Notable Historical Events on August 19th
August 19th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
43 |
Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul. |
BC AD | |
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 Aragon censors Hebrew writing |
1399 |
King Richard II of England surrenders to his cousin Henry |
1458 |
Aenea Silvio Piccolomini chosen Pope Pius II |
1493 |
Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I becomes Archduke of Austria |
1504 |
Battle of Knockdoe in Galway Ireland. |
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 |
Five more people hanged for witchcraft (20 in all) in Salem, Massachusetts |
1702 |
-24] Battle at Santa Marta Venz: English fleet beat French |
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 |
1791 |
Benjamin Banneker writes a letter to the Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson using language from the 'United States Declaration of Independence' to criticize Jefferson's pro-slavery stance and to request justice for African Americans |
1796 |
Spain & France sign anti-British 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 |
1887 |
Dmitri Mendeleev makes a solo ascent by balloon to an altitude of 11,500 feet (3.5 km) above Klin, Russia to observe an eclipse |
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 taxis 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 |
1914 |
In a message to the Senate, US President Wilson urges the American people to be 'neutral in fact as well as name' |
1915 |
Rationing laws go into effect in Netherlands |
1915 |
World War I: the Battle of Van begins |
1915 |
British liner 'SS Arabic' sunk by German submarine without warning leaving Liverpool for New York; killing 44. Creates diplomatic incident |
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 Mallory beats Helen Wills Moody (6-3 6-1) |
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 Women's Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Carolin A Babcock (6-2 6-2) |
1933 |
47th US Women's Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Helen Moody (8-6 3-6 3-0 ret) |
1934 |
48th US Women's Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H P Fabyan (6-1 6-4) |
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 |
WWI: Over 4,000 Canadian & British soldiers killed, wounded or captured raiding Dieppe, France |
1942 |
WWII: General 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 |
Nazis 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 Corps 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" little person, to pinch-hit |
1953 |
England regained cricket Ashes after winning series 1-0 |
1953 |
The democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh is overthrown in a coup orchestrated by the United Kingdom (under the name 'Operation Boot') and the United States (under the name TPAJAX Project) |
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 as the first animals launched on a round trip into space (later recovered alive) |
1960 |
The first commercial atomic energy reactor, owned by the Yankee Atomic Electric Company, achieves a self-sustaining nuclear reaction in Rowe, Deerfield River, Massachusetts |
1961 |
US vice-president Lyndon B. Johnson visits West Berlin |
1962 |
Homer Blancos plays finest round in golf, shooting a 55 |
1962 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament |
1963 |
NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters, Oklahoma City |
1964 |
Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched |
1965 |
Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences |
1965 |
Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney 2nd no-hitter of year beats Chicago Cubs, 1-0 |
1966 |
Earthquake strikes Varko Turkey: 2,400 killed |
1967 |
Beatles' "All You Need is Love" single goes #1 |
1969 |
Chicago Cub Ken Holtzman no-hits Atlanta Braves, 3-0 |
1970 |
The Chinese Community in South Africa is granted 'White' status |
1973 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1973 |
Pirate World Music Radio (Holland) closes down after 10 years |
1973 |
Sandra Palmer wins LPGA St Paul Golf Open |
1975 |
Astros hire Bill Virdon to replace Preston Gomez as manager |
1976 |
President Gerald R Ford wins Republican presidential nomination at KC convention |
1977 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR |
1978 |
422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran |
1979 |
"My Sharonna" by the Knack hits #1 (stays for 42 days) |
1979 |
Crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 aft 175 d flight |
1979 |
Sally wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic Little |
1979 |
