On July 19:
1553 Mary 1 takes the English throne from Lady Jane Grey.
1834 French painter Edgar Degas was born.
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Self-portrait (Degas au porte-fusain), 1855
1848 The first Women’s Rights Convention opened at Seneca Falls, launching the women’s suffrage movement in the USA.
1982 the Privy Council granted New Zealand citizenship to Samoans born after 1924.
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