|-
|
|-
|
|}
August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in Leap Year s) in the Gregorian Calendar . There are 134 days remaining.
Events
- 293 BC - Oldest known Roman Temple to Venus ''Libitina'' founded on the Esquiline Hill ; institution of Vinalia Rustica begins.
- 1388 - Battle Of Otterburn , border skirmish between the Scottish and the English in Northern England .
- 1504 - Battle Of Knockdoe
- 1561 - Queen Mary Stuart returns to Scotland .
- 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
- , almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Lord Cornwallis following the Siege Of Yorktown .
- '' defeats the British frigate '' HMS Guerrière '' off the coast of Nova Scotia .
- 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 .
- '' breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the Gold Rush in California (although the rush started in January).
- , 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 '' 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.
- - The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an Allied Forces Amphibious Assault on Dieppe, France .
- - Paris rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.
- led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi , Vietnam .
- 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.
- , downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for Espionage .
- 1960 - launches Sputnik 5 with the Dog s Belka And Strelka , 40 Mice , 2 Rat s and a variety of Plant s.
- 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.
- n Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets intercept United States fighters over the Gulf Of Sidra and are destroyed by them.
- , 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.
- 1990 - Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig Van Beethoven 's Symphony No. 7 .
- 1991 - Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev is overthrown by a coup. This leads to the fall of the Soviet Union
- 1999 - In Belgrade , tens of thousands of Serbia ns rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic Of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević .
- 2002 - A Russia n 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.
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 )
- 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 - Georges 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 and television pioneer (d. 1971 )
- 1907 - Thruston B. Morton , American politician (d. 1982 )
- 1913 - Richard Simmons , American actor (d. 2003 )
- 1914 - Lajos Baróti , Hungarian footballer and coach (d. 2005 )
- 1915 - Ring Lardner, Jr. , American actor and screenwriter (d. 2000 )
- 1919 - Malcolm Forbes , American publisher (d. 1990 )
- 1921 - Gene Roddenberry , American television producer (d. 1991 )
- 1925 - Claude Gauvreau , Canadian playwright, poet, and polemicist (d. 1971 )
- 1926 - Arthur Rock , American venture capitalist
- 1930 - Frank McCourt , Irish-American author
- 1931 - Willie Shoemaker , American jockey (d. 2003 )
- 1935 - Bobby Richardson , baseball player
- 1938 - Diana Muldaur , American actress, dog breeder and judge
- 1939 - Ginger Baker , English musician
- 1940 - Johnny Nash , American singer
- 1940 - Jill St. John , American actress
- 1942 - Fred Dalton Thompson , U.S. Senator from Tennessee and actor
- 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
- 1947 - Gerard Schwarz , American conductor
- 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
- 1958 - Anthony Muñoz , American football player
- 1960 - Morten Andersen , American football player
- 1963 - John Stamos , American actor
- 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
- 1973 - Crown Princess Mette Marit of Norway
- 1973 - Callum Blue , British actor
- 1979 - David Douglas , American drummer ( Relient K )
- 1979 - Jennifer Morrison , American actress
- 1980 - Darius Danesh , Scottish singer
- 1982 - Erika Christensen , American actress
- 1983 - Tammin Sursok , Australian actress
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 )
- 1872 - King Charles XV / Carl IV of Sweden and Norway (b. 1826 )
- 1889 - Auguste Villiers De L'Isle-Adam , French writer (b. 1838 )
- 1895 - John Wesley Hardin , American gunfighter (b. 1853 )
- 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 )
- 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 )
- 1976 - Alastair Sim , Scottish actor and rector of Edinburgh University (b. 1900 )
- 1977 - Groucho Marx , American comedian and actor (b. 1890 )
- 1980 - Otto Frank , German writer and 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 )
- 2000 - Antonio Pugliese , Italian professional wrestler (b. 1941 )
- 1995 - Pierre Schaeffer , French composer (b. 1910 )
- 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 )
Holidays and observances
External links
August 18 - August 20 - July 19 - September 19 -- Listing Of All Days
|
