Andrew Carnegie (, but commonly or ; November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919 ) was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.

Carnegie's grave site at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in North Tarrytown, New York. The footstone of Andrew CarnegieCarnegie died on August 11, 1919, in Lenox, Massachusetts of bronchial pneumonia.

Before his death on August 11, 1919, Carnegie had donated $ 350, 695, 654 for various causes.

On 7 August 1919, Charles Godefroy successfully flew his biplane under the Arc.

In August 1919, at the age of nine, Capp lost his left leg in a trolley accident.

" Filming on The Kid began in August 1919, with four-year-old Jackie Coogan his co-star.

The fighting concluded in August 1919 and Britain virtually dictated the terms of the Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919, a temporary armistice that provided, on one somewhat ambiguous interpretation, for Afghan self-determination in foreign affairs.

Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel ( February 16, 1834 – August 9, 1919 ),

Haeckel died on August 9, 1919.

During the ensuing conflict, the war-weary British relinquished their control over Afghan foreign affairs by signing the Treaty of Rawalpindi in August 1919.

In no small measure through the diplomatic efforts of Venizelos, Greece secured Western Thrace in the Treaty of Neuilly in November 1919 and Eastern Thrace and a zone around Smyrna in western Anatolia ( already under Greek administration since May 1919 ) in the Treaty of Sèvres of August 1920.

As part of the ongoing strategy to take control of the IRA, Brugha proposed to Dáil Éireann on 20 August 1919 that the Volunteers were to be asked, at this next convention, to swear allegiance to the Dáil.

By the end of 1919 he'd become famous, after his first one-man exhibition at Der Sturm gallery, June 1919, and the publication that August of the poem An Anna Blume ( usually translated as ' To Anna Flower ', or ' To Eve Blossom '), a dadaist non-sensical love poem.

* 1919 in Hungary ( in the Hungarian Soviet Republic, March 21 to August 1 ; called szesztilalom )

The losses were for the period 4 August 1914 until 30 September 1919, included 573, 507 " killed in action, died from wounds and died of other causes "; 254, 176 missing less 154, 308 released prisoners ; for a net total of 673, 375 dead and missing.

The losses were for the period 4 August 1914 until 30 September 1919, included 573, 507 " killed in action, died from wounds and died of other causes "; 254, 176 missing less 154, 308 released prisoners ; for a net total of 673, 375 dead and missing.

In 1919, a national assembly was convened in Weimar, where a new constitution for the German Reich was written, then adopted on 11 August of that same year.

* August 8 – Jean Navarre, French World War I fighter ace ( d. 1919 )

* August 2 – Delfo Cabrera, Argentine athlete ( b. 1919 )

* August 31 – Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany ( d. 1919 )

Herbert Clark Hoover ( August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964 ) was the 31st President of the United States ( 1929 – 1933 ).

Hoover was born on August 10, 1874, in West Branch, Iowa.

When World War I began in August 1914, Hoover helped organize the return of 120, 000 Americans from Europe.

* August 8 – The Hoover Company founded.

* August 10 – Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States ( d. 1964 )

On August 1, 1919, Palmer put 24-year-old J. Edgar Hoover in charge of a new division of the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation, the General Intelligence Division.

Mike Hoover taught Eastwood how to climb during several weeks of preparation at Yosemite in the summer of 1974 before filming commenced in Grindelwald on August 12, 1974.

On August 18, 1970, four days after the initial warrant was issued, the FBI director J. Edgar Hoover made Angela Davis the third woman and the 309th person to appear on the FBI ’ s Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List.

On 13 August 1985, the Hoover Company announced the end of production.

Bowerston was platted by David Bower, Henry Hoover, and Nathaniel Bower on August 21, 1851 and was filed in court August 2, 1852.

* Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, April – August 1977

* 1943 – 10 years after flying into the Washington Hoover Airport on mainly instruments during the August 1933 Chesapeake-Potomac hurricane, J.

Stationed here are: The First and Fourth battalions of the 3rd U. S. Infantry Regiment, ( The Old Guard ) — and since August 2011, ' A ' Company ( Commander in Chief's Guard ), which was stationed at Fort McNair, D. C ; The U. S. Army Band “ Pershing's Own ”; The grave site of Black Jack, the riderless horse in the state funerals of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur and U. S. Presidents John F. Kennedy, Herbert Hoover and Lyndon B. Johnson, is located on Summerall Field, northeast of the parade ground's flagpole.

In August, he organized the General Intelligence Unit within the Department of Justice and recruited J. Edgar Hoover, a 24-year-old law school graduate who spent the war working in and then leading the Justice Department's Enemy Alien Bureau, to head it.

Charles Francis Adams III ( August 2, 1866 – June 10, 1954 ) was the United States Secretary of the Navy under President Herbert Hoover and a well-known yachtsman.

The following August, it became the first airline to serve Washington, DC, from the west, offering its flagship " Path of the Eagle " service from Cleveland to Hoover Field across the Potomac River.

Robert Patterson Lamont ( December 1, 1867-February 20, 1948 ) was United States Secretary of Commerce March 5, 1929 to August 7, 1932 during the administration of Herbert Hoover.

He also served as the United States Secretary of Commerce from August 8, 1932, to March 3, 1933, in the last months of the administration of President Herbert Hoover.

* James B. Hoover Center for Business, opened in August 2006.

In August, he organized the General Intelligence Unit within the Department of Justice and recruited J. Edgar Hoover, a recent law school graduate, to head it.

The library was officially opened to the public on August 10, 1962, Hoover's 88th birthday .. Former President Hoover and Former President Harry Truman were present at the dedication where Hoover recited the following:

Presidents Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover at the dedication of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum on August 10, 1962