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Today In History - August 19 |
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On This Date in History |
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440 St. Sixtus III ends his reign as the Catholic Pope 1099 Crusaders beat Saracens in the 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 is chosen Pope Pius II 1477 Maximilian I, son of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, weds 1493 Maximilian I of Austria becomes Roman Catholic German Emperor 1524 Emperor Charles V's troops besieges Marseille 1561 Mary Queen of Scots arrives in Leith, Scotland to assume the throne after spending 13 years in France 1587 Sigismund III becomes the King of Poland 1591 French King Henri IV occupies Rouen 1627 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Fort Groenlo 1691 Battle at Szalankemen 1692 Five women are executed for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts 1698 Russian Czar Peter the Great begins his term 1702 The Battle at Santa Marta Venz 1787 W. Herschel discovers Enceladus: one moon of Saturn 1791 Benjamin Banneker published his first Almanac 1796 Spain and France sign an anti-English alliance 1812 The U.S. warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere 1821 Failed liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII 1839 Details of Louis Daguerre's first practical photographic process are released in Paris 1849 The New York Herald reports gold discovery in California 1864 The second day of the battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia 1888 The first beauty contest is held: Spa, Belgium 1891 William Huggins describes the astronomical application of spectrum 1897 The first electric taxis drive in London 1900 Start of the one and only Olympic cricket match, in Paris 1909 The Indianapolis 500 race track opens 1914 The German army executed 150 Belgians by firing squad 1914 The German fleet shells the English coast 1915 Rationing laws go into effect in the Netherlands 1919 Afghanistan declares its independence from the U.K. 1921 Ty Cobb becomes the 4th player to get 3,000 hits 1934 Hitler is elected Fuhrer by 95.7% of the German voters 1936 Trial against Ljev Kamenev and Grigori Zinovjev because of "Trotskyism" opens in Moscow 1942 The first American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is 1942 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers are killed raiding Dieppe, France 1942 Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Burg-al-Arab 1942 General Paulus orders the German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad 1943 The Belgian church excommunicates Nazi Leon Degrelle 1943 The U.S. air raids on German bases at Gilze-Rijen/Vlissingen 1944 Allied air raid on Maastricht, 80+ killed 1944 Last Japanese troops are driven out of India 1944 Nazi's give parts of Paris to the Resistance 1944 Paris police strike against Nazi occupiers 1944 Polish first Division occupies Hill 262 in Normandy 1944 The U.S. 15th Army corp occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris 1944 The U.S. 90th/Polish first Division occupy Chambois Normandy 1947 J. Arens and D. van Dorpen synthesize vitamin A 1950 ABC begins broadcasting Saturday morning kid shows: Animal Clinic and Acrobat Ranch 1954 Ralph J. Bunche is named undersecretary of UN 1955 Hurricane Diane kills 200 people and is the first billion dollar damage storm 1955 The U.S. raises import duty on bicycles 50% 1958 NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters 1959 Honolulu seeks a franchise in the Continental League 1959 Satellite Discoverer 6 is launched into polar orbit 1960 Francis Gary Powers is convicted of spying by the U.S.S.R. (the U-2 incident) 1960 Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs and 3 mice into