Some of the significant events which took place on July 19 taken from the leaf of History:
64 – Circus Maximus in Rome catches fire
532 – Start of Dionysian Pascal Cycle
551 – Treaty of Karlsburg: arch duke Ferdinand of Austria recognized as King of Hungary/Transsylvania
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 – The Catholic princes of Germany formed the Dessau League to fight against the Reformation.
1544 – Italian War of 1542: The Siege of Boulogne begins
1545 – King Henry VIII’s flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth; 73 die
1553 – Fifteen-year-old Lady Jane Grey was deposed as Queen of England after claiming the crown for nine days. Mary, the daughter of King Henry VIII, was proclaimed
1763 – Mir Kasim was defeated in the ‘Katwa’ battle by the British.
1799 – The Rosetta Stone, a tablet with hieroglyphic translations into Greek, was found in Egypt.
1848 – The Women’s Rights Convention took place in Seneca Fall, NY. Bloomers were introduced at the convention.
1870 – France declared war on Prussia.
1923 – With the introduction of Insulin which is not a cure but a remedy for Diabetes, the manufacturers and Medical Professionals are telling the public that Insulin will not cure diabetes but will save many lives caused by the disease and alleviate much of the suffering associated with the disease. Insulin effects are only temporary leaving the fundamental condition of the disease unchanged in the body.
1939 – Dr. Roy P. Scholz became the first surgeon to use fiberglass sutures.
1941- Great Britain “V For Victory”: While Britain is at one of its lowest points in World War II Churchill one of the most motivators and speech makers of his time launches the “V for Victory” campaign across Europe by telling those in Europe under Nazi control to use the letter “V” (for Victory) at every chance they got in speaking, writing and urges them to write in big letter the letter V to signify V for Victory and let the Germans know they still had spirit and believed they would overcome Nazi Rule. Churchill gave a speech over the radio. The letter V began to appear everywhere painted on walls or tapped out in Morse code on shop counters with knuckles or beer glasses or pencil stubs, and was a rallying call across Europe that there was still hope. This is also why Churchill’s most famous pictures from World War II always featured him giving the V for Victory Sign.
1942 – German U-boats were withdrawn from positions off the U.S. Atlantic coast due to effective American anti-submarine countermeasures.
1943 – During World War II, more than 150 B-17 and 112 B-24 bombers attacked Rome for the first time.
1946 – Marilyn Monroe acted in her first screen test.
1949 – The king of Tehri Garhwal announces a merger with the Indian Union.
1955 – Famous Indian cricketer Roger Binny was born in Banglore, Karnataka. Roger Binny was a popular cricket all-rouder whi is especially rememberd for his outstanding bowling performance in the 1983 Cricket World Cup, which India won against West Indies.
1960 – Juan Marichal (San Francisco Giants) became the first pitcher to get a one-hitter in his major league debut.
1964 – In Illinois, Cahokia Mounds was designated as a U.S. National Landmark.
1969 – The Indian government nationalizes 14 major commercial banks.
1971 – In New York, the topping out ceremony for Two World Trade Center (South Tower) took place. The ceremony for One World Trade Center had taken place on December 23, 1970.
1974 – The House Judiciary Committee recommended that U.S. President Richard Nixon should stand trial in the Senate for any of the five impeachment charges against him.
1975 – The Apollo and Soyuz space crafts separated after being linked in orbit for two days.
1979 – In Nicaragua, the dictatorship of the Somozas was overthrown by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional or FSLN).
1982 – The U.S. Census Bureau reported that 14% of the population had an income below the official poverty level in 1981.
1984 – Geraldine Ferraro was nominated by the Democratic Party to become the first woman from a major political party to run for the office of U.S. Vice-President.
1985 – George Bell won first place in a biggest feet contest with a shoe size of 28-1/2. Bell, at age 26, stood 7 feet 10 inches tall.
1985 – Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. She died with six others when the Challenger exploded the following year.
1991 – Mike Tyson is accused of the rape of Desiree Washington, a contestant in the Miss Black America pageant, in an Indianapolis, Indiana, hotel room. In February 1992, Tyson was convicted of rape and received a six-year sentence.
2006 – President George W. Bush Issues First Veto: President George W. Bush issued his first presidential veto, rejecting H.R. 810, Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005, a bill to ease restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
2012 – A US judge overturned a lower court’s order in order to allow the congregation to use their mosque in Rutherford County, Tennessee. A lower court had previously ruled that the county could not issue an occupancy permit for the mosque, but the representatives of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro sued the county and won the right to use the building just in time for worshipers to gather for the month of Ramadan. Despite ruling in the Islamic Center’s favor, county officials stated that they would be unable to complete final inspections that would make the building ready for use. Residents of the community filed a lawsuit against the mosque in 2010 stating that Islam was not a real religion. The US justice department filed a lawsuit in the mosque’s favor stating that the county was holding it to different standards than other places of worship.
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