Today In History
Today in History July 19...
Birthdates which occurred on
July 19:
1898 Herbert Marcuse Berlin, communist
philosopher (One-Dimensional Man)
1922 George McGovern
(US Sen-D-SD), pres candidate (D-1972)
1947 Bernie
Leadon guitarist/vocalist (Eagles-Take it Easy)
1947
Brian May guitarist (Queen-We are the Champions)
1948
Keith Godchaux keyboardist (Grateful Dead)
1954 Kathleen
Turner actress (Accidental Tourist, Jewel of Nile)
Deaths
which occurred on July 19:
1958 Robert Earl Hughes
weighed 1,041 lbs (473 kg), dies at 32
1990 Johnny Wayne
comedian (Wayne & Shuster), dies at 72 of cancer
On this
day...
514 St Symmachus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1510 38 Jews are burned at the stake in Berlin Prussia
1553 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's
Queen after 9 days
1870 France declares war on Prussia;
the Franco-Prussian war begins
1877 1st Wimbledon tennis
championships held
1918 German armies retreat across
Marne River in France (WW I)
1941 British PM Winston
Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign
1943
Allied air forces raid Rome during WW II
1949 Laos
becomes associated state within French Union
1952 15th
modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki
1963 NASA
civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km
1965 Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No
Man Has Gone Before"
1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit
1975 Apollo & Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate
1976 Rock group Deep Purple disbands
1979 Nicaragua
Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza
1980
Moscow Summer Olympics begin, US & others boycott
1982
David S Dodge becomes the 1st hostage in Lebanon
1984
1st female to captain a 747 across the Atlantic (Lynn
Rippelmeyer)
1986 Caroline Kennedy weds Edwin A
Schlossberg in Centerville, Mass
1991 Miss Black America
contestant accuses Mike Tyson of rape
2781 -BC- Presumed
start of Egyptian calendar
Holidays:
Burma : Martyrs'
Day
Laos : Independence Day (1949)
Religious
Observances:
Old Catholic : Feast of St Vincent de Paul,
confessor
Thought for the day : "Every noble work is at
first
impossible."