orbit 1961 U.S. vice-president Lyndon B. Johnson visits West Berlin 1963 NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters, Oklahoma City 1964 Communication satellite the Syncom 3 launched 1965 Auschwitz trials end with six life sentences 1966 An earthquake strikes Varko Turkey and kills 2,400 people 1973 France performs nuclear tests at Muruora Island 1973 Kris Kristofferson weds Rita Coolidge 1976 President Gerald R. Ford won the Republican Presidential nomination at the Kansas City convention 1977 The U.S.S.R. performs nuclear tests 1978 422 people die in an arson-set fire at a movie theater in Iran 1980 Saudi Arabian flight crashes during landing and 301 people die 1981 Two U.S. Navy F-14 fighters shoot down two Soviet-built, Libyan SU-22s 1984 The Republican Convention in Houston nominates Ronald Reagan for president 1986 A car bomb kills 20 people in Tehran, Iran 1988 Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war 1993 Actress Kim Basinger weds actor Alec Baldwin (it lasts about ten years) 1993 Dow Jones hits record high of 3612.13 1993 George Tiller, an abortion doctor, is shot in his arms by Rachelle Shannon 1993 Mattel and Fisher Price toys merge 1995 After five days of classes, Shannon Faulkner quits as first woman at the Citadel 1997 STS 85 (Discovery 23) lands |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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1398 Inigo Lopez 1521 Lodovico Guicciardini 1558 Paulus Merula 1596 Elisabeth Stuart 1631 John Dryden 1646 John Flamsteed 1686 Antonio Tonelli 1689 Samuel Richardson 1737 Johann Georg Christoph Schetky 1743 Marie Jeanne Becu comtesse du Barry 1756 Anthony FRE Haersolte 1780 Beranger 1785 Seth Thomas 1813 William Henry Fry 1815 John Porter McCown 1816 Julius PJA van Zuylen van Nyevelt 1824 Georg Goltermann 1831 Stephen Gano Burbridge 1839 Oskar Brefeld 1844 Minna Canth 1848 Gustave Caillebotte 1851 Frans Schollaert 1858 Edith Nesbit 1858 Ludwig Wullner 1859 Charles Comiskey 1859 Hippolyte Delehaye 1860 John Kane 1870 Bernard Baruch 1871 Orville Wright 1873 Fred Stone 1885 Elsie Ferguson 1885 Werner Elert 1886 Robert Heger 1889 Arthur Waley 1890 Yves Alix 1893 Alfred Lunt 1895 Andrzejewski 1895 Arnoldt Bronnen 1896 Eino Mauno Aleksanteri Linnala 1896 Walter Lang 1899 Kenneth MacKenna 1899 Olga Baclanova 1900 Colleen Moore 1902 Ogden Nash 1902 Vladimir M. Kirshon 1903 Claude Dauphin 1903 James Gould Cozzens 1903 Muriel Kirkland 1904 Ted Nightingale 1905 Fitzhugh Lee 1905 Jacques de Menasce 1906 June Collyer 1906 Philo T. Farnsworth 1907 Thurston Morton 1907 Zygmunt Mycielsky 1909 Jerzy Andrzejewski 1910 Quentin Bell 1915 Ring Lardner, Jr. 1916 Marie Wilson 1917 Malcolm S. Forbes 1921 Gene Roddenberry 1924 William Marshall 1927 James T. Broyhill 1933 Debra Paget 1933 Vladimir Borisovich Alekseyev 1934 Bill Cleary 1934 William Cleary 1935 Bobby Richardson 1935 F. Story Musgrave 1936 Al Oerter 1938 Diana Muldaur 1940 Jan Claire 1940 Jill St. John 1940 Johnny Nash 1942 Fred Thompson 1942 Michiel Patijn 1943 Billy J. Kramer 1944 Eddy Raven 1945 Lan Gillan 1946 William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton 1947 Gerald McRaney 1948 Tipper Gore 1950 Graeme Beard 1951 Randi Oakes 1952 Jonathan Frakes 1953 Debra Paget 1956 Adam Arkin 1956 Cindy Nelson 1957 Darby Hinton 1962 Eric Lutes 1962 Kim Shipman 1962 Michael J. Massimino 1962 Nancy Ramsbottom 1962 Valerie Kaprisky 1963 Joey Tempest 1963 John Stamos 1965 James Tomkins 1965 Kevin Dillon 1965 Kyra Sedgwick 1967 Jason Starkey 1967 Randy Baldwin 1967 Tabitha Soren 1969 Matthew Perry 1969 Scott Ford 1970 Scott Brumfield 1971 Mary Joe Fernandez 1971 Tricia Ann Luedtke 1972 Colleen Thornburn 1972 Elizabeth Wolfgramm 1972 Pierre Allard 1973 Roy Rogers (NBA forward) |
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