Today is July 19. On this date in:
1553
King Henry VIII’s daughter Mary was proclaimed Queen of England after Lady Jane Grey was deposed.
1812
During the War of 1812, the First Battle of Sackets Harbor in Lake Ontario resulted in an American victory as U.S. naval forces repelled a British attack.
1848
A pioneering women’s rights convention convened in Seneca Falls, New York.
1903
The first Tour de France was won by Maurice Garin.
1948
The Terrace Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati, the first major hotel built after World War II, opened.
1961
TWA became the first airline to begin showing regularly scheduled in-flight movies as it presented “By Love Possessed” to first-class passengers on a flight from New York to Los Angeles.
1969
Apollo 11 and its astronauts – Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins – went into orbit around the moon.
1980
The Moscow Summer Olympics began, minus dozens of nations that were boycotting the games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.
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