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Today in History

Sunday, 19 July 2026

1992

Anti-Mafia Judge Paolo Borsellino is killed by a Mafia car bomb in Palermo, Italy together with five police officers.

1989

United Airlines flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 112 of the 296 passengers.

1985

The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.

1983

The first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head in a CT is published.

1979

The Sandinista rebels overthrow the government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.

1976

Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.

1964

Vietnam War: at a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Khanh calls for expanding the war into North Vietnam.

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.

1947

The Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2 non-cabinet members are assassinated by Galon U Saw.

1942

World War II: Battle of the Atlantic (1940)|Battle of the Atlantic

FACTOIDS

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh sold only one painting in his lifetime.

Blue Whale

The blue whale is the largest animal that has ever lived.

Gold

Every ton of seawater contains approximately 1 milligram of dissolved gold.

Mosquito

Studies show that mosquitoes prefer biting blondes to brunettes.

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