July 19th
Today in America's Present Past
1692 | Civil Rights: Five people, Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth How, Sarah Good, and Sarah Wildes, are hanged for allegedly practicing witchcraft as a result of the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1814 | Entrepreneur Samuel Colt was born.
1845 | New York City, New York, fire destroys 345 homes and kills 26.
1846 | Astronomer Edward Charles Pickering was born.
1848 | Civil Rights: The first US women's rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.
1850 | Author and activist Margaret Fuller died.
1860 | Lizzie Borden was born.
1863 | Civil War: Battle of Buffington's Island, Ohio.
1865 | Surgeon Charles Horace Mayo was born.
1867 | Congress: Overrides Democrat President Johnson’s veto of the Reconstruction Act.
1881 | Indian Wars: Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull surrenders to federal troops at Fort Buford in the Territory of Montana.
1894 | Inventor Percy Spencer was born.
1919 | Civil Rights: “Red Summer race riots” in Washington, D.C. start.
1922 | Politician George McGovern was born.
1922 | Cleric Harold Camping was born.
1923 | Journalist William A. Rusher was born.
1939 | Poet Rose Hartwick Thorpe died.
1941 | The cartoon “Tom and Jerry” debuted.
1945 | Author Tobias Wolff was born.
1949 | SCOTUS: Justice Frank Murphy died.
1953 | Entrepreneur Howard Schultz was born.
1954 | Elvis Presley’s debut single “That’s All Right” was released.
1961 | The first in-flight movie was shown on Trans World Airlines.
1962 | Actor Anthony Edwards was born.
1967 | Civil Rights: A Long, hot summer of riots continues in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1968 | Civil Rights: Coney Island Riots start.
1969 | Mary Jo Kopechne, American political campaign specialist and Ted Kennedy's car passenger, drowns off Chappaquiddick Island at 28.
2014 | Actor James Garner died.
2024 | Civil Rights: Missouri woman Sandra Hemme was released from prison after her 43-year murder conviction was overturned.