August 19: Feast of the Transfiguration (Julian calendar)
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- 295 BC – The oldest known temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, was dedicated.
- 1895 – American outlaw and folk hero John Wesley Hardin was shot dead by an off-duty lawman in El Paso, Texas.
- 1945 – During the August Revolution against French colonial rule, the Viet Minh under Ho Chi Minh (pictured) took control of Hanoi in northern Vietnam.
- 1989 – Hungary opened its border with Austria as part of the Pan-European Picnic, allowing several hundred East Germans to defect to the West.
- 2005 – Thunderstorms in southern Ontario, Canada, spawned at least three tornadoes that caused over C$500 million in damage.
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