San Diego Union-Tribune (Sunday)
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Sunday, July 19, the 201st day of 2020. There are 165 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight
On July 19, 1993, President Bill Clinton announced a policy allowing homosexuals to serve in the military under a compromise dubbed “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue.”
On this date
In 1943, Allied air forces raided Rome during World War II, the same day Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met in Feltre in northern Italy.
In 1961, TWA became the first airline to begin showing regularly scheduled in-flight movies as it presented “By Love Possessed” to first-class passengers on a flight from New York to Los Angeles.
In 1969, Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the moon.
In 1980, the Moscow Summer Olympics began, minus dozens of nations that were boycotting the games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.
In 1990, Pete Rose, was sentenced in Cincinnati to five months in prison for tax evasion.
In 2006, prosecutors reported that Chicago police beat, kicked, shocked or otherwise tortured scores of Black suspects from the 1970s to the early 1990s to try to extract confessions from them.
Today’s birthdays
Singer Vikki Carr is 80. Blues singer-musician Little Freddie King is 80. Country singermusician Commander Cody is
76. Actor George Dzundza is
75. Tennis Hall of Famer Ilie Nastase is 74. Rock musician Brian May is 73. Actor Campbell Scott is 59. Actor Anthony Edwards is 58. Actor Benedict Cumberbatch is 44.