Soviet Cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakov & Valery Ryumin returned to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 after a record 175 days in space |
1980 |
George Brett ends hitting streak at 30 |
1980 |
Saudi Arabian Lockhead Tristar crashes on landing at Riyadh, 301 die |
1980 |
Willy Russell's "Educating Rita" premieres in London |
1981 |
2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22 |
1982 |
Renaldo Nehemiah of US sets record for 110 m hurdles, 12.93 sec |
1982 |
Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savtiskaya 2nd woman in space |
1983 |
LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 yrs for counterfeiting |
1983 |
Dodgers trade Dave Stewart & Ricky Wright to Texas for Rick Honeycut |
1984 |
66th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 273 at Shoal Creek Ala |
1984 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf |
1984 |
Republican convention in Houston nominates Ronald Reagan for President |
1984 |
Sally Quinlan wins LPGA MasterCard Golf International Pro-Am |
1985 |
Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei |
1985 |
Following the Rubicon speech four days earlier, Archbishop Desmond Tutu snubs P. W. Botha's invitation to attend a meeting to discuss the role and actions of the police and security forces in South Africa |
1986 |
Car bomb kills 20 in Tehran Iran |
1987 |
Hungerford Massacre: in England, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide. |
1988 |
Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT) |
1988 |
Muang Muang succeeds Gen Sein Lwin as president of Burma |
1988 |
NY Rangers sign ex-Canadien great Guy LaFluer |
1989 |
Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist president of Poland |
1990 |
Betsy King wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic |
1990 |
Dodger Jose Offerman hits HR in his 1st at bat |
1990 |
NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 14 HRs (approx 128 at bat) |
1991 |
-20] Hurricane Bob hits US |
1991 |
Janajev & KGB coup in Russia deposes Mikhail Gorbachev |
1991 |
Janel Bishop, 17, of New Hampshire, crowned 9th Miss Teen USA |
1992 |
Romesh Kaluwitharana scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (SL v Australia) |
1992 |
Sri Lanka make their highest cricket score ever 8-547 v Australia |
1993 |
34th Walker Cup: US, 19-5 |
1993 |
Dow Jones hits record high of 3612.13 |
1993 |
George Tiller, abortion doctor, shot in his arms by Rachelle Shannon |
1993 |
Mattel & Fisher Price toy companies merge |
1993 |
Sally Gunnell runs women's world record 400m hurdles (52.74") |
1995 |
After 5 days Shannon Faulkner quits as 1st woman at the Citadel |
1995 |
Bruce Seldon TKOs Joe Hipp in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
1995 |
Mike Tyson returns to the ring & DQs Peter McNeeley in 38 seconds |
1996 |
The major South African political parties begin their submission to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) |
1997 |
NY Yank 3rd baseman Wade Boggs pitches a scoreless inning vs Anaheim |
1997 |
STS 85 (Discovery 23) lands |
1998 |
South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission chairperson, Archbishop D. Tutu, releases documents revealing an alleged plot by Western countries to assassinate United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden |
1999 |
In Belgrade tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Slobodan Milošević as president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
2001 |
83rd PGA Championship: David Toms shoots a 265 at Atlanta Athletic Club |
2002 |
A Russian Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny, killing 118 soldiers. |
2003 |
A Hamas planned suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem kills 23 Israelis, 7 of them children in the Jerusalem bus 2 massacre. |
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. |
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. |
2012 |
32 people are killed after a plane crash in Talodi, Sudan |
2013 |
24 Egyptian policemen are killed in an attack in Rafah |
2013 |
37 pilgrims are killed in a train accident in India |
2013 |
91 people are killed by floods across China |
2016 |
Republicans Worry a Falling Donald Trump Tide Will Lower All Boats |
2016 |
US|US to Phase Out Use of Private Prisons for Federal Inmates |
2016 |
Rio Olympics 2016: Usain Bolt wins 200m gold, his eighth Olympic gold |
2016 |
Rio Olympics 2016: Ashton Eaton retains decathlon title to match Daley Thompson |
2016 |
Louisiana floods: One of the worst US disasters in recent years |
2017 |
Nervous Japanese hold drill in case N.Korea fires missiles over them |
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