History for July 19

History for July 19 - On-This-Day.com
Samuel Colt 1814, Edgar Degas 1834, Lizzie Borden 1860


Richard Jordan 1938, Vikki Carr 1941, Anthony Edwards 1962 


1799 - The Rosetta Stone, a tablet with hieroglyphic translations into Greek, was found in Egypt. 


1942 - German U-boats were withdrawn from positions off the U.S. Atlantic coast due to effective American anti-submarine countermeasures. 


1946 - Marilyn Monroe acted in her first screen test. 


1971 - In New York, the topping out ceremony for Two World Trade Center (South Tower) took place. The ceremony for One World Trade Center had taken place on December 23, 1970. 


1975 - The Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts separated after being linked in orbit for two days. 


1982 - The U.S. Census Bureau reported that 14% of the population had an income below the official poverty level in 1981. 


1984 - Geraldine Ferraro was nominated by the Democratic Party to become the first woman from a major political party to run for the office of U.S. Vice-President. 


1985 - Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. She died with six others when the Challenger exploded the following year.