Daily Calendar for July 19th, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

60s

• 64: Fire began near Circus Maximus that destroyed 2/3 of Rome, Italy

1550s

• 1553: Lady Jane Grey was replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after having the title for only nine days

1810s

• Born 1814: Samuel Colt (inventor)

1830s

• Born 1834: Edgar Degas (painter)

1840s

• 1848: "Bloomers" (long, loose, trousers) were introduced to delegates of the first Women's Right's Convention in Seneca Falls, New York

1850s

• Died 1850: Margaret Fuller (writer)

1860s

• Born 1860: Lizzie Borden (accused murderess)

• Born 1865: Charles Horace Mayo (surgeon)

1890s

• Born 1896: A.J. Cronin (writer)

1900s

• 1905: Morris Nourse earned a Carnegie Medal by saving a drowning boy in Des Moines, Iowa

1930s

• Died 1939: Rose Alnora Hartwick Thorpe (poet)

• 1939: Fiberglass sutures were first used, by Dr. Roy Scholz in St. Louis, Missouri

1940s

• Born 1941: Vikki Carr (singer)

• Born 1946: Ilie Nastase (tennis player)

1960s

• Born 1962: Anthony Edwards (actor)

• 1967: N.Y.C. subway’s first air-conditioned cars began service

1970s

• Born 1973: Scott Walker (hockey player)

• 1978: Canada and United States agreed to transfer certain prisoners who wish to finish sentence in own country

1980s

• Born 1982: Jared Padalecki (actor)

• 1985: New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe was selected to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the Space Shuttle

1990s

• Died 1996: Elwyn Marshall Meader (plant breeder)

• 1996: 26th Summer Olympics began in Atlanta, Georgia25 Years Ago

2000s

• 2004: Don Gorske of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin ate his 20,000th Big Mac sandwich at a local McDonald's restaurant. He already had made the Guinness World Records book for eating a record number of Big Macs before he hit number 19,000 in March 2003

• Died 2005: James Aparo (illustrator; drew Batman and other DC Comics heroes)

• Died 2006: Jack Warden (actor)

• Died 2009: Frank McCourt (Pulitzer Prize-winning author)

2010s

• Died 2014: James Garner (actor)

• Died 2016: Garry Marshall (director, producer, actor)