July 19

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on July 19. From 1900 until now. July 19 is under the sign of Cancer. Famous birthdays on this day include Benedict Cumberbatch (1976), Jared Padalecki (1982) and Karen Cheryl (1955). Several movies were released around July 19 over the years, such as The Message in 1976 directed by Moustapha Akkad and Castle in the Sky in 1986 directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
But much more happened on July 19 over the years: find out below

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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.
St. Symmachus
St. Machrina
St. Arsenius
Catholic - Feasts of St. Vincent de Paul
Nicaragua - National Liberation Day
Myanmar - Martyr's Day
Malaysia - Birthday of Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Ng Sembilan
Roman festivals - Lucaria
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2019 Iran–United Kingdom relations: Iranian Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps captures British tanker Stena Impero and temporarily seizes British-operated and Liberian-flagged tanker Mesdar in the Persian Gulf. British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt says there will be "serious consequences" if Iran does not release the tanker. (CNN) (Yahoo) (BBC)
2018 2015–2018 Iraqi protests: Protests that began last week in Iraq continue amid widespread anger over poor public services, high unemployment, and pollution. (CNBC)
2017 Singer Barbara Weldens, whose recently released first album had won several awards, collapses and dies on stage while singing in Festival Léo Ferré in Gourdon in southwestern France. The 35-year-old singer and poet apparently was electrocuted. (BBC) (The Quebec Times)
2016 Syrian Civil War: The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on the Islamic State-held city of Manbij in northern Syria kill at least 56 civilians, including 11 children, and injure dozens more. (Reuters)
2015 British police resume the search for four people missing after an explosion at a mill in Cheshire. (BBC)
2014 War in North-West Pakistan:: A US drone strike kills eleven insurgents in a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan compound in North Waziristan. (AFP via Global Post)
2013 Iraqi insurgency (post-U.S. withdrawal):: A suicide bombing inside a Sunni mosque in the eastern Iraqi province of Diyala kills at least twenty people. (BBC)
2012 Syrian uprising (2011–present):
2011 2011 Syrian uprising: Security forces shoot dead at least 10 people in Homs. (Emirates 24/7) (AP via Google News)
2010 Greek investigative journalist, blogger and broadcaster Sokratis Giolias is killed after being shot more than 15 times outside his home in Ilioupoli, Athens ahead of the publication of his report into corruption. (BBC) (Aljazeera) (Reuters) (The Washington Post)
2009 Ten policemen are arrested in Michoacán, Mexico, in connection with the murder of 12 federal police whose bodies were found piled next to a road. (France 24)
2008 In Jammu and Kashmir 10 Indian army soldiers are killed in land mine attack claimed by Hizbul Mujahideen (''Times of India'')
2007 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 14,000 for the first time in history.
2006 A 235-193 vote in the U.S. House of Representatives falls short of the 2/3 majority needed to override President George W. Bush's first-ever veto of a bill intended to reauthorize federal funding of embryonic stem cell research (see Stem cell controversy). (AP)
2005 President George W. Bush nominates Appeals Court Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. to the United States Supreme Court, following the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor.
2004 Jordanian troops detect and intercept four unidentified individuals attempting to "infiltrate to the western side of the Jordan River" (Israel). Three are killed and the fourth arrested. (JNA)
2003 The US Iraqi Governing Council announces that it has failed to select a new Iraqi President.
2002 Hail kills 25 and injures hundreds in the Chinese province of Henan.
2000 Apple Computer begins shipping the first personal computers with standard dual processors, the Power Mac G4 with dual 450 or 500 MHz processors.
