AUGUST 19 — LINUS CARL PAULING
American quantum chemist, Nobel winner, political radical.

August 19, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS
FEAST OF RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY LOSS.

ALSO ON AUGUST 19 IN HISTORY…
1909 — First edition of The Little Red Songbook published.

1936 — Federico Garcia Lorca killed by Spanish Falangists, Granada, Spain.
1977 — Film comedian Groucho Marx dies, Los Angeles, California.
1994 — American quantum chemist, radical Linus Pauling dies, Big Sur, California.