July 19
1553 - King Henry VIII's daughter Mary was proclaimed Queen of England after pretender Lady Jane Grey was deposed.
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, which led to the unification of the German states, began.
1922 - George McGovern, U.S. senator and Democratic presidential candidate in 1972, was born in Avon, South Dakota.
1941 - Winston Churchill was the first to use the two-finger "V is for Victory" sign.
1961 - TWA became the first airline to begin showing regularly scheduled in-flight movies as it presented "By Love Possessed" to first-class passengers on a flight from New York to Los Angeles.
1966 - Fifty-year-old singer Frank Sinatra married 21-year-old actress Mia Farrow.
1969 - Apollo 11, with Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins on board, went into orbit around the moon.
1979 - Sandinista rebels took control of Managua following the flight of President Anastasio Somoza Debayle, completing the defeat of the National Guard and ending the civil war in Nicaragua.
1984 - Congresswoman Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York won the Democratic nomination for vice president at the party's convention in San Francisco.
1985 - Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. (McAuliffe and six other crew members died when the Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff in January 1986.)
1986 - Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John F. Kennedy, married Edwin A. Schlossberg.
1989 - United Air Lines Flight 232, a DC-10 which suffered the uncontained failure of its tail engine and the loss of hydraulic systems while traveling from Denver to Chicago, crashed while attempting to make an emergency landing in Sioux City, Iowa, killing 112 people; however, 184 survived.
1990 - President George H.W. Bush joined former presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald R. Ford and Richard M. Nixon at ceremonies dedicating the Nixon Library and Birthplace (since redesignated the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum) in Yorba Linda, California.
1993 - President Bill Clinton announced the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding gay service members in the military.
2005 - President George W. Bush nominated federal appeals court judge John Roberts to replace Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
2011 - Summoned by British lawmakers to answer for a phone hacking and bribery scandal at one of his tabloids, media mogul Rupert Murdoch said he was humbled and ashamed, but accepted no responsibility for wrongdoing.
2014 - Actor James Garner died in Los Angeles at age 86.
2016 - Delegates at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland nominated Donald Trump for president. In brief videotaped remarks, Trump thanked the delegates, saying: "This is a movement, but we have to go all the way."
2018 - The White House said President Donald Trump had invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to the White House in the fall for a second get-together, just days after a Helsinki summit that brought Trump criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike. Putin said his summit with Trump had been a success, and he accused Trump's opponents in the U.S. of hampering any progress on the issues they discussed.
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.
Birthdays
24 - Romee Strijd (model)
29 - Steven Anthony Lawrence (actor)
32 - Jon Jones (MMA fighter)
33 - Jinder Mahal (professional wrestler)
33 - Dustin Ybarra (actor/comedian)
34 - LaMarcus Aldridge (basketball player)
35 - Kaitlin Doubleday (actress)
36 - Trai Byers (actor)
37 - Jared Padalecki (actor)
38 - Tim Foust (country singer)
39 - Chris Sullivan (actor)
41 - Ginifer King (actress)
42 - Erin Cummings (actress)
43 - Benedict Cumberbatch (actor)
48 - Andrew Kavovit (actor)
49 - Jeremy Patterson (country musician)
53 - Nancy Carell (actress)
54 - Clea Lewis (actress)
56 - Kelly Shiver (country singer)
57- Anthony Edwards (actor)
58 - Campbell Scott (actor)
63 - Peter Barton (actor)
71 - Beverly Archer (actress)
72 - Brian May (singer/musician)
74 - George Dzundza (actor)
79 - Vikki Carr (singer)
93 - Sue Thompson (country singer)
93 - Helen Gallagher (actress)
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Today in Sports History - July 19
1877 - Spencer Gore of England won the inaugural Wimbledon tennis championship.
1884 - Maud Watson became the inaugural Wimbledon women's champion.
1903 - French rider Maurice Garin won the inaugural Tour de France.
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 victory.
1918 - Washington Senators catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the military draft ; Secretary of War Newton D Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt.
1960 - Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants became the first pitcher to get a one-hitter in his major league debut.
1963 - Roy Siever of the Philadelphia Phillies hits his 300th home run.
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.
1973 - Willie Mays ties Stan Musial with his 24th selection to the All-Star Game.
1975 - New York Yankees catcher Thurman Munson's 1st-inning single & RBI are nullified because tar on his bat handle exceeds 18" limit.
1977 - The National League wins the All-Star Game 7-5 in New York.
1980 - The Summer Olympics began in Moscow with dozens of nations boycotting because of Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.
1987 - Nick Faldo wins his first major by winning the British Open.
1989 - NFL owners vote unanimously to form the World League of American Football.
1990 - Baseball star Pete Rose is sentenced to five months in prison on charges of tax evasion.
1990 - Dave Raghetti pitches in his 499th game as a New York Yankee, passing Whitey Ford in most appearances as a Yankee.
1992 - Nick Faldo wins his third British Open.
1996 - The Summer Olympic Games open in Atlanta, Georgia.
2009 - Eighty-one-year-old Hershel McGriff became the oldest driver to take part in a national NASCAR series race, finishing 13th in a Camping World West Series event at Portland International Raceway.
