19th July 1944 – in Italy the US 5th Army capture Livorno, a city on the coast east of Florence. (From WW2-net Timelines.)
Soviet forces enter Latvia, east of Dvinsk (now Daugavpils) in the south-east of the country.
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19 July 2014
Livorno and Latvia
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