07-19-2004, 05:52 AM
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July 19th
1533 ~ Lady Jane Grey was replaced by Mary I as Queen of England after having that title for just nine days.
1814 ~ Birthday of Samuel Colt, Inventor.
1834 ~ Birthday of Edgar Degas, Impressionist Painter.
1873 ~ William Gosse became the first European to discover Ayers Rock and named it in honor of South Australian Premier Sir Henry Ayers.
1898 ~ Birthday of Herbert Marcuse, Communist Philosopher.
1922 ~ Birthday of George McGovern, WWII Bomber pilot & sometime Presidential Candidate.
1942 ~ World War II: Battle of the Atlantic - German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz ordered the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to an effective American convoy system.
1976 ~ Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal was created.
1985 ~ Death of Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish science fiction writer.
1989 ~ A Douglas DC-10 carrying United Airlines flight 232 crashed in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 but due to extraordinary efforts by the pilot and his crew, 184 on board survive. *** There is an interesting article on this in the current issue of Scientific American. ***
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