August 19
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August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar . There are 134 days remaining.
Events
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 Guerrière 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 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 .
1919 - Afghanistan gains independence from the United Kingdom .
1929 - The radio comedy show Amos and Andy 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 Führer 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
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.
1990 - Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven 's Symphony No. 7 .
1999 - In Belgrade , tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic .
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
1398 - Marqués de Santillana , Spanish poet (d. 1458 )
1631 - John Dryden , poet (d. 1700 )
1743 - Madame du Barry , French courtesan (d. 1793 )
1870 - Bernard Baruch , financier (d. 1965 )
1871 - Orville Wright , aviator (d. 1948 )
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 )
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
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 Muñoz , 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 )
1889 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam , French writer (b. 1838 )
1895 - John Wesley Hardin , gunfighter
1936 - Federico García Lorca , Spanish author (b. 1898 )
1936 - John M.S. Pearce , neurologist and author
1954 - Alcide De Gasperi , 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 concrète
2003 - Carlos Roberto Reina , former president of Honduras
2003 - Sérgio Vieira de Mello , UN Special Representative in Iraq
Holidays and observances
National Aviation Day
External links
August 18 - August 20 - July 19 - September 19 -- listing of all days
