19. August
of the 19. August is the 231. Day of the Gregorian calendar (the 232. in leap years), thus 134 days up to the year end remain.
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- 1493: Maximilian I. becomes emperor of the holy Roman realm
- 1812: The American frigate USS Constitution (44 cannons) forces the British frigate HMS Guerriere (38 cannons) after oneinvolving heavy losses fight for surrender. The first naval victory of a regular American warship against a British warship excites large attention in the USA and Great Britain.
- 1839: Jacques Daguerre places its new photographic process that to Paris Academy of Sciences
- 1848 ago:The newspaper „New York Herald “reported of gold finds in California and solves thereby gold fever from
- 1934: Popular vote over the head of state of the German Reich; 89.9% of the voters confirm the combination of the offices of the realm president and the realm chancellorin the person Adolf Hitler
- 1935: Major fire on the international radio exhibition on the citizen of Berlin fairground. Here also the restaurant burns citizens of Berlin out of the radio tower. Since the fire broke out only after locking of the halls, there were only 3 victims
- 1942: Operation Jubilee, missed invasion attempt of British and Canadian troops with the northFrench port Dieppe
- 1953: With the fall of the Persian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh Schah Reza Pahlevi can return from its first exile
- 1960: Gary Powers, pilotthe U-2 shot over the area of the USSR - espionage airplane of the USA, to ten years detention condemns
- 1963: The Federal Republic of Germany steps the nuclear weapon test stop contract at
- 1965: During the first Auschwitz process the judgements announces
- 1985: Hansjoachim Tiedge, at the Federal Office responsibly for protection of the constitution for the protection from GDR espionage, sits down into the GDR starting from
- 1989: With the Paneuropäi picknick close Sopron flees with Hungarian support over 600 DDR-Bürger into the west: the beginning of the end of the GDR
- 1991: Coup d'etat against the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbatschow, however after three days wrongly strikes
- 1992: The German message in Bischkek, Kirgisistan, opens
- 1992: 250 lesbian and gay of pairs request country widely with register officesthe quantity for marriage ceremony to make attentive around thereby on the then without rights situation of same sex pairs and to set the discussion over „the Homo marriage “on
- 2003: with a bomb attack on the headquarters of the UN-mission in the Iraqinto Bagdad 22 persons come around the life, under it the special envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello
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science and technology
- 1964: Syncom 3 is started of NASA as the first geostationary satellite on Cape Canaveral with a delta - booster rocket.The close international date border stationed it is transferred the olympic summer games into Tokyo into the USA and thus the first television transmission possible over the Pacific to make
culture
- 1820: Premiere of the opera „the charm harp “of Franz thrust ore at the theatre at that Vienna in Vienna
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religion
- 1458: Cardinal Enea Silvio de' Piccolomini, a former living man and alleseits educated poet prince, becomes after a three-day-long Konklave in the Vatikan the successor of Pope Kalixt III.selected and Pius II. takes the names. at
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disasters
- 1917: A major fire in Saloniki destroys the old part of town, over 79.000 humans becomes shelterless
- 1966: Earthquake with Varto, east Turkey, nearly 2,520 dead ones
- 1980: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Despite forced landing of a Lockheed L-1011 tri star after a fire on board, the 301 passengers can be saved only dead. All are suffocated
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- 2005: Mark of Feehily, singer that volume would westrun,outet itself as homosexual
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sport
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- 1596: Elizabeth Stuart, Titularkönigin of Böhmen,also admits as the winter queen
- 1646: John Flamsteed, English astronomer
- 1689: Samuel Richardson, English Romancier
- 1743: Marie countess Dubarry, Mätresse king of Ludwig XV
- 1780: Jetty RH Jean de Béranger, French poet and singer
- 1808: James Nasmyth, Scottish engineer and astronomer (steam car, machine tools, Nasmyth telescope)
- 1809: Heinrich Abeken, German theologian
- 1830: Julius Lothar Meyer, German chemist
- 1843: Cyrus I. Scofield, US-American lawyer and theologian
- 1863: Ennoble sand skirt, German-Dutch actress
- 1871: Orville WRIGHTs, US-American flight pioneer and aircraft manufacturer
- 1881: George Enescu, Romanian composer and Violinist
- 1883: Coco Chanel, French Modeschöpferin
- 1893: Smelling pool of broadcasting corporations Reitzner, German politician of the SPD, MdB 1949-1962
- 1894: André Lefèbvre, French automobile technical designer (duck, Citroën DS)
- 1895: Arnolt Bronnen, German-speaking writer
- 1909: Jerzy Andrzejewski, Polish writer
- 1913: Philipp of Bismarck, German politician, CDU MdB 1969-1979
- 1914: Raymond Marcellin, French politician
- 1918: Shankar Dayal Sharma, Indian politician and president
