TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS THURSDAY, JULY 19, 2018

On this day in history:

1525 - The Catholic princes of Germany formed the Dessau League to fight against the Reformation.

1553 - Fifteen-year-old Lady Jane Grey was deposed as Queen of England after claiming the crown for nine days. Mary, the daughter of King Henry VIII, was proclaimed Queen.

1788 - Prices plunged on the Paris stock market.

1799 - The Rosetta Stone, a tablet with hieroglyphic translations into Greek, was found in Egypt.

1799 - Matthew Flinders becomes the first known European to land on Coochiemudlo Island in Moreton Bay.

1814 - Matthew Flinders, the first explorer to circumnavigate Australia, dies.

1870 - France declared war on Prussia.

1916 - Australia begins its worst 24 hours in history, with the loss of almost 2000 men in a single night.

1946 - Marilyn Monroe acted in her first screen test.

1979 - In Nicaragua, the dictatorship of the Somozas was overthrown by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional or FSLN).

1985 - Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. She died with six others when the Challenger exploded the following year.

1989 - United Airlines Flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 111.

1992 - A car bomb kills Judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort

1997 - The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year paramilitary campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.

2014 - Gunmen in Egypt’s western desert province of New Valley Governorate attack a military checkpoint, killing at least 21 soldiers. Egypt reportedly declares a state of emergency on its border with Sudan.