Daily Calendar for Sunday, July 19, 2026

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Margaret Fuller (writer) – 1850
Rose Alnora Hartwick Thorpe (poet) – 1939
Elwyn Marshall Meader (plant breeder) – 1996
Mervyn Hugh Cowie (African conservationist; died in Ipswich, Suffolk, England) – 1996
James Aparo (illustrator; drew Batman and other DC Comics heroes) – 2005
Jack Warden (actor) – 2006
Frank McCourt (Pulitzer Prize-winning author) – 2009
James Garner (actor) – 2014
Garry Marshall (director, producer, actor) – 2016

Lady Jane Grey was replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after having the title for only nine days – 1553
Bloomers (long, loose, trousers) were introduced to delegates of the first Women’s Right’s Convention in Seneca Falls, New York – 1848
Morris Nourse earned a Carnegie Medal by saving a drowning boy in Des Moines, Iowa – 1905
Fiberglass sutures were first used, by Dr. Roy Scholz in St. Louis, Missouri – 1939
N.Y.C. subway’s first air-conditioned cars began service – 1967
Canada and United States agreed to transfer certain prisoners who wish to finish sentence in own country – 1978
New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe was selected to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the Space Shuttle – 1985
26th Summer Olympics began in Atlanta, Georgia – 1996
Don Gorske of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin ate his 20,000th Big Mac sandwich at a local McDonald’s restaurant. He already had made the Guinness World Records book for eating a record number of Big Macs before he hit number 19,000 in March 2003 – 2004