Today in History - History - August 19th

1976President Gerald R Ford wins Republican presidential nomination at KC convention

1995Mike Tyson returns to the ring & DQs Peter McNeeley in 38 seconds

1991Janajev & KGB coup in Russia deposes Mikhail Gorbachev

1918Irving Berlin's musical "Yip Yip Yaphank" premieres in NYC

1990Betsy King wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic

1984Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf

43 BCOctavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.

1962Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament

1839Details of Louis Daguerre's 1st practical photographic process are released in Paris

1791Benjamin Banneker published his 1st Almanac

1946Bill Clinton [William Jefferson], Hope Arkansas, 42nd United States President (Democrat, 1993-01)

1919Malcolm Forbes, Brooklyn New York, publisher (Forbes Magazine), (d. 1990)

1871Orville Wright, Dayton OH, aviator (Wright Brothers), (d. 1912)

1878Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, Second President of Philippines (1935-42)

1800Social reformer Elizabeth Fry (20) weds tea dealer Joseph Fry (23) at the Norwich Quaker Meeting House in Norwich, England

1993Actress Kim Basinger weds actor Alec Baldwin

1974Oscar-winning lyricist Tim Rice (29) weds Jane McIntosh

1935French singer Edith Piaf (19) weds Andrew Johnseppe in Belleville, Paris

1662Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1623)

1822Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre, French mathematician and astronomer, dies at 72

1994Linus Pauling, Nobel prize scientist (Vitamin C advocate), dies at 93

1977Groucho Marx, NYC, comedian (Marx Bros), dies in LA at 86