MOMENTS IN TIME - Aug. 19, 2010

The History Channel

* On Aug. 20, 1804, Sgt. Charles Floyd dies three months into the voyage of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, becoming the only member of the Corps of Discovery to die during the journey. Based on the symptoms described by Lewis and Clark, modern physicians have concluded that Floyd was probably suffering from acute appendicitis.

• On Aug. 19, 1812, the U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, known as “Old Ironsides,” catches the British warship Guerrière some 600 miles east of Boston. After considerable maneuvering, the Constitution delivered its first broadside. The British man...