August 19

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

Events

• 43 BC – Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.
• 1504 – In Ireland, the Hiberno-Norman de Burghs (Burkes) and Anglo-Norman Fitzgeralds fight in the Battle of Knockdoe.
• 1561 – An 18-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, returns to Scotland after spending 13 years in France.
• 1612 – The "Samlesbury witches", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused for practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in English history.
• 1666 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as "Holmes's Bonfire".
• 1692 – Salem witch trials: in Salem, Massachusetts, Province of Massachusetts Bay five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
• 1745 – Prince Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard in Glenfinnan – the start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion, known as "the 45".
• 1759 – Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Year's War between Britain and France.
• 1768 – Saint Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
• 1772 – Gustavus III of Sweden stages a Coup d'état, in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power between the Riksdag and the King.
• 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 Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning her nickname "Old Ironsides".
• 1813 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's Second Triumvirate.
• 1821 – Greek rebels massacre all the population of Navarino.
• 1839 – The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the world".
• 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).
• 1861 – First ascent of Weisshorn, fifth highest summit in the Alps.
• 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.
• 1909 – First automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway takes place.
• 1919 – Afghanistan gains full independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1927 – Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
• 1934 – The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
• 1934 – The creation of the position Führer is approved by the German electorate with 89.9% of the popular vote.
• 1940 – First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber.
• 1942 – World War II: Operation Jubilee – the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured. The operation was doomed to fail, and was intended to develop and try new amphibious landing tactics for the coming full invasion in Normandy.
• 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 and MI6 help 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 Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants.
• 1965 – Japanese prime minister Eisaku Sato becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa.
• 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.
• 1989 – Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events which began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
• 1991 – dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Crimea.
• 1991 – Crown Heights Riot: Black groups target Hasidic Jews on the streets of Crown Heights during 3 days, after 2 black kids were struck by a car driven by a Hasidic man.
• 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 United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
• 2003 – A Hamas planned suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem kills 23 Israelis, 7 of them children in the Jerusalem bus 2 massacre.
• 2005 – The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.
• 2005 – A series of strong storms lashes Southern Ontario spawning several tornadoes as well as creating extreme flash flooding within the city of Toronto and its surrounding communities. In Toronto, it is also dubbed as the Toronto Supercell.
• 2009 – A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.
• 2010 – Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.

Births

• 232 – Marcus Aurelius Probus, Roman emperor (d. 282)
• 1342 – Katharine of Bohemia, Duchess of Bavaria (d. 1395)
• 1398 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Spanish poet (d. 1458)
• 1557 – Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1608)
• 1570 – Salamone Rossi, Italian Jewish violinist and composer (d. 1630)
• 1590 – Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (d. 1649)
• 1596 – Elizabeth Stuart, Electress Palatine and Queen of Bohemia (d. 1662)
