A youth uses his right arm measures to force his against an electronic robot on a street in downtown Seoul on Thursday, July 19, 1991.
A youth uses his right arm measures to force his against an electronic robot on a street in downtown Seoul on Thursday, July 19, 1991.
July 19, 1969: Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin â ???? Buzzâ ???? Aldrin and Michael Collins, orbit the moon.
In 1943: Allied air forces attacked Rome during World War II, the same day Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini met in Feltre in northern Italy.
In 1961: TWA became the first airline to begin airing regularly scheduled in-flight movies because it featured “? ? By love possessed ”???? first-class passengers on a New York-Los Angeles flight.
In 1975: The Apollo and Soyuz space capsules which had been linked in orbit for two days separated.
In 1980: The Moscow Summer Olympics began, minus dozens of nations boycotting the games due to Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.
In 1989: 111 people were killed when United Air Lines Flight 232, a DC-10 that suffered the uncontained failure of its tail motor and loss of hydraulic systems, crashed during an air landing. emergency in Sioux City, Iowa; 185 other people survived.
1990: Pete Rose, the leader of all-time baseball hits, was sentenced in Cincinnati to five months in prison for tax fraud.
In 1993: President Bill Clinton announced a policy allowing homosexuals to serve in the military under a compromise dubbed “don’t ask, don’t say, don’t pursue.” ????
In 2005: President George W. Bush announced his choice of Federal Court of Appeal Judge John G. Roberts Jr. to replace Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day Oâ ???? Connor. (Roberts eventually succeeded Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who died in September 2005; Samuel Alito followed Oâ ???? Connor.)
2006: Prosecutors reported that Chicago police beat, kick, shock or torture dozens of black suspects from the 1970s to the early 1990s in an attempt to extract confessions from them.
In 2007: “Mad Men”, ???? a cable television series about a New York advertising agency, which premiered on AMC.
In 2014: A New York City police officer (Daniel Pantaleo) involved in the arrest of Eric Garner, who died in police custody two days earlier after apparently being placed in a strangulation, was stripped of his weapon and of his badge and placed in service. (Pantaleo was fired in August 2019.) Actor James Garner, 86, has died in Los Angeles.
Ten years ago: Summoned by British lawmakers to answer for a phone hacking and corruption scandal in one of his tabloids, media mogul Rupert Murdoch told a parliamentary committee hearing that he was humiliated and ashamed, but accepted no responsibility for wrongdoing.
Five years ago: Republicans gathered in Cleveland nominated Donald Trump as presidential flag bearer; in brief videotaped remarks, Trump thanked delegates, saying, “? ? It’s a movement, but we have to go through with it. Writer-director Garry Marshall, 81, whose skillful fingering with comedy and romance led to a series of TV hits including “Happy Days” ???? and â ???? Laverne & Shirleyâ ???? and the “Pretty Woman” box office hits. and “? Funaway Bride ”,? ? ? died in Burbank, California.
A year ago: President Donald Trump refused to publicly commit to accepting the results of the next election, declaring Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” ???? that it was too early to make such a guarantee. US House leaders have said they are “alarmed” ???? by the tactics used by federal agents against protesters in Portland, Oregon and other cities; the mayor of Portland said the officers’ presence heightened tensions in the city, which had seen nearly two months of nightly protests since the death of George Floyd. The Bahamas said they would ban travelers from the United States; a wave of coronavirus infections had followed the islands reopening to international tourism
