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- 0711 Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic.
- 1333 Battle of Halidon Hill at Berwick where an English army under Edward III and Edward Balliol defeated the Scots forces led by Sir Archibald Douglas. English archers devastated the Scottish army and inflicted terrible losses, including six earls, seventy barons and over 500 knights
- 1544 Italian War of 1542: The Siege of Boulogne began.
- 1545 The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth.
- 1553 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after 9 days
- 1553 Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after having that title for just nine days.
- 1692 Salem Witch Trials: Five women are hanged for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts.
- 1760 The formal request to found the later city of Mayagez, Puerto Rico is filed by its founders.
- 1810 Prussia's Queen Louise dies at age 34 Napoleon has tried to destroy her reputation, but his charges have only endeared her to her people
- 1816 Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days
- 1837 Visitor posting - Brunel\'s 236ft long coal burning paddle steamer "Great Western" launched - United Kingdom
- 1843 Brunel'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.
- 1848 The first women's rights convention (Seneca Falls, NY)
- 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.
- 1860 The railroad reaches Kansas
- 1862 Forrest's first raid
- 1870 Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
- 1873 William Gosse becomes the first European to discover Ayers Rock (Uluru) and names it in honour of South Australian Premier Sir Henry Ayers.
- 1875 Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, NYC
- 1877 The first Wimbledon tennis championships held
- 1879 Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon.
- 1880 SF Public Library starts lending books
- 1907 K Lohnert discovers asteroid #639 Latona
- 1912 A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg explodes over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
- 1913 Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs" Malinda's Wedding Day is #1
- 1916 Battle of Fromelles, France starts
- 1918 German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I)
- 1919 Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen rioted and burnt down Luton Town Hall.
- 1925 V Albitzkij discovers asteroid #1059 Mussorgskia
- 1939 The first use of fiberglass sutures, R.P. Scholz, St Louis, Mo
- 1940 Adolf Hitler makes a peace offer to Britain, which Winston Churchill immediately rejects.
- 1940 World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.
- 1941 British PM Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign
- 1941 President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee
- 1941 The first US Army flying school for black cadets dedicted (Tuskegee Ala)
- 1942 Himmler sends a secret directive to SS Lieutenant General F.W. Kinger ordering the "resettlement" of the entire Jewish population of the General Government, to be completed by December 31.
- 1943 Allied air forces raid Rome during WW II
- 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.
- 1947 Burmese nationalist Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members were assassinated.
- 1949 Laos becomes associated state within French Union
- 1952 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki
- 1957 Don Bowden becomes first American to break 4 minute mile (3m58s7)
- 1957 The first rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
- 1961 The first in-flight movie shown (TWA)
- 1963 Joe 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.
- 1964 Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.
- 1964 Visitor posting - Michael Barnes is born in Nashville Tennessee - USA
- 1965 Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
- 1965 Visitor posting - PRINCE JROY- YOR APETSE was born in the City of Pines. - Philippines
- 1966 Gov James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot)
- 1967 A Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727 and a Cessna 310 collided in mid-air over Hendersonville, North Carolina killing 82.
- 1967 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Beatles - All You Need Is Love
- 1967 Race riots in Durham NC
- 1967 US launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km)
- 1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit
- 1969 Mary Jo Kopechne dies at 28, in Ted Kennedy's car
- 1970 Barry Wood singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 61
- 1971 B Burnasheva discovers asteroid #2259 Sofievka
- 1974 David Bowie's Diamond Dog tour ends in NYC
- 1974 Joe Flynn actor (McHale's Navy), dies at 59
- 1975 Apollo & Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate
- 1975 Number one hit on UK music charts - Bay City Rollers - Give A Little Love
- 1976 Rock group Deep Purple disbands
- 1976 Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
- 1979 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 TONS of oil spill
- 1979 Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza
- 1979 Patricia Harris, becomes sect of HEW
- 1979 The Sandinista rebels overthrow the U.S.-backed government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
- 1980 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; US & others boycott
- 1980 David Bowie appears in role of Elephant Man in Denver
- 1982 David S Dodge becomes the first American hostage in Lebanon
- 1984 Carol Eberts Veazie actor, dies at 89
- 1984 Geraldine A Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY), won Democratic VP nomination
- 1984 The first female to captain a 747 across the Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)
- 1985 Christa McAuliffe chosen first schoolteacher to fly the space shuttle
- 1985 The Val di Stava dam collapse killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
- 1986 Caroline Kennedy weds Edwin A Schlossberg in Centerville, Mass
- 1988 Visitor posting - Kelley Elaine Williams was born - USA
- 1989 Charles Sturt University, Australia established in honour of explorer Charles Sturt.
- 1989 United Airlines flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 of the 296 passengers.
- 1989 United flight 232 crashes in Iowa
- 1990 BASF plant in Cincinnatti explodes in flames, 1 dies
- 1990 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion
- 1990 Herbert Nelson actor (Guilding Light), dies at 76 of a stroke
- 1990 Johnny Wayne comedian (Wayne & Shuster), dies at 72 of cancer
- 1990 Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, Calif
- 1991 Miss Black America contestant accuses Mike Tyson of rape
- 1992 Visitor posting - patrick green born - United Kingdom
- 1993 Visitor posting - Summer Wallace WAS BORN!!!! - USA
- 1994 Visitor posting - July 19th, 1994 Meghan Vorisek's B-day!!! - USA
- 1995 Visitor posting - JULY 19,1995 - ANTHOKNEE CASTILLO MADE HIS FIRST APPEARANCE INTO THE WORLD
- 1996 Visitor posting - july 19 1996 Josue Moreno is Born
- 1997 Visitor posting - Chris and Lynn get married, Finally!!! - USA
- 1997 Visitor posting - the greatest human being ever John Trinkle was born - USA
- 2005 Visitor posting - MaKenna Brooke Mathews is born - USA
- 2009 Visitor posting - July 19, 2009: Danny Ishii celebrates 10 years at HECO!
- 2009 Visitor posting - Jacob Bear tured 15. - USA
- 2009 Visitor posting - July 19, 2009: Jason Choy is vested at HECO!
- 2010 Visitor posting - RosEmma Crook turns 24!!!! - USA
- 2010 Visitor posting - Elyes D est n..s - France [email protected]
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