• 1621 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (d. 1674)
• 1631 – John Dryden, English poet (d. 1700)
• 1646 – John Flamsteed, first English Astronomer Royal (d. 1719)
• 1686 – Eustace Budgell, English writer (d. 1737)
• 1689 – Samuel Richardson, English writer (d. 1761)
• 1711 – Edward Boscawen, British admiral (d. 1761)
• 1743 – Madame du Barry, French courtesan (d. 1793)
• 1843 – C.I. Scofield, author of Scofield Reference Bible (d. 1921)
• 1846 – Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1906)
• 1848 – Gustave Caillebotte, French Painter (d. 1894)
• 1849 – Joaquim Nabuco, Brazilian writer, statesman, and abolitionist (d. 1910)
• 1853 – Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (d. 1926)
• 1870 – Bernard Baruch, American financier (d. 1965)
• 1871 – Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1948)
• 1873 – Fred Stone, American actor (d. 1959)
• 1875 – Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (d. 1936)
• 1878 – Manuel L. Quezon, 2nd President of the Philippines (d. 1944)
• 1881 – George Enescu, Romanian composer (d. 1955)
• 1883 – José Mendes Cabeçadas, 95th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th President of Portugal (d. 1965)
• 1883 – Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French clothing designer (d. 1971)
• 1883 – Elsie Ferguson, American film actress (d. 1961)
• 1889 – Arthur Waley, English orientalist and sinologist (d. 1966)
• 1896 – Olga Baclanova, Russian-born actress (d. 1974)
• 1899 – Charlie Hall, English comedian actor (d. 1959)
• 1900 – Colleen Moore, American film actress.(d. 1988)
• 1900 – Gontran de Poncins, French writer and adventurer (d. 1962)
• 1900 – Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (d. 1976)
• 1902 – Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971)
• 1902 – J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (d. 1994)
• 1903 – James Gould Cozzens, American novelist (d. 1978)
• 1903 – Lewis Sargent, American actor d.1970
• 1906 – Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (d. 1971)
• 1907 – Thruston B. Morton, American politician (d. 1982)
• 1907 – Archie League, generally considered the first air traffic controller (d. 1986)
• 1912 – Austin Dobson, British racing driver (d. 1963)
• 1913 – Richard Simmons, American actor (d. 2003)
• 1913 – John Argyris, Greek aeronautical engineer, one of the creators of the Finite Element Method (d. 2004)
• 1913 – Peter Kemp, English soldier and writer (d. 1993)
• 1914 – Lajos Baróti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2005)
• 1915 – Ring Lardner Jr, American journalist and screenwriter (d. 2000)
• 1915 – Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman and administrator (Desjardins Group) (d. 1985)
• 1918 – Jimmy Rowles, pianist (d. 1996)
• 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
• 1927 – L.Q. Jones, American actor
• 1928 – Bernard Levin, English journalist, author, and broadcaster (d. 2004)
• 1928 – Norman Brooks, Canadian singer (d. 2006)
• 1928 – Walter Massey, Canadian actor
• 1929 – Ion N. Petrovici, German neurologist
• 1930 – Frank McCourt, Irish-American author (d. 2009)
• 1931 – Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (d. 2003)
• 1932 – Thomas P. Salmon, 75th Governor of Vermont
• 1934 – David Durenberger, American Senator
• 1934 – Renée Richards, American physician
• 1935 – Bobby Richardson, American baseball player
• 1935 – Zahir Raihan, Bangladeshi writer and filmmaker
• 1938 – Diana Muldaur, American actress
• 1939 – Ginger Baker, English musician (Cream)
• 1940 – Johnny Nash, American singer-songwriter
• 1940 – Jill St. John, American actress
• 1941 – Mihalis Papagiannakis, Greek politician (d. 2009)
• 1942 – Fred Thompson, American politician and actor
• 1943 – Billy J. Kramer, British singer
• 1944 – Jack Canfield, American author and speaker
• 1944 – Buzz Kilman, Chicago radio personality
• 1944 – Bodil Malmsten, Swedish writer
• 1944 – Charles Wang, Chinese-born philanthropist
• 1944 – Eddy Raven, American country music artist
• 1945 – Ian Gillan, English singer (Deep Purple)
• 1945 – Charles Wellesley, Marquess of Douro, English heir of the 8th Duke of Wellington
• 1945 – Sandro de América, Argentine singer & actor (d. 2010)
• 1946 – Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
• 1946 – Beat Raaflaub, Swiss conductor
• 1946 – Dawn Steel, American film producer (d. 1997)
• 1947 – Dave Dutton, English actor
• 1947 – Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (d. 2007)
