This Day in History for 19th August

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 166

43 BC - Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.
440 - St Sixtus III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1071 - Battle at Manzikert: Seldjuken sultan Alp Arslan beats Byzantine King
1099 - Crusaders beat Saracens in Battle of Ascalon
1263 - King James I of Argon censors Hebrew writing
1399 - King Richard II of England surrenders to his cousin Henry
1458 - Aenea Silvio Piccolomini chosen Pope Pius II
1477 - Burgundy & acquires Burgundian possessions in the Netherlands & France
1493 - Maximilian I of Austria becomes Roman Catholic German emperor
1504 - Battle of Knockdoe.
1524 - Emperor Charles V's troops besiege Marseille, Italy
1561 - Mary Queen of Scots arrives in Leith Scotland to assume throne after spending 13 years in France
1587 - Sigismund III becomes king of Poland
1591 - French king Henri IV occupies Rouen
1627 - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Groenlo
1691 - Battle at Szalankemen: Austrians beat Turks
1692 - 5 women executed for witchcraft in Salem Mass
1698 - Russian czar Peter the Great begins term
1702 - -24] Battle at Santa Marta Venz: English fleet beat French
Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar 1757 - Battle at Gross Jagerndorf: Russian army beats Prussia [NS=Aug 30]
1768 - Saint Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
1772 - Gustav III seizes effective control of Swedish government & restores full power of monarchy, which had been subordinate to parliament since 1720
1787 - W Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn
1791 - Benjamin Banneker published his 1st Almanac
1796 - Spain & France sign anti-English alliance
1812 - US warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere
1813 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's second triumvirate.
1816 - Java again in Dutch hands
1821 - Failed liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII
1826 - Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario)
1836 - HMS Beagle anchors at Angra Azores
1839 - Details of Louis Daguerre's 1st practical photographic process are released in Paris
1849 - NY Herald reports gold discovery in California
1861 - Confederacy Congress allies with government of MO
1864 - 2nd day of battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia
1888 - 1st beauty contest (Spa, Belgium), 18 yr old West Indian wins
1891 - William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum
1895 - American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
1897 - 1st electric taxi's drive in London
1900 - Start of the one & only olympic cricket match, in Paris
1903 - Phillies suffer record 9th straight posponed game
1905 - Russian tsar installs "Imperial Duma," without legislative powers
1909 - Indianapolis 500 race track opens
1911 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson loses after beating Reds 22 straight times
1912 - Percy Aldridge Grainger's "Shepherd's Key," premieres
1913 - Frenchman Pégoud makes 1st parachute jump in Europe
1914 - Elmer Rice' "On Trial," premieres in NYC
1914 - German army executed 150 Belgians by firing squad
1914 - German fleet bombs English coast
1914 - Harris Theater (Candler, Coan & Harris) opens at 226 W 42nd St NYC
1915 - Rationing laws go into effect in Netherlands
1915 - World War I: the Battle of Van begins
1917 - Sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw & Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws
1918 - Irving Berlin's musical "Yip Yip Yaphank," premieres in NYC
1919 - Afghanistan declares independence from UK
1921 - Ty Cobb, is 4th to get 3,000 hits
1922 - 36th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Helen Wills Moody (63 61)
1927 - Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet state.
