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Great Fire of Rome / Seneca Falls / Tom and Jerry

On This Day (July 19): Your quick daily trip back in time.

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Fatih Taskiran
July 19, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes

🌟 Editor's Note

Good morning. It's Saturday, July 19, and today, we're exploring the Great Fire of Rome, the origins of Tom and Jerry, the history of ✌️, and more.

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🗓️ Time Machine

-64

The Great Fire of Rome broke out and destroyed much of the city.

Despite the well-known stories, there's no evidence that Nero started the fire or played the fiddle while it burned. Even so, he used the disaster to advance his political career.

-1595

Astronomer Johannes Kepler had an epiphany and developed his theory of the geometrical basis of the universe while teaching in Graz, Austria.

-1843

Isambard Kingdom Brunel's steamship, the SS Great Britain, is launched. Known as the largest vessel afloat, it is the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull and screw propeller.

-1848

The first U.S. women's rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York, organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott.

-1881

Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull surrendered to US federal troops at Fort Buford in the Territory of Montana.

-1903

French rider Maurice Garin wins the first Tour de France.

-1941

Tom and Jerry first appear under their names in the cartoon "The Midnight Snack" by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

-1941

Winston Churchill launches the "V for Victory" campaign.

📸 Snapshot

The First Dollar Bill, 1862

💬 Final Words

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I don’t know what I may seem to the world. But as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than the ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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