• 1947 – Gerard Schwarz, American conductor
• 1948 – Gerald McRaney, American actor
• 1948 – Tipper Gore, Second Lady of the United States
• 1950 – Jennie Bond, British journalist
• 1950 – Sudha Murthy, Indian social worker and writer
• 1950 – Graeme Beard, Australian cricketer
• 1951 – John Deacon, English musician (Queen)
• 1951 – Gustavo Santaolalla, Argentine film composer
• 1951 – Lillian Müller, Norwegian model and actress
• 1952 – Jonathan Frakes, American actor and director
• 1953 – Lynwood Slim, American blues musician
• 1953 – Mary Matalin, American political consultant
• 1953 – Nanni Moretti, Italian film actor, director and producer
• 1954 – Oscar Larrauri, Argentine racing driver
• 1955 – Peter Gallagher, American actor
• 1955 – Ned Yost, American baseball player and manager
• 1956 – Adam Arkin, American actor
• 1956 – José Rubén Zamora, Guatemalan journalist
• 1957 – Li-Young Lee, Indonesia-born American poet
• 1957 – Martin Donovan, American actor
• 1957 – Christine Soetewey, Belgian high jumper
• 1957 – Ian Gould, England cricketer
• 1957 – Paul-Jan Bakker, Netherland cricketer
• 1958 – Anthony Muñoz, American football player
• 1958 – Gary Gaetti, American baseball player
• 1958 – Brendan Nelson, Australian politician
• 1959 – Ricky Pierce, American basketball player
• 1959 – Susan Cummings, Monegasque-born American heiress and convicted murderer
• 1960 – Morten Andersen, American football player
• 1960 – Ron Darling, American baseball player and announcer
• 1961 – Jonathan Coe, British author
• 1962 – Tammy Bruce, American political commentator
• 1962 – Valérie Kaprisky, French actress
• 1962 – Toll Yagami, Japanese drummer (BUCK-TICK)
• 1963 – John Stamos, American actor
• 1963 – Yip Sai Wing, Hong Kong musician (Beyond)
• 1963 – Joey Tempest, Swedish singer (Europe)
• 1965 – Kyra Sedgwick, American actress
• 1965 – Kevin Dillon, American actor
• 1965 – Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress and director
• 1966 – Lilian Garcia, wrestling announcer
• 1966 – Lee Ann Womack, American musician
• 1968 – Nikolaos Kaklamanakis, Greek windsurfer
• 1968 – Mark McGuinn, country music singer
• 1969 – Nate Dogg, American rapper (d. 2011)
• 1969 – Kirk Herbstreit, American football analyst (College GameDay)
• 1969 – Emigdio Preciado, Hispanic fugitive on FBI's Most Wanted list
• 1969 – Paula Jai Parker, American actress
• 1969 – Matthew Perry, American actor
• 1969 – Kazuyoshi Tatsunami, Japanese baseball player
• 1969 – Patrick Van Horn, American actor
• 1969 – Clay Walker, American singer
• 1970 – Fat Joe, American rapper
• 1970 – Jeff Tam, American baseball player
• 1971 – João Vieira Pinto, Portuguese football player
• 1971 – Mary Jo Fernandez, Tennis player
• 1972 – Roberto Abbondanzieri, Argentine footballer
• 1972 – Sammi Cheng Sau Man, Hong Kong singer and actress
• 1972 – Chihiro Yonekura, Japanese singer
• 1972 – Jamie Zubairi, British Malaysian actor and painter
• 1972 – Elizabeth Wolfgramm, American singer (The Jets)
• 1973 – Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway
• 1973 – Callum Blue, British actor
• 1973 – Marco Materazzi, Italian footballer
• 1973 – Carl Bulfin, New Zealand cricketer
• 1974 – Tim Kasher, American musician, Cursive and The Good Life
• 1975 – Chynna Clugston, American comic book creator
• 1975 – Tracie Thoms, American actress
• 1975 – Marco Coti Zelati, Italian bassist (Lacuna Coil)
• 1977 – Iban Mayo, Spanish cyclist
• 1977 – Takahiro Yamada, Japanese bassist (Asian Kung-Fu Generation)
• 1978 – Chris Capuano, American baseball player
• 1979 – Dave Douglas, American musician (Relient K, Gypsy Parade, Attack Cat)
• 1979 – Oumar Kondé, Swiss footballer
• 1980 – Jun Jin, Korean rapper (Shinhwa)
• 1980 – Houcine Camara, French singer
• 1980 – Darius Danesh, Scottish singer-songwriter & actor
• 1980 – Paul Parry, Welsh footballer
• 1980 – Michael Todd, American musician (Coheed and Cambria)
• 1980 – Russell Kane (Comedian)
• 1982 – Erika Christensen, American actress
• 1982 – J. J. Hardy, American baseball player
• 1982 – Kevin Rans, Belgian pole vaulter
• 1982 – Willy Denzey, French singer
• 1983 – Missy Higgins, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1983 – John McCargo, American football player
• 1983 – Tammin Sursok, Australian actress & singer
• 1983 – Mike Conway, British racing driver
• 1984 – Micah Alberti, American actor
• 1984 – Simon Bird, English actor and comedian
• 1984 – Alessandro Matri, Italian footballer