1931 - Lefty Grove wins AL record tying 16th consecutive game
1932 - 46th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Carolin A Babcock (62 62)
1933 - 47th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Helen Moody (86 36 30 ret)
1934 - 48th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H P Fabyan (61 64)
1934 - Paul Runyan wins PGA golf tournament
1934 - The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
1936 - Trial against Ljev Kamenev & Grigori Zinovjev because of "Trotskyism" opens in Moscow
1939 - 37.6 cm rainfall at Tuckerton, NJ (state record)
1941 - Ump Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on field holding an umbrella to get a rainout
1942 - -20] Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Burg-al-Arab
1942 - Over 4,000 Canadian & British soldiers killed, wounded or captured raiding Dieppe, France
1942 - Gen Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad
1943 - Belgian church excommunicates nazi Leon Degrelle
1943 - US air raid on German bases at Gilze-Rijen/Vlissingen
1944 - Allied air raid on Maastricht, 80+ killed
1944 - Gen Bradley visits Montgomery
1944 - Last Japanese troops driven out of India
1944 - Nazi's give parts of Paris to Resistance
1944 - Paris police strike against nazi occupiers
1944 - Polish 1st Division occupies Hill 262 (Mont Ormel), Normandy
1944 - US 15th Army corp occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris
1944 - US 90th/Polish 1st Division occupy Chambois Normandy
1945 - Phillies Jimmie Foxx, 37, pitches 1st 7 innings vs Reds & wins
1947 - J Arens & D van Dorpen synthetise vitamin A
1950 - ABC begins Saturday morning kid shows (Animal Clinic & Acrobat Ranch)
1951 - Bill Veeck (Cleveland Indians) sends Eddie Gaedel, a 3'7" midget, to pinch-hit
1953 - England regained cricket Ashes after winning series 1-0
1954 - Ralph J Bunche named undersecretary of UN
1955 - 32.4 cm precipitation at Burlington, Connecticut (state record)
1955 - Hurricane Diane kills 200 & 1st billion $ damage storm (N.E. US)
1955 - US raises import duty on bicycles 50%
1955 - WINS radio, announces it will not play "copy" white cover versions of R&B (DJs must play Fats Domino's "Ain't It A Shame," not Pat Boone's)
1956 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open
1957 - NY Giants vote 8-1 to move their franchise to SF in 1958
1957 - US Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon
1958 - NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters
1959 - Doctor X beats Wilber Snyder in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ
1959 - Honolulu seeks a franchise in Continental League
1959 - Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit
1960 - Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
1960 - Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit (later recovered alive)
36th US President Lyndon B Johnson 1961 - US vice-president Lyndon B Johnson visits West Berlin

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 228

1342 - Katharine of Bohemia, Duchess of Bavaria (d. 1395)
1398 - Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (d. 1458)
1521 - Lodovico Guicciardini, Italian historian (Descrittione di Tutti)
1557 - Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1608)
1558 - Paulus Merula, Dutch lawyer/historian
1590 - Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (d. 1649)
1596 - Elizabeth Stuart, Electress Palatine, Queen of Bohemia and daughter of James IV and I of England and Scotland (d. 1662)
1621 - Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (d. 1674)
1631 - John Dryden, 1st poet laureate of England (All for Love)
1646 - John Flamsteed, 1st astronomer royal of England
1686 - Antonio Tonelli, composer
1686 - Eustace Budgell, English writer (d. 1737)
1689 - Samuel Richardson, English novelist (Pamela) (baptized)
1711 - Edward Boscawen, British admiral (d. 1761)
1737 - Johann Georg Christoph Schetky, composer
1743 - Marie Jeanne Becu Comtesse du Barry, last mistress of Louis XV (d. 1793)
1756 - Anthony FRE Haersolte, member of Executing Regime
1780 - Baranger, writer
