August 19

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

Events

• 1099 - Crusaders beat Saracens in Battle of Ascalon[?]
• 1561 - Mary Stuart proclaimed Queen of Scotland
• 1812 - USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) defeats the British frigate Guerrière off the coast of Nova Scotia
• 1813 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's second triumvirate
• 1818 - United States annexes Oregon Territory
• 1917 - Manager John McGraw[?] and player Christy Mathewson arrested for playing baseball on Sunday
• 1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes President of Germany
• 1934 - The first All-American Soap Box Derby[?] is held in Dayton, Ohio
• 1942 - Canadian, British, American and Free French forces raid Dieppe, France
• 1942 - Battle of Guadalcanal
• 1953 - The CIA helps to overthrow the government of Iran and reinstates the Shah
• 1960 - Francis Gary Powers[?] is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage
• 1989 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki[?] elected first non-Communist President of Poland
• 1991 - Mikhail Gorbachev deposed in a coup

Births

• 1870 - Bernard Baruch, financier (+ 1965)
• 1871 - Orville Wright, aviator (+ 1958)
• 1883 - Coco Chanel, clothing designer (+ 1971)
• 1892 - Alfred Lunt, actor
• 1902 - Ogden Nash, poet (+ 1971)
• 1906 - Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor, television pioneer (+ 1971)
• 1907 - Thruston B. Morton[?], former Representative and Senator from Kentucky (+ 1982)
• 1916 - Marie Wilson[?], actress (+ 1972)
• 1915 - Ring Lardner, Jr., actor, screenwriter (+ 2000)
• 1919 - Malcolm Forbes[?], publisher (+ 1990)
• 1921 - Gene Roddenberry, author, producer (+ 1991)
• 1930 - Frank McCourt, author
• 1931 - Willie Shoemaker[?], jockey
• 1938 - Diana Muldaur[?], actress, dog breeder, dog judge
• 1939 - Ginger Baker, drummer, trumpet player
• 1940 - Johnny Nash[?], singer
• 1940 - Jill St. John[?], actress
• 1942 - Fred Thompson[?], Watergate counsel, Senator from Tennessee, actor
• 1946 - Bill Clinton, U.S. president
• 1948 - Tipper Gore[?], author, activist for "Parental Advisory" labels on music
• 1952 - Jonathan Frakes, actor, director
• 1954 - Mary Matalin[?], Republican Party political activist
• 1956 - Peter Gallagher[?], actor
• 1963 - John Stamos, actor
• 1965 - Kevin Dillon[?], actor
• 1965 - Kyra Sedgwick[?], actress
• 1969 - Matthew Perry, actor
• 1973 - Crown Princess Mette Marit[?] of Norway

Deaths

• 14 - Augustus, Roman emperor
• 1662 - Blaise Pascal, mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher
• 1819 - James Watt, engineer
• 1895 - John Wesley Hardin[?], gunfighter
• 1936 - Federico García Lorca, author
• 1957 - David Bomberg, painter
• 1967 - Hugo Gernsback, editor, publisher
• 1976 - Alastair Cook[?], journalist, television host
• 1977 - Groucho Marx, comedian, actor
• 1980 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank
• 1994 - Linus Pauling, chemist, peace activist
• 1995 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer and pioneer of musique concrete

Holidays and observances

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