On This Day:
Saturday July 19, 2014 This is the 200th day of the year, with 165 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: baskets Baskets are generally either of coiled construction (a single element wound in a continuous spiral around itself) of noncoiled (such as wattle, lattice, matting, plaited). Archaeologists say the salient characteristics of basketry are the same today as they were in the 3rd millennium BC.
Holidays Feast day of Saints Justa and Rufina, St. Ambrose Autpert, St. Macrina the Younger, St. Arsenius the Great, St. James of Nisibia, St. Symmachus, pope, and St. John Plesington.
Nicaragua: National Liberation Day.
Events 1799 - During Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign, a French soldier discovered the Rosetta Stone, a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing, about 35 miles north of Alexandria.
1848 - In Seneca Falls, New York, a women's rights convention called by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia C. Mott -- the first ever held in the U.S. -- convened.
1870 - The Franco-Prussian War began.
1903 - The first Tour de France cycle race was won by Maurice Garin.
1941 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign in Europe.
1969 - Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the Moon.
1986 - Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John F. Kennedy, married Edwin A. Schlossberg in Centerville, Massachusetts.
1989 - United Airlines flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 of 296 passengers on board.
2006 - Dublin City FC ceased trading and resigned from the Eircom League.
Births 1814 - Samuel Colt, American inventor of the revolver.
1834 - Edgar Degas, French artist.
1846 - Edward Charles Pickering, American physicist and astronomer.
1865 - Charles Mayo, American surgeon, founded Mayo Clinic / Mayo Foundation with his brother.
1946 - Ilie Năstase, Romanian tennis player.
1962 - Anthony Edwards, American actor.
Deaths 1374 - Petrarch, Italian scholar and poet.
1814 - Captain Matthew Flinders, English explorer of Australia.
1896 - Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle.
1910 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer.
2004 - Zenko Suzuki, Japanese politician and the 70th Prime Minister of Japan.
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