Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on August 19 throughout history.
The Atlantic salmon is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae. It is the third largest of the Salmonidae, behind Siberian taimen and Pacific Chinook salmon, growing…
Tens of thousands of farmed non-native Atlantic salmon are accidentally released into the wild in Washington waters in…
The Dhamara Ghat train accident occurred on 19 August 2013 when the Saharsa Patna Rajya Rani Express train struck a large group of people at the Dhamara Ghat railway station in th…
The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.
The Iraq War, also referred to as the Second Gulf War, was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion by a United States–led coalition, whic…
Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
The August 2009 Baghdad bombings were three coordinated car bomb attacks and a number of mortar strikes in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on 19 August 2009. The explosives were deton…
A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.
Peace Mission 2005 was the first ever joint military exercise between China and Russia. The exercise started on August 19, 2005, and consisted of combined land, sea, and air eleme…
The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.
Google LLC is an American multinational technology corporation focused on information technology, online advertising, search engine technology, email, cloud computing, software, q…
Google Inc. has its initial public offering on Nasdaq.
The Canal Hotel bombing was a suicide truck bombing in Baghdad, Iraq, during the afternoon of 19 August 2003. It killed 23 people, including the United Nations' Special Representa…
A truck-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21…
On August 19, 2003, Palestinian militant Raed Abdel Hamid Misk, sent by the Hamas cell in Hebron, dressed as a Haredi Jew, boarded a crowded bus with Orthodox Jewish children retu…
Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing: A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them…
On 19 August 2002, a group of Chechen fighters armed with a man-portable air-defense system brought down a Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter in a minefield, which resulted in the death…
Khankala Mi-26 crash: A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside Grozny,…
Belgrade is the capital and historic largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Bal…
In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of…
The Soviet Union was formally dissolved and ceased to exist as a sovereign state and subject of international law on December 26, 1991. It also brought an end to the Soviet Union'…
Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The August Coup begins when Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house…
The Crown Heights riot was a race riot that took place from August 19 to August 21, 1991, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, New York City. Black residents attacked Orthodo…
Crown Heights riot in New York City begins.
Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski was a Polish military general, politician and de facto leader of the Polish People's Republic from 1981 until 1989, serving as a military dictator from …
Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist…
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany on 3 …
Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of…
The Hungerford massacre was a spree shooting in Wiltshire and Berkshire, England, which occurred on 19 August 1987 when 27-year-old Michael Ryan shot and killed sixteen people, in…
Hungerford massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then…
In the first Gulf of Sidra incident, 19 August 1981, two Libyan Air Force Sukhoi Su-22M3 fighters fired upon two United States Navy Grumman F-14A Tomcats and were subsequently sho…
Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States F-14A Tomcat fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter…
Saudia Flight 163 was a scheduled Saudia passenger flight departing from Quaid-e-Azam Airport in Karachi, Pakistan, bound for Kandara Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, via then-Riy…
Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at Riyadh International Airport…
The Otłoczyn train collision was a train crash which occurred on 19 August 1980, near the village of Otłoczyn. At 4:30 a.m., a freight train collided with a passenger train which …
Otłoczyn railway accident: In Poland's worst post-war railway accident, 67 people lose their lives and a further 62…
The Cinema Rex fire occurred on 19 August 1978 when the Cinema Rex in Abadan, Iran, was set ablaze, killing between 377 and 470 people. The event started when four individuals, wh…
In Iran, the Cinema Rex fire causes more than 300 deaths.
The prime minister of Japan is the head of government of Japan. The prime minister chairs the Cabinet of Japan and has the ability to select and dismiss its ministers of state. T…
Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa…