1545 (July 19 1545) | Event | The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth. | |
| July 19th, 1544 (July 19 1544) | Event | Italian War of 1542: The Siege of Boulogne began. | |
| July 19th, 1333 (July 19 1333) | Event | Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon HillThe final battle of the war. | |
| July 19th, 0711 (July 19 0711) | Event | Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic. | |
