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1223 Al-Malik al-Zahir Rukn al-Din Baibars al-Bunduqdari (19 July 1223 â 1 July 1277), nicknamed Abu al-Futuh (أب٠اÙÙتÙØ; English: Father of Conquest, referring to his victories) â was the fourth Mamluk sultan of Egypt in the Bahri dynasty, succeeding Qutuz. He was one of the commanders of the Egyptian forces that inflicted a defeat on the Seventh Crusade of King Louis IX of France. He also led the vanguard of the Egyptian army at the Battle of Ain Jalut in 1260, which marked the first substantial defeat of the Mongol army and is considered a turning point in history.
1814 Samuel Colt (July 19, 1814 â January 10, 1862) was an American inventor, industrialist, and businessman who established Colt’s Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company (now Colt’s Manufacturing Company) and made the mass production of revolvers commercially viable.
1817 Mary Ann Bickerdyke (July 19, 1817 â November 8, 1901), also known as Mother Bickerdyke, was a hospital administrator for Union soldiers during the American Civil War and a lifelong advocate for veterans. She was responsible for establishing 300 field hospitals during the war and served as a lawyer assisting veterans and their families with obtaining pensions after the war.
1823 George Henry Gordon (July 19, 1823 â August 30, 1886) was an American lawyer and a Union general in the American Civil War.
1916 James D. “Jig Dog” Ramage (19 July 1916 â 21 July 2012) A graduate of the United States Naval Academy class of 1939, was a Naval Aviator in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Cold War, and was a driving force in putting nuclear-capable attack aircraft aboard aircraft carriers. Before retirement he attained the rank of rear admiral.
1922 George Stanley McGovern (July 19, 1922 â October 21, 2012) was an American historian and South Dakota politician who was a U.S. representative and three-term U.S. senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election. McGovern grew up in Mitchell, South Dakota, where he became a renowned debater. He volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Forces upon the country’s entry into World War II. As a B-24 Liberator pilot, he flew 35 missions over German-occupied Europe from a base in Italy. Among the medals he received was a Distinguished Flying Cross for making a hazardous emergency landing of his damaged plane and saving his crew.
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