Today in History, July 19, 1948: Cincinnati’s Terrace Plaza Hotel opened

Today is July 19. On this date in:

1553

King Henry VIII’s daughter Mary was proclaimed Queen of England after Lady Jane Grey was deposed.

1812

During the War of 1812, the First Battle of Sackets Harbor in Lake Ontario resulted in an American victory as U.S. naval forces repelled a British attack.

1848

A pioneering women’s rights convention convened in Seneca Falls, New York.

1903

The first Tour de France was won by Maurice Garin.

1948

The Terrace Plaza Hotel in Cincinnati, the first major hotel built after World War II, opened.

1961

TWA became the first airline to begin showing regularly scheduled in-flight movies as it presented “By Love Possessed” to first-class passengers on a flight from New York to Los Angeles.

1969

Apollo 11 and its astronauts – Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins – went into orbit around the moon.

1980

The Moscow Summer Olympics began, minus dozens of nations that were boycotting the games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.

1985

Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. (McAuliffe and six other crew members died when the Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff in January 1986.)

1989

United Air Lines Flight 232, a DC-10 which suffered the uncontained failure of its tail engine and the loss of hydraulic systems, crashed while making an emergency landing at Sioux City, Iowa; 111 people were killed while 185 other people survived.

1990

President George H.W. Bush joined former presidents Ronald Reagan, Gerald R. Ford and Richard M. Nixon at ceremonies dedicating the Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, California.

1993

President Bill Clinton announced a policy allowing gays to serve in the military under a compromise dubbed “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue.”

2016

Republicans meeting in Cleveland nominated Donald Trump as their presidential candidate.