August 19
What happened on this day:
1909 The Indianapolis 500 race track opens for the first time.
1945 Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.
1990 Leonard Bernstein conducts his final concert.
1991 Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev is overthrown by a coup.
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Famous Birthdays:
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1871 Orville Wright : Airplane Inventor
1931 Willie Shoemaker : Horse racing jockey
1946 Bill Clinton : 42nd US President
1963 John Stamos : Movie Actor
1965 Kyra Sedgwick : Movie Actor
1966 Lee Ann Womack : Singer
1969 Matthew Perry : Movie Actor
