Sunday, Jul 19, 2026
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2006 - Death of Jack Warden, American actor (born 1920).
2007 - Prathiba Patil is elected as the first female President of India.
2007 - Ol Doinyo Lengai mountain erupts, bringing a stop to the daily week long tremors experienced in Nairobi and Northern Tanzania.
2007 - Russia expels four British embassy staff in a tit-for-tat response over Britain's expulsion of four of Russia's diplomats, and announces its officials would no longer travel to Britain, and it will stop issuing visas to British officials.
2007 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 14,000 for the first time in history.
2007 - Death of A. K. Faezul Huq, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (born 1945).
2008 - A 6.6-magnitude earthquake strikes off the eastern coast of Japan.
2009 - Death of Frank McCourt, Irish-American author (born 1930).
2010 - David Warren, Australian scientist who invented the flight data recorder ("black box") dies at age 85.