August 19th, Palestinian Poet Samih al-Qasim passes away

1905- The Russian Tsar decrees establishing the Duma Council.

1934- Adolf Hitler becomes President of Germany.

1940- Italian invasion of British Somaliland during World War II.

1958- The US launches the largest nuclear submarine in the world.

1961- The Soviet Union launches a spacecraft carrying animals into orbit.

1973- France’s third atomic bomb successfully exploded.

2009- 95 people killed, 565 injured in a series of bombings in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.

2010- The US troops withdraw from Iraq two weeks ahead of the deadline.

Born Today:

1848- French painter Gustave Caillebotte.

1871- American Orville Wright, who invented the world first airplane in cooperation with his brother Wilbur Wright.

Passed away:

1662- French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Blaise Pascal.

2014- Palestinian poet Samih al-Qasim.

Occasions:

– National Aviation Day in the US.

R.J/H. Said

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