1917<\/strong> – Team managers John McGraw and Christy Matthewson were arrested for breaking New York City’s blue laws. The crime was their teams were playing baseball on Sunday.<\/p>\n 1919<\/strong> – Afghanistan gained independence from Britain.<\/p>\n 1929<\/strong> – “Amos and Andy,” the radio comedy program, made its debut on NBC starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll.<\/p>\n 1934<\/strong> – Adolf Hitler was approved for sole executive power in Germany as Fuehrer.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – The new Civil Aeronautics Administration awarded honorary license #1 to Orville Wright.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – About 6,000 Canadian and British soldiers launched a raid against the Germans at Dieppe, France. They suffered about 50 percent casualties.<\/p>\n 1960<\/strong> – Francis Gary Powers, an American U-2 pilot, was convicted of espionage in Moscow.<\/p>\n 1960<\/strong> – Two dogs were launched in a satellite into Earth’s orbit by the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong> – Homero Blancas shot a 55 at the Premier Invitational Golf Tournament held in Longview, TX. It was the lowest score in U.S. competitive golf history.<\/p>\n 1974<\/strong> – During an anti-American protest in Nicosia, Cyprus, U.S. Ambassador Rodger P. Davies was fatally wounded by a bullet while in the American embassy.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – Two Libyan SU-22s were shot down by two U.S. Navy F-14 fighters in the Gulf of Sidra.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – Soviet hard-liners announced that President Mikhail Gorbachev had been removed from power. Gorbachev returned to power two days later.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – The first piece of the 351-foot bronze statue of Christopher Columbus arrived in San Juan, Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – Lorne Michaels received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – In Belgrade, thousands of Serbs attended a rally to demand the resignation of Yugoslavia’s President Slobodan Milosevic.<\/p>\n 2004<\/strong> – Google Inc. stock began selling on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The initial price was set at $85 and ended the day at $100.34 with more than 22 million shares traded.<\/p>\n 2016<\/strong> – A federal judge ordered Hillary Clinton to answer questions from the watchdog group Judicial Watch in writing about her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.<\/p>\n 2017<\/strong> \u2013 Tens of thousands of farmed non-native Atlantic salmon are accidentally released into the wild in Washington waters in the 2017 Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break.<\/p>\n History of 19 August 1917 – Team managers John McGraw and Christy Matthewson were arrested for breaking New York City’s blue laws. 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