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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 – Battle of Knockdoe.
• 1561 – An 18-year-old Mary, Queen of Scots, returns to Scotland after spending 13 years in France.
• 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".
• 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.
• 1839 – Presentation of Jacque Daguerre's new photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences.
• 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.
• 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 state.
• 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 helps 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.
• 1990 – Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7.
• 1991 – Collapse 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 – Hurricane Bob hits the Northeast, United States.
• 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.

Births

• 1342 – Katharine of Bohemia, Duchess of Bavaria (d. 1395)
• 1398 – Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (d. 1458)
• 1557 – Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1608)
• 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)
• 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)
• 1875 – Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (d. 1936)
• 1878 – Manuel L. Quezon, 2^nd President of the Philippines (d. 1944)
• 1881 – George Enescu, Romanian composer (d. 1955)
• 1883 – José Mendes Cabeçadas, 95^th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9^th President of Portugal (d. 1965)
• 1883 – Coco Chanel, French clothing designer (d. 1971)
• 1883 – Elsie Ferguson, American film actress (d. 1961)
• 1892 – Alfred Lunt, American actor (d. 1977)
• 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 – Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (d. 1976)
• 1900 – Gontran de Poncins, French writer and adventurer (d. 1962)
• 1902 – Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971)
• 1902 – J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (d. 1994)
• 1903 – James Gould Cozzens, American novelist (d. 1978)
• 1906 – Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (d. 1971)
• 1906 – Manzie Johnson, Jazz Drummer (d. April 9 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)
• 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)
• 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
• 1928 – Bernard Levin, English journalist, author, and broadcaster (d. 2004)
• 1928 – Norman Brooks, Canadian singer (d. 2006)
• 1928 – Walter Massey, Canadian actor
• 1930 – Frank McCourt, Irish-American author (d. 2009)
• 1931 – Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (d. 2003)
• 1932 – Thomas P. Salmon, 75^th Governor of Vermont
• 1934 – Renée Richards, American physician
• 1935 – Bobby Richardson, American baseball player
• 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
• 1945 – Ian Gillan, English singer (Deep Purple)
• 1945 – Charles Wellesley, Marquess of Douro, English heir of the 8th Duke of Wellington
• 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
• 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
• 1957 – Li-Young Lee, Indonesia-born American poet
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 1973 – Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway
• 1973 – Callum Blue, British actor
• 1973 – Marco Materazzi, Italian footballer
• 1973 – Carl Bulfin, New Zealand cricketer
• 1973 – Lilian Garcia, Spanish-American singer and former WWE ring announcer
• 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, 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)
• 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 – Alessandro Matri, Italian footballer
• 1984 – Ryan Taylor, English footballer
• 1985 – Megan Rochell, American singer
• 1986 – Saori Kimura, Japanese volleyball player
• 1987 – Anaïs Lameche, Swedish singer (Play)
• 1987 – Ileana D'Cruz, Indian actress
• 1987 – Richard Stearman, English footballer
• 1988 – Travis Tedford, American actor
• 1989 – Romeo Miller, American rapper and basketball player
• 1998 – Ella Guevara, Filipino actress
• 2003 – Xyriel Manabay, Filipino child 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 – Balthasar Neumann, German architect (b. 1687)
• 1808 – Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, Swedish naval architect and vice admiral (b. 1721)
• 1819 – James Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1736)
• 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)
• 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, wrestler (b. 1897)
• 1976 – Alastair Sim, Scottish actor and rector of Edinburgh University (b. 1900)
• 1976 – Ken Wadsworth, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1946)
• 1977 – Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890)
• 1977 – Peter Dyneley, British actor (b. 1921)
• 1979 – Joel Teitelbaum, Great Rebbi and Talmudic scholar(b. 1887)
• 1979 – Dorsey Burnette, American singer (b. 1932)
• 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 – Antonio Pugliese, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1941)
• 2000 – Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo littérateur and religious figure (birth date unknown)
• 2000 – Theodore Trautwein, American judge (b. 1920)
• 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)
• 2005 – Mo Mowlam, British politician (b. 1949)
• 2008 – Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian politician (b. 1948)
• 2008 – LeRoi Moore, American musician (Dave Matthews Band) (b. 1961)
• 2009 – Don Hewitt, television news producer & director; creator of 60 Minutes (b. 1922)