• 1984 – Ryan Taylor, English footballer
• 1985 – Megan Rochell, American singer
• 1986 – Sotiris Balafas, Greek footballer
• 1986 – Saori Kimura, Japanese volleyball player
• 1987 – Nico Hülkenberg, German racing driver
• 1987 – Anaïs Lameche, Swedish singer (Play)
• 1987 – Richard Stearman, English footballer
• 1988 – Travis Tedford, American actor
• 1989 – Romeo Miller, American rapper and basketball player
• 1998 – Ella Guevara, Filipino actress
• 2004 – Xyriel Manabat, Filipino 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)
• 1680 – Jean Eudes, French catholic priest, founder of the Eudists (b. 1601)
• 1692 – John Proctor, Salem farmer and tavern keeper (b.1632)
• 1753 – Johann Balthasar Neumann, German architect (b. 1687)
• 1808 – Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Swedish naval architect and vice admiral (b. 1721)
• 1822 – Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician (b. 1749)
• 1883 – Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman (b. 1810)
• 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)
• 1928 – Stephanos Skouloudis, Greek banker, diplomat and Prime Minister (b. 1838)
• 1929 – Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (b. 1872)
• 1936 – Federico García Lorca, Spanish author (b. 1898)
• 1936 – Hugh Patrick Lygon, English aristocrat (b. 1904)
• 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)
• 1959 – Blind Willie McTell, American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist (b. 1901)
• 1963 – Kathleen Parlow, Canadian violinist (b. 1890)
• 1967 – Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (b. 1884)
• 1967 – Isaac Deutscher, British Marxist historian (b. 1907)
• 1968 – George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (b. 1904)
• 1970 – Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (b. 1909)
• 1975 – Mark Donohue, American race car driver and engineer (b. 1937)
• 1975 – Jim Londos, Greek wrestler (b. 1897)
• 1976 – Alastair Sim, Scottish actor and rector of Edinburgh University (b. 1900)
• 1976 – Ken Wadsworth, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1946)
• 1977 – Peter Dyneley, British actor (b. 1921)
• 1977 – Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890)
• 1979 – Dorsey Burnette, American singer (b. 1932)
• 1979 – Joel Teitelbaum, Great Rebbi and Talmudic scholar (b. 1887)
• 1980 – Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank (b. 1889)
• 1981 – Jessie Matthews, English actress (b. 1907)
• 1982 – August Neo, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908)
• 1986 – Hermione Baddeley, English actress (b. 1906)
• 1994 – Linus Pauling, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Peace (b. 1901)
• 1995 – Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (b. 1910)
• 2000 – Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo littérateur and religious figure (birth date unknown)
• 2000 – Antonio Pugliese, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1941)
• 2000 – Theodore Trautwein, American judge (b. 1920)
• 2001 – Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (b. 1939)
• 2001 – Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1933)
• 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)
• 2008 – LeRoi Moore, American musician (Dave Matthews Band) (b. 1961)
• 2008 – Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian politician (b. 1948)
• 2009 – Don Hewitt, television news producer & director; creator of 60 Minutes (b. 1922)
• 2010 – Skandor Akbar, American wrestler (b. 1934)
• 2011 – Gun Hägglund, Swedish news presenter (b. 1932)
• 2011 – Raúl Ruiz, Chilean filmmaker (b. 1941)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Feast of the Transfiguration (Julian Calendar), and its related observances:
    • Buhe (Ethiopian Orthodox Church)
    • Saviour's Transfiguration, popularly known as the "Apples Feast". (Russian Orthodox Church and Georgian Orthodox Church)
  • Jean-Eudes de Mézeray
  • Louis of Toulouse
  • Magnus of Anagni
  • Magnus of Avignon
  • Sebaldus
  • August 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Independence Day, commemorates the Treaty of Rawalpindi in 1919, granting independence from Britain. (Afghanistan)
• Manuel Luis Quezón Day (Quezon City and other places in The Philippines named after Manuel L. Quezon)
• National Aviation Day (United States)
• Vinalia Rustica (Roman Empire)
• World Humanitarian Day (International)

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