Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 19

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• USS Constitution
  USS Constitution
• USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere
  USS Constitution vs HMS Guerriere
• Mikhail Gorbachev
  Mikhail Gorbachev
• Venus Anadyomene, Pompeii wall art
  Venus Anadyomene, Pompeii wall art
• Mohammed Mossadegh
  Mohammed Mossadegh
• Ho Chi Minh
  Ho Chi Minh
• Indianapolis Motor Speedway
  Indianapolis Motor Speedway
• Edward I of England
  Edward I of England
• Bonnie Prince Charlie
  Bonnie Prince Charlie
• Painting of the Battle of Lagos
  Painting of the Battle of Lagos

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Blurb	Reason
Feast of the Transfiguration (Julian calendar)	Refimprove
National Aviation Day in the United States	stub
295 BC – The oldest known temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, was dedicated.	refimprove section
1666 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: English Rear-Admiral Robert Holmes led a raid on Terschelling and on the Vlie estuary in the Netherlands, destroying 130 merchant ships within two days.	refimprove sections
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Ten months after the British had surrendered, a combined force of British rangers and American Indians routed Kentucky militiamen at the Battle of Blue Licks.	needs more footnotes
1812 – War of 1812: American Navy frigate USS Constitution defeated British Royal Navy frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, earning her nickname "Old Ironsides".	refimprove
1895 – American outlaw and folk hero John Wesley Hardin was shot dead by an off-duty lawman in El Paso, Texas.	refimprove section, primary sources
1909 – The first auto race was held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the highest-capacity sports venue in the world.	unreferenced section
1936 – The first of the Moscow Trials, instigated by Joseph Stalin against so-called Trotskyists began in the House of the Unions.	refimprove section
1942 – Second World War: Allied forces suffered over 3,000 casualties when they unsuccessfully raided the German-occupied port of Dieppe, France.	Lots of cn/pn
1945 – During the August Revolution against French colonial rule, the Viet Minh under Ho Chi Minh took control of Hanoi in northern Vietnam.	refimprove section
1953 – The intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom and the United States orchestrated a coup d'état of Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and restored the constitutional monarchy of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.	Too much uncited text, page numbers needed.
1960 – Soviet space dogs Belka and Strelka began to orbit the Earth aboard the Korabl-Sputnik 2 spacecraft.	refimprove section
1978 – The Cinema Rex in Abadan, Iran, was set on fire, leading to the death of at least 377 people.	Lead claims that fire was the cause of the subsequent revolution in the lead. The impact/aftermath is not explained at all.
1980 – A fire on Saudia Flight 163 killed all 301 people on board after making an emergency landing at Riyadh International Airport.	refimprove section
1981 – Two U.S. Navy F-14 Tomcats shot down two Libyan Su-22 Fitters during military exercises over the Gulf of Sidra.	No explanation of aftermath/response to this military incident
1987 – A 27-year-old unemployed local labourer shot and killed sixteen people and wounded fifteen others before fatally shooting himself in Hungerford, Berkshire, England, one of the worst criminal atrocities involving firearms in British history.	refimprove
1989 – Hungary opened its border with Austria as part of the Pan-European Picnic, allowing several hundred East Germans to defect to the West.	refimprove
1991 – During a Soviet coup attempt led by Gennady Yanayev and other top level government officials, it was announced to the public that President Mikhail Gorbachev had been relieved of his duties "due to illness".	refimprove section
1991 – A Hasidic man accidentally struck two Guyanese immigrant children with his car in the Crown Heights neighborhood of New York City, initiating three days of rioting.	in popular culture
Jan Fyt |b|1609|	Birthday not cited
Blaise Pascal |d|1662|	Too much uncited
Paweł Jasienica |d|1970	refimprove section
Linus Pauling |d|1994|	13 cn tags

Eligible

Tu B'Av (Judaism, 2024)

• 1274 – Shortly after his return from the Ninth Crusade, Edward I (pictured) was crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey, nearly two years after his father's death.
• 1725 – J. S. Bach led the first performance of Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren, BWV 137, a cantata setting the unchanged text of Neander's hymn.
• 1745 – Bonnie Prince Charlie raised the Jacobite standard at Glenfinnan, Scotland, in an attempt to regain the British throne for his father, beginning the Jacobite rising of 1745.
• 1897 – The Bersey Electric Cab (pictured) entered service as the first electric taxi in London.
• 1920 – Russian Civil War: Peasants in Tambov Governorate began a rebellion against the Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia.
• 1934 – A referendum supported the recent merging of the posts of chancellor and president of Germany, consolidating Adolf Hitler's assumption of supreme power.
• 2003 – A Hamas suicide bomber killed 23 people and wounded more than 130 others, including many Orthodox Jewish children, on a crowded public bus in Shmuel HaNavi, Jerusalem.
• 2005 – Thunderstorms in southern Ontario, Canada, spawned at least three tornadoes that caused over C$500 million in damage.
• Born/died: | Abu Yazid |d|947| Edward Boscawen |b|1711| Tom Wills |b|1835| C. I. Scofield |b|1843| Gustave Caillebotte |b|1848| Manuel L. Quezon |b|1878| Gene Roddenberry |b|1921| Hsing Yun|b|1927| Stefanos Skouloudis |d|1928| Bernard Levin |b|1928| Henry Wood |d|1944| Tipper Gore |b|1948| John Deacon |b|1951| Clay Walker |b|1969| Régine Chassagne |b|1976| Aleksander Kreek |d|1977| Groucho Marx |d|1977| Missy Higgins |b|1983| Adipati Dolken |b|1991| Pio Seci |b|1993| Donald William Kerst |d|1993| Sonny Chiba |d|2021|

Notes

• Battle of Evesham appears on August 4, so Edward I should not appear in the same year

August 19: Afghan Independence Day Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1759 – Seven Years' War: Having damaged several French vessels, British ships pursued the remainder of the fleet to Lagos, Portugal, and continued the battle there (depicted) in violation of Portuguese neutrality.
• 1950 – The 766th Independent Infantry Regiment of North Korea was disbanded after fighting for less than two months in the Korean War.
• 2002 – Second Chechen War: A Russian [[Mil Mi-26|Mil Template:Nowrap]] was brought down by Chechen separatists with a man-portable air-defense system near Khankala, killing 127 people in the deadliest helicopter crash in history.
• 2003 – A car bomb destroyed the United Nations headquarters at Baghdad's Canal Hotel, killing Brazilian diplomat Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 others.
• 2017 – Around 250,000 farmed non-native Atlantic salmon were accidentally released into the wild near Cypress Island, Washington.