Holidays and observances

• Afghanistan: Independence Day
• Quezon City: Quezon City Day
• United Nations: World Humanitarian Day
• United States: National Aviation Day
• Roman Catholic Church:
  • Saint Sebald
  • Saint Louis of Toulouse
  • Jean-Eudes de Mézeray
  • Magnus of Anagni
• Russian Orthodox Church and Georgian Orthodox Church:
  • Saviour's Transfiguration – popularly known as the "Apples Feast"
• Buhe in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2003

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience. ~ Hartley Shawcross

• selected by Nanobug

2004

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. ~ Peter Ustinov

• selected by Kalki

2005

Truth has such a face and such a mien As to be lov'd needs only to be seen. ~ John Dryden

• proposed by Kalki

2006

How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don't have to like it but we can at least recognize its ridiculous aspects, one of which is ourselves. ~ Ogden Nash

• proposed by Kalki

2007

Vast is the field of Science ... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know. ~ Samuel Richardson

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2008

Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?
Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!
How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan,
Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.
~ John Dryden ~

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Let those find fault whose wit's so very small,
They've need to show that they can think at all;
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
~ John Dryden ~

• proposed by Kalki

2010

Suggestions

At last I've found the secret,
that guarantees success.
To err, and err, and err again,
but less, and less, and less." ~ Ogden Nash (b. August 19, 1902)

• 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 06:59, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
• 0 Kalki 20:18, 18 August 2005 (UTC) This seems very likely to be a very recent misattribution, and perhaps a variant translation or alteration of lines by Piet Hein. There appears to be only about a half dozen sites on the internet that attribute this to Ogden Nash, perhaps the earliest appearing in "Heuristics for Iterative Software Development" by Drasko Sotirovski, IEEE Software, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 66-73, (May/June 2001) where the author states "...as Bob Glass has said, quoting Ogden Nash, "At last I've found the secret that guarantees success: to err, and err, and err again...". If it were truly an Ogden Nash poem it's citations would likely be far more prominent.
• 0 Zarbon 15:46, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I cannot help mentioning that the door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly. ~ Ogden Nash (date of birth)

• 3 Kalki 20:18, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:42, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 15:46, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Those who doubt most, always erred least. ~ Samuel Richardson (born August 19, 1689)

• 3 InvisibleSun 21:23, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 21:53, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 15:46, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through. ~ Samuel Richardson

• 4 InvisibleSun 21:23, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 21:53, 18 August 2007 (UTC) Good, but much prefer the quote on Science, and Dryden's famous "Beware the fury of a patient man."
• 2 Zarbon 15:46, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why. ~ Bernard Baruch (born 19 August 1870)

• 3 Kalki 22:05, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 15:46, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 21:22, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter. ~ Bernard Baruch (born 19 August 1870)

• 3 Kalki 22:05, 20 April 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 3 because this says a lot about civilization. Zarbon 15:46, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 21:22, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster. ~ Fred Thompson

• 2 Zarbon 06:05, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 21:22, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 21:30, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own;
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine,
The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
~ John Dryden, based on "Ode XXIX" of Horace ~

• 3 Kalki 01:32, 12 May 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! — I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else! ~ Samuel Richardson

• 3 Kalki 22:10, 18 August 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do. ~ Samuel Richardson

• 3 Kalki 22:10, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness. ~ Samuel Richardson

• 3 Kalki 22:10, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one. ~ Samuel Richardson

• 3 Kalki 22:10, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

Vast is the field of Science ... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know. ~ Samuel Richardson

• 3 Kalki 22:10, 18 August 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

Games released on August 19.

From Familypedia

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 senate to elect him Consul.
• 1504 - Battle of Knockdoe.
• 1561 - An 18-year-old Mary Queen of Scots returns to Scotland, after spending 13 years in France.
• 1692 - Salem Witch Trials: In Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay five women and a clergyman are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
• 1745 - Jacobite Rising, Prince Charles Edward Stuart lands from a French warship in Glenfinnan, raises his standard and marches on London - the start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion known as "the 45".
• 1768 - Saint Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
• 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 Guerrière off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning her nickname "Old Ironsides".
• 1813 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's second triumvirate.
• 1839 - Presentation of Jacque Daguerre's new photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences.
• 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).
• 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.
• 1915 - World War I: The Battle of Van begins
• 1919 - Afghanistan gains full independence from the United Kingdom.
• 1927 - Metropolitan Sergius proclaimed the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet state.
• 1934 - The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton.
• 1934 - The creation of the position Führer approved by the German electorate with 89.9% of the popular vote.
• 1942 - World War II: Operation Jubilee - The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an allied forces amphibious assault on Dieppe.
• 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 helps 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.
• 1975 - The cricket test match between England and Australia is called off after the pitch is vandalised by supporters of George Davis.
• 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.
• 1990 - Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7.
• 1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Crimea.
• 1997 - The Teamsters end their 15-day walkout against United Parcel Service.
• 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 lash Southern Ontario spawning several tornadoes as well as ceating extreme flash flooding within the city of Toronto and its surrounding communities.

