August 19

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on August 19. From 1900 until now. August 19 is under the sign of Leo. Famous birthdays on this day include Bill Clinton (1946), Jean-Luc Mélenchon (1951) and Matthew Perry (1969). Several movies were released around August 19 over the years, such as Blue Velvet in 1986 directed by David Lynch and Street Scene in 1931 directed by King Vidor.
But much more happened on August 19 over the years: find out below

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Holidays

Roman festivals - Vinalia Rustica celebrated in honor of Venus Libitina commemorating the founding of the oldest known temple to her, on the Esquiline Hill, in 293 BC on this date.
RC saints - Saint Sebald, Saint Louis of Toulouse, Jean-Eudes de MTzeray
Afghanistan - Afghan Independence Day see above: 1919
National Day of the Filipino Language, Philippines - Holiday for Quezon City, Quezon Province and other municipalities named after Manuel Quezon
National Aviation Day, USA
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Events

2018 Earthquakes in 2018: A deep-focus earthquake of magnitude 8.2 (the strongest recorded in 2018) strikes the South Pacific Ocean near Fiji. No threat of tsunami is immediately detected. (KATU)
2017 Terrorism in Russia: A 23-year-old stabs and injures eight people in the Russian city of Surgut, before being killed by police. ISIL claims responsibility for the attack. (South Front) (Reuters)
2016 Syrian civil war: Russian warships in the Mediterranean Sea fire cruise missiles at sites near Aleppo. The Russian Defense Ministry claims the strikes targeted the Islamist militant group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham. (Pravda) (Reuters)
2015 Boko Haram insurgency: A Boko Haram attack last week on a northeastern Nigerian village, Yadin Kukuwa killed at least 151 people. News of the attack was slow to emerge because the militants destroyed telecom masts around the village. (The Independent), (AFP via Times Live)
2014 War in Donbass:: An American volunteer in the Donbas Battalion, identified only under his nom de guerre of "Franko", becomes the first officially acknowledged foreign casualty on the Ukrainian side of the military conflict against pro-Russian insurgents in eastern Ukraine. (Kyiv Post)Ukrainian government forces enter the center of Stanytsia-Luhanska after having recaptured full control of a strategically important section of the M-04 highway near Luhansk from pro-Russian insurgents. (Interfax)
2013 Sinai insurgency:: At least 24 Egyptian policemen are killed in an attack near Rafah in the Sinai peninsula. (BBC) (Reuters)
2012 Mexican Drug War:
2011 A Taliban attack on a British Council centre in Kabul, Afghanistan, results in the death of at least eight people. (BBC) (CNN) (Reuters) (AFP via The Strait Times)
2010 The US Mint releases the James Buchanan Presidential Dollar to circulation.
2009 A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.
2008 The 39th annual Pacific Islands Leaders Forum opens in Niue, but is boycotted by Fijian leader Frank Bainimarama. (''The Australian'')
2007 Indonesia raises the lava alert for Mount Karangetang on the resort island of Siau as authorities move to evacuate those most at risk. (Reuters)
2006 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict:
2005 The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.
2004 An ongoing battle, apparently between a combination of U.S. and Iraqi forces, and the al-Mahdi Army of Muqtada al-Sadr, damages two of minarets of the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf, Iraq, which al-Sadr's forces occupied. (CNN)
2003 A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
2002 A Russian Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.
1999 In Belgrade, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milosevic.
1998 On the day of his 52nd birthday, U.S. President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. He also admits before the nation that night in a nationally televised address that he "misled people" about his sexual affair with Lewinsky.
1997 New York Yank 3rd baseman Wade Boggs pitches a scoreless inning vs. Anaheim
1995 After 5 days Shannon Faulkner quits as 1st woman at the Citadel
1993 34th Walker Cup: US, 19-5