1785 - Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks
1813 - William Henry Fry, composer
1815 - John Porter McCown, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1816 - Julius PJA van Zuylen van Nyevelt, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs
1824 - Georg Goltermann, composer
1831 - Stephen Gano Burbridge, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1839 - Oskar Brefeld, German botanist
1846 - Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1906)
1848 - Gustave Caillebotte, French shipbuilding design/painter (Rue de Paris)
1851 - Frans Schollaert, Belgian premier (1908-11)
1853 - Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (d. 1926)
1858 - Edith Nesbit, England, children books author (Railway Children)
1859 - Charles Comiskey, 1st basemen/manager (Chicago White Sox)
1859 - Hippolyte Delehaye, Flemish historian/hagiographer
1860 - John Kane, Scottish-born US primitivist painter (Self-Portrait)
1870 - Bernard Baruch, financier/presidential adviser (Cold War)
Aviator Orville Wright (1871) 1871 - Orville Wright, Dayton OH, aviator (Wright Brothers), (d. 1912)
1873 - Fred Stone, Longmont CO, acrobat/Broadway actor (Alice Adams)
1875 - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (d. 1936)
1878 - Manuel Luis Quezón y Molina, 1st president of Philippines (1935-42)
1881 - Georges Enesco, [or Enescu], Romania, composer (Romanian Dances)
1883 - José Mendes Cabeçadas, 95th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th President of Portugal (d. 1965)
1883 - Elsie Ferguson, New York City, New York, American film actress (Footlights, Scarlet Pages)
1885 - Werner Elert, German luthers theologist
1886 - Robert Heger, composer
1889 - Arthur Waley, sinologist, translator from Chinese & Japanese
1890 - Yves Alix, French painter/graphic artist
1893 - Alfred Lunt, Milwaukee WI, Broadway actor (Emmy 1965)
1895 - Andrzejewski, writer
1895 - Arnoldt Bronnen, writer
1896 - Eino Mauno Aleksanteri Linnala, composer
1896 - Walter Lang, composer
1899 - Kenneth MacKenna, Canterbury NH, actor/director (Those We Love)
1899 - Olga Baclanova, Moscow Russia, actress (Freaks, Docks of NY)
1899 - Charlie Hall, English comedian actor (d. 1959)
1900 - Colleen Moore, Port Huron MI, actress (Scarlet Letter)
1900 - Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (d. 1976)
1902 - Ogden Nash, Rye NY, humorous poet (I'm a Stranger Here Myself)
1902 - Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright (Ultimatum Factory) [NS]
1902 - J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (d. 1994)
1903 - Claude Dauphin, Corbell France, actor (April in Paris, Deported)
1903 - James Gould Cozzens, US, novelist (1949 Pulitzer-Guard of Honor)
1903 - Muriel Kirkland, Yonkers NY, actress (Fast Workers, Hold Your Man)
1904 - Ted Nightingale, former colonial governor
1905 - Fitzhugh Lee, US pilot/vice-admiral (WW II, Navy Cross)
1905 - Jacques de Menasce, composer
1906 - June Collyer, NYC, actress (Before Midnight, Charley's Aunt)
1906 - Philo T Farnsworth, Beaver Utah, inventor (electronic TV)
1907 - Thurston Morton, (Sen-Ky, 1957-1969)
1907 - Zygmunt Mycielsky, composer
1907 - Thruston B. Morton, American politician (d. 1982)
1909 - Jerzy Andrzejewski, Warsaw Poland, writer (Ashes & Diamonds)
1910 - Quentin Bell, artist author/teacher
1913 - Walter B Jones, (Rep-D-NC, 1966-92)
1913 - Richard Simmons, American actor (d. 2003)
1913 - John Argyris, Greek aeronautical engineer, one of the creators of the Finite Element Method (d. 2004)
1914 - Fumio Hayasaka, composer
1914 - Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
1915 - Ring Lardner Jr, Chicago, Illinois, American journalist and screenwriter (Woman of the Year, M A S H)
1915 - Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman and administrator (Desjardins Group) (d. 1985)
1916 - Marie Wilson, Anaheim California, actress (My Friend Irma)
1918 - James George "Jimmy" Rowles, jazz pianist
Publisher Malcolm Forbes (1919) 1919 - Malcolm Forbes, Brooklyn New York, publisher (Forbes Magazine), (d. 1990)
1920 - Lucila Engels-Boskaljon, Curacao painter
