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Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 19 July.

1. 1st Women's Rights Convention Seneca Falls NY
2. 1st Wimbledon tennis championships held.
3. SF Public Library starts lending books
4. Neil Ball turns an unassisted triple play at 1st
5. 1st parking meters installed in Oklahoma City.
6. 1st use of Fiberglas sutures RP Scholz St Louis Mo
7. Laos becomes associated state within French Union.
8. Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum.
9. 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired Yucca Flat Nevada
10. 1st in-flight movie is shown (on TWA).
11. Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km.
12. Mary Jo Kopechne dies at 28
13. Yanks host 48th All Star Game NL wins 7-5
14. Yanks start a 14 1/2 game comeback with 2-0 win
15. Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza.
16. Don Mattingly sets AL record of extra base hits in 10 cons games

These famous people were born on 19 July.

1. 1814 - Samuel Colt, invented Colt Revolver
2. 1834 - Edgar Degas, French impressionist painter.
3. 1846 - Charles Edward Pickering, pioneer American spectroscopist
4. 1865 - Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon, cofounder of Mayo Clinic.
5. 1893 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet poet.
6. 1896 - A.J. Cronin, English author.
7. 1917 - William W. Scranton, (R-Gov-Pa)
8. 1922 - George McGovern, (D-Sen-SD), pres candidate
9. 1924 - Pat Hingle
10. 1941 - Vicki Carr, in El Paso Texas
11. 1943 - Dennis Cole
12. 1946 - Ilie Nastase, Tennis player