Births

• 1398 - Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (d. 1458)
• 1557 - Frederick I (d. 1608)
• 1590 - Henry Rich, English soldier (d. 1649)
• 1596 - Elizabeth Stuart (d. 1662)
• 1621 - Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch painter (d. 1674)
• 1631 - John Dryden, English poet (d. 1700)
• 1646 - John Flamsteed, English astronomer (d. 1719)
• 1686 - Eustace Budgell, English writer (d. 1737)
• 1686 - Nicola Porpora, Italian composer (d. 1768)
• 1689 - Samuel Richardson, English writer (d. 1761)
• 1711 - Edward Boscawen, British admiral (d. 1761)
• 1743 - Madame du Barry, French courtesan (d. 1793)
• 1846 - Luis Martín, Spanish Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1906)
• 1853 - Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (d. 1926)
• 1870 - Bernard Baruch, American financier (d. 1965)
• 1871 - Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1948)
• 1875 - Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (d. 1936)
• 1878 - Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippines (d. 1944)
• 1881 - George Enescu, Romanian composer (d. 1955)
• 1883 - Coco Chanel, French clothing designer (d. 1971)
• 1883 - Elsie Ferguson, American film actress (d. 1961)
• 1892 - Alfred Lunt, American actor (d. 1977)
• 1896 - Olga Baclanova, Russian-born actress (d. 1974)
• 1899 - Charlie Hall, English comedian actor (d. 1959)
• 1900 - Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (d. 1976)
• 1902 - Ogden Nash, American poet (d. 1971)
• 1903 - James Gould Cozzens, American novelist (d. 1978)
• 1906 - Philo Farnsworth, American inventor (d. 1971)
• 1907 - Thruston B. Morton, American politician (d. 1982)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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
• 1928 - Bernard Levin, English journalist, author, and broadcaster (d. 2004)
• 1928 - Norman Brooks, Canadian singer (d. 2006)
• 1930 - Frank McCourt, Irish-American author
• 1931 - Willie Shoemaker, American jockey (d. 2003)
• 1934 - Renee Richards, American physician
• 1935 - Bobby Richardson, American baseball player
• 1938 - Diana Muldaur, American actress
• 1939 - Ginger Baker, English musician
• 1940 - Johnny Nash, American singer
• 1940 - Jill St. John, American actress
• 1942 - Fred Thompson, American politician and actor
• 1943 - Billy J. Kramer, British singer
• 1944 - Bodil Malmsten, Swedish writer
• 1944 - Charles Wang, Chinese-born philanthropist
• 1945 - Ian Gillan, English singer (Deep Purple)
• 1946 - Bill Clinton, Former American president
• 1946 - Beat Raaflaub, Swiss conductor
• 1946 - Dawn Steel, American film producer (d. 1997)
• 1947 - Gerard Schwarz, American conductor
• 1947 - Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (d. 2007)
• 1948 - Gerald McRaney, American actor
• 1948 - Tipper Gore, Second Lady of the United States
• 1950 - Jennie Bond, British journalist
• 1951 - John Deacon, English musician (Queen)
• 1952 - Jonathan Frakes, American actor and director
• 1953 - Nanni Moretti, Italian film actor, director and producer
• 1953 - Mary Matalin, US political consultant and commentator
• 1954 - Oscar Larrauri, Argentine racing driver
• 1955 - Peter Gallagher, American actor
• 1955 - Ned Yost, American baseball player and manager
• 1956 - Adam Arkin, American actor
• 1957 - Li-Young Lee, Indonesia-born American poet
• 1958 - Anthony Muñoz, American football player
• 1958 - Gary Gaetti, American baseball player
• 1960 - Morten Andersen, American football player
• 1961 - Jonathan Coe, British author
• 1962 - Tammy Bruce, American political commentator
• 1962 - Valérie Kaprisky, French actress
• 1963 - John Stamos, American actor
• 1963 - Yip Sai Wing, Hong Kong musician (Beyond)
• 1963 - Joey Tempest, Swedish singer (Europe)
• 1964 - Whitney Prescott, American model
• 1965 - Kyra Sedgwick, American actress
• 1965 - Kevin Dillon, American actor
• 1965 - Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress and director
• 1966 - Lee Ann Womack, American musician
• 1968 - Nikolaos Kaklamanakis, Greek windsurfer, gold medalist
• 1969 - Matthew Perry, Canadian actor
• 1969 - Nate Dogg, American rapper
• 1969 - Clay Walker, American singer
• 1969 - Patrick Van Horn, American actor
• 1969 - Kirk Herbstreit, American football analyst (College GameDay)
• 1970 - Fat Joe, American rapper
• 1970 - Alex Alonso, American author & producer
• 1971 - João Vieira Pinto, Portuguese football player
• 1972 - Roberto Abbondanzieri, Argentine footballer
• 1972 - Sammi Cheng Sau Man, Hong Kong singer and actress
• 1973 - Mette-Marit
• 1973 - Callum Blue, British actor
• 1973 - Marco Materazzi, Italian footballer
• 1973 - Lilian Garcia, wrestling announcer
• 1975 - Tracie Thoms, American actress
• 1977 - Iban Mayo, Spanish cyclist
• 1978 - Chris Capuano, American baseball player
• 1979 - Dave Douglas, American musician (Relient K)
• 1979 - Oumar Kondé, Swiss footballer
• 1980 - Jun Jin, Korean rapper (Shinhwa)
• 1980 - Darius Danesh, Scottish singer-songwriter & actor
• 1982 - Erika Christensen, American actress
• 1982 - J. J. Hardy, American baseball player
• 1983 - Missy Higgins, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1983 - Tammin Sursok, Australian actress & singer
• 1983 - Mike Conway, British racing driver
• 1984 - Micah Alberti, American actor
• 1984 - Ryan Taylor, English footballer
• 1985 - Megan Rochell, American singer
• 1986 - Saori Kimura, Japanese volleyball player
• 1987 - Anaïs Lameche, Swedish singer (Play)
• 1987 - Ileana D'Cruz, Indian actress
• 1987 - Richard Stearman, English footballer
• 1988 - Travis Tedford, American actor
• 1989 - Lil Romeo, American rapper and actor
• 1998 - Ella Guevara, Filipino child actress

