William Edwin Foster was the head men's basketball coach at Rutgers University, University of Utah, Duke University, University of South Carolina, and Northwestern University. He is best known for guiding Duke to the NCAA championship game in 1978, and that year he was named national Coach of the Year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. Foster was inducted into the Rutgers Basketball Hall of Fame and was the first NCAA coach to guide four teams to 20-win seasons. Foster was a graduate of Elizabethtown College.

1929Ion N. Petrovici, Romanian-German neurologist and academic (died 2021)^[†]

Ion N. Petrovici was a German neurologist, professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Cologne.

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1929Sergei Diaghilev, Russian critic and producer, founded Ballets Russes (born 1872)^[†]

Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev, also known as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes, from which many famous dancers and choreographers would arise.

Headlines from August 19, 1929

Tug Sinks Ship Ten Times Her Size in Crash, Killing 16 on Spanish Freighter in North Sea

Swiss Fliers Start From Portugal for Here; Pair Are Youngest to Try Atlantic Flight

l9 WOMEN FLIERS BEGIN AIR DERBY; WOMEN FLIERS WHO STARTED IN RACE.

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