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Today in History for 19Th July 2015 Today in History for 19th July 2015 204 Historical Events Events 1 - 100 of 204 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 began. 1545 - King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth; 73 die 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 King of Spain Philip II 1590 - King Philip II's secretary Antonio Perez escapes jail 1595 - Astronomer Johannes Kepler has an epiphany and develops his theory of the geometrical basis of the universe 1599 - Jacob van Necks merchant fleet leaves Java 1639 - French troops occupy Salses, at Perpignan 1674 - Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes/Spinoza/Meyer 1688 - Soldiers killed governor of Aerssen in Paramaribo 1692 - 5 more people are hanged for witchcraft (20 in all) in Salem Mass 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 1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Ascension Naturalist Charles Darwin 1843 - 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. 1845 - Fire in NYC destroys 1,000 homes & kills many 1848 - 1st US women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls NY, organised by Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott 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 1862 - Forrest's 1st raid 1863 - Battle of Buffington's Island (St George Creek), Ohio 1864 - Battle of Winchester, VA (Stephenson's Depot) [->JUL 20] 1866 - Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment to the US constitution, guaranteeing civil rights 17th US President Andrew Johnson 1867 - US Congress passed 3rd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto 1867 - Dutch Red Cross forms 1869 - Louis Riel speaks at a meeting of Metis residents about rights, setting in motion the events now referred to as the Red River Rebellion 1870 - France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins 1875 - Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, NYC 1877 - 1st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Spencer W Gore beats Marshall (61 62 64) 1879 - Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon. 1880 - SF Public Library starts lending books 1884 - 8th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: William Renshaw beats H Lawford (6-0 6-4 9-7) 1899 - National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers forms Gunfighter in the American Old West Doc Holliday 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 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 1910 - Cleveland Indian baseball player Cy Young registers 500th career victory against Washington 5-4 in 11 innings 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 MLB Pitcher Cy Young 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 Cleve Indians in the 1st inning 1918 - World War I: German armies retreat across Marne River in France 1918 - Wash catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Sec 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 DC begins radio transmissions 1926 - 2nd French government of Herriot, forms 1927 - Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th hit 1928 - King Fuad of Egypt siezes power and disbands parliament 1930 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould, and their polar expedition team return to the United States following the first exploration of the interior of Antarctica MLB Legend Ty Cobb 1933 - 1st time brothers on opposite teams homer in the same game. Red Sox 1933 - Rick Ferrell homers off brother pitcher Wes of Cleve, who also homers 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 - Hitler orders Great Britain to surrender 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 Ala) 1941 - BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) ("...-" in Morse code) (opening of Beethoven's 5th symphony) Soldier, Author and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill 1941 - British PM Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign 1941 - President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee 1942 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 7th Symphony premieres in USA 1942 - German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam & 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 1944 - Earl Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem 1944 - General Bradley flies to England 1944 - Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho/Shokaku sinks in Marianas 1944 - NY archbishop Spellman flies to Europe 1944 - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg 1st meets Eichmann 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 & Frank Barnes 1950 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Summi maeroris Famous Birthdays Birthdays 1 - 100 of 214 1592 - Erhard Buttner, composer 1670 - Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (d. 1758) 1688 - Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (d. 1766) 1735 - Garret Wesley Mornington, composer 1742 - Jean-Baptiste Davaux, composer 1744 - Heinrich Christian Boie, German author (d. 1806) 1750 - Alessio Prati, composer 1759 - Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint (d. 1833) 1782 - Jonathan Blewitt, composer 1789 - John Martin, English painter 1797 - Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer 1800 - Juan José Flores, military and first president of Ecuador (d. 1864) 1811 - Vincenz Lachner, composer Inventor/Industrialist Samuel Colt (1814) 1814 - Samuel Colt, Hartford Connecticut, US inventor/industrialist (Colt 6 shot revolver), (d. 1862) 1817 - Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, US, army nurse (union) 1819 - Gottfried Keller, writer 1822 - Augusta of Cambridge, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1916) 1823 - George Henry Gordon, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 1827 - Mangal Pandey, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1857) 1828 - Roger Atkinson Pryor, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1919) 1833 - John Wesley Turner, Bvt Major General (Union Army), (d. 1899) 1834 - Edgar Degas, France, impressionist painter, sculptor and artist 1838 - Joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (Rule of Allen) 1846 - Charles Edward Pickering, pioneered American spectroscopist 1848 - Cornelis A Pekelharing, artist (fabric seller) 1849 - F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian 1849 - Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (d. 1906) 1851 - Hendrik J Jut, Dutch murderer (head of Jut) 1854 - Daniel Josephus Jitta, Dutch High Court lawyer Acquitted Murderer Lizzie Borden (1860) 1860 - Lizzie Borden, American woman acquitted of the murder of her parents (gave her mother forty whacks), born in Fall River, Massachusetts 1863 - Hermann Bahr, Austria writer/director (New Men) 1865 - Charles Horace Mayo, surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic) 1873 - Louis Zimmermann, violinist/1st concert master of Concert building 1876 - Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1972) 1876 - John Gunn, Former England cricketer (d. 1963) 1877 - Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (d. 1949) 1878 - Robert H Woltjer, classical/AR-1st-Member of parliament (About Plato) 1879 - Hendrik G Cannegieter, meteorology/director (KNMI) 1881 - Adriaan J Zoetmulder, Dutch writer/directer (Eindhovens Dagblad) 1881 - Friedrich J H Dessauer, German physicist (radiologist) 1883 - Max Fleischer, Austrian animator and film producer (d. 1972) 1888 - Eugene Jungers, Belgian governor of Rwanda Urundi 1892 - Dick Irvin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d.
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