WillDekkard
08-13-2010, 04:19 AM
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This Date in History - August 19th
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* 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.
* 1612 The "Samlesbury witches", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused for practising 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".
* 1768 Saint Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
* 1772 Gustavus III of Sweden stages a Coup d'ιtat, 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 Fόhrer 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 Miloević.
* 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.
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This Date in History - August 19th
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* 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.
* 1612 The "Samlesbury witches", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused for practising 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".
* 1768 Saint Isaac's Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
* 1772 Gustavus III of Sweden stages a Coup d'ιtat, 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 Fόhrer 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 Miloević.
* 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.
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