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On this day: July 19

POSTED: 12:30 PM PDT Jul 18, 2012 UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Jul 18, 2012

Rome burns, a famous gunslinger kills for the first time, Marilyn Monroe passes a big test and The King's first single is released, all on this day.

OTD July 19 - Lizzie Borden — 8 / 33

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1860: Lizzie Borden, who will famously be accused in rhyme of giving her mother "forty whacks" with an axe, is born in Fall River, Mass. Borden was tried and acquitted in the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother.

OTD July 19 - Rome burning

OTD July 19 - Mary Rose

OTD July 19 - Lady Jane Grey

OTD July 19 - Salem witch trials

OTD July 19 - Samuel Colt

OTD July 19 - Edgar Degas

OTD July 19 - SS Great Britain

OTD July 19 - Lizzie Borden

OTD July 19 - Wimbledon

OTD July 19 - Doc Holliday

OTD July 19 - Sitting Bull

OTD July 19 - unassisted triple play

OTD July 19 - Cy Young

OTD July 19 - Marilyn Manson

OTD July 19 - Brian May

OTD July 19 - 1952 Olympics

OTD July 19 - Elvis That's All Right

OTD July 19 - TWA flight

OTD July 19 - Anthony Edwards

OTD July 19 - Joe Walker

OTD July 19 - Frank Sinatra

OTD July 19 - Deep Purple

OTD July 19 - 1980 Summer Olympics

OTD July 19 - Billy Joel

OTD July 19 - Stava dam

OTD July 19 - Christa McAuliffe

OTD July 19 - American Airlines Flight 232

OTD July 19 - Pete Rose

OTD July 19 - Nixon Library

OTD July 19 - Kingdome

OTD July 19 - 1996 Olympics Muhammad Ali

OTD July 19 - John Roberts nomination

OTD July 19 - Frank McCourt

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