How Many Days Until July 19?

This day in history: July 19

1. 1936

   The July 1936 military uprising in Barcelona begins.

2. 1957

   The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold, a largely autobiographical novel by Evelyn Waugh, was published.

3. 1976

   Environmental activists bombed the port facilities in Bunbury, Western Australia, in an attempt to disrupt the woodchipping industry.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 2013

   The NASA spacecraft Cassini took a photograph of Saturn with Earth in the distance, for which people were invited to "wave at Saturn".

7. 2014

   Gunmen ambushed an Egyptian military checkpoint in the Libyan Desert near Farafra, killing 22 soldiers.

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