Page 5: Historical Events In August - 19

1918  On this day in history james George "Jimmy" Rowles, jazz pianist   

1919  On August - 19 afghanistan declares independence from UK   

1919  Malcolm Forbes, publisher (Forbes Magazine) on this day in history.   

1920  On this day in history lucila Engels-Boskaljon, Curacao painter   

1921  On this day in history ty Cobb, is 4th to get 3,000 hits   

1921  On this day in history gene Roddenberry, El Paso Texas, executive producer (Star Trek)   

1922  36th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Helen Wills Moody (63 61) on August - 19.   

1922  On August - 19 douglas MacKenzie Davey, psychometrist   

1922  On this day in history felipe Pedrell, composer, dies at 81   

1924  On August - 19 william Marshall, Gary Ind, actor (Blacula, Something of Value)   

1926  On this day in history arthur Rock, American venture capitalist   

1927  On August - 19 metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet state.   

1927  On August - 19 james T Broyhill, (Sen-R-NC, 1986)   

1929  On August - 19 sergei P Diaghilev, Russia, dance master (Imperial Ballet), dies at 57   

1930  D[avid] G[uy] Compton, UK, sci-fi author (Synthajoy, Radio Plays) on August - 19.   

1931  On August - 19 lefty Grove wins AL record tying 16th consecutive game   

1931  On this day in history willie Shoemaker, jockey (won 8,833 of 40,350 starts)   

1932  On August - 19 46th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Carolin A Babcock (62 62)   

1932  John James Fenwick, English warehouse owner/multi-millionaire on August - 19.   

1933  On this day in history 47th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Helen Moody (86 36 30 ret)   

1934  Helen Hull Jacobs win US Lawn Tennis Association on this day in history.   

1934  On August - 19 plebiscite in Germany approved sole executive power to Adolph Hitler   

1934  On this day in history 48th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H P Fabyan (61 64)   

1936  Trial against Ljev Kamenev & Grigori Zinovjev because of "Trotskyism" opens in Moscow on this day in history.   

1936  Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet/composer, murdered at 37 or 38 on this day in history.   

1939  On this day in history 37.6 cm rainfall at Tuckerton, NJ (state record)   

1940  On this day in history the birth of Jill St John, American actress   

1941  On this day in history ump Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on field holding an umbrella to get a rainout   

1942  1,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed raiding Dieppe, France on August - 19.   

1942  On August - 19 first American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is   

1942  Honorary Capt. John Weir Foote (Cdn. Chaplain Service) wins the Victoria Cross at Dieppe, France on August - 19.   

1942  On this day in history lt.-Colonel Charles C.I. Merritt (The South Saksatchewan Regiment) wins the Victoria Corss at Dieppe, France   

1942  -20] Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Burg-al-Arab on August - 19.   

1943  On this day in history belgian church excommunicates nazi Leon Degrelle   

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1342  On August - 19 birth of katharine of Bohemia, Duchess of Bavaria (d. 1395)   

1398  On August - 19 birth of marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (d. 1458)   

1521  On August - 19 birth of lodovico Guicciardini, Italian historian (Descrittione di Tutti)   

1557  Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1608) was born on August - 19.   

1558  Paulus Merula, Dutch lawyer/historian was born on August - 19.   

1590  Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (d. 1649) was born on August - 19.   

1596  On this day in history birth of elisabeth Stuart, English daughter of James I   

1596  On this day in history birth of elizabeth Stuart, Electress Palatine and Queen of Bohemia (d. 1662)   

0440  Sixtus III, Italian Pope (432-40), dies on this day in history.   

0472  On this day in history ricimer, Barbaars general, dies   

1186  On August - 19 death of geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1158)   

1245  Death of Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (b. 1195) on August - 19.   

1284  Death of Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (b. 1273) on this day in history.   

1297  On August - 19 death of saint Louis of Toulouse, French Catholic bishop (b. 1274)   

1493  Frederick III of Innsbruck, German Emperor (1440-1493), dies at 77 on this day in history.   

1580  On August - 19 andrea Palladio, architect/writer (Il Redentore, Venice), dies at 71