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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Today in History

1525
The Catholic princes of Germany form the Dessau League to fight against the Reformation.
1545
King Henry VIII of England watches his flagship, Mary Rose, capsize as it leaves to battle the French.
1788
Prices plunge on the Paris stock market.
1799
The Rosetta Stone, a tablet with hieroglyphic translations into Greek, is found in Egypt.
1848
The first Women’s Rights Convention convenes in Seneca Falls, N.Y, organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
1870
France declares war on Prussia.
1942
German U-boats are withdrawn from positions off the U.S. Atlantic coast due to American anti-submarine countermeasures.
1943
More than 150 B-17 and 112 B-24 bombers attack Rome for the first time.
1975
Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts dock in orbit.

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