1553 - King Henry VIII's daughter Mary was proclaimed Queen of England after pretender Lady Jane Grey was deposed.
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, which led to the unification of the German states, began.
1922 - George McGovern, U.S. senator and Democratic presidential candidate in 1972, was born in Avon, South Dakota.
1941 - Winston Churchill was the first to use the two-finger "V is for Victory" sign.
1961 - TWA became the first airline to begin showing regularly scheduled in-flight movies as it presented "By Love Possessed" to first-class passengers on a flight from New York to Los Angeles.
1966 - Fifty-year-old singer Frank Sinatra married 21-year-old actress Mia Farrow.
1969 - Apollo 11, with Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins on board, went into orbit around the moon.
1979 - Sandinista rebels took control of Managua following the flight of President Anastasio Somoza Debayle, completing the defeat of the National Guard and ending the civil war in Nicaragua.
1984 - Congresswoman Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York won the Democratic nomination for vice president at the party's convention in San Francisco.
1985 - Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. (McAuliffe and six other crew members died when the Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff in January 1986.)
1986 - Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John F. Kennedy, married Edwin A. Schlossberg.
1989 - United Air Lines Flight 232, a DC-10 which suffered the uncontained failure of its tail engine and the loss of hydraulic systems while traveling from Denver to Chicago, crashed while attempting to make an emergency landing in Sioux City, Iowa, killing 112 people; however, 184 survived.
1990 - President George H.W. Bush joined former presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald R. Ford and Richard M. Nixon at ceremonies dedicating the Nixon Library and Birthplace (since redesignated the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum) in Yorba Linda, California.
1993 - President Bill Clinton announced the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding gay service members in the military.
2005 - President George W. Bush nominated federal appeals court judge John Roberts to replace Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
2011 - Summoned by British lawmakers to answer for a phone hacking and bribery scandal at one of his tabloids, media mogul Rupert Murdoch said he was humbled and ashamed, but accepted no responsibility for wrongdoing.
2014 - Actor James Garner died in Los Angeles at age 86.
2016 - Delegates at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland nominated Donald Trump for president. In brief videotaped remarks, Trump thanked the delegates, saying: "This is a movement, but we have to go all the way."
2018 - The White House said President Donald Trump had invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to the White House in the fall for a second get-together, just days after a Helsinki summit that brought Trump criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike. Putin said his summit with Trump had been a success, and he accused Trump's opponents in the U.S. of hampering any progress on the issues they discussed.
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.
Birthdays
24 - Romee Strijd (model)
29 - Steven Anthony Lawrence (actor)
32 - Jon Jones (MMA fighter)
33 - Jinder Mahal (professional wrestler)
33 - Dustin Ybarra (actor/comedian)
34 - LaMarcus Aldridge (basketball player)
35 - Kaitlin Doubleday (actress)
36 - Trai Byers (actor)
37 - Jared Padalecki (actor)
38 - Tim Foust (country singer)
39 - Chris Sullivan (actor)
41 - Ginifer King (actress)
42 - Erin Cummings (actress)
43 - Benedict Cumberbatch (actor)
48 - Andrew Kavovit (actor)
49 - Jeremy Patterson (country musician)
53 - Nancy Carell (actress)
54 - Clea Lewis (actress)
56 - Kelly Shiver (country singer)
57- Anthony Edwards (actor)
58 - Campbell Scott (actor)
63 - Peter Barton (actor)
71 - Beverly Archer (actress)
72 - Brian May (singer/musician)
74 - George Dzundza (actor)
79 - Vikki Carr (singer)
93 - Sue Thompson (country singer)
93 - Helen Gallagher (actress)
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Today in Sports History - July 19
1877 - Spencer Gore of England won the inaugural Wimbledon tennis championship.
1884 - Maud Watson became the inaugural Wimbledon women's champion.
1903 - French rider Maurice Garin won the inaugural Tour de France.
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 victory.
1918 - Washington Senators catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the military draft ; Secretary of War Newton D Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt.
1960 - Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants became the first pitcher to get a one-hitter in his major league debut.
1963 - Roy Siever of the Philadelphia Phillies hits his 300th home run.
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.
1973 - Willie Mays ties Stan Musial with his 24th selection to the All-Star Game.
1975 - New York Yankees catcher Thurman Munson's 1st-inning single & RBI are nullified because tar on his bat handle exceeds 18" limit.
1977 - The National League wins the All-Star Game 7-5 in New York.
1980 - The Summer Olympics began in Moscow with dozens of nations boycotting because of Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.
1987 - Nick Faldo wins his first major by winning the British Open.
1989 - NFL owners vote unanimously to form the World League of American Football.
1990 - Baseball star Pete Rose is sentenced to five months in prison on charges of tax evasion.
1990 - Dave Raghetti pitches in his 499th game as a New York Yankee, passing Whitey Ford in most appearances as a Yankee.
1992 - Nick Faldo wins his third British Open.
1996 - The Summer Olympic Games open in Atlanta, Georgia.
2009 - Eighty-one-year-old Hershel McGriff became the oldest driver to take part in a national NASCAR series race, finishing 13th in a Camping World West Series event at Portland International Raceway.
