History for July 19 - On-This-Day.com
Samuel Colt 1814, Edgar Degas 1834, Lizzie Borden 1860
Charles Horace Mayo 1865, George McGovern 1922, George Hamilton IV 1937
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.
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.
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