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Neary's, a New York City Irish pub popular with political elites, closed.
38 events · 20 births · 20 deaths · 8 observances. From 998 to 2024.

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Neary's, a New York City Irish pub popular with political elites, closed.
July 19 is the 200th day of the year. These facts are computed from the calendar, not copied from anywhere.
A dated happening — a battle, treaty, launch, discovery, disaster or decision — recorded on this calendar day.

Neary's, a New York City Irish pub popular with political elites, closed.
The Knesset passes the controversial Nationality Bill, which defines the State of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people.
Gunmen in Egypt's western desert province of New Valley Governorate attack a military checkpoint, killing at least 21 soldiers. Egypt reportedly declares a state of emergency on its border with Sudan.
Gunmen ambushed an Egyptian military checkpoint in the Libyan Desert near Farafra, killing 22 soldiers.

The NASA spacecraft Cassini took a photograph of Saturn with Earth in the distance (detail pictured), for which people were invited to "wave at Saturn".

Syrian civil war: The People's Protection Units (YPG) capture the city of Kobanî without resistance, starting the Rojava conflict in Northeast Syria.

Guinean President Alpha Condé survives an attempted assassination and coup d'état at his residence in Conakry.

The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army announced that it would resume its ceasefire, ending its 28-year campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.
Alas Chiricanas Flight 00901 is destroyed by a bomb after takeoff from Enrique Adolfo Jiménez Airport in Colón, Panama, killing 21.
A car bomb killed the anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino and five policemen in Palermo, Italy, less than two months after the murder of Borsellino's friend and colleague Giovanni Falcone.
United Airlines Flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa, killing 111.
The Val di Stava dam collapses, killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.

In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University of Beirut, is kidnapped.
In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French President François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing the Soviet Union had been stealing American technological research and development.

Opening of the Summer Olympics in Moscow.
The oil tanker SS Atlantic Empress collides with another oil tanker, causing the largest ever ship-borne oil spill.

The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.

The world's first Global Positioning System (GPS) signal is transmitted from Navigation Technology Satellite 2 (NTS-2) and received at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at 12:41 a.m. Eastern time (ET).

Environmental activists bombed the port facilities in Bunbury, Western Australia, in an attempt to disrupt the woodchipping industry.

Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
Dhofar Rebellion: British SAS units help the Omani government against Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman rebels in the Battle of Mirbat.
Chappaquiddick incident: U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy crashes his car into a tidal pond at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.
Piedmont Airlines Flight 22, a Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727-22, and a twin-engine Cessna 310 collide over Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA. Both aircraft are destroyed and all passengers and crew are killed, including John T. McNaughton, an advisor to Robert McNamara.

The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, a largely autobiographical novel by Evelyn Waugh, was published.

The July 1936 military uprising in Barcelona begins.
Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of the First World War, English ex-servicemen unhappy with unemployment and other grievances rioted and burned down Luton Town Hall.

First World War: The "worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history" occurred when Australian forces unsuccessfully attacked German defences at Fromelles, France.

French cyclist Maurice Garin won the first edition of the Tour de France.

The two-day Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's-rights and feminist convention held in the United States, opened in Seneca Falls, New York.
A fire in Manhattan, New York City, destroyed 345 buildings, killed 30 people, and caused at least $5 million in damage.

SS Great Britain, the first ocean-going ship with both an iron hull and a screw propeller, was launched (pictured) in Bristol, England.
Georg Anton Schäffer was forced to depart for China after his unsuccessful attempt to seize the Hawaiian Kingdom for the Russian Empire.

Great Northern War: Polish–Saxon forces were defeated by a Swedish army half their size at the Battle of Kliszów.

Mary I was proclaimed Queen of England, deposing Lady Jane Grey after nine days of de facto rule.

The English warship Mary Rose sank outside Portsmouth during the Battle of the Solent; it was raised from the seabed in 1982.
Second War of Scottish Independence: Scottish forces under Sir Archibald Douglas were heavily defeated by the English at the Battle of Halidon Hill while trying to relieve Berwick-upon-Tweed.

Arab–Byzantine wars: After initial Byzantine gains at the Battle of Apamea, a lone Kurdish rider killed Byzantine commander Damian Dalassenos, allowing Fatimid troops to turn the tide of the battle.
A notable person born on this day. Each links to a person page with their dates and story.


A notable person who died on this day.

Nguyễn Phú Trọng, Vietnamese politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (born 1944)
James C. Scott, American political scientist and anthropologist (born 1936)

Jon Schnepp, American producer, director, voice actor, editor, writer, cartoonist, animator, and cinematographer (born 1967)
Galina Prozumenshchikova, Ukrainian-Russian swimmer and journalist (born 1948)
Carmino Ravosa, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1930)

Gennadiy Seleznyov, Russian journalist and politician, 2nd Speaker of the Duma (born 1947)
David Easton, Canadian-American political scientist and academic (born 1917)

Skye McCole Bartusiak, American child actress and child model (born 1992)
A holiday, feast day, awareness day or national day observed every year on this date.
Christian feast day: Kirdjun (or Abakerazum)
Christian feast day: Macrina the Younger, Sister of St. Basil the Great
Christian feast day: Justa and Rufina

Christian feast day: Bernold, Bishop of Utrecht

Christian feast day: John Plessington
Christian feast day: Aurea of Córdoba
Christian feast day: Symmachus
Palace Day
Earliest: Arab–Byzantine wars (998). Most recent: Neary's (2024).
July 19 is the 200th day of the year, with 165 days left after it.
July 19 falls under Cancer (June 21 – July 22), a water sign ruled by Moon. The birthstone for the month is Ruby.
We record 86 entries for July 19: 38 events · 20 births · 20 deaths · 8 observances. From 998 to 2024.
Dani Muñoz (2006) is among the notable births on July 19. The births section lists the rest.
The day is filled the first time anyone opens it and then re-checked for new entries about every 90 days. Computed facts such as the weekday and the anniversaries update every year.
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