This Day in History: August 19, 2025
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1812
The U.S. frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, defeated the British ship Guerriere during the War of 1812.
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1934
Germans voted to make Adolf Hitler Fuhrer.
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1936
Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca was shot by Franco's soldiers during the Spanish Civil War.
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1960
American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers was convicted of espionage in Moscow.
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1977
Comedian Groucho Marx died in Los Angeles at age 86.
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2003
U.N. special representative Sergio Vieira de Mello was one of 22 killed when a suicide car bomb struck the UN's Baghdad headquarters.
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