Today in History for 19th July 2017:
Historical Events
1848 – 1st US women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls NY, organised by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
1867 – US Congress passed 3rd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson’s veto
1967 – Race riots in Durham NC
1981 – 68th Tour de France won by Bernard Hinault of France
1993 – President Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions
1996 – 26th Olympic Games opens in Atlanta, Georgia
Famous Birthdays
1742 – Jean-Baptiste Davaux, composer
1744 – Heinrich Christian Boie, German author (d. 1806)
1851 – Hendrik J Jut, Dutch murderer (head of Jut)
1894 – Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin, Russian mathematician (d. 1959)
1970 – Brooks Thompson, NBA guard (NY Knicks, Orlando Magic)
1982 – Stuart Parnaby, English footballer
Famous Deaths
1234 – Floris IV, count of Holland, killed in tournament
1896 – Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (b. 1859)
1994 – Gottfried Reinhardt, theatre Producer, dies at 81
1996 – Mervyn Hugh Cowie, willife conservationist, dies at 87
2005 – Edward Bunker, American writer (b. 1933)
2013 – Mel Smith, English comedian and author, dies from a heart attack at 60