Today is Friday, July 19, the 201st day of the yr 2024. There are 165 days left within the yr.
Today’s highlight of the story:
On July 19, 1848, the primary “meeting to discuss the social, civil and religious status and rights of woman” took place on the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, NY.
Also on this date:
In 1812, throughout the War of 1812, the First Battle of Sackets Harbor in Lake Ontario led to an American victory when U.S. naval forces repelled a British attack.
In 1969, Apollo 11 and its astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins reached the orbit of the moon.
In 1975, the Apollo and Soyuz space capsules separated after being connected in orbit for 2 days.
In 1979, the Nicaraguan capital Managua fell into the hands of Sandinista guerrillas, two days after President Anastasio Somoza fled the country.
In 1980, the Summer Olympics began in Moscow without dozens of countries boycotting the games due to Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.
In 1989, 111 people were killed when United Air Lines Flight 232, a DC-10, crashed during an emergency landing in Sioux City, Iowa, resulting from the failure of the plane's tail engine and the lack of hydraulic systems. 185 others survived.
In 1990, Pete Rose, the best baseball player of all time, was sentenced to 5 months in prison in Cincinnati for tax evasion.
In 1993, President Bill Clinton announced a policy allowing homosexuals to serve within the military under a compromise called “don't ask, don't tell, don't pursue.”
In 2006, prosecutors reported that between the Nineteen Seventies and early Nineties, Chicago police beat, kicked, shocked or otherwise tortured quite a few black suspects to extract confessions from them.
In 2005, President George W. Bush announced his selection: federal appeals court judge John G. Roberts Jr. would replace Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. (Roberts eventually succeeded Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who died in September 2005; O'Connor was succeeded by Samuel Alito.)
In 2013, President Barack Obama, in a rare public confrontation with racial issues, called on the nation to reflect on the death of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of his shooter, George Zimmerman, saying the murdered black teenager “could have been me 35 years ago.”
In 2018, an amphibious vehicle stuffed with tourists capsized and sank in strong winds on a lake within the tourist town of Branson, Missouri, killing 17 people.
In 2021, Paul Allard Hodgkins, a Florida man who entered the U.S. Senate chamber on January 6 with a Trump campaign flag, was sentenced to eight months in prison, the primary resolution of a criminal case related to the January 6 revolt on the U.S. Capitol.
In 2022, the UK will has broken his record for the very best temperature ever recorded during a heatwave that hit large parts of Europe.
Today's birthdays:
- Civil rights activist and educator Rachel Robinson, widow of baseball player Jackie Robinson, is 102 years old.
- Singer Vikki Carr is 84.
- Blues singer and musician Little Freddie King is 84.
- The singer and musician Alan Gorrie (Average White Band) is 78.
- Ilie Nastase, member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame, is 78.
- Rock musician Brian May (Queen) is 77.
- Rock musician Bernie Leadon is 77.
- Film director Abel Ferrara is 73.
- Film director Atom Egoyan is 64.
- Actor Campbell Scott is 63.
- Actor Anthony Edwards is 62.
- Ukrainian politician and former world boxing champion Vitali Klitschko is 53.
- Actor Benedict Cumberbatch is 48.
- TV chef Marcela Valladolid is 46.
- Actor Trai Byers (TV: “Empire”) is 41.
- Actress Kaitlin Doubleday (TV: “Empire,” “Nashville”) is 39.
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