Today in History: July 19, the Seneca Falls Convention
In the modern day is Saturday July the th day of There are days left in the year In current times in history On July the first Convention to discuss the social civil and religious condition and rights of Woman convened at the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls N Y Also on this date In during the War of the First Battle of Sackets Harbor in Lake Ontario resulted in an American achievement as U S naval forces repelled a British attack Related Articles Venezuela frees detained Americans in three-country deal that also has El Salvador release asylum seekers deported by US Jon Stewart says he could be next after Stephen Colbert s show is canceled Trump administration seeks release of Epstein grand jury records but not Justice Department files Astronomer CEO HR chief face professional downfall over Coldplay controversy overview South Bay man who sent Facebook message about committing a campus sexual assault pleads guilty In Apollo and its astronauts Neil Armstrong Edwin Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins went into orbit around the moon In the Apollo and Soyuz space capsules that were linked in orbit for two days separated In the Nicaraguan capital of Managua fell to Sandinista guerrillas two days after President Anastasio Somoza fled the country In the Moscow Summer Olympics began minus dozens of nations that were boycotting the games because of Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan In people were killed when United Air Lines Flight a DC- which sustained the uncontained failure of its tail engine and the loss of hydraulic systems crashed while making an crisis landing at Sioux City Iowa other people survived In baseball s all-time hits leader Pete Rose was sentenced in Cincinnati to five months in prison for tax evasion In President Bill Clinton disclosed a approach allowing gays to serve in the military under a compromise dubbed don t ask don t tell don t pursue In prosecutors published that Chicago police beat kicked shocked or otherwise tortured scores of Black individuals from the s to the early s to try to extract confessions from them In President George W Bush disclosed his choice of federal appeals court judge John G Roberts Jr to replace Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O Connor Roberts ended up succeeding Chief Justice William H Rehnquist who died in Sept Samuel Alito followed O Connor In in a rare and inhabitants reflection on race President Barack Obama called on the nation to do specific soul searching over the death of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of his shooter George Zimmerman saying the slain Black teenager could have been me years ago In a duck boat packed with tourists capsized and sank in high winds on a lake in the tourist town of Branson Missouri killing people In Paul Allard Hodgkins a Florida man who breached the U S Senate chamber on Jan carrying a Trump campaign flag received an eight-month prison term in the first resolution of a felony affair arising from the U S Capitol insurrection In President Donald Trump pardoned commuted the prison sentences or vowed to dismiss the cases of all -plus people charged with crimes in the riot In Britain shattered its record for the highest temperature ever registered amid a heat wave that seared swaths of Europe Currently s Birthdays Civil rights activist and educator Rachel Robinson widow of baseball s Jackie Robinson is Blues singer-musician Little Freddie King is Singer-musician Alan Gorrie Average White Band is International Tennis Hall of Famer Ilie Nastase is Rock musician Brian May Queen is Rock musician Bernie Leadon is Movie director Abel Ferrara is Movie director Atom Egoyan is Actor Campbell Scott is Actor Anthony Edwards is Ukrainian politician and former boxing champion Vitali Klitschko is Actor Benedict Cumberbatch is TV chef Marcela Valladolid is Actor Trai Byers TV Empire is
