July 19

Today in History
• 1510 - 38 Jews are burned at stake in Berlin, Prussia
• 1524 - Peasants' War begins in Germany's Black Forest
• 1545 - King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth; 73 die
• 1692 - 5 more people are hanged for witchcraft (19 in all) in Salem, Massachusetts
• 1848 - 1st U.S. women's rights convention (Seneca Falls New York)
• 1860 - 1st railroad reaches Kansas
• 1866 - Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment, guaranteeing civil rights
• 1899 - National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, forms


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Al-Hijra
• Amun Jadid
• Liberation Day/FSLN Revolution Day
• Martyr's Day in Myanmar
• National Football Day
• National Hot Dog Day
• Take Your Poet to Work Day
• The Sandinista Revolution Day

Birthdays
• 1735 - Garret Wesley, 1st Earl of Mornington, Anglo-Irish composer
• 1759 - Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint
• 1800 - Juan José Flores, General and first President of Ecuador (1839-1845)
• 1814 - Samuel Colt, U.S. inventor, Colt 6 shot revolver
• 1817 - Mary Ann Bickerdyke, American army nurse
• 1822 - Princess Augusta of Cambridge, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
• 1838 - Joel Asaph Allen, 1st curator of birds and mammals, American Museum of Natural History
• 1865 - Charles Horace Mayo, American surgeon and co-founder (Mayo Clinic)