07/19/1979
Nicaragua – Sandinista Regime Established. The post-Sandinista government of Violeta Chamorro has retained this date as a national holiday marking the fall of the Somozas.
07/19/1982
Lebanon, United States – David Dodge, president of the American University of Beirut, was kidnapped. He subsequently was released on July 19, 1983.
07/20/1974
Cyprus – Turkey Intervenes In Civil War
07/20/1982
United Kingdom – PIRA Bombs In London Kill 11
07/21/1972
United Kingdom – On July 21, 1972, “Bloody Friday” in Belfast, Northern Ireland, 11 people were killed and 130 were injured when the Northern Ireland terrorist group Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) detonated 26 car bombs.