19 August
August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar. There are 134 days remaining.
Events
upto 19th century
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 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.
- 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
Births
upto 19th century
20th century
1900s-1930s
- 1902 - Ogden Nash, poet (d. 1971)
- 1906 - Philo T.
Farnsworth, inventor, television pioneer (d. 1971)
- 1907 - Thruston B. Morton, former Representative and Senator from Kentucky (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 polemist (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 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
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
García 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 concrète
- 2003 - Carlos Roberto
Reina, former president of Honduras
- 2003 - Sérgio Vieira de Mello, UN Special Representative in Iraq
Holidays and observances
August 18 - August 20 -
July 19 - September 19 --
listing of all days
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