Not only was I born on July 19th but a lot of other somewhat less interesting things happened too. :)
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200th Day in the Gregorian Calendar (201st in leap year)
Famous July 19th Birthdays
Samuel Colt 1814
Edgar Degas 1834
Kathleen Turner 1954
Lizzie Borden 1860
Campbell Scott 1962
Anthony Edwards 1962
Garth Nix 1963 (author)
Jared Padalecki 1982
Today In History
1799 - Rosetta Stone found in Egypt
1848 - Women's Rights Convention took place in Seneca Valley, NY. Bloomers were introduced at the convention.
1860 - First railroad reached Kansas
1870 - France declared war on Prussia
1877 - First Wimbledon tennis championship held.
1880 - San Francisco Public Library starts lending books.
1941 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign in Europe.
1943 - Allied air forces raided Rome during World War II.
1946 - Marilyn Monroe acted in her first screen test
1954 - Elvis Presley released his first single was released.
1960 - The pilot episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show aired!
1961 - First in-flight movie shown (TWA)
1967 - First air-conditioned New York City subway car
1969 - Rolling Stones "Honky Tonk Woman" was released.
1969 - Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the moon.
1996 - Olympic Games open in Atlanta.
Holidays
Laos Independence Day 1949
Nicaragua Liberation Day 1979
Burmese Martyrs' Day
Famous July 19th Deaths
1374 - Petrarch
1692 - Sarah Goode - hanged for witchcraft as a result of the Salem Witch Trials
1692 - Susannah Martin - hanged for witchcraft as a result of the Salem Witch Trials
2009 - Frank McCourt - author of Angela's Ashes
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