What are the important events that happened on July 19? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

July 19: Facts & Myths About This Day

July 19 is the 200^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 165 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is July 6, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 486,912 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectagon’ day.

Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 213 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,593 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

July 19 Historical Events

• 64 –
  Great Fire of Rome: a fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control. According to a popular, but untrue legend, Nero fiddled as the city burned.
• 1832 –
  The British Medical Association is founded as the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association by Sir Charles Hastings at a meeting in the Board Room of the Worcester Infirmary.
• 1843 –
  Brunel’s steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.
• 1864 –
  Taiping Rebellion: Third Battle of Nanking – The Qing Dynasty finally defeats the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
• 1900 –
  The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
• 1947 –
  Korean politician Yuh Woon-Hyung is assassinated.
• 1961 –
  Tunisia imposes a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte; the French would capture the entire town four days later.
• 1964 –
  Vietnam War: at a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.
• 1979 –
  The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.
• 1985 –
  The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.

Who were born on July 19?

• 1814 –
  Samuel Colt, American firearms inventor (d. 1862)
• 1819 –
  Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (d. 1890)
• 1822 –
  Princess Augusta of Cambridge, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1916)
• 1888 –
  Enno Lolling, German physician (d. 1945)
• 1938 –
  Richard Jordan, American actor (d. 1993)
• 1972 –
  Naohito Fujiki, Japanese actor and singer
• 1979 –
  Dilhara Fernando, Sri Lankan cricketer
• 1979 –
  Luke Young, English footballer
• 1981 –
  Didz Hammond, English bass guitarist (Dirty Pretty Things, The Cooper Temple Clause)
• 1982 –
  Stuart Parnaby, English footballer

Who died on July 19?

• 514 –
  Pope Symmachus
• 1810 –
  Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia (b. 1776)
• 1850 –
  Margaret Fuller, American writer (b. 1810)
• 1969 –
  Stratis Myrivilis, Greek writer (b. 1890)
• 1974 –
  Joe Flynn, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1980 –
  Hans Morgenthau, German political philosopher (b. 1904)
• 2002 –
  Dave Carter, American folksinger (b. 1952)
• 2006 –
  Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)
• 2007 –
  A. K. Faezul Huq, Bangladeshi lawyer, politician, and freelance journalist (b. 1945)
• 2009 –
  Henry Surtees, British racing driver (b. 1991)