Deaths

• 14 - Augustus, Roman Emperor (b. 63 BC)
• 1186 - Geoffrey II (b. 1158)
• 1245 - Ramon Berenguer IV (b. 1195)
• 1284 - Alphonso, son of Edward I of England (b. 1273)
• 1297 - Saint Louis of Toulouse, French Catholic bishop (b. 1274)
• 1493 - Frederick III (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)
• 1753 - Balthasar Neumann, German architect (b. 1687)
• 1819 - James Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1736)
• 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)
• 1929 - Sergei Diaghilev, Russian ballet impresario (b. 1872)
• 1936 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish author (b. 1898)
• 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)
• 1963 - Kathleen Parlow, Canadian violinist (b. 1890)
• 1967 - Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (b. 1884)
• 1968 - George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (b. 1904)
• 1969 - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German architect (b. 1886)
• 1970 - Paweł Jasienica, Polish historian (b. 1909)
• 1975 - Jim Londos, wrestler (b. 1897)
• 1976 - Alastair Sim, Scottish actor and rector of Edinburgh University (b. 1900)
• 1977 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (b. 1890)
• 1979 - Dorsey Burnette, American singer (b. 1932)
• 1980 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank (b. 1889)
• 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 - Antonio Pugliese, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1941)
• 2001 - Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1933)
• 2000 - Bineshwar Brahma, Bodo literateur and religious figure (birth date unknown)
• 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)
• 2005 - Mo Mowlam, British politician (b. 1949)

Holidays and observances

• Roman festivals - Vinalia Rustica celebrated in honor of Venus Libitina commemorating the founding of the oldest known temple to her, on the Esquiline Hill, in 293 BC on this date.
• RC saints - Saint Sebald, Saint Louis of Toulouse, Jean-Eudes de Mézeray.
• Russian and Georgian Orthodox churches celebrate the Saviour's Transfiguration, popularly known in Russia as the "Apples Feast" (it's the first day of the year when eating apples is allowed).
• Afghanistan - Afghan Independence Day see above: 1919
• National Day of the Filipino Language, Philippines - Holiday for Quezon City, Quezon Province and other municipalities named after Manuel Quezon.
• National Aviation Day, USA.

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada