What happened on July 19? There are more than 256 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About July 19
July 19 is the 201st day of the year 2024. There are 165 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday. This day falls under the 29th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Rocklin, California 95677 sunrise occured at 05:54 AM and sunset occured at 08:28 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Cancer. The modern birthstone for this month is Ruby while the mystical birthstone is Ruby.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 194 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For July 19
- 64Great Fire of Rome: a fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control. According to a popular, but untrue legend, Nero fiddled as the city burned.
- 711Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Battle of Guadalete – Umayyad forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by King Roderic.
- 1333Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon Hill – The English win a decisive victory over the Scots.
- 1544Italian War of 1542: the first Siege of Boulogne begins.
- 1545The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth; in 1982 the wreck is salvaged in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology.
- 1553Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after only nine days of reign.
- 1588Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines – The Spanish Armada is sighted in the English Channel.
- 1701Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England.
- 1702Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.
- 1832The British Medical Association is founded as the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association by Sir Charles Hastings at a meeting in the Board Room of the Worcester Infirmary.
- 1843Brunel’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.
- 1848Women’s rights: a two-day Women’s Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York; there the “Bloomers” are introduced.
- 1863American Civil War: Morgan’s Raid – At 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.
- 1864Taiping Rebellion: Third Battle of Nanking – The Qing Dynasty finally defeats the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
- 1870Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
- 1900The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
- 1908Dutch football club Feyenoord was founded
- 1916World War I: Battle of Fromelles – British and Australian troops attack German trenches in a prelude to the Battle of the Somme.
- 1919Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen riot and burn down Luton Town Hall.
- 1940World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.
- 1940World War II: Battle of Cape Spada – The Royal Navy and the Regia Marina clash; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualties.
- 1942World War II: Battle of the Atlantic – German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to the effective American convoy system.
- 1947Korean politician Yuh Woon-Hyung is assassinated.
- 1947The 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.
- 1961Tunisia imposes a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte; the French would capture the entire town four days later.
- 1963Joe 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.
- 1964Vietnam War: at a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.
- 1972Dhofar Rebellion: British SAS units help the Omani government against Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman rebels in the Battle of Mirbat.
- 1976Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
- 1979The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
- 1981In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French Prime Minister François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing that the Soviets had been stealing American technological research and development.
- 1983The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.
- 1985The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
- 1989United Airlines flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 of the 296 passengers.
- 1992Anti-Mafia Judge Paolo Borsellino is killed by a Mafia car bomb in Palermo, Italy together with five police officers.
- 1997The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.
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Who Were Born On July 19?
- 1670Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (d. 1758)
- 1688Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (d. 1766)
- 1744Heinrich Christian Boie, German author (d. 1806)
- 1759Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint (d. 1833)
- 1771Thomas Talbot, Irish-born Canadian administrator (d. 1853)
- 1789John Martin, English painter (d. 1854)
- 1800Juan José Flores, Venezuelan military commander and Ecuadorian politician (d. 1864)
- 1814Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor (d. 1862)
- 1819Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (d. 1890)
- 1822Princess Augusta of Cambridge, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1916)
- 1827Mangal Pandey, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1857)
- 1834Edgar Degas, French painter (d. 1917)
- 1849Ferdinand Brunetière, French writer and critic (d. 1906)
- 1860Lizzie Borden, American accused murderer (d. 1927)
- 1865Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon and founder of the Mayo Clinic (d. 1939)
- 1868Florence Foster Jenkins, American opera singer (d. 1945)
- 1876John Gunn, England cricketer (d. 1963)
- 1876Joseph Fielding Smith, American religious figure (d. 1972)
- 1877Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (d. 1949)
- 1883Max Fleischer, Austrian-born American animator and film producer (d. 1972)
- 1886Michael Fekete, Hungarian-born Israeli mathematician (d. 1957)
- 1888Enno Lolling, German physician (d. 1945)
- 1892Dick Irvin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1957)
- 1893Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1930)
- 1894Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin, Russian mathematician (d. 1959)
- 1894Khawaja Nazimuddin, Bengali politician (d. 1965)
- 1895Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (d. 1953)
- 1896A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (d. 1981)
- 1896Bob Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1977)
- 1898Herbert Marcuse, German-born philosopher (d. 1979)
- 1904Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, American lawyer; last direct descendant of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1985)
- 1907Isabel Jewell, American actress (d. 1972)
- 1912Norman Carr, British conservationist (d. 1997)
- 1914Marius Russo, American baseball player (d. 2005)
- 1916Eve Merriam, American poet and playwright (d. 1992)
- 1916Phil Cavarretta, American baseball player (d. 2010)
- 1917William Scranton, American politician
- 1919Dallas McKennon, American actor (d. 2009)
- 1919Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet (d. 2005)
- 1919Patricia Medina, English-born actress
- 1920Robert Mann, composer/violinist with Juilliard String Quartet
- 1921Harold Camping, American evangelist
- 1921Rosalyn Yalow, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2011)
- 1922George McGovern, American politician
- 1923William A. Rusher, American newspaper columnist (d. 2011)
- 1924Arthur Rankin, Jr., American writer, producer and director
- 1924Pat Hingle, American actor (d. 2009)
- 1924Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (d. 2005)
- 1925Sue Thompson, American pop and country music singer
- 1926Helen Gallagher, American actress
- 1932Buster Benton, blues singer & guitarist
- 1932Jan Lindblad, Swedish naturalist, writer and photographer (d. 1987)
- 1934Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)
- 1935Vasily Livanov, Russian and Soviet film actor
- 1937George Hamilton IV, American country singer
- 1938Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist
- 1938Nicholas Bethell, British historian (d. 2007)
- 1938Richard Jordan, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1940Dennis Cole, American actor (d. 2009)
- 1941Neelie Kroes, Dutch European Union executive
- 1941Vikki Carr, American singer
- 1943Han Sai Por, Singaporean sculptor
- 1944Tim McIntire, American actor (d. 1986)
- 1945George Dzundza, American actor
- 1946Alan Gorrie, Scottish musician (Average White Band)
- 1946Ilie Năstase, Romanian tennis player
- 1947Bernie Leadon, The Eagles guitarist
- 1947Brian May, English guitarist (Queen)
- 1947Hans-Jürgen Kreische, East German footballer
- 1948Beverly Archer, American actress
- 1948Keith Godchaux, American keyboardist (Grateful Dead) (d. 1980)
- 1949Ivar Kants, Australian actor
- 1950Freddy Moore, American songwriter
- 1950Per-Kristian Foss, Norwegian politician
- 1951Abel Ferrara, American filmmaker
- 1951Jayson Stark, American sportswriter
- 1951Reza Kianian, Iranian actor
- 1952Allen Collins, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1990)
- 1952John Griesheimer, American politician
- 1952Robert A. Ficano, American politician
- 1954Alvan Adams, American basketball player
- 1954Srđa Trifković, Serbian-born American journalist
- 1955Roger Binny, Indian cricketer
- 1956Joe Mohen, American internet entrepreneur
- 1956Nikki Sudden, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2006)
- 1956Yoshiaki Yatsu, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1958David Robertson, American symphony orchestra conductor
- 1958Robert Gibson, American professional wrestler
- 1959Juan Jose Campanella, Argentinian filmmaker
- 1960Atom Egoyan, Canadian filmmaker
- 1960Kevin Haskins, British drummer
- 1961Benoît Mariage, Belgian film director
- 1961Campbell Scott, American actor
- 1961Hideo Nakata, Japanese film director
- 1961Lisa Lampanelli, American comedian
- 1961Maria Filatova, Soviet gymnast
- 1962Anthony Edwards, American actor
- 1962Aya Kitō, Japanese writer (d. 1988)
- 1963Garth Nix, Australian fantasy writer
- 1964André A. Jackson, French-born American diamond executive
- 1964Masahiko Kondo, Japanese singer, actor and racing driver
- 1965Claus-Dieter Wollitz, German footballer
- 1965Evelyn Glennie, Scottish percussionist
- 1965Stuart Scott, American sportscaster
- 1966David Segui, American baseball player
- 1966Nancy Walls, American actress
- 1967Muriel Degauque, Belgian terrorist (d. 2005)
- 1967Stuart Howe, Canadian operatic tenor
- 1967Yael Abecassis, Israeli actress and model
- 1968Jim Norton, American radio personality (The Opie and Anthony Show)
- 1968Robert Flynn, American vocalist and guitarist (Machine Head)
- 1969Matthew Libatique, American cinematographer
- 1970Bill Chen, American quantitative analyst
- 1971Michael Modest, American professional wrestler
- 1971Russell Allen, American vocalist (Symphony X)
- 1971Urs Bühler, Swiss tenor (Il Divo)
- 1971Vitali Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer
- 1972Ebbe Sand, Danish footballer
- 1972Naohito Fujiki, Japanese actor and singer
- 1973Laurits Munch-Petersen, Danish film director
- 1973Martin Powell, English violinist and keyboardist (Cradle of Filth, My Dying Bride)
- 1973Saïd Taghmaoui, French actor
- 1973Scott Walker, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1974Malcolm O'Kelly, Irish rugby union footballer
- 1974Preston Wilson, American baseball player
- 1974Rey Bucanero, Mexican professional wrestler
- 1975Luca Castellazzi, Italian footballer
- 1976Benedict Cumberbatch, British actor
- 1976Gonzalo de los Santos, Uruguayan footballer
- 1976Vinessa Shaw, American actress
- 1977Ed Smith, English cricketer
- 1977Haitham Mustafa, Sudanese footballer
- 1977Jean-Sébastien Aubin, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1977Tony Mamaluke, American professional wrestler
- 1979Dilhara Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer
- 1979Luke Young, English footballer
- 1979Michelle Heaton, British pop singer
- 1979Rick Ankiel, American baseball player
- 1980Giorgio Mondini, Italian racing driver
- 1980Mark Webber, American actor
- 1980Xavier Malisse, Belgian tennis player
- 1981David Bernard, Jamaican West Indies cricketer
- 1981Didz Hammond, English bass guitarist (Dirty Pretty Things, The Cooper Temple Clause)
- 1981Jimmy Gobble, American baseball player
- 1981Nenê, Brazilian footballer
- 1981Nikki Osborne, Australian actress
- 1982Christopher Bear, American drummer (Grizzly Bear)
- 1982Jared Padalecki, American actor
- 1982Jess Vanstrattan, Australian footballer
- 1982Stuart Parnaby, English footballer
- 1983Helen Skelton, British TV presenter
- 1984Adam Morrison, American basketball player
- 1984Alessandra De Rossi, Filipino actress
- 1984Andrea Libman, Canadian actress and voice actress
- 1984Diana Mocanu, Romanian swimmer
- 1984Lasse Gjertsen, Norwegian animator
- 1984Lewis Price, Welsh footballer
- 1984Ryan O'Byrne, Canadian hockey player
- 1985LaMarcus Aldridge, American basketball player
- 1986Leandro Greco, Italian footballer
- 1987Jon Jones, American mixed martial artist
- 1987Marc Murphy, Australian rules footballer
- 1988Shane Dawson, American YouTube comedian
- 1992Jake Nicholson, English footballer
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Who Died On July 19?
- 514Pope Symmachus
- 931Uda of Japan (b. 867)
- 1374Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (b. 1304)
- 1415Philippa of Lancaster (b. 1359)
- 1543Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne Boleyn (b. c. 1499)
- 1631Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (b. 1550)
- 1687Laura Martinozzi, Duchess of Modena (b. 1637)
- 1692Sarah Good, American Salem witch trials figure (b. 1653)
- 1692Susannah Martin, American Salem witch trials figure (b. 1621)
- 1742William Somervile, English poet (b. 1675)
- 1810Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia (b. 1776)
- 1814Matthew Flinders, English explorer (b. 1774)
- 1838Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist (b. 1785)
- 1850Margaret Fuller, American writer (b. 1810)
- 1857Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1796)
- 1868Soji Okita, Japanese samurai
- 1896Abraham H. Cannon, American religious figure (b. 1859)
- 1913Clímaco Calderón, President of Colombia (b. 1852)
- 1939Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (b. 1850)
- 1943Yekaterina Budanova, Soviet female pilot (b. 1916)
- 1947Aung San, Burmese nationalist (b. 1915)
- 1947U Razak, Burmese politician (b. 1898)
- 1947Yuh Woon-Hyung, Korean politician (b. 1886)
- 1965Syngman Rhee, first President of South Korea (b. 1875)
- 1969Stratis Myrivilis, Greek writer (b. 1890)
- 1974Erno Schwarz, Hungarian-American soccer player (b. 1904)
- 1974Joe Flynn, American actor (b. 1924)
- 1975Lefty Frizzell, American country music singer and songwriter (b. 1928)
- 1980Hans Morgenthau, German political philosopher (b. 1904)
- 1980Nihat Erim, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1912)
- 1981Roger Doucet, French Canadian tenor (b. 1919)
- 1982Hugh Everett, American physicist (b. 1930)
- 1982John Harvey, English stage and film actor (b. 1911)
- 1984Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)
- 1985Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer (b. 1938)
- 1989Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish politician (b. 1913)
- 1990Eddie Quillan, American actor (b. 1907)
- 1992Paolo Borsellino, Italian magistrate (b. 1940)
- 1998Elmer Valo, Slovak-American baseball player (b. 1921)
- 2002Alan Lomax, American folksong collector (b. 1915)
- 2002Dave Carter, American folksinger (b. 1952)
- 2003Bill Bright, American evangelist (b. 1921)
- 2003Pierre Graber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1908)
- 2004Francis A. Marzen, American Catholic prelate (b. 1924)
- 2004Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)
- 2005Edward Bunker, American writer (b. 1933)
- 2005John Tyndall, British politician (b. 1934)
- 2006Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)
- 2007A. K. Faezul Huq, Bangladeshi lawyer, politician, and freelance journalist (b. 1945)
- 2007Roberto Fontanarrosa, Argentine cartoonist (b. 1944)
- 2008Anastasia Blue, American porn actress (b. 1980)
- 2008Dercy Gonçalves, Brazilian comedienne (b. 1907)
- 2009Frank McCourt, Irish-American writer (b. 1930)
- 2009Henry Surtees, British racing driver (b. 1991)
- 2010Lorenzen Wright, American basketball player (b. 1975)
- 2010Sokratis Giolias, Greek investigative journalist and broadcaster (b. 1973)
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