Top Historical Events That Happened on July 19 Natural Disasters & Epidemics

1990  Eddie Quillan, actor (Brigadoon, Summer Magic), dies of cancer at 83.   

1991  Miss Black America contestant accuses Mike Tyson of rape   

1991  The South African government admits funding the Zulus to undermine the ANC   

1992  Bert Brugman, Dutch puppeteer (Dutch marionette theater), dies.   

1993  Elmar Klos, Czech director (Shop on Main Street), dies at 83.   

1994  Christian-Jaque, [Christian Maudet], French director (Nana), dies.   

1995  Dorothy McHugh, actress (I Fallen and I Can't Get Up), dies at 87   

2005  President Bush nominates Appeals Court Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. to the United States Supreme Court, following the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor   

2007  Ol Doinyo Lengai mountain erupts, bringing a stop to the daily week long tremors experienced in Nairobi and Northern Tanzania.   

2007  Prathiba Patil is elected as the inaugural female President of India   

2007  Russia expels four British embassy staff in a tit-for-tat response over Britain's expulsion of four of Russia's diplomats. Russia also refuses to cooperate with Britain over the war on terror   

2007  The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 14000 for the inaugural time in history   

2013  20 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Diyala, Iraq.   

2017  US scientists calculate total amount plastic ever produced - 8.3 million tonnes, equal to weight of 1 billion elephants   

2017  US Senator John McCain diagnosed with brain cancer   

2017  "Depacito" by Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee is recorded as becoming the most streamed song ever, played 4.6 billion times.   

2017  Archaeological dig in Kakadu National Park extends Aboriginal peoples time in Australia to 65000 to 80000 years ago.   

2017  In this year, BBC publishes salaries of its top-earning journalists and presenters, two-thirds male, Chris Evans highest at over £2.2 million.   

2018  Israel's parliament passes controversial "nation state" law giving only Jews self-determination, relegating Arabic to "special status"   

2018  inaugural commercial flight, the "bird of peace" between Ethiopia and Eritrea in 20 years lands in Asmara, Eritrea, reuniting families.   

2018  Largest intact sarcophagus of its kind ever are discovered (2000 years old) opened in Alexandria, contains 3 skeletons, not a curse as feared   

2018  Airbus Beluga XL, painted to look like the whale, makes its inaugural flight, landing in Toulouse-Blagnac, France More >>   

2018  Russian ship Dmitri Donskoii, with possible cargo of gold coins is discovered in waters between South Korea and Japan where it sunk in 1905.   

2018  Brazilian soccer international goalkeeper Alisson transfers from Roma to Liverpool for a world record shot blocker's fee of £66.8m   

2018  Duck boot sinks in Table Rock Lake, Missouri, drowning 17 people   

2019  The Iranian Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps captures British tanker Stena Impero and temporarily seizes British-operated and Liberian-flagged tanker Mesdar in the Persian Gulf. The British Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, warns there will be "serious consequences" if Iran does not release the tanker   

2020  In this year, World Formula 1 drivers champion Lewis Hamilton claims a record 8th Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest to equal Michael Schumacher's record of claims at a single circuit (French GP).   

2020  Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani says 25 million Iranians already infected with COVID-19, 35 million at risk (official figure just 269440).   

2020  Flooding of the Brahmaputra River results in the deaths of 189 and leaves 4 million homeless in India and Nepal   

2021  Blue Origin successfully conducts its inaugural human test flight, with a reusable New Shepard rocket delivering four crew members into space: its founder Jeff Bezos, Bezos' brother Mark, 18-year-old Oliver Daemen (who is recorded as becoming the youngest person to go into space), and 82-year-old aviator and Mercury 13 member Wally Funk (who is recorded as becoming the oldest person to go into space).   

2021  Leftist schoolteacher Pedro Castillo is confirmed as President of Peru over a month after the 2021 Peruvian general election   

2021  Day of Hajj: Women are permitted to attend without a male guardian (mehrem) provided they go in a trustworthy group.   

2023  Typhoon Doksuri forms in the eastern Pacific Ocean, going on to kill 137 people in Southeast Asia   

2024  Global IT outages impact a variety of businesses and organisations across the world   

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