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Today's Highlight in History: On August 19th, 1812, the USS Constitution defeated the British frigate Guerriere east of Nova Scotia during the War of 1812. On this date: Today's Highlight in History: On August 19th, 1812, the USS Constitution defeated the British frigate Guerriere east of Nova Scotia during the War of 1812. On this date: In 1848, the New York Herald reported the discovery of gold in California. In 1934, a plebiscite in Germany approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler. In 1929, the comedy program Amos and Andy, starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, made its network radio debut on NBC. In 1942, about 6,000 Canadian and British soldiers launched a disastrous raid against the Germans at Dieppe, France, suffering about 50-percent casualties. In 1955, severe flooding in the Northeast claimed some 200 lives. In 1960, a tribunal in Moscow convicted American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers of espionage. In 1976, President Ford won the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in Kansas City. In 1977, comedian Groucho Marx died in Los Angeles at age 86. In 1980, 301 people aboard a Saudi Arabian L-1011 died as the jetliner made a fiery emergency landing at the Riyadh airport. | 