1920 - Paul Kont, composer
1921 - Gene Roddenberry, El Paso Texas, executive producer (Star Trek)
1921 - Philip A Potter, Dominica sec-gen World council of Churches
1922 - Douglas MacKenzie Davey, psychometrist
1924 - William Marshall, Gary Ind, actor (Blacula, Something of Value)
1925 - Claude Gauvreau, Canadian playwright (d. 1971)
1926 - Arthur Rock, American venture capitalist
1927 - James T Broyhill, (Sen-R-NC, 1986)
1930 - D[avid] G[uy] Compton, UK, sci-fi author (Synthajoy, Radio Plays)
1931 - Willie Shoemaker, jockey (won 8,833 of 40,350 starts)
1932 - John James Fenwick, English warehouse owner/multi-millionaire
1932 - Thomas P. Salmon, 75th Governor of Vermont
1933 - Debra Paget, [Griffin], Denver, actress (Love Me Tender)
1933 - Vladimir Borisovich Alekseyev, Russia, cosmonaut
1934 - Bill Cleary, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
1934 - David F Durenberger, Minn, (Sen-R-MN, 1978- )
1934 - Renee Richards, [Richard Rankind], trans-sexual tennis player
1934 - William Cleary, Cambridge Mass, hockey center, (Oly-gold/silv-56, 60)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 4 of 4

1935 - French singer Edith Piaf (19) weds Andrew Johnseppe in Belleville, Paris
1973 - Kris Kristofferson weds Rita Coolidge
1993 - Actress Kim Basinger weds actor Alec Baldwin
2006 - Brazilian model Luciana Morad (36) weds Brazilian TV producer Marcelo de Carvalho at Ponta das Canas near the coast of Sao Paulo

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 2 of 2

2008 - Actor-comedian Tom Arnold (48) divorces Shelby Roos (35) after six years of marriage
2011 - "My Fair Brady" actress Adrianne Curry (28) divorces "The Brady Bunch" actor Christopher Knight (53) due to irreconcilable differences after 5 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 101

14 - Augustus Caesar, first Roman Emperor (b. 63 BC)
440 - Sixtus III, Italian Pope (432-40), dies
472 - Ricimer, Barbaars general, dies
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 of Innsbruck, German Emperor (1440-1493), dies at 77
1580 - Andrea Palladio, architect/writer (Il Redentore, Venice), dies at 71
1601 - Michael the Brave, ruler of Turkey, dies
1646 - Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian
1650 - Abraham de Verwer, painter, buried at about 55
1654 - Yom Tov Lipmann Heller, rabbi/author (Tosefot Yom Tov), dies
1662 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)
1680 - Jean Eudes, French catholic priest, founder of the Eudists (b. 1601)
1691 - Mustafa Koprulu, Turkish grand vizer, dies in battle
1699 - Jose Saenz d'aguirre, Spanish cardinal, dies at 69
1719 - Karl H Freiherr von Canstein, German lawyer, dies at 52
1744 - Carlo Arrigoni, composer, dies at 46
Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar (14) 1753 - [Johann] Balthasar Neumann, German architect, dies at 66
1780 - Bernhard Haltenberger, composer, dies at 32
1795 - Friedrich Hartmann Graf, composer, dies at 67
1812 - Vincenzo Righini, composer, dies at 56
1813 - Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, composer, dies at 54
1813 - Josef Blazej Smrcek, composer, dies at 61
1819 - James Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1736)
1822 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician and astronomer, dies at 72
1822 - Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer, dies at 62
1851 - Gioseffo Catrufo, composer, dies at 80
1872 - Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer, dies at 63
1876 - George Smith, English assyriologist (script), dies at 36
1881 - Joseph Labitzky, composer, dies at 79
1883 - Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman (b. 1810)
1888 - Spencer F Baird, US biologist (Wood's Hole Station), dies at 65
Mathematician/Astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1822) 1889 - Jean MMPA de Villiers de l'isle-Adam, French writer (Axel), dies at 60
1892 - Frantisek Zdenek Xavier Alois Skuhersky, composer, dies at 62
1895 - John Wesley Hardin, American gunfighter (b. 1853)
1900 - Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer (b. 1833)
