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.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

[edit] Events

293 BC - Oldest known Roman temple to Venus Libitina founded on the Esquiline Hill; institution of Vinalia Rustica begins.
43 BC - Octavian, later Augustus, compels the senate to elect him Consul.
14 AD - Octavian, later Augustus, dies.
1504 - Battle of Knockdoe.
1561 - Queen Mary Stuart returns to Scotland.
1692 - Salem Witch Trials: In Salem, Massachusetts, USA five women and a clergyman are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
1745 - Jacobite Rising, Prince Charles Edward Stuart lands from a French warship in Glenfinnan, raises his standard and marches on London - the start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion known as "the 45".
1768 - Saint Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
1782 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks - The last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Lord Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
1812 - War of 1812: American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerrière off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning her 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 of the 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 full independence from the United Kingdom.
1927 - Metropolitan Sergius proclaimed the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet state.
1929 - The radio comedy show and Andy">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.
1934 - The creation of the position Führer approved by the German electorate with 89.9% of the popular vote.
1942 - World War II: Operation Jubilee - The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an allied forces amphibious assault on Dieppe, France.
1944 - World War II: Liberation of Paris - Paris rises against German occupation 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: Sputnik 5 - The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs and Strelka">Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants.
1961 - The Australian public-affairs show Four Corners starts on the ABC.
1965 - Japanese prime minister Eisaku Sato becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa.
1975 - The cricket test match between England and Australia is called off after the pitch is vandalised by supporters of George Davis.
1980 - Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people.
1981 - Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.
1987 - Hungerford Massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide.
1989 - Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist Prime Minister in 42 years.
1989 - Raid on offshore pirate station, Radio Caroline in North Sea by British and Dutch governments.
1990 - Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7.
1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Crimea.
1999 - In Belgrade, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.
2002 - A Russian Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.
2003 - A car-bomb attack on UN headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employers.
2005 - The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.

[edit] Births

1398 - Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (d. 1458)
1557 - Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1608)
1590 - Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (d. 1649)
1596 - Elizabeth of Bohemia (d. 1662)
1621 - Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (d. 1674)
1631 - John Dryden, English poet (d. 1700)
1646 - John Flamsteed, English astronomer (d. 1719)
1686 - Eustace Budgell, English writer (d. 1737)
1686 - Nicola Porpora, Italian composer (d. 1768)
1689 - Samuel Richardson, English writer (d. 1761)
1711 - Edward Boscawen, British admiral (d. 1761)
1743 - Madame du Barry, French courtesan (d. 1793)
1846 - Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1906)
1853 - Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (d. 1926)
1870 - Bernard Baruch, American financier (d. 1965)
1871 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1948)
1875 - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (d. 1936)
1878 - Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippines (d. 1944)
1881 - George Enescu, Romanian composer (d. 1955)
1883 - Coco Chanel, French clothing designer (d. 1971)
1883 - Elsie Ferguson, American film actress (d. 1961)
1892 - Alfred Lunt, American actor (d. 1977)
1896 - Olga Baclanova, Russian-born actress (d. 1974)
1902 - Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971)
1906 - Philo T. Farnsworth, American inventor (d. 1971)
1907 - Thruston B. Morton, American politician (d. 1982)
1913 - Richard Simmons, American actor (d. 2003)
1914 - Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
1915 - Ring Lardner, Jr., American actor (d. 2000)
1919 - Malcolm Forbes, American publisher (d. 1990)
1921 - Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (d. 1991)
1925 - Claude Gauvreau, Canadian playwright (d. 1971)
1926 - Arthur Rock, American venture capitalist
1930 - Frank McCourt, Irish-American author
1931 - Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (d. 2003)
1934 - Renee Richards, American physician
1935 - Bobby Richardson, American baseball player
1938 - Diana Muldaur, American actress
1939 - Ginger Baker, English musician
1940 - Johnny Nash, American singer
1940 - Jill St. John, American actress
1942 - Fred Dalton Thompson, American politician
1944 - Bodil Malmsten, Swedish writer
1944 - Charles B. Wang, Chinese-born philanthropist
1945 - Ian Gillan, English singer
1946 - Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
1946 - Beat Raaflaub, Swiss conductor
1946 - Dawn Steel, American film producer (d. 1997)
1947 - Gerard Schwarz, American conductor
1948 - Gerald McRaney, American actor
1948 - Tipper Gore, Second Lady of the United States
1950 - Jennie Bond, British journalist
1951 - John Deacon, English musician (Queen)
1952 - Jonathan Frakes, American actor and director
1955 - Peter Gallagher, American actor
1956 - Adam Arkin, American actor
1957 - Li-Young Lee, Indonesia-born American poet
1958 - Anthony Muñoz, American football player
1958 - Gary Gaetti, American baseball player
1960 - Morten Andersen, American football player
1963 - John Stamos, American actor
1963 - Yip Sai Wing, Hong Kong songwriter, singer and the drummer of the Hong Kong rock band Beyond
1963 - Joey Tempest, Swedish singer (Europe)
1964 - Whitney Prescott, American model
1965 - Kyra Sedgwick, American actress
1966 - Lee Ann Womack, American musician
1969 - Matthew Perry, Canadian actor
1969 - Nate Dogg, American rapper
1970 - Fat Joe, American rapper
1972 - Roberto Abbondanzieri, Argentine footballer
1973 - Crown Princess Mette Marit of Norway
1973 - Callum Blue, British actor
1973 - Marco Materazzi, Italian footballer
1973 - Lilian Garcia, Professional wrestling announcer
1975 - Tracie Thoms, American actress
1979 - Dave Douglas, American musician (Relient K)
1979 - Jennifer Morrison, American actress
1980 - Jun Jin, rapper in Korean group Shinhwa
1980 - Darius Danesh, Scottish singer
1982 - Erika Christensen, American actress
1983 - Missy Higgins, Australian singer-songwriter
1983 - Tammin Sursok, Australian actress
1983 - Mike Conway, British racing driver
1984 - Micah Alberti, American actor
1984 - Ryan Taylor, English Footballer
1987 - Anais Lameche, Swedish singer (Play)
1987 - Richard Stearman, English footballer
1989 - Lil Romeo, American rapper, actor.

