TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS FRIDAY, JULY 19, 2019

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.

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.

1935 - The world’s first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, US.

1941 - The ‘V for Victory’ campaign is inaugurated by Winston Churchill.

1942 - German U-boats were withdrawn from positions off the U.S. Atlantic coast due to effective American anti-submarine countermeasures.

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). BIRTHDAYS

Samuel Colt 1814

Edgar Degas 1834 Lizzie Borden 1860 Charles Horace Mayo 1865 Percy Lebaron Spencer 1894 A.J. Cronin 1896 Charles Teagarden 1913 Rosalyn Yalow 1921 George McGovern 1922 Pat Hingle 1924

Sue Thompson 1926 Helen Gallagher 1926 Buster Benton 1932 Philip Agee 1935 George Hamilton IV 1937 Richard Jordan 1938 Vikki Carr 1941 Natalya Bessmertnova 1941 Dennis Cole 1943 George Dzundza 1945 Alan Gorrie 1946