1909 - Rembt THPLA of Boneval Faure, lawyer/1st-Member of parliament, dies
1912 - Alfonse Hasselmans, composer, dies at 67
1914 - Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1844)
1922 - Felipe Pedrell, composer, dies at 81
1923 - Vilfredo Pareto, Italian sociologist and economist (b. 1845)
1929 - Sergei P Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet), dies at 57
1936 - Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet/composer, murdered at 37 or 38
1944 - Gunther von Kluge, German field marshal, commits suicide, dies at 62
1944 - Henry J Wood, English conductor (My Life of Music, Proms), dies at 75
1945 - Tomas Burgos, Chilean philanthropist (b.1875)
1947 - Ernst Laqueur, Dut chemist/psychologist (sexual hormones), dies at 67
1950 - Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (b. 1871)
1954 - Alcide de Gasperi, Italian premier (1945..53), dies at 73
1957 - David Bomberg, English painter (b. 1890)
1957 - Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish meteorologist (b. 1898)
1958 - Antonius "Toon" Verhey, violin cellist/conductor, dies at 63
1959 - Jacob Epstein, US/English sculptor/painter, dies at 78
1962 - Kerstin Hesselgren, 1st woman in Swedish parliament, dies at 90
1963 - Kathleen Parlow, Canadian violinist (b. 1890)
1967 - Carl W de Vries, Dutch (Great-granddad King William III), dies at 84
1967 - Isaac Deutscher, Polish/Eng historian (Stalin-biography), dies at 60
1967 - Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (b. 1884)
1968 - Sara Jane Roberts, child actress (Our Gang), dies after surgery at 44
1968 - George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (b. 1904)
1970 - Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (b. 1909)
1971 - Walther Victor, writer, dies
1974 - ... Davies, US ambassador on Cyprus, murdered
1975 - Jim Londos, wrestler (b. 1897)
1976 - Alastair Sim, actor (Christmas Carol, Green for Danger), dies at 75
1976 - Jeno Kenessey, composer, dies at 70
1976 - Ken Wadsworth, cricketer (Exciting NZ keeper), dies of cancer at 29
1977 - Groucho Marx, NYC, comedian (Marx Bros), dies in LA at 86
1979 - Dorsey Burnette, rocker, dies at 46 of a heart attack
1981 - Jessie Matthews, actress (Gangway, First a Girl), dies at 74
1982 - August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
1986 - Hermione Baddeley, actress (Camp Runamuck, Maude), dies at 79
1986 - Jacob A W Burger, chairman (Dutch soc-dem party), dies at 81
1986 - Lorenzo Tucker, actor (Black King), dies
1987 - Hayden Rorke, Brooklyn, actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Night Walker), dies
1990 - Ben Rutgers Van de Loeff-Basenau, children's book writer, dies at 80
1992 - Feliks Arons, Dutch director/actor (A Bridge Too Far), dies at 48
1993 - Jean King, actress (Night Hasa a Thousand Eyes), dies at 76
1993 - Lucinda Ballard, US costume designer/wife of Howard Dietz, dies at 90
1994 - John George Hughes, bishop of Kensington, dies at 59
Chemist & Peace Activist Linus Pauling (1994) 1994 - Linus Pauling, Nobel prize scientist (Vitamin C advocate), dies at 93
1994 - Nancy Keene Lancaster, US/British architect (Binnen House), dies at 96
1994 - Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky, poet, dies at 64
1994 - Walter Bartley, biochemist, dies at 78
1995 - Danny Arnold, British TV producer, dies at 70
1995 - Pierre Schaeffer, composer/radio innovator, dies at 85
2000 - Antonio Pugliese, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1941)
2000 - Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo littérateur and religious figure (birth date unknown)
2001 - Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1933)
2001 - Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (b. 1939)
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)
2008 - Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian politician
2008 - LeRoi Moore, American musician (Dave Matthews Band) (b.1961)
2009 - Don Hewitt, television news producer & director; creator of 60 Minutes (b. 1922)
2011 - Gun Hägglund, Swedish news presenter (b. 1932)
2011 - Raúl Ruiz, Chilean filmmaker (b. 1941)