more events on July 19
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1975
Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts dock in orbit.
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1943
More than 150 B-17 and 112 B-24 bombers attack Rome for the first time.
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1942
German U-boats are withdrawn from positions off the U.S. Atlantic coast due to American anti-submarine countermeasures.
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1922
George McGovern, U.S. senator and presidential candidate.
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1905
Edgar Snow, journalist.
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1896
A.J. Cronin, Scottish novelist (The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom).
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1893
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian poet.
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1870
France declares war on Prussia.
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1865
Charles Mayo, American surgeon, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic.
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1860
Lizzie Borden, teacher, famous murder suspect.
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1848
The first Women’s Rights Convention convenes in Seneca Falls, N.Y, organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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1834
Edgar Degas, French impressionist painter.
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1814
Samuel Colt, gunmaker, inventor of the first practical revolver.
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1799
The Rosetta Stone, a tablet with hieroglyphic translations into Greek, is found in Egypt.
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1788
Prices plunge on the Paris stock market.
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1545
King Henry VIII of England watches his flagship, Mary Rose, capsize as it leaves to battle the French.
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1525
The Catholic princes of Germany form the Dessau League to fight against the Reformation.