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August 19th
Birthdays
Bernard Baruch 1870
Orville Wright 1871
Coco Chanel 1883
Alfred Lunt 1892
Ogden Nash 1902
James Cozzens 1903
Claude Dauphin 1903
Philo Taylor Farnsworth 1906
June Collyer 1907
Ring Lardner Jr. 1915
George Rowles 1918
Malcolm Forbes 1919
Gene Roddenberry 1921
L.Q. Jones 1927
Willie Shoemaker 1931
Debra Paget 1933
Bobby Richardson 1935
Diana Muldaur 1938
Ginger Baker (Cream, Blind Faith) 1939
Johnny Nash 1940
Jill St. John 1940
Billy J. Kramer (The Dakotas) 1943
Eddy Raven 1944
Ian Gillan (Deep Purple) 1945
Bill (William Jefferson) Clinton (U.S.) 1946
Tipper Gore 1948
Gerald McRaney 1948
Deana (Dina) Martin 1948 - Singer, actor, daughter of Dean Martin
John Deacon (Queen) 1951
Jonathan Frakes 1952
Mary Matalin 1953
Peter Gallagher 1955
Adam Arkin 1956
Gary Chapman 1957
Martin Donovan 1957
Ron Darling 1960
Eric Lutes 1962
John Stamos 1963
Kevin Dillon 1965
Kyra Sedgwick 1965
Lee Ann Womack 1966
Tabitha Soren 1967
Mark McGuinn 1968
Clay Walker 1969
Matthew Perry 1969
Fat Joe 1970
M.C. Eric (Technotronic) 1970
Mary Joe Fernandez 1971
Erika Christiansen 1982
J. Evan Bonifant 1985
Lil' Romeo 1989
Misc. History
1692 - Five women and a clergyman were executed after being convicted of
witchcraft in Salem, MA.
1812 - "Old Ironsides" (the USS Constitution) won a battle against the
British frigate Guerriere east of Nova Scotia.
1848 - The discovery of gold in California was reported by the New York
Herald.
1856 - The process of processing condensed milk was patented by Gail Borden.
1871 - Orville Wright was born. Orville and his brother Wilbur were the
first people to have a successful sustained and controlled flight of an
aircraft with a motor.
1883 - The French dress designer Gabrille "Coco" Chanel was born.
1909 - The first car race to be run on brick occurred at the Indianapolis
Motor Speedway.
1917 - Team managers John McGraw and Christy Matthewson were arrested for
breaking New York City's blue laws. The crime was their teams were playing
baseball on Sunday.
1919 - Afghanistan gained independence from Britain.
1921 - Gene Roddenberry was born in El Paso, Texas. Roddenberry's first
career was as an airline pilot. Later, he created the TV series Star Trek.
1929 - "Amos and Andy," the radio comedy program, made its debut on NBC
starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll.
1934 - Adolf Hitler was approved for sole executive power in Germany as
Fuehrer.
1940 - The new Civil Aeronautics Administration awarded honorary license #1
to Orville Wright.
1942 - About 6,000 Canadian and British soldiers launched a raid against the
Germans at Dieppe, France. The suffered about 50 percent casualties.
1955 - Severe flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Diane, in the Northeast
United States, claimed 200 lives.
1960 - Francis Gary Powers, an American U-2 pilot, was convicted of
espionage in Moscow.
1960 - Two dogs were launched in a satellite into Earth's orbit by the
Soviet Union.
1962 - Homero Blancas shot a 55 at the Premier Invitational Golf Tournament
held in Longview, TX. It was the lowest score in U.S. competitive golf
history.
1974 - During an anti-American protest in Nicosia, Cyprus, U.S. Ambassador
Rodger P. Davies was fatally wounded by a bullet while in the American
embassy.
1978 - 400 people were killed in a theater in Abadan, Iran. Moslem extremist
set the fire.
1980 - 301 people died in a fire aboard a Saudi Arabian airliner.
1981 - Two Libyan SU-22s were shot down by two U.S. Navy F-14 fighters in
the Gulf of Sidra.
1981 - The final episode of "Charlie's Angels was aired on ABC-TV.
1986 - 20 people were killed in a car bomb explosion in Tehran. Iran
initially accused "American agents", however they later executed an "Iraqi
agent."
1987 - David Horowitz, consumer reporter in Burbank, CA, was held at
gunpoint while on camera and forced to read the assailants note. The program
went off the air while police removed the gunman.
1987 - 16 people were killed by gunman Michael Ryan in Britain. It was the
countries worst mass killing.
1991 - Soviet hard-liners announced that President Mikhail Gorbachev had
been removed from power. Gorbachev returned to power two days later.
1993 - "Cheers" ended an 11-year run on NBC-TV. The show debuted on
September 30, 1982.
1995 - Three U.S. diplomats were killed in an accident in their armored
vehicle in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
1996 - A judge sentenced former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker to four years
probation for his Whitewater crimes.
1998 - Daniel Arizmenid Lopez, known as the "ear lopper", was arrested in
Mexico. Lopez was accused of heading a gang of kidnappers that are
responsible for 21 kidnappings.
1998 - The first piece of the 351 foot bronze statue of Christopher Columbus
arrived in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1999 - Lorne Michaels received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999 - In Belgrade, thousands of Serbs attended a rally to demand the
resignation of Yugoslavia's President Slobodan Milosevic.
2002 - A Russian military helicopter crashed after being shot by rebels in
Chechnya. 119 people were killed.
2004 - Google Inc. stock began selling on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The
initial price was set at $85 and ended the day at $100.34 with more than 22
million shares traded.
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