Template:On this day/August 19

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

August 19:

• 1791 – Benjamin Banneker sends a copy of his Almanac and writes a letter to Thomas Jefferson criticizing his pro-slavery stance and requesting justice for African Americans using language from the Declaration of Independence
• 1933 – Founded earlier in the year, issue number 3 of The Reflector is published. This local newspaper began publication in Charlottesville, and was advertised as "Charlottesville's Only Negro Weekly." The only known surviving copies of The Reflector are housed at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia.
• 1969 – The rains of Hurricane Camille struck Scottsville unmercifully on this evening. Ten inches of rain fell before dawn, and some residents on Main Street were evacuated from the second story of their homes by boat. Cars, furniture, fences, and sodden merchandise bobbed about Main and Valley Streets. The hurricane hit the Gulf Coast two days earlier, weakened over land, and stalled on the eastern side of the Blue Ridge Mountains, dumping a world-record quantity of 27 inches of rain, mainly in a three-hour period.
• 2008 – LeRoi Moore, saxophonist and founding member of Dave Matthews Band, died unexpectedly this Tuesday afternoon from sudden complications stemming from an ATV accident on his farm near Charlottesville on June 30. He was 46.