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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48735)	7/19/2005 1:29:44 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50167

July 19: * 711 – Roderic and the Visigoths in Iberia were defeated in the Battle of Guadalete by Moorish Umayyad invaders led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad. * 1553 – Lady Jane Grey was replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after holding that title for just nine days. * 1848 – The two-day Women's Rights Convention opened in Seneca Falls, New York, United States. * 1870 – France declared war on Prussia, starting the Franco-Prussian War. * 1947 – Burmese nationalist Aung San was assassinated. * 1979 – Sandinista rebels overthrew the US-backed government of the Somoza family in Nicaragua.