July 19
64 – Great Fire of Rome: a fire begins to burn in the merchant area of Rome and soon burns completely out of control. According to a popular, but untrue legend, Nero fiddled as the city burned
711 – Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Battle of Guadalete – Umayyad forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by King Roderic, starting the Moors' domination in the peninsula (officially until 1492).
1848 – Women's rights: a two-day Women's Rights Convention opens in Seneca Falls, New York; there the
"Bloomers" are introduced.
1900 – The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
1908 – Dutch football club Feyenoord was founded.
1963 – Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 metres (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100 km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
(source: wikipedia)