19 July

 10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 19 July:

1. On this date in 1553, Lady Jane Grey, aged 15, was deposed as Queen of England after claiming the crown for nine days. Henry VIII's daughter Mary was proclaimed Queen. Lady Jane Grey was sent to the Tower, where she was beheaded a few months later.
2. In 1821, George IV was crowned King of Great Britain. His estranged wife Caroline travelled from Italy to claim her rights as queen but was barred from attending the coronation.
3. In 1941, Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign in Europe. BBC World Service began playing the opening notes of Beethoven’s 5^th, which sounded like the Morse Code for V (...-). The two-finger "V" for Victory had signal was also introduced.
4. In 1983, people searching a clay pit in Surrey discovered fossils of a previously unknown species of carnivorous Dinosaur.
5. In 1994, Susan Montgomery from Fresno blew the largest diameter Bubble gum bubble, which had a diameter of 23 inches.
6. In 1969 Apollo 11 and astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the Moon.
7. In 1545, 700 people died when the Mary Rose, the pride of Henry VIII’s battle fleet, keeled over and sank in the Solent. The ship was finally raised in 1982.
8. In 1873, botanist and explorer William Gosse became the first European to discover Ayers Rock (now Uluru) and named it after South Australian Premier Sir Henry Ayers.
9. In 1985, George Bell of Durham, NC, won first place in a biggest feet contest and the distinction of being "Big Foot", with his size 28-1/2 Shoe. George. Bell was 7 feet 10 inches tall.
10. In 1996 Dentist Stuart Watts used Araldite to stick an acrylic beak onto Miggsy, a Macaw.

 

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