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19 Aug 0440
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St Sixtus III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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19 Aug 1071
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Battle at Manzikert: Seldjuken Sultan Alp Arslan beats Byzantine King
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19 Aug 1099
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Crusaders beat Saracens in Battle of Ascalon
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19 Aug 1263
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King James I or Argon censors Hebrew writings
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19 Aug 1399
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King Richard II of England surrenders to his cousin Henry
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19 Aug 1458
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Aenea Silvio Piccolomini chosen Pope Pius II
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19 Aug 1477
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Burgundy and acquires Burgundian possessions in the Netherlands and France
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19 Aug 1477
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Maximilian I, Son of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III, weds Mary of
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19 Aug 1493
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Maximilian I of Austria becomes Roman Catholic German Emperor
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19 Aug 1561
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Mary Queen of Scots arrives in Leith Scotland to assume throne after spending 13 years in France
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19 Aug 1587
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Sigismund III becomes King of Poland
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19 Aug 1591
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French King Henri IV occupies Rouen
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19 Aug 1627
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Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Groenlo
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19 Aug 1691
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Battle at Szalankemen: Austrians beat Turks
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19 Aug 1692
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5 women executed for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts
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19 Aug 1698
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Russian Czar Peter the Great begins term
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19 Aug 1772
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Gustav III seizes effective control of Swedish government and restores full power of monarchy, which had been subordinate to parliament since 1720
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19 Aug 1787
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W Herschel discovers Enceladus, a moon of Saturn
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19 Aug 1791
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Benjamin Banneker published his 1st Almanac
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19 Aug 1796
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Spain and France sign anti-English alliance
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19 Aug 1812
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US warship Constitution defeats British warship Guerriere
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19 Aug 1816
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Java again in Dutch hands
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19 Aug 1821
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Failed liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII
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19 Aug 1826
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Canada Co chartered to colonize Upper Canada (Ontario)
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19 Aug 1836
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HMS Beagle anchors at Angra Azores
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19 Aug 1849
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New York Herald reports gold discovery in California
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19 Aug 1861
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Confederacy Congress allies with government of MI
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19 Aug 1864
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2nd day of battle at Globe Tavern, Virginia
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19 Aug 1888
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1st beauty contest (Spa, Belgium), 18 yr old West Indian wins
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19 Aug 1891
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William Huggins describes astronomical application of spectrum
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19 Aug 1903
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Phillies suffer record 9th straight posponed game
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19 Aug 1905
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Russian tsar installs "Imperial Duma, " without legislative powers
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19 Aug 1909
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Indianapolis 500 race track opens
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19 Aug 1909
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1st race at the Indianapolis 500 Speedway
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19 Aug 1911
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New York Giant Christy Mathewson loses after beating Reds 22 straight times
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19 Aug 1914
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German army executed 150 Belgians by firing squad
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19 Aug 1914
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German fleet bombs English coast
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19 Aug 1914
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Harris Theater (Candler, Coan & Harris) opens at 226 W 42nd St, New York City
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19 Aug 1915
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Rationing laws go into effect in the Netherlands
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19 Aug 1917
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Sunday benefit baseball game at the Polo Grounds results in John McGraw & Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws
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19 Aug 1919
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Afghanistan declares independence from the UK
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19 Aug 1921
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Ty Cobb, is 4th to get 3,000 hits
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19 Aug 1922
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36th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Helen Wills Moody (63 61)
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19 Aug 1931
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Lefty Grove wins AL record tying 16th consecutive game
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19 Aug 1932
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46th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Carolin A Babcock (62 62)
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19 Aug 1933
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47th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Helen Moody (86 36 30 ret)
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19 Aug 1934
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48th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H P Fabyan (61 64)
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19 Aug 1934
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Paul Runyan wins PGA golf tournament
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19 Aug 1934
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Helen Hull Jacobs win US Lawn Tennis Association
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19 Aug 1934
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Plebiscite in Germany approved sole executive power to Adolph Hitler
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19 Aug 1936
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Trial against Ljev Kamenev and Grigori Zinovjev because of "Trotskyism" opens in Moscow
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19 Aug 1939
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37.6 cm rainfall at Tuckerton, New Jersey (state record)
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19 Aug 1941
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Ump Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on field holding an umbrella to get a rainout
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19 Aug 1942
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Gen Paulus orders German 6th Army to conquer Stalingrad
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19 Aug 1942
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1,000 Canadian & British soldiers killed raiding Dieppe, France
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19 Aug 1942
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1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is
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19 Aug 1943
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US air raid on German bases at Gilze-Rijen / Vlissingen
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19 Aug 1944
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Allied air raid on Maastricht, 80+ killed
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19 Aug 1944
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Gen Bradley visits Montgomery
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19 Aug 1944
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Last Japanese troops driven out of India
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19 Aug 1944
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Paris police strike against Nazi occupiers
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19 Aug 1944
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Polish 1st Division occupies Hill 262 (Mont Ormel), Normandy
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19 Aug 1944
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US 15th Army corp occupies Mantes-Gassicourt at Paris
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19 Aug 1944
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US 90th / Polish 1st Division occupy Chambois Normandy
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19 Aug 1945
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Phillies Jimmie Foxx, 37, pitches 1st 7 innings vs. Reds andwins
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19 Aug 1947
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J Arens and D van Dorpen synthetise vitamin A
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19 Aug 1950
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ABC begins Saturday morning kid shows (Animal Clinic & Acrobat Ranch)
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19 Aug 1951
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Bill Veeck (Browns) sends Eddie Gaedel, a 3'7" midget, to pinch-hit
