Tuesday, July 19, 2011

July 19

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1 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. SBTRKT Wildfire SBTRKT
2 1701 Representatives of the Iroquois Confederacy sign the Nanfan Treaty, ceding a large territory north of the Ohio River to England. Joan Baez Banks of the Ohio Folksinger 'Round Harvard Square
3 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. Holding On Turn the Screw Question What You Live For
4 1848 Women's rights: a two-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York; there the "Bloomers" are introduced. Modern Life is War Late Bloomers My Love. My Way.
5 1963 Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 metres (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention. David Bowie Hallo Spaceboy Outside
6 1981 In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French Prime Minister François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing that the Soviets had been stealing American technological research and development. John Vanderslice Farewell Transmission Pixel Revolt
7 1983 The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published. Quasi Me & My Head Field Studies

(Historical facts about July 19 are from Wikipedia.)

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