Today in History: 07-19-14

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Today is Saturday, July 19, the 200th day of 2014. There are 165 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History: On July 19, 1989, 111 people were killed when United Air Lines Flight 232,
a DC-10 which suffered the uncontained failure of its tail engine and the loss of hydraulic systems,
crashed while making an emergency landing at Sioux City, Iowa; 185 other people survived.
On this date:
In 1553, King Henry VIII’s daughter Mary was proclaimed Queen of England after pretender Lady Jane Grey
was deposed.
In 1848, a pioneer women’s rights convention convened in Seneca Falls, New York.
In 1903, the first Tour de France was won by Maurice Garin.
In 1944, the Democratic national convention convened in Chicago with the renomination of President
Franklin D. Roosevelt considered a certainty.
In 1952, the Summer Olympics opened in Helsinki, Finland.
In 1961, TWA became the first airline to begin showing regularly scheduled in-flight movies as it
presented "By Love Possessed" to first-class passengers on a flight from New York to Los
Angeles.
In 1979, the Nicaraguan capital of Managua fell to Sandinista guerrillas, two days after President
Anastasio Somoza fled the country.
In 1980, the Moscow Summer Olympics began, minus dozens of nations that were boycotting the games because
of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.
In 1984, U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York won the Democratic nomination for vice president by
acclamation at the party’s convention in San Francisco.

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