Today is Thursday, July 19, the 199th day of 2007. There are 166 days left in the year.
514 _ St. Symmachus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1848 _ First women's rights convention (Seneca Falls, N.Y.)
1860 _ First railroad reaches Kansas
1870 _ France declares war on Prussia; the Franco-Prussian war begins
1877 _ First Wimbledon tennis championships held
1941 _ British PM Winston Churchill launched his ``V for Victory’’ campaign
1949 _ Laos becomes associated state within French Union
1952 _ 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki
1957 _ First rocket with nuclear warhead fired in Yucca Flat, Nevada
1969 _ Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit
1979 _ Nicaragua Liberation Day; Sandinistas take over from Somoza
1986 _ Caroline Kennedy weds Edwin A Schlossberg in Centerville, Mass.
1991 _ Miss Black America contestant accuses Mike Tyson of rape