August 19 birthdays & history

Famous people born on August 19

• 1946Bill Clinton, American lawyer and politician, 40th and 42nd Governor of Arkansas, 42nd President of the United States
• 1883Coco Chanel, French fashion designer, founded the Chanel Company
• 1871Orville Wright, American engineer and pilot, co-founded the Wright Company
• 1631John Dryden, English poet, literary critic and playwright
• 1969Matthew Perry, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1924Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1967Satya Nadella, Indian-American business executive, chairman and CEO of Microsoft
• 1921Gene Roddenberry, American screenwriter and producer
• 1951John Deacon, English bass player and songwriter
• 1973Marco Materazzi, Italian footballer and manager

What happened on August 19

• 1725J. 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.
• 1745Bonnie 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.
• 1839The French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the world".
• 1848California Gold Rush: The New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California (although the rush started in January).
• 1861First ascent of Weisshorn, fifth highest summit in the Alps.
• 1897The Bersey Electric Cab entered service as the first electric taxi in London.
• 1927Patriarch Sergius of Moscow proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
• 1934The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
• 1960Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2: The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants.
• 1964Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite, is launched. Two months later, it would enable live coverage of the 1964 Summer Olympics.
• 1981Silvio Santos launches a new Brazilian television channel in São Paulo, Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão.
• 1989Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist prime minister in 42 years.

Also observed on August 19

• August Revolution Commemoration Day (Vietnam)
• Birthday of Crown Princess Mette-Marit (Norway)
• Manuel Luis Quezón Day (Quezon City and other places in the Philippines named after Manuel L. Quezon)
• National Aviation Day (United States)
• World Humanitarian Day