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What happened on July 19 in American history
July 19 is the 200th day of the year (the 201st in leap years). Patriot Compass has published 8 stories from July 19 spanning 1845 to 2013. Among them: in 1845, Fire from a New Street candle works tears through Lower Manhattan; saltpeter explodes on Broad Street; and in 1848, Stanton and Mott open a women's rights convention in Seneca Falls; 300 gather at the Wesleyan Chapel.
1845Member story · 1776 Club
Fire from a New Street candle works tears through Lower Manhattan; saltpeter explodes on Broad Street
Bricks land as far as Beaver Street, windows shatter a mile out; after ten hours, 345 buildings are gone and 30 are dead.
1848
Stanton and Mott open a women's rights convention in Seneca Falls; 300 gather at the Wesleyan Chapel
A Declaration of Sentiments modeled on the Declaration of Independence is read on the first day, its most disputed line demanding the vote for women.
1863Member story · 1776 Club
Gunboats and cavalry corner Morgan at the Ohio; 1,025 raiders captured at Buffington Island ford
Morgan himself escapes northeast with a few hundred men after five weeks of burning bridges and looting towns across Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio.
1934Member story · 1776 Club
USS Macon finds Roosevelt at sea; parasite biplanes deliver his newspapers at Clipperton
The 785-foot helium scout located the cruiser Houston unannounced; the President radios his compliments on the navigation.
1942Member story · 1776 Club
German U-boats quit American coastal waters; 609 ships are gone in seven months
Convoys out of Hampton Roads finally broke the slaughter: 3.1 million tons lost, tankers burning in sight of beach hotels, all for just 22 submarines.
1943
690 American bombers hit Rome; 9,125 bombs fall on San Lorenzo, killing 1,500
A freight yard and steel factory were the targets, but apartment blocks and a papal basilica took hits too; Pope Pius XII walks the rubble before day's end.
1977Member story · 1776 Club
A Cedar Rapids receiver locks onto the Navy's new atomic-clock satellite; the signal works
Collins Radio's five-channel receiver, the first of its kind, confirms the Timation program's navigation concept and clears the path for a Pentagon fix to a problem as old as seafaring.
2013
Cassini turns its camera toward Earth; Saturn's shadow makes it possible
Imaging leader Carolyn Porco positioned the spacecraft to catch the sun eclipsed by Saturn, putting Earth in the frame 1.44 billion kilometers away, and millions look up and wave.
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