Historical Events for 19th July 2025

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1692 - Five more people - Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth How, Sarah Good, and Sarah Wildes - hanged for allegedly practicing witchcraft as a result of the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts Bay Colony
1696 - Russian Tsar Peter I's fleet occupies the southern mouth of the Don River and gains access to the Sea of Azov, after the surrender of the Ottoman Azov garrison
1875 - Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick children, makes trial trip, NYC
1908 - Dutch football club Feyenoord is established in Rotterdam as Wilhelmina; reverts to SC Feijenoord 1912; updated to SC Feyenoord 1974 and to Feyenoord Rotterdam 1978
1942 - US première of Dmitri Shostakovich's 7th Symphony in NYC by the NBC Symphony Orchestra under Arturo Toscanini in a concert broadcast nationwide on NBC radio
1957 - 1st rocket with nuclear warhead fired, Yucca Flat, Nevada
1970 - 57th Tour de France: Defending champion Eddy Merckx of Belgium wins general, mountains and combination categories
1973 - NY Mets future Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder Willie Mays is named to NL All Star team for 24th time (ties Stan Musial)
2019 - Heat wave begins across the east of America affecting 100 million people and killing 6, with New York city declaring a state of emergency
2022 - Temperatures exceed 40°C in parts of England for first time

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