Right this moment is Saturday, July 19, the two hundredth day of 2025. There are 165 days left within the yr.
Right this moment in historical past:
On July 19, 1848, the primary “Conference to debate the social, civil and spiritual situation and rights of Lady” convened on the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, N.Y.
Additionally on this date:
In 1812, throughout the Conflict of 1812, the First Battle of Sackets Harbor in Lake Ontario resulted in an American victory as U.S. naval forces repelled a British assault.
In 1969, Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit across the moon.
In 1975, the Apollo and Soyuz area capsules that had been linked in orbit for 2 days separated.
In 1979, the Nicaraguan capital of Managua fell to Sandinista guerrillas, two days after President Anastasio Somoza fled the nation.
In 1980, the Moscow Summer time Olympics started, minus dozens of countries that had been boycotting the video games due to Soviet navy intervention in Afghanistan.
In 1989, 111 folks had been killed when United Air Traces Flight 232, a DC-10 which sustained the uncontained failure of its tail engine and the lack of hydraulic programs, crashed whereas making an emergency touchdown at Sioux Metropolis, Iowa; 185 different folks survived.
In 1990, baseball’s all-time hits chief, Pete Rose, was sentenced in Cincinnati to 5 months in jail for tax evasion.
In 1993, President Invoice Clinton introduced a coverage permitting gays to serve within the navy underneath a compromise dubbed “don’t ask, don’t inform, don’t pursue.”
In 2006, prosecutors reported that Chicago police beat, kicked, shocked or in any other case tortured scores of Black suspects from the Nineteen Seventies to the early Nineteen Nineties to attempt to extract confessions from them.
In 2005, President George W. Bush introduced his alternative of federal appeals court docket decide John G. Roberts Jr. to interchange Supreme Court docket Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. (Roberts ended up succeeding Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who died in Sept. 2005; Samuel Alito adopted O’Connor.)
In 2013, in a uncommon and public reflection on race, President Barack Obama referred to as on the nation to do some soul looking out over the dying of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of his shooter, George Zimmerman, saying the slain Black teenager “may have been me 35 years in the past.”
In 2018, a duck boat full of vacationers capsized and sank in excessive winds on a lake within the vacationer city of Branson, Missouri, killing 17 folks.
In 2021, Paul Allard Hodgkins, a Florida man who breached the U.S. Senate chamber on Jan. 6, 2021, carrying a Trump marketing campaign flag, obtained an eight-month jail time period within the first decision of a felony case arising from the U.S. Capitol rebel. (In 2025, President Donald Trump pardoned, commuted the jail sentences or vowed to dismiss the circumstances of all 1,500-plus folks charged with crimes within the riot.)
In 2022, Britain shattered its report for the very best temperature ever registered amid a warmth wave that seared swaths of Europe.
Right this moment’s Birthdays:
- Civil rights activist and educator Rachel Robinson, widow of baseball’s Jackie Robinson, is 103.
- Blues singer-musician Little Freddie King is 85.
- Singer-musician Alan Gorrie (Common White Band) is 79.
- Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Famer Ilie Nastase is 79.
- Rock musician Brian Might (Queen) is 78.
- Rock musician Bernie Leadon is 78.
- Film director Abel Ferrara is 74.
- Film director Atom Egoyan is 65.
- Actor Campbell Scott is 64.
- Actor Anthony Edwards is 63.
- Ukrainian politician and former boxing champion Vitali Klitschko is 54.
- Actor Benedict Cumberbatch is 49.
- TV chef Marcela Valladolid is 47.
- Actor Trai Byers (TV: “Empire”) is 42.