07-19-2005, 05:05 AM
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July 19th
1374 ~ Death of Petrarch, Italian Poet & early Humanist.
1834 ~ Birthday of Edgar Degas, Impressionist Painter.
1848 ~ The two day Women's Rights Convention opened in Seneca Falls, New York and the "Bloomers" were introduced at the feminist convention.
1870 ~ Franco-Prussian War: France declared war on Prussia.
1898 ~ Birthday of Herbert Marcuse, Communist Philosopher.
1940 ~ Battle of Cape Spada between the Royal Navy and the Regia Marina; the Italian light cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni sunk, with 121 casualties.
1945 ~ Montgomery Ward was seized by U.S. Army troops at the direction of Attorney General Francis Biddle because of its refusal to obey National War Labor Board orders.
1947 ~ Death of Aung San, Burmese nationalist. Aung San's daughter, Aung San Suu Kyi, is now the leader of the Burmese opposition to the current military regime.
1948 ~ Games of the XIV Olympiad opened in London. In 2012 that will happen again for the XXX Olypiad.
2003 ~ Death of Bill Bright, evangelist, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ.
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