July 19

Thursday 19, 2001:

UK politician and novelist Jeffrey Archer, Lord Archer of Weston-Super-Mare, is sentenced to four years in prison for perjury and perverting the course of justice.

Wednesday 19, 1989:

A Douglas DC-10 carrying United Airlines flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 but due to extraordinary efforts by the pilot and his crew, 184 on board survive.

Friday 19, 1985:

US Vice President George H. W. Bush announces that New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe will become the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the Space Shuttle (see Space Shuttle Challenger). 268 people are killed after an artificial lake broke up in Val di Stava in Italy

Thursday 19, 1979:

The Sandinista rebels overthrow the US-backed government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.

Monday 19, 1976:

Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.

Wednesday 19, 1967:

A Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727 and a Cessna 310 collided in mid-air over Hendersonville, North Carolina killing 82

Sunday 19, 1964:

Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.

Monday 19, 1948:

Games of the XIV Olympiad opened in London.

Saturday 19, 1947:

Burmese nationalist Aung San was assassinated.

Thursday 19, 1945:

Montgomery Ward is seized by United States Army troops at the direction of Attorney General Francis Biddle because of its refusal to obey National War Labor Board orders. Montgomery Ward chairman Seward Avery is carried out of his office by troops

Monday 19, 1943:

World War II: Rome is bombed by the Allies for the first time in the war.

Sunday 19, 1942:

German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast postions in response to the an effective American convoy system.

Friday 19, 1940:

World War II: Battle of Cape Spada between the Royal Navy and the Regia Marina; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sinks, with 121 casualities.

Friday 19, 1912:

A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg exploded over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town.

Saturday 19, 1879:

Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up Holliday's New Mexico saloon.

Saturday 19, 1873:

William Gosse becomes the first European to discover Ayers Rock (Uluru) and names it in honour of South Australian Premier Sir Henry Ayers.

Tuesday 19, 1870:

Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.

Saturday 19, 1862:

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.

Wednesday 19, 1848:

Women's rights: The two day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York and the "Bloomers" are introduced at the feminist convention.

Sunday 19, 1553:

Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after having that title for just nine days.

Wednesday 19, 1544:

The Siege of Boulogne began.

Sunday 19, 1333:

Battle of Halidon Hill: the final battle of the Wars of Scottish Independence.

Wednesday 19, 711:

Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic.

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