Event:
1st annual Cracker Jack Oldtimers Classic 75-year-old Luke Appling hits a 250-foot home run off Warren Spahn, AL beats NL 7-2
More Notable Events on July 19:
1996 XXVI Olympic games open in Atlanta, Georgia
1990 Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, California
1975 Apollo and Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate
1963 NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km
1961 1st in-flight movie shown, TWA