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.

" 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.

In August 1919, Hoover became head of the Bureau of Investigation's new General Intelligence Division — also known as the Radical Division because its goal was to monitor and disrupt the work of domestic radicals.

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 )

William Lewis made the rounds of all who lived near him again, that August morning after a bullet landed at his feet, and once more he accused and threatened everyone.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.

Those persons who were lucky enough to see and hear the performance of his work at the Brest-Silevniov Festival in August, 1916, will certainly welcome his return to public notice ; ;

Sometime on Saturday evening, August 22nd, while my family and I were dining at the Hostaria dell' Orso, in Rome, you jimmied a window of our home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and let yourselves into the premises.

Seven hundred miles south of York Factory, at `` the Forks '' of the Red and the Assiniboine, twenty-three men located a settlement in August 1812.

Bailly, after leaving Fort Snelling in August 1821, was forced to leave some of the cattle at the Hudson's Bay Company's post on Lake Traverse `` in the Sieux Country '' and reached Fort Garry, as the Selkirk Hudson's Bay Company center was now called, late in the fall.

While fifty years before, Albert Goodwill Spalding, secretary of the Chicago Ball Club of the National League, could write earnestly to the manager of the Buffalo club and request a guarantee of one hundred dollars for a baseball game in August, in this Golden Era a game at the Yankee Stadium might bring in nearly a hundred thousand dollars at the gate.

`` Much of the navy's future depends upon her '', an American naval announcement said on the Skipjack's first arrival in British waters in August, 1959, for exhibition to selected high officers at Portland underwater research station.

Tractor production at Massey-Ferguson, Ltd., of Toronto in July and August rose to 2,418 units from 869 in the like period a year earlier, says John Staiger, vice president.

It is idle to ask why we are no longer disturbed if somebody, professing the deepest piety, decides anew that it is of no importance whether or not Christ transformed the water into wine at eleven A.M. on the third of August, A.D. 32.

She glanced at the man nodding beside her, a man with weather cracks furrowed into his lean cheeks, with powdery pale eyes reflecting all the droughts he had seen, reflecting the sky and the drought which must follow now in August -- yes, with eyes predicting the drought and here it was only June, only festival time again and thoughts of Gratt Shafer would not leave her.

On August 12, 2011, a plaque was unveiled on the Wolff building at Third Ave and La Mesa Bl commemorating Dwan and the Flying A Studios origins in La Mesa, California.

Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, and which also starred Mifune, became, on September 10, 1951, the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America.

The 60-inch cyclotron at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, in August 1939.

* In the neopagan wheel of the year August begins at or near Lughnasadh ( also known as Lammas ) in the northern hemisphere and Imbolc ( also known as Candlemas ) in the southern hemisphere.

In August 1926 Ivo Bligh ( now Lord Darnley ) displayed the Ashes Urn at the Morning Post Decorative Art Exhibition held in the Central Hall, Westminster.

* The Schlossgartenfest ( Palace Garden Festival ) takes place every year at the beginning of August.

Greeks stop harvesting the plant ( which usually grows wild ) when it starts to bloom at the end of August.

In 1926, the Aga Khan gave a cup ( the Aga Khan Trophy ) to be awarded to the winners of an international team show jumping competition held at the annual horse show of the Royal Dublin Society in Dublin, Ireland every first week in August.

However, this may be — for our information at this point of the story is meagre — on August 24 410, Alaric and his Visigoths burst in by the Porta Salaria on the northeast of the city.

Alexander Jagellon never felt at home in Poland, and bestowed his favor principally upon his fellow Lithuanians, the most notable of whom was the wealthy Lithuanian magnate Michael Glinski, who justified his master's confidence by his great victory over the Tatars at Kleck ( 5 August 1506 ), news of which was brought to Alexander on his deathbed in Vilnius.