- 1921: Genes Roddenberry, US-American film script author (star Trek)
- 1923: Magdalene Ehlers, flat-German Dichterin and authoress
- 1925: Ottokar Runze, German director, producer, actor
- 1928: Smelling pool of broadcasting corporationsBurdon Haldane, British politician and philosopher
- 1930: Franc McCourt, Irish-US-American author
- 1931: Marianne cook, German actress
- 1935: Story Musgrave, US-American astronaut
- 1939: Ginger Baker, British musician
- 1939: The max Lorenz,German football player
- 1940: Johnny Nash, US-American singer
- 1941: Gerd of the break, German football coach
- 1943: Billy J. Shopkeeper, British singer
- 1944: Jakob von Uexküll, Stifter of the alternative Nobelpreises
- 1946: Bill Clinton,US-American politician (42. US president)
- 1946: Beat Raaflaub, Swiss conductor
- 1949: Paloma Picasso, Spanish Designerin
- 1949: Inga, German singer (Inga & wolf)
- 1951: John Deacon, British musician
- 1952: Jonathan Frakes, US AmericanActor
- 1952: Bodo Hombach, German SPD politician, Federal Minister for special tasks
- of 1953: Nanni Moretti, Italian director
- 1955: Peter Gallagher, American Filmschauspieler and series actor
- 1956: Maria Berger, Austrian SPÖ politician, member of the European parliament
- 1958: Brendan Nelson, Australian politician
- 1960: Martina Horak Werz, German Pfarrerin
- 1963: Joey Tempest, Swedish singer and Songschreiber
- 1964: Axel Roos, football professional with the 1. Fiber plastic Kaiserslautern
- 1965: Kyra Sedgwick, US-American actress
- 1966: Armin wolf, Austrian television moderator
- 1966: Lee Ann Womack, US-American Country singer
- 1969: Matthew Perry, US-American actor
- 1969: Clay Walker, US-American Country singer
- 1970: Heike Balck, German light athlete
- 1970: Fat Joe,US-more American RWSby
- 1971: Mary Joe Fernandez, US-American tennis professional
- 1973: Mette Marit Tjessem Høiby, princess Mette Marit of Norway
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emperors Friedrich III. (1415-1493)
- 14: Augustus, Roman emperor
- 1240: Hartmann I., Count von Wirtemberg 1181-1240
- 1457: Andrea del Castagno, Italian painter
- 1493: Friedrich III., Emperors of the holy Roman realm
- 1580: Andrea Palladio, architect in upper Italy
- 1625: Enno III., Count of East Frisia
- 1646: Alexander Henderson, Scottish theologian
- 1657: Fray to Snijders, Belgian painter
- 1662: Blaise Pascal, French philosopher, physicist and mathematician
- 1691: Köprülü Fazil Mustafa, Grosswesir of the Osmani realm
- 1743: Hugo Damian of beautiful fount,German bishop
- 1753: Balthasar Neumann, German building master of the baroque
- 1771: Daniel Schiebeler, German writer
- 1777: Johann Christian Erxleben, German scholar
- 1780: Johann of calf, German-American general during the American revolution
- 1783: Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, German sculptor
- 1795: Friedrich Hartmann count, German composer
- 1804: Barthélemy Louis Joseph Schérer, French general
- 1815: Charles Angélique Huchet, comte de Labédoyère, French lieutenant general
- 1819: James Watt, British inventor (steam engine)
- 1822: Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French astronomer
- 1842: Alexandre Dusommerard, French archaeologist and art collecting tank
- 1895: John Wesley Hardin, US-American gun hero
- 1905: William Adolphe Bouguereau, French painter
- 1909: Ludwig Gumplovicz, one of the establishment fathersthe European sociology
- 1914: Franz Xaver Wernz, German medal general
- 1915: Tevfik Fikret, Turkish poet
- 1920: Pablo Arosemena Alba, fifth president of Panama
- 1929: Sergei Pawlowitsch Djagilew, Russian publisher, art critic and curator
- 1932: Johann Schober, Austrian lawyer, civil servant and politician
- 1936: Federico García Lorca, Spanish writer
- 1944: Günther of intelligent one, general field marshal in the third realm
- 1946: Albert de Dion, French automobile pioneer
- 1947: Oskar Moll,German painter
- 1948: Frederick Philip Grove, German and Canadian writer and translator
- 1951: Walter Bloem, German writer
- 1954: Alcide de Gasperi, Italian politician
- 1959: Blindly Willie McTell, US-American musician and singer
- 1959: Jacob Epstein, sculptor, draughtsman
- 1959: William Samuel McTell, Bluesmusiker
- 1967: Hugo Gernsback, publisher and writer
- 1968: George Anthony Gamow, Russian-US-American physicist
- 1968: George Gamow, Russian-US-American physicist
- 1971: Reinhold Maier, Prime Minister of Baden-Wuerttemberg
- 1972: Leopold Reitz, German writer
- 1975: Konrad Swinarski, Polish theatre director
- 1977: Groucho Marx, US-amerikanischer Komiker
- 1978: Max Mallowan, British archaeologist
- 1980: Otto franc, father of AnneFranc
- 1986: Willy Kramp, German writer
- 1988: Ferdinand Käs, Austrian career soldier and civil servant
- 1990: At Rutgers, Netherlands authoress
- 1994: Hanna Maria Zippelius, behavior biologies
- 1994: Linus Carl Pauling, US-American chemist
- 1994: Robert Iwanowitsch Roschdestwenski, Russian writer
- 1995: Pierre Schaeffer, French composer
- 1998: Light courage Andics, Austrian journalist and author
- 2002: Eduardo Chillida, Spanish sculptor
- 2003: Hermann Withalm, Austrian politician
- 2003: Sérgio Vieirade Mello, Brazilian UN-politician (S. #Ereignisse)
- 2004: Günter Rexrodt, German politician
- 2004: Rudolf Miele, German entrepreneur
- 2005: Mo Mowlam, British politician
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