July 19

July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining.

Events

• 1848 - Seneca Falls, New York[?] feminist convention opens
• 1870 - Declaration of the Franco-Prussian War.
• 1878 - Emile Zola flees France to avoid imprisonment over the Dreyfus affair
• 2001 - UK politician and novelist Jeffrey Archer, Lord Archer of Weston-Super-Mare, sentenced to four years in prison for perjury and perverting the course of justice.

Births

• 1814 - Samuel Colt, inventor (+ 1862)
• 1819 - Gottfried Keller, writer (+ 1890)
• 1834 - Edgar Degas, impressionist painter (+ 1917)
• 1860 - Lizzie Borden, accused murderess (+ 1927)
• 1875 - Alice Dunbar Nelson[?], author, poet (+ 1935)
• 1883 - Max Fleischer, animator, film producer (+ 1992)
• 1896 - A.J. Cronin, writer (+ 1981)
• 1898 - Herbert Marcuse, communist philosopher (+ 1979)
• 1921 - Rosalyn Yalow[?], medical physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine[?] 1977
• 1922 - George McGovern, former US presidential candidate

Deaths

• 1900 - King Umberto I of Italy assassinated
• 1965 - Clyde Beatty[?], circus performer, big game hunter
• 1965 - Syngman Rhee, first President of South Korea

Holidays and observances

• Malaysia - Birthday of Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Ng Sembilan
• Myanmar - Martyr's Day
• Nicaragua - National Liberation Day

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