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On This Day In History for July 19, 2017

This is the 200th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 165 days remaining in 2017.

It was on this date in 1817, that Unsuccessful in his attempt to conquer the Kingdom of Hawaii for the Russian-American Company, Georg Anton Schäffer is forced to admit defeat and leave Kauai..

Also on July 19, 1843, Brunel’s steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull and screw propeller, becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.

July 19, 1900, The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation..

Also today in 1963, Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.

It was 34 years ago today, that The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published..

Happy birthday goes out on this date to:

Italian monk, missionary and painter, Giuseppe Castiglione (Jesuit painter), born on this date in 1688.

Samuel Colt, American inventor and industrialist was born on that same date in 1814.

Born July 19, 1865, American physician Charles Horace Mayo.

Max Fleischer, the Animator, inventor. film director was born 134 years ago today.

Russian mathematician, Aleksandr Khinchin was born 123 years ago today.

Richard Oriani, the American chemical engineer was born 97 years ago today.

Harold Camping, American doomsday prophet was born on that same date in 1921.

American director, producer and writer, Arthur Rankin Jr., born on this date in 1924.

Also turning 70 today is English musician and astrophysicist Brian May.

father of IMAP protocol, Mark Crispin was born 61 years ago today.

actor, Anthony Edwards, born on this date in 1962.

Also turning 47 today is American mathematician Bill Chen.

English actor and film producer, Benedict Cumberbatch, born on this date in 1976.

Also turning 35 today is American actor Jared Padalecki.

Listener Birthdays

23 – Dave Perillo, (former) MegaPodzilla and Montygog’s Art-O-Rama!

25 – Matt Wallace

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And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for July 19, 2017

News

First images of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot reach Earth – Spaceflight Now

Doctor Who’s 13th Time Lord Announced: Actress Jodie Whittaker – Slashdot

Hacks & Strange Stories

Scrap Dealer Finds Apollo-Era NASA Computers In Dead Engineer’s Basement – Slashdot

22,000 People Agree to Clean Toilets for WiFi Because They Didn’t Read the Terms

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