Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/July 19

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 * 998 – Arab–Byzantine wars: After initial Byzantine gains at the Battle of Apamea, a lone Kurdish rider killed Byzantine commander Damian Dalassenos, allowing Fatimid troops to turn the tide of the battle.
 * 1553 – Mary I was proclaimed Queen of England, deposing Lady Jane Grey after nine days of de facto rule.
 * 1702 – Great Northern War: Polish–Saxon forces were defeated by a Swedish army half their size at the Battle of Kliszów.
 * 1817 – Georg Anton Schäffer was forced to depart for China after his unsuccessful attempt to seize the Hawaiian Kingdom for the Russian Empire.
 * 1843 – SS Great Britain, the first ocean-going ship with both an iron hull and a screw propeller, was launched (pictured) in Bristol, England.
 * 1845 – A fire in Manhattan, New York, destroyed 345 buildings, killed 30 people, and caused at least $5 million in damage.
 * 1848 – The two-day Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's-rights and feminist convention held in the United States, opened in Seneca Falls, New York.
 * 1903 – French cyclist Maurice Garin won the first edition of the Tour de France.
 * 1919 – Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of the First World War, English ex-servicemen unhappy with unemployment and other grievances rioted and burned down Luton Town Hall (pictured).
 * 1976 – Environmental activists bombed the port facilities in Bunbury, Western Australia, in an attempt to disrupt the woodchipping industry.
 * 1992 – A car bomb killed the anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino and five policemen in Palermo, Italy, less than two months after the murder of Borsellino's friend and colleague Giovanni Falcone.
 * 1997 – The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army announced that it would resume its ceasefire, ending its 28-year campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland.
 * 2013 – The NASA spacecraft Cassini took a photograph of Saturn with Earth in the distance (detail pictured), for which people were invited to "wave at Saturn".
 * Born/died: | Damian Dalassenos|d|998| Jacopo Tiepolo|d|1249| Philippa of Lancaster|d|1415| Richard Leveridge|b|1670| Giuseppe Castiglione|b|1688| Thomas Talbot|b|1771| William McSherry|b|1799| Mangal Pandey |b|1827| Margaret Fuller|d|1850| David Hillhouse Buel|b|1862| Florence Foster Jenkins|b|1868| Khawaja Nazimuddin|b|1894| Chetana Nagavajara|b|1937| Han Sai Por|b|1943| Yekaterina Budanova|d|1943| Kgalema Motlanthe|b|1949| Nicola Sturgeon|b|1970| Sylvia Daoust|d|2004| J. Gordon Edwards|d|2004| Galina Prozumenshchikova|d|2015|