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Historical Events for 19th August 2024
1914 - Harris Theater (Candler, Coan and Harris) opens at 226 W 42nd St NYC
1936 - Trial against Ljev Kamenev and Grigori Zinovjev because of "Trotskyism" opens in Moscow
1958 - NAACP Youth Council begin sit-in at "whites-only" lunch counter at Katz Drug Store in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1970 - The Chinese Community in South Africa is granted 'White' status
1974 - RCA records releases "Pussy Cats", the tenth album by American singer Harry Nilsson in the US; album was produced by John Lennon and Nilsson worked through a serious vocal chord injury which diminished his vaunted range
1986 - Car bomb kills 20 in Tehran, Iran
2001 - Canadian Open Women's Golf, Angus Glen GC: Annika Sörenstam wins by 2 from Kelly Robbins
2012 - Plane crash in mountainous region of Talodi, Sudan kills 32, including several government officials and staff, enroute to Eid al-Fitr festival marking end Muslim holy month of Ramadan; crash blamed on bad weather conditions
2013 - 24 Egyptian policemen are killed in an attack in Rafah
2013 - 91 people are killed by floods across China
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