On this day in history 19th July

Born

1814 Samuel Colt

1896 A.J. Cronin

1928 John Bratby

1937 George Hamilton IV

1945 George Dzunda

1946 Ilie Nastase

1947 Brian May

1950 Adrian Noble

1965 Evelyn Glennie

General Events

1983 At Bury St. Edmunds Crown Court, Judge Richards, who earlier

caused controversy when he only fined a man for raping a teenage girl

who he blamed for the incident, was at the centre of another row after

telling would-be suicides to be more dilligent in their attempts. ' I

wish these people would show more efficiency about these overdoses. How

much trouble they would save'.

1995 Millions of tiny willow sawfly caterpillars invaded a

residential close in Wolverhampton, reducing gardens to ruins and

munching through the foliage of a line of willow trees a 100 yards long

.

1995 Home Secretary, Michael Howard, said that the ancient law that

allows people to get away with murder if their victims survived for a

year and a day would be abolished.

1997 The debate over euthanasia flared up again as Dr. Michael

Irwin, an eminent doctor and former medical director of the United

Nations, admitted to helping over 50 people to die with fatal injections

of morphine.