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.

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 )

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.

After the Civil War, Doubleday mustered out of the volunteer service on August 24, 1865, reverted to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and became the colonel of the 35th U. S. Infantry in September 1867.

Admiral Arthur Phillip RN ( 11 October 173831 August 1814 ) was the first Governor of New South Wales, and founder of the settlement which became Sydney.

Albert became Duke of Prussia after paying feudal homage to the King of Poland, Zygmunt August ( Ducal Prussia was a fief of Poland ), on July 19, 1569 in Lublin.

Taking command on 13 August 1942, he immediately became a whirlwind of activity.

August A. Busch Jr. became president of Anheuser-Busch in 1946 and began the creation of a national network of breweries.

In August 1954, " Blues " leader LCDR Ray Hawkins became the first naval aviator to survive an ejection at supersonic speeds when his F9F-6 became uncontrollable on a cross-country flight.

On 10 August Bombardier Paul Challenor became the first soldier to be killed by the Provisional IRA in Derry, when he was shot by a sniper on the Creggan estate.

On 11 August 1960, Chad became an independent country and François Tombalbaye became its first President.

On 13 August 1960 the Central African Republic became an independent country and David Dacko became its first President.

The country became independent on 7 August 1960.

On 17 August 1990, the Serbs began what became known as the Log Revolution, where barricades of logs were placed across roads throughout the South as an expression of their secession from Croatia.

Attlee became a lecturer at the London School of Economics in 1912, but promptly applied for a Commission in August 1914 for World War I.

Coldcut and Mark Saunders produced her debut solo single " This Is the Right Time " which became another UK Top 20 hit in August as well as reaching # 21 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 the following year.

After starting the season 15 – 35, though, the team had some success later in the year, going a respectable 30 – 28 in August and September as the youngsters became more experienced.

The Constitution of the Cook Islands took effect on August 4, 1965, when the Cook Islands became a self-governing territory in free association with New Zealand.

On 17 August 1498, Cesare became the first person in history to resign the cardinalate.

It did so by buying a small startup company called Amiga Corporation in August 1984, for $ 25 million ($ 12. 8 million in cash & 550, 000 in common shares ) which became a subsidiary of Commodore, called Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Commodore brought this new 32-bit computer design ( initially codenamed " Lorraine ", later dubbed the Amiga 1000 ) to market in the fall of 1985 for US $ 1295.

The first American-made pocket-sized calculator, the Bowmar 901B ( popularly referred to as The Bowmar Brain ), measuring 5. 2 × 3. 0 × 1. 5 in ( 131 × 77 × 37 mm ), came out in the Autumn of 1971, with four functions and an eight-digit red LED display, for $ 240, while in August 1972 the four-function Sinclair Executive became the first slimline pocket calculator measuring 5. 4 × 2. 2 × 0. 35 in ( 138 × 56 × 9 mm ) and weighing 2. 5 oz ( 70g ).

Their second son, John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, was born on August 3, 1922, while they were in Panama ; John served in the United States Army, retired as a brigadier general, became an author and served as U. S. Ambassador to Belgium from 1969 to 1971.

* David Edward Brewster ( 17 August 1815 –) became a military officer ( Lieutenant Colonel ) serving in India.

Poe became assistant editor of the periodical in August 1835, but was discharged within a few weeks for having been caught drunk by his boss.