[edit] Deaths

14 - Augustus, Roman Emperor (b. 63 BC)
1186 - Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1158)
1245 - Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (b. 1195)
1284 - Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (b. 1273)
1297 - Saint Louis of Toulouse, French Catholic bishop (b. 1274)
1493 - Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1415)
1580 - Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (b. 1508)
1646 - Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian
1662 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)
1753 - Balthasar Neumann, German architect (b. 1687)
1819 - James Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1736)
1822 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician (b. 1749)
1889 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (b. 1838)
1895 - John Wesley Hardin, American gunfighter (b. 1853)
1900 - Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (b. 1833)
1914 - Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1844)
1923 - Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (b. 1845)
1929 - Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (b. 1872)
1936 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish author (b. 1898)
1944 - Günther von Kluge, German field marshal (b. 1882)
1945 - Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (b.1875)
1950 - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (b. 1871)
1954 - Alcide De Gasperi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1881)
1957 - David Bomberg, English painter (b. 1890)
1957 - Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (b. 1898)
1959 - Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor (b. 1880)
1967 - Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (b. 1884)
1968 - George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (b. 1904)
1969 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (b. 1886)
1970 - Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (b. 1909)
1975 - Jim Londos, wrestler (b. 1897)
1976 - Alastair Sim, Scottish actor and rector of Edinburgh University (b. 1900)
1977 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890)
1980 - Otto Frank, Father of Anne Frank (b. 1889)
1982 - August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
1994 - Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace (b. 1901)
1995 - Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (b. 1910)
2000 - Antonio Pugliese, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1941)
2003 - Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (b. 1926)
2003 - Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (b. 1948)
2005 - Bueno de Mesquita, Dutch comedian and actor (b. 1918)
2005 - Mo Mowlam, British politician (b. 1949)

[ and observances">edit] Holidays and observances

Roman festivals - Vinalia Rustica celebrated in honor of Venus Libitina commemorating the founding of the oldest known temple to her, on the Esquiline Hill, in 293 BC on this date.
RC saints - Saint Sebald, Saint Louis of Toulouse, Jean-Eudes de Mézeray.
Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the Saviour's Transfiguration, popularly known as the "Apples Feast" (it's the first day of the year when eating apples is allowed).
Afghanistan - Afghan Independence Day see above: 1919
National Day of the Filipino Language, Philippines - Holiday for Quezon City, Quezon Province and other municipalities named after Manuel Quezon.
National Aviation Day, USA.

[edit] External links

August 18 - August 20 - July 19 - September 19 -- listing of all days


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