Hisdates•ComPage 8: Historical Events In July - 19
Thursday, 03 April 2025
1990 Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, Calif on July - 19. 
1990 Eddie Quillan, actor (Brigadoon, Summer Magic), dies of cancer at 83 on this day in history.
1991 On July - 19 miss Black America contestant accuses Mike Tyson of rape
1991 The South African government admits funding the Zulus to undermine the ANC on July - 19.
1992 On July - 19 bert Brugman, Dutch puppeteer (Dutch marionette theater), dies
1993 On this day in history elmar Klos, Czech director (Shop on Main Street), dies at 83
1994 On July - 19 christian-Jaque, [Christian Maudet], French director (Nana), dies
1995 On this day in history dorothy McHugh, actress (I Fallen & I Can't Get Up), dies at 87
2005 President Bush nominates Appeals Court Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. to the United States Supreme Court, following the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor on this day in history.
2007 On this day in history ol Doinyo Lengai mountain erupts, bringing a stop to the daily week long tremors experienced in Nairobi and Northern Tanzania.
2007 Prathiba Patil is elected as the first female President of India on July - 19.
2007 On this day in history russia expels four British embassy staff in a tit-for-tat response over Britain's expulsion of four of Russia's diplomats. Russia also refuses to cooperate with Britain over the war on terror.
2007 On this day in history the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 14,000 for the first time in history.
2013 20 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Diyala, Iraq on July - 19.
2017 US scientists calculate total amount plastic ever produced - 8.3 million tonnes, equal to weight of 1 billion elephants on July - 19.
2017 US Senator John McCain diagnosed with brain cancer on this day in history.
2017 "Depacito" by Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee becomes the most streamed song ever, played 4.6 billion times on July - 19.
2017 Archaeological dig in Kakadu National Park extends Aboriginal peoples time in Australia to 65,000 to 80,000 years ago on July - 19.
2017 BBC publishes salaries of its top-earning journalists and presenters, two-thirds male, Chris Evans highest at over £2.2 million on July - 19.
2018 Israel's parliament passes controversial "nation state" law giving only Jews self-determination, relegating Arabic to "special status" on this day in history.
2018 First commercial flight, the "bird of peace" between Ethiopia and Eritrea in 20 years lands in Asmara, Eritrea, reuniting families on this day in history.
2018 On July - 19 largest intact sarcophagus of its kind ever found (2000 years old) opened in Alexandria, contains 3 skeletons, not a curse as feared
2018 On this day in history airbus Beluga XL, painted to look like the whale, makes its first flight, landing in Toulouse-Blagnac, France More >>
2018 On this day in history russian ship Dmitri Donskoii, with possible cargo of gold coins is discovered in waters between South Korea and Japan where it sunk in 1905
2018 Brazilian soccer international goalkeeper Alisson transfers from Roma to Liverpool for a world record shot blocker's fee of £66.8m on July - 19.
2018 On July - 19 duck boot sinks in Table Rock Lake, Missouri, drowning 17 people
2019 On this day in history the Iranian Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps captures British tanker Stena Impero and temporarily seizes British-operated and Liberian-flagged tanker Mesdar in the Persian Gulf. The British Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, warns there will be "serious consequences" if Iran does not release the tanker.
2020 On this day in history world Formula 1 drivers champion Lewis Hamilton wins a record 8th Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest to equal Michael Schumacher's record of wins at a single circuit (French GP)
2020 On this day in history iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says 25 million Iranians already infected with COVID-19, 35 million at risk (official figure just 269,440)
2020 Flooding of the Brahmaputra River kills 189 and leaves 4 million homeless in India and Nepal on July - 19.
2021 On July - 19 blue Origin successfully conducts its first human test flight, with a reusable New Shepard rocket delivering four crew members into space: its founder Jeff Bezos, Bezos' brother Mark, 18-year-old Oliver Daemen (who becomes the youngest person to go into space), and 82-year-old aviator and Mercury 13 member Wally Funk (who becomes the oldest person to go into space).
2021 On July - 19 leftist schoolteacher Pedro Castillo is confirmed as President of Peru over a month after the 2021 Peruvian general election.
2021 Day of Hajj: Women are permitted to attend without a male guardian (mehrem) provided they go in a trustworthy group on this day in history.
2023 Typhoon Doksuri forms in the eastern Pacific Ocean, going on to kill 137 people in Southeast Asia on this day in history.
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