1998 127th British Golf Open: at Royal Birkdale
1996 Ireland beats Netherlands in 1st European Championship Final
1994 1st game ever cancelled at Seattle Kingdome (falling tiles)
1993 Glen Chapple (Lancs) scores fastest F-C century, 21 minutes
1992 Price closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 47 performances
1991 Cal Ripken plays in his 1,500th consecutive game
1990 Dave Raghetti pitches in his 499th game as a New York Yankee, passing Whitey Ford in most appearances as a New York Yankee
1989 Cleveland Indian Joe Carter has his 4th 3 HR game
1987 116th British Golf Open: Nick Faldo shoots a 279 at Muirfield Gullane
1986 Indian pitcher Phil Niekro wins his 307th game tying him with
1985 Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st school teacher to fly space shuttle
1984 1st female to captain a 747 across Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)
1983 The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
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
1981 110th British Golf Open: Bill Rogers shoots a 276 at Royal St. George
1980 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; US and others boycott
1979 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 TONS of oil spill
1977 48th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-5 at Yankee Stadium, New York
1976 Rock group Deep Purple disbands.
1975 Nullified because the tar on his bat handle exceeds 18 limit
1974 Soyuz 14 lands
1973 Willie Mays named to National League all star team for 24th time (ties Stan Musial).
1971 Sudan military coup under maj Hashem al-Atta, Numeiry flees
1970 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Springfield Jaycee Golf Open
1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit
1967 1st air conditioned NYC subway car (R-38 on the F line)
1966 50 year old Frank Sinatra marries 21 year old Mia Farrow in Las Vegas
1965 Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot Where No Man Has Gone Before
1964 46th PGA Championship: Bobby Nichols shoots a 271 at Columbus Country Club - Ohio
1963 Philadelphia Phillies' Roy Siever hits home run number 300.
1962 The First Annual Swiss amp Wielder Hoop and Stick Tournament is held.
1961 First in-flight movie shown (TWA).
1960 San Francisco Giants' Juan Marichal debuts, with a one hitter against Philadelphia Phillies.
1959 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Machine International Golf Open Alliance
1958 Oh, Captain! closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 192 performances
1957 First rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada, USA.
1956 US refuse to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam
1955 Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 and becomes a floating museum
1953 KIMA TV channel 29 in Yakima, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1952 Paint Your Wagon closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 289 performances
1951 2 in the Aisle opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 276 performances
1950 French / Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh
1949 Laos becomes associated state within French Union.
1948 French government of Schuman, resigns
1947 The Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members are assassinated by Galon U Saw.
1945 Edwin Schlossberg, husband of Carolyn Kennedy
1944 1,200+ 8th Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany
1943 500 allied air forces raid Rome during WWII
1942 German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam and Hague
1941 President Franklin Roosevelt appoints FEP Committee.
1940 Hitler orders Great Britain to surrenders
1939 Dr Roy P Scholz is 1st surgeon to use fiberglass sutures
1937 Entartete Art Fair opens in Munich
1936 Spanish Premier Casares Quiroga succeeded by Jose Giral
1933 1st time, brothers on opposite teams homer in the same game. Red Sox
1928 King Fuad of Egypt grabs power / disbands parliament
1927 Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th Major League Baseball hit.
1926 2nd French government of Herriot, forms
1923 WRC-AM in Washington DC begins radio transmissions
1920 August 7 ampndash The Second Congress of the Communist International takes place in Saint Petersburg and Moscow. The notorious Twenty-one Conditions are adopted.
1919 Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen riot and burn down Luton Town Hall.
1918 Washington catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Secretary of War Newton D Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt
1916 World War I: Battle of Fromelles : British and Australian troops attack German trenches in a prelude to the Battle of the Somme.
1915 Dutch accidents at sea law enforced
1914 Boston Braves begin drive from last to 1st place in NL
1912 In Holbrook, Arizona, USA 14,000 meteorite stones fall; no injuries reported.
1910 Cy Young registers his 500th career victory
1909 Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball executes an unassisted triple play
1908 Feyenoord soccer team forms in Rotterdam
1904 Dutch Premier Kuypers disbands 1st Chamber
1902 New York Giants lose their 1st game under new manager John McGraw
1900 The first line of the Paris Métro is opened.
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