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Date: AUGUST 19
Born today:
Bernard Baruch 1870 Orville Wright 1871 Coco Chanel 1883 Alfred Lunt 1893 Ogden Nash 1902 Colleen Moore 1902 Ring Lardner, Jr. 1915 Malcolm Forbes 1919 Gene Roddenberry 1921 Willie Shoemaker 1931 Jill St. John 1940 Bill Clinton 1946 Gerald McRaney 1948 Ron Darling 1960
Died today:
Emperor Augustus A.D. 14 Pope Sixtus III A.D. 440 Michael the Brave 1601 Blaise Pascal 1662 James Watt 1891 Serge Diaghilev 1929 Federico Garcia Lorca 1936 Groucho Marx 1977 Hermione Baddeley 1986
Historical events:
1839-Louis Jacques Daguerre of France invents the ...
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