This Day in History July 19

July 19

1816 Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days
1848 1st women's rights convention (Seneca Falls, NY)
1860 1st railroad reaches Kansas
1862 Forrest's 1st raid
1870 France declares war on Prussia; the Franco-Prussian war begins
1875 Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, NYC
1880 SF Public Library starts lending books
1918 German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I)
1939 1st use of fiberglass sutures, R.P. Scholz, St Louis, Mo
1941 1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicated (Tuskegee Ala)
1941 British PM Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign
1943 Allied air forces raid Rome during WW II
1949 Laos becomes associated state within French Union
1955 Balclutha ties up at Pier 43 & becomes a floating museum
1957 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
1961 1st in-flight movie shown (TWA)
1963 NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km
1966 Gov James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot)
1967 US launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km)
1969 Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit
1975 Apollo & Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate
1979 2 supertankers collide off Tobago-260,000 TONS of oil spill
1980 Moscow Summer Olympics begin, US & others boycott
1982 David S Dodge becomes the 1st American hostage in Lebanon
1984 1st female to captain a 747 across the Atlantic (Lynn Rippelmeyer)
1985 Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st schoolteacher to fly the space shuttle
1986 Caroline Kennedy weds Edwin A Schlossberg in Centerville, Mass
1989 United flight 232 crashes in Iowa
1990 BASF plant in Cincinnatti explodes in flames, 1 dies

I was a EMT for our local Vol Fire & Rescue & helped look for survivors on that United 232 flight. That was not the most fun thing I ever did. I can drive by & see that flight tower & it is still fresh in my mind 33 years after it happened.