Friday July 19, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

July 19: Day of the Week

July 19, 2024 is the 201st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 165 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is vendredi.

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Here’s the July calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

July 19 Historical Event(s)

64
Great Fire of Rome: a fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control. According to a popular, but untrue legend, Nero fiddled as the city burned.
1333
Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon Hill – The English win a decisive victory over the Scots.
1545
The Tudor warship Mary Rose sinks off Portsmouth; in 1982 the wreck is salvaged in one of the most complex and expensive projects in the history of maritime archaeology.
1702
Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.
1908
Dutch football club Feyenoord was founded
1916
World War I: Battle of Fromelles – British and Australian troops attack German trenches in a prelude to the Battle of the Somme.
1942
World War II: Battle of the Atlantic – German Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz orders the last U-boats to withdraw from their United States Atlantic coast positions in response to the effective American convoy system.
1947
Korean politician Yuh Woon-Hyung is assassinated.
1964
Vietnam War: at a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.
1981
In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French Prime Minister François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing that the Soviets had been stealing American technological research and development.

Who were born on July 19?

1800
Juan José Flores, Venezuelan military commander and Ecuadorian politician (d. 1864)
1883
Max Fleischer, Austrian-born American animator and film producer (d. 1972)
1886
Michael Fekete, Hungarian-born Israeli mathematician (d. 1957)
1919
Dallas McKennon, American actor (d. 2009)
1947
Bernie Leadon, The Eagles guitarist
1951
Abel Ferrara, American filmmaker
1966
Nancy Walls, American actress
1981
Didz Hammond, English bass guitarist (Dirty Pretty Things, The Cooper Temple Clause)
1982
Christopher Bear, American drummer (Grizzly Bear)
1987
Jon Jones, American mixed martial artist

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