Historical Events for 19th August 2022

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1263 - King James I of Aragon censors Hebrew writing
1895 - American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin is shot and killed by John Selman Sr. in a saloon in El Paso, Texas
1903 - Philadelphia Phillies suffer record 9th straight postponed game
1922 - US National Championship Women's Tennis, Germantown CC, PA: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats Helen Wills Moody 6-3, 6-1 for her 7th US singles crown
1944 - US general Omar Bradley visits British general Bernard Montgomery
1953 - England regains cricket Ashes from Australia after winning series 1-0
1960 - American CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident); sentence to 3 years in prison plus 7 in a labor camp, he served 17 months before being exchanged for a captured Soviet KGB spy
1981 - 2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22
1987 - Hungerford Massacre: in England, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide
1991 - Conservative members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union attempt to depose Mikhail Gorbachev in a coup d'état

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