Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 19

This is a list of selected July 19 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

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  Mary I of England
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  Detail from The Day the Earth Smiled, with Earth as a pale dot between Saturn's rings
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  Isabella II
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  Mary Rose as depicted in the Anthony Roll
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  Remnants of the Mary Rose
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  Georg Anton Schäffer
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  Statue of General Aung San
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  François Mitterrand and Ronald Reagan
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  SS Great Britain in 2005
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  Luton Town Hall in 1897

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Burmese Martyrs' Day	refimprove section
Independence Day in Laos (1949)	multiple issues
1333 – Second War of Scottish Independence: Scottish forces under Sir Archibald Douglas were heavily defeated by the English at the Battle of Halidon Hill while trying to relieve Berwick-upon-Tweed.	multiple issues
1870 – A dispute over who would become the next Spanish monarch following the deposition of Isabella II during the 1868 Glorious Revolution led France to declare war on Prussia.	unreferenced section
1908 – Feyenoord Rotterdam, today one of the "big three" professional football teams in the Netherlands, was founded as the club Wilhelmina in a pub.	recentism, refimprove section
1947 – Centrist Korean politician Lyuh Woon-hyung was assassinated by an active member of a nationalist right-wing group.	multiple issues
1947 – Burmese nationalist Aung San and six members of his newly formed cabinet were assassinated during a cabinet meeting.	undue weight
1979 – Sandinista rebels overthrew the U.S.-backed government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.	more citations needed
1981 – French president François Mitterrand privately showed U.S. president Ronald Reagan a dossier revealing that the Soviets had been stealing American technological research and development.	more citations needed
1989 – After suffering an uncontained failure of an engine which destroyed all of its hydraulic systems, United Airlines Flight 232 broke up during an emergency landing in Sioux City, Iowa, killing 111 people.	page numbers needed
* AD 64 – The Great Fire of Rome began in shops around the Circus Maximus, eventually destroying three of the fourteen regions of the city and severely damaging seven others.	Tagged for deficient citations

Eligible

• 1545 – The English warship Mary Rose (pictured) sank just outside Portsmouth during the Battle of the Solent.
• 1553 – Mary I was proclaimed Queen of England, deposing Lady Jane Grey after nine days of de facto rule.
• 1702 – Great Northern War: Polish–Saxon forces were defeated by a Swedish army half their size at the Battle of Kliszów.
• 1817 – Georg Anton Schäffer was forced to depart for China after his unsuccessful attempt to seize the Hawaiian Kingdom for the Russian Empire.
• 1848 – The two-day Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's-rights and feminist convention held in the United States, opened in Seneca Falls, New York.
• 1916 – First World War: The "worst 24 hours in Australia's entire history" occurred when Australian forces unsuccessfully attacked German defences at Fromelles, France.
• 1919 – Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of the First World War, English ex-servicemen unhappy with unemployment and other grievances rioted and burned down Luton Town Hall (pictured).
• 1957 – The largely autobiographical novel The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh was published.
• 1976 – Environmental activists bombed the port facilities in Bunbury, Western Australia, in an attempt to disrupt the woodchipping industry.
• 1992 – A car bomb killed the anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino and five policemen in Palermo, Italy, less than two months after the murder of Borsellino's friend and colleague Giovanni Falcone.
• 1997 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army announced that it would resume its ceasefire, ending its 28-year campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.
• 2013 – The NASA spacecraft Cassini took a photograph of Saturn with Earth in the distance (detail pictured), for which people were invited to "wave at Saturn".
• Born/died: | Damian Dalassenos |d|998| Philippa of Lancaster |d|1415| Richard Leveridge |b|1670| Giuseppe Castiglione |b|1688| Thomas Talbot |b|1771| William McSherry |b|1799|Mangal Pandey |b|1827| David Hillhouse Buel |b|1862|Florence Foster Jenkins |b|1868| Khawaja Nazimuddin |b|1894 Chetana Nagavajara|b|1937| Yekaterina Budanova |d|1943| Nicola Sturgeon |b|1970| Sylvia Daoust |d|2004

Notes

• Giovanni Falcone appears on May 23, so Paolo Borsellino should not appear in the same year
• Lady Jane Grey appears on July 10, so Mary I should not appear in the same year

July 19

Launch of SS Great Britain

• 998 – Arab–Byzantine wars: After initial Byzantine gains at the Battle of Apamea, a lone Kurdish rider killed Byzantine commander Damian Dalassenos, allowing Fatimid troops to turn the tide of the battle.
• 1843 – SS Great Britain, the first ocean-going ship with both an iron hull and a screw propeller, was launched (pictured) in Bristol, England.
• 1845 – A fire in Manhattan, New York, destroyed 345 buildings, killed 30 people, and caused at least $5 million in damage.
• 1903 – French cyclist Maurice Garin won the first edition of the Tour de France.
• 2014 – Gunmen perpetrated an assault against an Egyptian military checkpoint in the Libyan Desert, killing 22 soldiers.

• Jacopo Tiepolo (d. 1249)
• Margaret Fuller (d. 1850)
• Han Sai Por (b. 1943)
• Galina Prozumenshchikova (d. 2015)

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