August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 134 days remaining.

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Contents

1 Events 1.1 upto 19th century 1.2 20th century 1.3 21st century 2 Births 2.1 upto 19th century 2.2 20th century 2.2.1 1900s-1930s 2.2.2 1940s-1980s 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

Events

upto 19th century

• 1561 - Mary Stuart returns to Scotland.
• 1692 - Salem Witch Trials: In Salem, Massachusetts five women and a clergyman are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
• 1782 - Battle of Blue Licks: the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Lord Cornwallis following the Battle of Yorktown.
• 1812 - War of 1812: USS Constitution defeats the British frigate Guerri�re off the coast of Nova Scotia. The British shot is said to have bounced off the Constitution's sides, earning her the nickname "Old Ironsides".
• 1813 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's second triumvirate.
• 1839 - Presentation of Jacque Daguerre's new photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences.
• 1848 - California Gold Rush: The New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States, that there is a gold rush in California (although the rush started in January).
• 1862 - Indian Wars: During an uprising in Minnesota, Lakota warriors decide not to attack heavily-defended Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of New Ulm, killing white settlers along the way.
• 1895 - American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.

20th century

• 1919 - Afghanistan gains independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1929 - The radio comedy show Amos and Andy makes its NBC debut starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll.
• 1934 - The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio. The creation of the position F�hrer approved by the German electorate with 89.9% of the popular vote.
• 1942 - World War II: The Dieppe Raid - Allied forces raid Dieppe, France.
• 1944 - Paris rises against the Nazis with the help of Allied troops
• 1945 - Vietnam War: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.
• 1953 - Cold War: The CIA helps to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
• 1955 - In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
• 1960 - Cold War: In Moscow, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
• 1960 - Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 5 with the dogs Belka and Strelka (Russian for "Squirrel" and "Little Arrow"), 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants. The spacecraft will return to earth the next day and all animals will be recovered safely.
• 1975 - The cricket test match between England and Australia is called off after the pitch is vandalised by supporters of George Davis (armed robber)
• 1980 - A Saudi Arabian Airlines Tristar burned after making an emergency landing in Riyadh Saudi Arabia killing 301
• 1981 - Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi sends two Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets to take on a couple of United States fighters over the Gulf of Sidra. The American jets destroyed the Libyan fighters.
• 1987 - Hungerford Massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills 16 with an assault rifle and then commits suicide.
• 1989 - Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be Prime Minister, thus becoming the first non-communist in Polish power in 42 years.
• 1999 - In Belgrade, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic.

21st century

• 2002 - A Russian Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by Chechen missile outside of Grozny killing 118 soldiers
• 2003 - A car-bomb attack on UN headquarters in Iraq killed the agency's top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and other 21 employers.

Births

upto 19th century

• 1631 - John Dryden, poet (d. 1700)
• 1870 - Bernard Baruch, financier (d. 1965)
• 1871 - Orville Wright, aviator (d. 1958)
• 1875 - Stjepan Seljan, explorer (d. 1936)
• 1883 - Coco Chanel, clothing designer (d. 1971)
• 1883 - Elsie Ferguson, Broadway star, silent film actress (d. 1961)
• 1892 - Alfred Lunt, actor (d. 1977)

20th century

1900s-1930s

• 1902 - Ogden Nash, poet (d. 1971)
• 1906 - Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor, television pioneer (d. 1971)
• 1907 - Thurston B. Morton, American politician (d. 1982)
• 1915 - Ring Lardner, Jr., actor, screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1916 - Marie Wilson, actress (d. 1972)
• 1919 - Malcolm Forbes, publisher (d. 1990)
• 1921 - Gene Roddenberry, author, producer (d. 1991)
• 1925 - Claude Gauvreau, Quebec playwright, poet and polemicist (d. 1971)
• 1926 - Arthur Rock, venture capitalist
• 1930 - Frank McCourt, author
• 1931 - Willie Shoemaker, jockey (d. 2003)
• 1938 - Diana Muldaur, actress, dog breeder, dog judge
• 1939 - Ginger Baker, drummer, trumpet player

1940s-1980s

• 1944 - Charles B. Wang, philanthropist
• 1940 - Johnny Nash, singer
• 1940 - Jill St. John, actress
• 1942 - Fred Thompson, Watergate counsel, Senator from Tennessee, actor
• 1945 - Ian Gillan, vocalist
• 1946 - Bill Clinton, U.S. president
• 1946 - Beat Raaflaub, conductor
• 1947 - Gerard Schwarz, American conductor
• 1948 - Tipper Gore, author, activist for "Parental Advisory" labels on music
• 1950 - Jennie Bond, journalist
• 1952 - Jonathan Frakes, actor, director (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
• 1955 - Peter Gallagher, actor (The O.C.)
• 1958 - Anthony Mu�oz, American football Hall of Famer
• 1960 - Morten Andersen, American football player
• 1963 - John Stamos, actor (Full House)
• 1965 - Kevin Dillon, actor
• 1965 - Kyra Sedgwick, actress
• 1966 - Lee Ann Womack, country music musician
• 1969 - Matthew Perry, actor (Friends, The Whole Nine Yards)
• 1973 - Crown Princess Mette Marit of Norway
• 1980 - Darius Danesh, singer
• 1983 - Tammin Sursok, Australian actress

Deaths

• 14 - Augustus, Roman emperor
• 1186 - Geoffrey Plantagenet, Duke of Brittany, stamped by a horse in a tournament
• 1493 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor
• 1662 - Blaise Pascal, mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher
• 1819 - James Watt, engineer (b. 1736)
• 1872 - King Charles XV / Carl IV of Sweden-Norway (b. 1826)
• 1895 - John Wesley Hardin, gunfighter
• 1936 - Federico Garc�a Lorca, author
• 1936 - John M.S. Pearce, neurologist and author
• 1954 - Alcide De Gasperi, former Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1881)
• 1957 - David Bomberg, painter
• 1967 - Hugo Gernsback, editor, publisher
• 1970 - Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (b. 1909)
• 1977 - Groucho Marx, comedian, actor (b. 1890)
• 1980 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank
• 1994 - Linus Pauling, chemist, peace activist
• 1995 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of musique concr�te
• 2003 - Carlos Roberto Reina, former president of Honduras
• 2003 - S�rgio Vieira de Mello, UN Special Representative in Iraq

Holidays and observances

• Afghan Independence Day see above: 1919

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