July 19
1553 - King Henry VIII's daughter Mary was proclaimed Queen of England after pretender Lady Jane Grey was deposed.
1848 - A pioneer women's rights convention convened in Seneca Falls, New York.
1870 - The Franco-Prussian War, which led to the unification of the German states, began.
1922 - George McGovern, a 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.
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.
1986 - Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John F. Kennedy, married Edwin A. Schlossberg.
1989 - A United Air Lines DC-10, Flight 232, crashed while making an emergency landing in Sioux City, Iowa, killing 112 people; 184 survived.
1993 - President Bill Clinton announced the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy regarding gays in the military.
2005 - President George W. Bush announced his choice of 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.
Birthdays
22 - Alycia Debnam-Carey (actress)
25 - Rosie Jones (model)
28 - Jon Jones (MMA fighter)
33 - Jared Padalecki (actor)
39 - Benedict Cumberbatch (actor)
44 - Vitali Klitschko (boxer)
46 - Chris Kratt (TV host)
53 - Anthony Edwards (actor)
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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 the Boston Red Sox.
1910 - Cy Young won his 500th career game as his Cleveland Indians defeated the Washington Senators 5-4.
1960 - Future Hall of Famer Juan Marichal made his major league debut with the San Francisco Giants.
1966 - At the Astrodome in Houston, the first major league game to take place on a totally artificial surface took place . Prior to this game, the outfield of the Astrodome had consisted of painted dirt while the infield was artificial turf.
1974 - Dick Bosman of the Cleveland Indians no-hit the Oakland Athletics.
1977 - The National League won the All-Star Game 7-5 at Yankee Stadium in New York. Don Sutton of the Los Angeles Dodgers was named MVP.
1980 - The Summer Olympic Games began in Moscow with dozens of nations, including the United States, boycotting because of Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.
1996 - The Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta opened, with the largest array of nations in Olympic history as 197 countries took part.
2006 - In a matchup of 300-game winners, Roger Clemens and his Houston Astros defeated the Chicago Cubs and Greg Maddux.
2009 - Stewart Cink won a four-hole playoff over Tom Watson to win the British Open.
2013 - The NHL announced an agreement had been reached with the International Ice Hockey Federation to send its players to compete in the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.
1553 - King Henry VIII's daughter Mary was proclaimed Queen of England after pretender Lady Jane Grey was deposed.
1848 - A pioneer women's rights convention convened in Seneca Falls, New York.
1870 - The Franco-Prussian War, which led to the unification of the German states, began.
1922 - George McGovern, a 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.
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.
1986 - Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John F. Kennedy, married Edwin A. Schlossberg.
1989 - A United Air Lines DC-10, Flight 232, crashed while making an emergency landing in Sioux City, Iowa, killing 112 people; 184 survived.
1993 - President Bill Clinton announced the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy regarding gays in the military.
2005 - President George W. Bush announced his choice of 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.
Birthdays
22 - Alycia Debnam-Carey (actress)
25 - Rosie Jones (model)
28 - Jon Jones (MMA fighter)
33 - Jared Padalecki (actor)
39 - Benedict Cumberbatch (actor)
44 - Vitali Klitschko (boxer)
46 - Chris Kratt (TV host)
53 - Anthony Edwards (actor)
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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 the Boston Red Sox.
1910 - Cy Young won his 500th career game as his Cleveland Indians defeated the Washington Senators 5-4.
1960 - Future Hall of Famer Juan Marichal made his major league debut with the San Francisco Giants.
1966 - At the Astrodome in Houston, the first major league game to take place on a totally artificial surface took place . Prior to this game, the outfield of the Astrodome had consisted of painted dirt while the infield was artificial turf.
1974 - Dick Bosman of the Cleveland Indians no-hit the Oakland Athletics.
1977 - The National League won the All-Star Game 7-5 at Yankee Stadium in New York. Don Sutton of the Los Angeles Dodgers was named MVP.
1980 - The Summer Olympic Games began in Moscow with dozens of nations, including the United States, boycotting because of Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.
1996 - The Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta opened, with the largest array of nations in Olympic history as 197 countries took part.
2006 - In a matchup of 300-game winners, Roger Clemens and his Houston Astros defeated the Chicago Cubs and Greg Maddux.
2009 - Stewart Cink won a four-hole playoff over Tom Watson to win the British Open.
2013 - The NHL announced an agreement had been reached with the International Ice Hockey Federation to send its players to compete in the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.
