July 19th, Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz elected Mauritania’s president
1870- The Franco-Prussian War breaks out.
1943- US air force attacks railways in Italy during World War II.
1996- The Bosnian Serb President, Radovan Karadzic, agrees to resign and withdraw from political and public life.
2009 – Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz elected Mauritania’s president.
Born today
1814 – Samuel Colt, an American firearms inventor.
Passed away
514- Symmachus, Pope of the Roman Catholic church.
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