What happend on 19th August

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20.08
1934

The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.

1929

The radio comedy show Amos and Andy makes its NBC debut starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll.

1919

Afghanistan gains independence from the United Kingdom.

1895

American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.

1862

Indian Wars: During an uprising in Minnesota, 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.

1848

California 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).

1839

Presentation of Jacque Daguerre's new photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences.

1813

Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina's second triumvirate.

1812

War of 1812: American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerrière off the coast of Nova Scotia.

1782

Battle of Blue Licks: the last major battle of the American Revolutionary War, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Lord Cornwallis following the Battle of Yorktown.