What are the important events that happened on August 19? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
August 19: Facts & Myths About This Day
August 19 is the 232nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 134 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 6, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 478,896 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectatriacontadigon’ day.
Leo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 163 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,259 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 19 Historical Events
- 1504 –In Ireland, the Hiberno-Norman de Burghs (Burkes) and Anglo-Norman Fitzgeralds fight in the Battle of Knockdoe.
- 1692 –Salem witch trials: in Salem, Massachusetts, Province of Massachusetts Bay five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, are executed after being convicted of witchcraft.
- 1768 –Saint Isaac’s Cathedral is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
- 1772 –Gustavus III of Sweden stages a Coup d'état, in which he assumes power and enacts a new constitution that divides power between the Riksdag and the King.
- 1813 –Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina’s Second Triumvirate.
- 1839 –The French government announces that Louis Daguerre’s photographic process is a gift “free to the world”.
- 1981 –Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.
- 1989 –Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events which began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
- 1991 –dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Crimea.
- 2003 –A Hamas planned suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem kills 23 Israelis, 7 of them children in the Jerusalem bus 2 massacre.
Who were born on August 19?
- 1631 –John Dryden, English poet (d. 1700)
- 1871 –Orville Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1948)
- 1913 –Peter Kemp, English soldier and writer (d. 1993)
- 1928 –Bernard Levin, English journalist, author, and broadcaster (d. 2004)
- 1944 –Bodil Malmsten, Swedish writer
- 1965 –Kevin Dillon, American actor
- 1974 –Tim Kasher, American musician, Cursive and The Good Life
- 1982 –Willy Denzey, French singer
- 1987 –Nico Hülkenberg, German racing driver
- 1987 –Richard Stearman, English footballer
Who died on August 19?
- 1895 –John Wesley Hardin, American gunfighter (b. 1853)
- 1936 –Hugh Patrick Lygon, English aristocrat (b. 1904)
- 1975 –Jim Londos, Greek wrestler (b. 1897)
- 1975 –Mark Donohue, American race car driver and engineer (b. 1937)
- 1976 –Alastair Sim, Scottish actor and rector of Edinburgh University (b. 1900)
- 1980 –Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank (b. 1889)
- 1981 –Jessie Matthews, English actress (b. 1907)
- 1995 –Pierre Schaeffer, French composer (b. 1910)
- 2001 –Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (b. 1939)
- 2008 –Levy Mwanawasa, Zambian politician (b. 1948)
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