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August 19th
1819 ~ Death of James Watt, Scottish inventor
1871 ~ Birthday of Orville Wright, Aviator.
1902 ~ Birthday of Ogden Nash, Poet.
1921 ~ Birthday of Gene Roddenberry, Producer.
1947 ~ Birthday of William Jefferson Clinton, U.S. President.
1960 ~ Cold War: In Moscow, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers was sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
1977 ~ Death of Groucho Marx, Comedian & Actor.
1981 ~ Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi sent two Sukoi Su-22 fighter jets to intercept two U.S. F-14 Tomcats over the Gulf of Sidra. The American jets shot down the Libyan fighters.
1990 ~ Leonard Bernstein conducted his final concert, ending with Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony # 7.
1994 ~ Death of Linus Pauling, Chemist.
He was a physical chemist, among the most influential chemists of the twentieth century, and one of the most important scientists of all time. He was one of the first quantum chemists, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 for his work describing the nature of chemical bonds. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962 for his campaign against above-ground nuclear testing, becoming one of only two people to receive the Nobel Prize in more than one field, the other being Marie Curie.
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