On July 19th in history: In 1374 Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch), Italian scholar and poet, died. In 1814 Samuel Colt, American inventor of the first working revolver, was born. In 1834 Edgar Degas, French artist, was born. In 1848 the Seneca Falls Convention, the first womens rights conference in world, took place in Seneca Falls, New York. In 1864 in China the Qing Dynasty finally defeated the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the Third Battle of Nanking. In 1870 France declared war on Prussia (Franco-Prussian War). In 1877 during the Great Strike of 1877 workers drove soldiers out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – trainmen take control of the railroad to protest against wage cuts – 2 days later the National Guard moved in killing 20 people. In 1893 Vladimir Mayakovsky, revolutionary Russian poet, was born. In 1898 Herbert Marcuse, German sociologist and philosopher, was born. In 1900 the Paris Metro was inaugurated. In 1907 about 800 members of the Royal Irish Constabulary (paramilitary police) mutinied in Belfast during the Belfast Dock Strike led by James Larkin. In1920 the Second Congress of the Communist International (Comintern) started in Petrograd – among the resolutions passed were the (in)famous “21 Conditions”. In 1947 Aung Sang, Burmese nationalist politician, was assassinated. In 1971 Cory Doctorow, Canadian science fiction writer and activist, was born. In 1973 1,000 pickets massed at Fresno County farms in California during the “Battle of the Grapes” – 350 people were arrested. In 1979 the Sandinista rebels overthrew the Somoza regime in Nicaragua. In 2002 Alan Lomax, left wing American folklorist and musicologist, died. In 2009 Frank McCourt, Irish American teacher and writer, died.
Posted on: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 07:09:29 +0000
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