07-19-2006, 05:33 AM
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July 19th
1374 ~ Death of Petrarch, Italian Poet & early Humanist.
1834 ~ Birthday of Edgar Degas, Impressionist Painter.
1848 ~ The two day Women's Rights Convention opened in Seneca Falls, New York and the "Bloomers" were introduced.
1870 ~ The Franco-Prussian war began.
1898 ~ Birthday of Herbert Marcuse, Communist Philosopher.
1941 ~ Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign in Europe.
1947 ~ Death of Aung San, Burmese nationalist. Aung San's daughter, Aung San Suu Kyi, is now the leader of the Burmese opposition to the current military regime.
1993 ~ President Clinton announced a compromise allowing homosexuals to serve in the military, but only if they refrained from homosexual activity.
1996 ~ Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic was forced out of office.
2003 ~ Death of Bill Bright, evangelist, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ.
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