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Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of July 19:

1966 Brad Friedman co-author of Powr2DAY! In History is Born!
1814 Samuel Colt inventor (colt revolver)
1817 Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke US, army nurse (union)
1834 Edgar Degas France, impressionist painter (Bouquet)
1846 Charles Edward Pickering pioneered American spectroscopist
1860 Lizzie Borden murderer, gave her mother forty whacks
1865 Charles Horace Mayo surgeon, cofounded Mayo Clinic
1896 A.J. Cronin England, author (Citadel, Shining Victory)
1898 Herbert Marcuse Berlin, communist philosopher (One-Dimensional Man)
19-- Anthony Edwards Santa Barbara Calif, actor (It Takes Two)
19-- James Morrison actor (Joey Moscini-General Hospital)
1905 Boyd Neel Blackheath, Kent England, conductor (Story of an Orch)
1906 Klaus Egge Gransherad, Telemark Norway, composer (Noregsonger)
1916 Phillip Cavaretta baseball player (NL MVP 1945)
1917 William W Scranton (Gov-R-Pa)
1919 Patricia Medina Liverpool England, actress (High-Low)
1920 Robert Mann Portland Oregon, violinist (String Quartet 1952)
1922 George McGovern (Sen-D-SD), pres candidate (D-1972)
1923 Pat Hingle Denver Colo, actor (Baby Boom, Norma Rae, Bloody Mama)
1926 Helen Gallagher Bkln, actress (Ryan's Hope, Strangers When We Meet)
1929 Sofia Muratova USSR, gymnist,(Olympic-6 gold/3 silv/4 bronze-1952-60)
1937 George Hamilton IV NC, actor (Evel Knievel, Love at 1st Bite)
1937 Larry Boxx founded Land B Computer Serv
1938 Richard Jordan NYC, actor (Dune, Old Boyfriends, Interiors)
1938 Vikki Carr El Paso Tx, singer (Let it Please Be Him)
1940 Dennis Cole Detroit, actor (Felony Squad, Brackens's World)
1941 Natalya Bessmertnova Moscow, dancer (Bolshoi, Lenin Prize 1970)
1943 Roy D Bridges Jr Atlanta Ga, Col USAF/astronaut (STS 51F, STS 61F)
1946 Ilie Nastase Bucharest Romania, tennis player (US Open 1972)
1947 Bernie Leadon guitarist/vocalist (Eagles-Take it Easy)
1947 Brian May guitarist (Queen-We are the Champions)
1947 Gerard Schwarz Weehawken NJ, trumpeter/conductor (LA Chamber Orch)
1948 Beverly Archer Oak Park Ill, actress (Iola-Mama's Family)
1948 Keith Godchaux keyboardist (Grateful Dead)
1952 Alan Collins guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1952 Howard Donald Saunders Danbury Ct, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1954 Kathleen Turner actress (Accidental Tourist, Jewel of Nile)
1956 Peter Barton Valley Stream LI, actor (Powers of Matthew Star)
1959 Terri Treas KC Kansas, actress (Hannah-7 Brides for 7 Brothers)
1961 Suzi Schott Springfield Ill, playmate (August, 1984)
1963 Sandor Wladar Hungary, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1980)
1968 Carolie DeVonne Howe Chugwater Wyoming, Miss Wyoming-America (1991)
1976 RJ Williams actor (General Hospital, Full House)


Deaths which occurred on July 19:

1940 Samuel H Chang American newspaper magnate murdered in Shanghai
1958 Robert Earl Hughes weighed 1,041 lbs (473 kg), dies at 32
1964 Carol Veazie actress (Maude-Norby), dies at 69
1969 Mary Jo Kopechne dies at 28, in Ted Kennedy's car
1970 Barry Wood singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 61
1974 Joe Flynn actor (McHale's Navy), dies at 59
1984 Carol Eberts Veazie actor, dies at 89
1990 Herbert Nelson actor (Guilding Light), dies at 76 of a stroke
1990 Johnny Wayne comedian (Wayne & Shuster), dies at 72 of cancer

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
 1966    DIAMOND          STEPHEN WHITMAN   ROSLYN HEIGHTS        NY     03/18/77 SRV RETURNED REMAINS TO PCOM  
1966 DENNISON TERRY A. COSMOPOLIS WA 03/06/74 REMAINS RETURNED
1966 WINTERS DARRYL G. SAN FRANCISCO CA
1967 FRYE DONALD P. LOS ANGELES CA REMAINS RETURNED 10/14/82
1967 JACKSON WILLIAM B. STOCKDALE TX REMAINS RETURNED 10/14/82
1967 MC GRANE DONALD P. WAVERLY IA REMAINS RETURNED 10/14/82
1967 PETERSON DENNIS W. HUNTINGTON PARK CA "CRASH, NO SURV OBS"
1969 MARTIN AUBREY GRADY BEEVILLE TX 07/74 REMAINS RECOVERED
1969 SIKKINK ROY DEAN TULSA OK 07/69 REMAINS RECOVERED

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On this day...

