{"id":28121,"date":"2016-08-19T08:06:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T13:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=28121"},"modified":"2016-08-19T08:07:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T13:07:00","slug":"today-in-history-241","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=28121","title":{"rendered":"Today in History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Today in History: Friday, August\u00a0 19, 2016<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\nOn Aug. 19, 1934, a plebiscite in Germany approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler as Fuhrer.
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1929<\/td>\nThe comedy “Amos ‘n’ Andy” made its network radio debut on NBC.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1960<\/td>\nA tribunal in Moscow convicted American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers of espionage.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1969<\/td>\nJazz trumpeter Miles Davis began three days of recording sessions that yielded the album “Bitches Brew.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1976<\/td>\nPresident Gerald R. Ford won the Republican presidential nomination at the party’s national convention in Kansas City.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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1977<\/td>\nComedian Groucho Marx died at age 86.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1994<\/td>\nPresident Bill Clinton halted the nation’s three-decade open-door policy for Cuban refugees.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1996<\/td>\nA judge sentenced former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker to four years’ probation for his Whitewater crimes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2004<\/td>\nThe Internet search engine Google went public.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\nA Texas jury found pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. liable for the death of a man who’d taken the once-popular painkiller Vioxx.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>\nA federal grand jury indicted retired baseball player Roger Clemens for allegedly lying to Congress about steroid use. (Clemens’ trial this year ended in a mistrial.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010<\/td>\nThe last American combat brigade exited Iraq, seven years and five months after the U.S.-led invasion began.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Actor Matthew Perry (“Friends”) turns 47 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Ginger Baker<\/td>\nRock musician (Cream, Blind Faith)<\/td>\n77<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jill St. John<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n76<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Bill Clinton<\/td>\nFormer president<\/td>\n70<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jim Carter<\/td>\nActor (“Downton Abbey”)<\/td>\n68<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tipper Gore<\/td>\nWife of former Vice President Al Gore<\/td>\n68<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Gerald McRaney<\/td>\nActor (“Major Dad”)<\/td>\n68<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mary Matalin<\/td>\nPolitical consultant<\/td>\n63<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Peter Gallagher<\/td>\nActor<\/td>\n61<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Adam Arkin<\/td>\nActor<\/td>\n60<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Morton Andersen<\/td>\nFootball player<\/td>\n56<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John Stamos<\/td>\nActor (“Full House’)<\/td>\n53<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kevin Dillon<\/td>\nActor (“Entourage”)<\/td>\n51<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lee Ann Womack<\/td>\nCountry singer<\/td>\n50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tabitha Soren<\/td>\nMTV reporter<\/td>\n49<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fat Joe<\/td>\nRapper<\/td>\n46<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tracie Thoms<\/td>\nActress (“Cold Case”)<\/td>\n41<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Erika Christensen<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n34<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Romeo<\/td>\nRapper<\/td>\n27<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Actress Kyra Sedgwick (“The Closer”) turns 51 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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