1991 Janajev and KGB coup in Russia deposes Mikhail Gorbachev
1990 Betsy King wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1989 Tadeusz Mazowiecki, elected 1st non-communist President of Poland
1988 Iran-Iraq begin a cease-fire in their 8-year-old war (11pm EDT)
1987 ABC News Chief Middle East Correspondent Charles Glass escapes his Hizballah kidnappers in Beirut, Lebanon, after sixty-two days in captivity.
1986 Car bomb kills 20 in Tehran Iran
1984 66th PGA Championship: Lee Trevino shoots a 273 at Shoal Creek Ala
1983 Dodgers trade Dave Stewart and Ricky Wright to Texas for Rick Honeycut
1982 Renaldo Nehemiah of US sets record for 110 m hurdles, 12.93 seconds.
1981 2 US Navy F-14 jet fighters shoot down 2 Soviet-built Libyan SU-22
1980 George Brett ends hitting streak at 30
1979 My Sharonna by the Knack hits #1 (stays for 42 days)
1978 422 die in an arson fire at a movie theater in Iran.
1977 Julius (Groucho) Marx, comedian (Marx Bros), dies in Los Angeles at age 86.
1976 President Gerald R Ford wins Republican presidential nomination at Kansas City convention.
1975 Astros hire Bill Virdon to replace Preston Gomez as manager
1973 Kris Kristofferson weds Rita Coolidge
1971 August 22 ampndash A right-wing coup ignites a rebellion in Bolivia. Miners and students join troops to support president Juan Jose Torres, but eventually Hugo Banzer takes over.
1969 Chicago Cubs' Ken Holtzman no-hits Atlanta Braves, 3-0.
1967 West Germany receives 36 East German prisoners it has quotpurchasedquot through the border posts of Herleshausen and Wartha.
1966 Earthquake strikes Varko Turkey: 2,400 killed
1965 Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences
1964 Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched
1963 NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters, Oklahoma City
1962 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament
1961 US Vice President Lyndon B Johnson visits West Berlin
1960 Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)
1959 Doctor X beats Wilber Snyder in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ
1958 NAACP Youth Council begin sit-ins at Oklahoma City Lunch counters.
1957 US Major David Simons reaches 30,933m in a balloon
1956 Fay Crocker wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open
1955 32.4 cm precipitation at Burlington, Connecticut (state record)
1954 Ralph J Bunche is named undersecretary of United Nations.
1953 Cold War: the CIA helps to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
1950 ABC begins Saturday morning kid shows (Animal Clinic and Acrobat Ranch).
1947 J Arens and D van Dorpen synthetise vitamin A
1946 Violence between Muslims and Hindus in Calcutta leaves 3,000 dead.
1945 Phillies Jimmie Foxx, 37, pitches 1st 7 innings vs. Reds andwins
1944 Allied air raid on Maastricht, 80+ killed
1943 US air raid on German bases at Gilze-Rijen / Vlissingen
1942 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed raiding Dieppe, France
1941 Ump Jocko Conlan ejects Pirate manager Frankie Frisch for coming out on field holding an umbrella to get a rainout
1940 First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber.
1939 37.6 cm rainfall at Tuckerton, New Jersey (state record)
1936 Trial against Ljev Kamenev and Grigori Zinovjev because of Trotskyism opens in Moscow
1934 48th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Sarah H P Fabyan (61 64)
1933 47th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Helen Moody (86 36 30 ret)
1932 46th US Womens Tennis: Helen Jacobs beats Carolin A Babcock (62 62)
1931 Lefty Grove wins AL record tying 16th consecutive game
1927 Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
1922 36th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Helen Wills Moody (63 61)
1921 Ty Cobb, is 4th to get 3,000 hits
1920 August 25 ampndash Second Silesian Uprising: The Poles in Upper Silesia rise up against the Germans.
1919 Afghanistan gains full independence from the United Kingdom.
1915 Rationing laws go into effect in the Netherlands
1914 German army executed 150 Belgians by firing squad
1911 New York Giant Christy Mathewson loses after beating Reds 22 straight times
1909 Indianapolis 500 race track opens
1905 Russian tsar installs Imperial Duma, without legislative powers
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