July 19th in History
July 18th
1545 King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth; 73 die
1553 Fifteen-year-old Lady Jane Grey is deposed as queen of England after a nine-day reign.
1692 Five more people - Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth How, Sarah Good, and Sarah Wildes - hanged for allegedly practicing witchcraft as a result of the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts Bay Colony .
1843 Steamship SS Great Britain is launched, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, it is the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and the largest vessel afloat in the world.
Chepstow Railway Bridge was used for the first time on 19th July 1852, allowing the Great Western Railway to open its line from London to Swansea.
1940 Adolf Hitler orders Great Britain to surrender - they decline.
1903 Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France, covering a distance of 2,428 km (1,508 miles).
On 19th July 1984, an earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale (the largest recorded onshore quake in the UK) struck Llyn Peninsula. The effects were felt throughout Wales and most of England, the biggest concentration of damage being in Liverpool, with the aftershocks felt as far away as Dublin.
19 Jul 1967
The Beatles were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'All You Need Is Love' the group's 12th UK No.1 single. The Beatles had been selected to represent the UK for the first-ever global-wide satellite broadcast. The group agreed to be shown in the studio recording a song written especially for the occasion, (which was aired on June 25). John Lennon wrote ‘All You Need is Love’ which was thought to sum up the 1967 'summer of love' and The Beatles' sympathies.
1545 King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth; 73 die
1553 Fifteen-year-old Lady Jane Grey is deposed as queen of England after a nine-day reign.
1692 Five more people - Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth How, Sarah Good, and Sarah Wildes - hanged for allegedly practicing witchcraft as a result of the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts Bay Colony .
1843 Steamship SS Great Britain is launched, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, it is the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and the largest vessel afloat in the world.
Chepstow Railway Bridge was used for the first time on 19th July 1852, allowing the Great Western Railway to open its line from London to Swansea.
1940 Adolf Hitler orders Great Britain to surrender - they decline.
1903 Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France, covering a distance of 2,428 km (1,508 miles).
On 19th July 1984, an earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale (the largest recorded onshore quake in the UK) struck Llyn Peninsula. The effects were felt throughout Wales and most of England, the biggest concentration of damage being in Liverpool, with the aftershocks felt as far away as Dublin.
19 Jul 1967
The Beatles were at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'All You Need Is Love' the group's 12th UK No.1 single. The Beatles had been selected to represent the UK for the first-ever global-wide satellite broadcast. The group agreed to be shown in the studio recording a song written especially for the occasion, (which was aired on June 25). John Lennon wrote ‘All You Need is Love’ which was thought to sum up the 1967 'summer of love' and The Beatles' sympathies.
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