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 231st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 134 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is August 6, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,755,561,600 seconds 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 ‘dihectatriacontahenagon’ day.
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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 182 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 4,624 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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August 19 Historical Events
- 43 BC –Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.
- 1666 –Second Anglo-Dutch War: Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships, an act later known as “Holmes’s Bonfire”.
- 1759 –Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Year’s War between Britain and France.
- 1821 –Greek rebels massacre all the population of Navarino.
- 1839 –The French government announces that Louis Daguerre’s photographic process is a gift “free to the world”.
- 1862 –Indian Wars: during an uprising in Minnesota, Lakota warriors decide not to attack heavily-defended Fort Ridgely and instead turn to the settlement of New Ulm, killing white settlers along the way.
- 1895 –American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
- 1927 –Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
- 1934 –The creation of the position Führer is approved by the German electorate with 89.9% of the popular vote.
- 1942 –World War II: Operation Jubilee – the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured. The operation was doomed to fail, and was intended to develop and try new amphibious landing tactics for the coming full invasion in Normandy.
Who were born on August 19?
- 1875 –Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (d. 1936)
- 1883 –Elsie Ferguson, American film actress (d. 1961)
- 1900 –Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (d. 1976)
- 1902 –J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (d. 1994)
- 1915 –Ring Lardner Jr, American journalist and screenwriter (d. 2000)
- 1950 –Graeme Beard, Australian cricketer
- 1954 –Oscar Larrauri, Argentine racing driver
- 1972 –Elizabeth Wolfgramm, American singer (The Jets)
- 1972 –Jamie Zubairi, British Malaysian actor and painter
- 1983 –Tammin Sursok, Australian actress & singer
Who died on August 19?
- 14 –Augustus, Roman Emperor (b. 63 BC)
- 1284 –Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (b. 1273)
- 1493 –Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1415)
- 1936 –Federico García Lorca, Spanish author (b. 1898)
- 1959 –Blind Willie McTell, American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist (b. 1901)
- 1976 –Alastair Sim, Scottish actor and rector of Edinburgh University (b. 1900)
- 1979 –Dorsey Burnette, American singer (b. 1932)
- 1980 –Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank (b. 1889)
- 2001 –Betty Everett, American singer and pianist (b. 1939)
- 2008 –LeRoi Moore, American musician (Dave Matthews Band) (b. 1961)
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