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19 Aug 1954
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Ralph J Bunche named undersecretary of UN
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19 Aug 1955
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32.4 cm precipitation at Burlington, Connecticut (state record)
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19 Aug 1955
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US raises import duty on bicycles 50%
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19 Aug 1955
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Hurricane Diane kills 200 & 1st billion $ damage storm (N.E. US)
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19 Aug 1956
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Fay Crocker wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open
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19 Aug 1957
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New York Giants vote 8-1 to move their franchise to SF in 1958
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19 Aug 1957
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US Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon
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19 Aug 1958
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NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters
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19 Aug 1959
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Doctor X beats Wilber Snyder in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ
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19 Aug 1959
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Honolulu seeks a franchise in Continental League
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19 Aug 1959
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Satellite Discoverer 6 launched into polar orbit
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19 Aug 1960
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Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
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19 Aug 1960
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Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 3 mice into orbit (later recovered alive)
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19 Aug 1961
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US Vice President Lyndon B Johnson visits West Berlin
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19 Aug 1962
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Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament
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19 Aug 1962
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Homer Blancos plays the finest round in golf, shooting a 55
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19 Aug 1963
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NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters, Oklahoma City
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19 Aug 1964
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Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched
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19 Aug 1965
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Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences
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19 Aug 1965
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Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney 2nd no-hitter of year beats Chicago Cubs, 1-0
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19 Aug 1966
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Earthquake strikes Varko Turkey: 2,400 killed
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19 Aug 1967
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Beatles' "All You Need is Love," single goes #1
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19 Aug 1969
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Chicago Cub Ken Holtzman no-hits Atlanta Braves, 3-0
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19 Aug 1973
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Kris Kristofferson weds Rita Coolidge
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19 Aug 1973
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Sandra Palmer wins LPGA St. Paul Golf Open
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19 Aug 1973
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Pirate World Music Radio (Holland) closes down after 10 years
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19 Aug 1975
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Astros hire Bill Virdon to replace Preston Gomez as manager
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19 Aug 1976
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President Gerald R Ford won Republican Presidential nomination at Kansas City convention
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19 Aug 1978
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422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran
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19 Aug 1979
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"My Sharonna" by the Knack hits #1 (stays for 42 days)
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19 Aug 1979
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Sally wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic Little
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19 Aug 1979
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Soviet Cosmonauts Vladimir Lyakov and Valery Ryumin returned to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 after a record 175 days in space
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19 Aug 1979
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Crew of Soyuz 32 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 34 aft 175 d flight
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19 Aug 1980
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George Brett ends hitting streak at 30
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19 Aug 1980
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Saudi Arabian Lockheed Tristar crashes on landing at Riyadh, 301 die
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19 Aug 1981
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2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22
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19 Aug 1982
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Renaldo Nehemiah of US sets record for 110 m hurdles, 12.93 sec
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19 Aug 1982
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Soyuz T-7 launched, Svetlana Savtiskaya 2nd woman in space
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19 Aug 1983
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Dodgers trade Dave Stewart and Ricky Wright to Texas for Rick Honeycut
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19 Aug 1983
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LSU footballer Billy Cannon sentenced to 5 yrs for counterfeiting
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19 Aug 1984
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66th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 273 at Shoal Creek Ala
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19 Aug 1984
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Republican Convention in Houston nominates Ronald Reagan for President
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19 Aug 1984
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Sally Quinlan wins LPGA MasterCard Golf International Pro-Am
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19 Aug 1984
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Lee Trevino wins the PGA
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19 Aug 1985
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Japan launches its 2nd probe of Halley's Comet, Suisei
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19 Aug 1986
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Car bomb kills 20 in Tehran Iran
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19 Aug 1988
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Muang Muang succeeds General Sein Lwin as President of Burma
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19 Aug 1988
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New York Rangers sign ex-Canadien great Guy LaFluer
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19 Aug 1988
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Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11 PM EDT)
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19 Aug 1989
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Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communmist president of Poland
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19 Aug 1990
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Betsy King wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
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19 Aug 1990
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Dodger Jose Offerman hits HR in his 1st at bat
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19 Aug 1990
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New York Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 14 HRs (approximately 128 at bat)
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19 Aug 1991
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Janajev and KGB coup in Russia deposes Mikhail Gorbachev
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19 Aug 1991
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Janel Bishop, 17, of New Hampshire, crowned 9th Miss Teen USA
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19 Aug 1991
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Coup in Russia deposes Mikhail Gorbachev
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19 Aug 1993
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34th Walker Cup: US, 19-5
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19 Aug 1993
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Actress Kim Basinger weds actor Alec Baldwin
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19 Aug 1993
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Dow Jones hits record high of 3612.13
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19 Aug 1993
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George Tiller, abortion doctor, shot in his arms by Rachelle Shannon
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19 Aug 1993
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Mattel and Fisher Price toys merge
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19 Aug 1993
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Sally Gunnell runs lady world record 400m hurdles (52.74")
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19 Aug 1995
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After 5 days Shannon Faulkner quits as 1st woman at the Citadel
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19 Aug 1995
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Bruce Seldon TKOs Joe Hipp in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
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19 Aug 1995
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Mike Tyson returns to the ring and DQs Peter McNeeley in 38 seconds
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19 Aug 1997
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New York Yank 3rd baseman Wade Boggs pitches a scoreless inning vs. Anaheim
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19 Aug 1997
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STS 85 (Discovery 23) lands
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