July 19
1812 - During the War of 1812, the First Battle of Sackets Harbor in Lake Ontario resulted in an American victory as U.S. naval forces repelled a British attack.
1848 - The first women's rights convention, called by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia C. Mott, was held in Seneca Falls, New York.
1870 - The Franco-Prussian War began.
1941 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was the first to use the two-finger "V is for Victory" sign.
1966 - Fifty-year-old singer Frank Sinatra marred 21-year-old actress Mia Farrow.
1969 - Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins went into orbit around the moon.
1979 - The Nicaraguan capital of Managua fell to Sandinista guerrillas, two days after President Anastasio Somoza fled the country.
1984 - Geraldine Ferraro became the first woman officially nominated for the vice presidency by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention.
1989 - United Air Lines Flight 232, a DC-10 which sustained the uncontained failure of its tail engine and the loss of hydraulic systems, crashed while making an emergency landing at Sioux City, Iowa; 111 people died in the crash, while 185 survived.
1993 - President Bill Clinton announced the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding homosexual service members in the U.S. military.
2005 - President George W. Bush announced his choice of federal appeals court judge John G. Roberts Jr. to replace Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. (Roberts ended up succeeding Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who died in September 2005; Samuel Alito would ultimately replace O'Connor.)
2006 - Prosecutors reported that Chicago police beat, kicked, shocked or otherwise tortured scores of Black suspects from the 1970s to the early 1990s to try to extract confessions from them.
2013 - President Barack Obama called on the nation to do some soul searching over the death of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of his shooter, George Zimmerman, saying the slain black teenager "could have been me 35 years ago."
2014 - New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo, involved in the arrest of Eric Garner, who died in custody two days earlier after being placed in an apparent chokehold, was stripped of his gun and badge and placed on desk duty. (Pantaleo was fired in August 2019.)
2016 - Republicans meeting in Cleveland nominated Donald Trump as their presidential standard-bearer; in brief videotaped remarks, Trump thanked the delegates, saying: "This is a movement, but we have to go all the way."
2018 - A duck boat packed with tourists capsized and sank in high winds on a lake in the tourist town of Branson, Missouri, killing 17 people.
2020 - President Donald Trump refused to publicly commit to accepting the results of the upcoming election, telling Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" that it was too early to make any such guarantee.
Birthdays
21 - Brooklyn Nikole (model)
23 - Owen Joyner (actor)
26 - Amita Suman (actress)
28 - Romee Strijd (model)
33 - Steven Anthony Lawrence (actor)
36 - Jon Jones (MMA fighter)
37 - Jinder Mahal (professional wrestler)
37 - Dustin Ybarra (actor/comedian)
39 - Kaitlin Doubleday (actress)
40 - Trai Byers (actor)
41 - Jared Padalecki (actor)
43 - Chris Sullivan (actor)
46 - Erin Cummings (actress)
47 - Benedict Cumberbatch (actor)
50 - Nathalie Boltt (actress)
52 - Andrew Kavovit (actor)
57 - Nancy Carell (actress)
61 - Anthony Edwards (actor)
62 - Campbell Scott (actor)
67 - Peter Barton (actor)
75 - Beverly Archer (actress)
76 - Brian May (musician)
83 - Vikki Carr (singer)
97 - Helen Gallagher (actress)
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Today in Sports History - July 19
1909 - The first unassisted triple play in major league baseball was made by Cleveland Indians shortstop Neal Ball in a game against Boston.
1909 - Cy Young recorded his 500th career pitching victory.
1920 - Babe Ruth broke his own major league single-season home run record with his 30th of the year.
1960 - Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants became the first pitcher to get a one-hitter in his major league debut.
1966 - At the Astrodome, the first major league game to be played totally on artficial turf took place. Prior to this game, the outfield had consisted of painted dirt and the infield was covered with artificial turf.
1980 - The Moscow Summer Olympics began, minus dozens of nations, including the United States, that were boycotting the games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.
1989 - NFL owners vote unanimously to crate the World League of American Football. (It would operate from 1991 through 2007.)
1990 - Baseball's all-time hits leader, Pete Rose, was sentenced in Cincinnati to five months in prison for tax evasion.
1996 - The 26th Summer Olympic Games open in Atlanta, Georgia.
2022 - The American League defeats the National League for the ninth consecutive year to win the All-Star Game.
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