Page 5: Historical Events In August - 19

1918  James George "Jimmy" Rowles, jazz pianist on this day in history.   

1919  Afghanistan declares independence from UK on this day in history.   

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

1920  Lucila Engels-Boskaljon, Curacao painter on this day in history.   

1921  Ty Cobb, is 4th to get 3,000 hits on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1922  Douglas MacKenzie Davey, psychometrist on August - 19.   

1922  On August - 19 felipe Pedrell, composer, dies at 81   

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

1926  On August - 19 arthur Rock, American venture capitalist   

1927  Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet state on this day in history.   

1927  James T Broyhill, (Sen-R-NC, 1986) on this day in history.   

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

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

1931  Lefty Grove wins AL record tying 16th consecutive game on this day in history.   

1931  Willie Shoemaker, jockey (won 8,833 of 40,350 starts) on August - 19.   

1932  On this day in history 46th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Carolin A Babcock (62 62)   

1932  John James Fenwick, English warehouse owner/multi-millionaire on this day in history.   

1933  47th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Helen Moody (86 36 30 ret) on August - 19.   

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

1934  On this day in history plebiscite in Germany approved sole executive power to Adolph Hitler   

1934  On August - 19 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 August - 19.   

1936  Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet/composer, murdered at 37 or 38 on August - 19.   

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

1940  On August - 19 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  On August - 19 1,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed raiding Dieppe, France   

1942  First American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is on this day in history.   

1942  On this day in history honorary Capt. John Weir Foote (Cdn. Chaplain Service) wins the Victoria Cross at Dieppe, France   

1942  On August - 19 lt.-Colonel Charles C.I. Merritt (The South Saksatchewan Regiment) wins the Victoria Corss at Dieppe, France   

1942  On this day in history -20] Churchill visits Montgomery's headquarter in Burg-al-Arab   

1943  Belgian church excommunicates nazi Leon Degrelle on August - 19.   

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1342  On this day in history birth of katharine of Bohemia, Duchess of Bavaria (d. 1395)   

1398  Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (d. 1458) was born on August - 19.   

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

1557  On this day in history birth of frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1608)   

1558  On August - 19 birth of paulus Merula, Dutch lawyer/historian   

1590  On this day in history birth of henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (d. 1649)   

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

1596  On August - 19 birth of elizabeth Stuart, Electress Palatine and Queen of Bohemia (d. 1662)   

0440  On this day in history sixtus III, Italian Pope (432-40), dies   

0472  Ricimer, Barbaars general, dies on this day in history.   

1186  Death of Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (b. 1158) on August - 19.   

1245  On August - 19 death of ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (b. 1195)   

1284  Death of Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (b. 1273) on August - 19.   

1297  On this day in history 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