514 St Symmachus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
532 Start of Dionysian Pascal Cycle
1321 -BC- origin of Era of Menophres
1510 38 Jews are burned at the stake in Berlin Prussia
1553 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after 9 days
1816 Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days
1848 1st women's rights convention (Seneca Falls, NY)
1860 1st railroad reaches Kansas
1862 Forrest's 1st raid
1870 France declares war on Prussia; the Franco-Prussian war begins
1875 Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, NYC
1877 1st Wimbledon tennis championships held
1880 SF Public Library starts lending books
1882 J Palisa discovers asteroid #226 Weringia
1907 K Lohnert discovers asteroid #639 Latona
1909 1st baseman Neil Ball turns unassisted triple-play
1913 Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers
           among Popular Songs" Malinda's Wedding Day is #1
1914 Boston Braves begin drive from last to 1st place in the NL
1918 German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I)
1923 WRC-AM in Washington DC begins radio transmissions
1925 V Albitzkij discovers asteroid #1059 Mussorgskia
1927 Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th hit
1928 H E Wood discovers asteroid #1305 Pongola
1939 1st use of fiberglass sutures, R.P. Scholz, St Louis, Mo
1941 1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicted (Tuskegee Ala)
1941 British PM Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign
1941 President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee
1943 Allied air forces raid Rome during WW II
1949 Laos becomes associated state within French Union
1952 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki
1955 Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum
1957 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
1957 Don Bowden becomes 1st American to break 4 minute mile (3m58s7)
1960 SF Giants Juan Marichal debuts, with a 1 hitter against Phillies
1961 1st in-flight movie shown (TWA)
1963 NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km
1963 Phila Phillies Roy Siever hits HR # 300
1965 Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
1966 Gov James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot)
1967 Race riots in Durham NC
1967 US launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km)
1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit
1971 B Burnasheva discovers asteroid #2259 Sofievka
1973 Willie Mays named to NL all star team for 24th time (ties Musial)
1974 Cleve Indian Dick Bosman no-hits Oakland A's, 4-0
1974 David Bowie's Diamond Dog tour ends in NYC
1974 Felix Aguilar Observatory discovers asteroid #3118
1975 Apollo & Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate
1976 Rock group Deep Purple disbands
1977 N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2228 Soyuz-Apollo
1977 NL beats AL 7-5 in 48th All Star Game (Yankee Stadium, NY)
1978 Yanks start 14« game comeback with 2-0 win
1979 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 TONS of oil spill
1979 Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza
1979 Patricia Harris, becomes sect of HEW
1980 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; US & others boycott
1980 David Bowie appears in role of Elephant Man in Denver
1980 Moscow Summer Olympics begin, US & others boycott
1982 David S Dodge becomes the 1st American hostage in Lebanon
1984 1st female to captain a 747 across the Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)
1984 Geraldine A Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY), won Democratic VP nomination
1985 Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st schoolteacher to fly the space shuttle
1986 Caroline Kennedy weds Edwin A Schlossberg in Centerville, Mass
1986 Indian pitcher Phil Niekro wins his 307th game tying him with
           Mickey Welch for 14th place on all time win list
1987 Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 cons games
1989 United flight 232 crashes in Iowa
1990 BASF plant in Cincinnatti explodes in flames, 1 dies
1990 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion
1990 Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, Calif
           Dave Raghetti pitches in his 499th game as a NY Yankee, passing
           Whitey Ford in most appearances as a NY Yankee
1991 Miss Black America contestant accuses Mike Tyson of rape
1991 With NY Yankee victory, 10 of 14 AL teams are at .500 or better
2781 -BC- Presumed start of Egyptian calendar





Holidays

Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Burma : Martyrs' Day
Laos : Independence Day (1949)

Religious Observances

Old Catholic : Feast of St Vincent de Paul, confessor

Religious History

1649 In London, Edward Winslow, governor of the Plymouth Colony, helped organize theSociety for Propagating the Gospel in New England, for the purpose of converting theAmerican Indians to Christian faith.
1692 Five Massachusetts women were hanged for witchcraft. Fifteen young girls in theSalem community charged as many as 150 citizens in the area with witchcraft during thegreater part of this year.
1825 The American Unitarian Association was founded by members of the liberal wing ofthe Congregational churches in New England.
1835 Birth of Jesse Engle, pioneer missionary. In 1898 he led the first party of fivemissionaries to Africa under sponsorship of the Brethren in Christ Missions.
1904 Construction began on the Liverpool Cathedral in England. The cathedral wascompleted 20 years later and consecrated on this same date in 1924.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)

Thought for the day :

" Every noble work is at first impossible. "

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