August 19<\/p>\n
43 BC \u2013 Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ‘Octavian’ is elected consul by the Roman Senate.<\/p>\n
14 \u2013 Emperor Octavian ‘Caesar Augustus’ dies in Nola, Italy.<\/p>\n
1153 \u2013 The same day his army retakes Ascalon, Baldwin III of Jerusalem takes control of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from his mother Melisende.<\/p>\n
1692 \u2013In Salem, Massachusetts, 5 people, 1 woman and 4 men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.<\/p>\n
1782 \u2013 In the last major engagement of the Revolutionary War, a force of\u00a0 Loyalists, along with Indians, ambushes and routs a force of Kentucky militiamen near the Licking River in Virginia<\/p>\n
1812 \u2013 The frigate USS Constitution<\/em> earns the nickname “Old Ironsides” during battle with the British frigate HMS Guerriere <\/em>when an American crewmen yells “Her sides are made of iron!” when a shot merely bounces off the oak hull.<\/p>\n 1848 \u2013 The New York Herald<\/em> breaks the news to the east coast of the U.S. of the gold strike earlier in the year in California.<\/p>\n 1854 \u2013 The 1st Sioux War begins near Fort Laramie, Nebraska Territory, when U.S Army soldiers, under the command of John Lawrence Grattan,\u00a0 mortally wound Lakota Chief Conquering Bear while attempting to arrest one of his tribe and in return are massacred to the last man.<\/p>\n 1862 \u2013 At the beginning of an indian uprising in Minnesota, called U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, or more commonly ‘Little Crow’s War’, lasting only a few months, Santee Lakota warriors decide not to attack heavily defended Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of New Ulm, killing white settlers along the way.<\/p>\n 1883 \u2013 Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel is born in Saumur, France.<\/p>\n 1909 \u2013 The Indianapolis Motor Speedway opens for automobile racing.<\/p>\n 1934 \u2013 Adolf Hitler’s appointment as combined head of state\u00a0 –Der F\u00fchrer<\/em>– is approved by a vote of the German people.<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division and allied forces begin a near disastrous assault on the French port of Dieppe during World War II.<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 Free French and French Resistance forces, with allied troops, begin the assault to liberate Paris from German occupation.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 Viet Minh forces led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.<\/p>\n 1960 \u2013 At trial in Moscow,\u00a0 U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for espionage.<\/p>\n 1964 \u2013 NASA’s Syncom 3<\/em>, the first geostationary communication satellite, is launched from Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n 1981 \u2013 2 U.S. Navy Grumman F-14 fighters intercept and shoot down 2 Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighters over the Gulf of Sidra in the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 During the dissolution of the Soviet Union, hard line communists attempt a coup d’\u00e9tat against President Mikhail Gorbachev<\/p>\n 2009 \u2013 In Kandahar, Afghanistan,\u00a0 U.S. Army Sergeant Paul Dumont Jr. is killed in a vehicle accident.<\/p>\n 2010 \u2013 Operations Iraqi Freedom <\/em>and Laser Escort<\/em> ends, with the last of the U.S. Brigade Combat Teams and certain Special Operations Forces crossing the border back into Kuwait.<\/p>\n 2017 \u2013 A open water net pen at a fish farm near Cypress Island, Washington state, run by Cooke Aquaculture Pacific, breaks, accidentally releasing into the Pacific Ocean over 300,000 non-native Atlantic salmon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 19 43 BC \u2013 Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ‘Octavian’ is elected consul by the Roman Senate. 14 \u2013 Emperor Octavian ‘Caesar Augustus’ dies in Nola, Italy. 1153 \u2013 The same day his army retakes Ascalon, Baldwin III of Jerusalem takes control of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from his mother Melisende. 1692 \u2013In Salem, Massachusetts, … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58378"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95259,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58378\/revisions\/95259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}