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Day Of The Week: August 19
August 19, 2025 is the 231st day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 134 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Tuesday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Leo is your zodiac sign. Peridot is your modern birthstone. Diamond is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: August 19
- 1812 –War of 1812: American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada earning her nickname “Old Ironsides”.
- 1839 –The French government announces that Louis Daguerre’s photographic process is a gift “free to the world”.
- 1848 –California Gold Rush: the New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California (although the rush started in January).
- 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.
- 1960 –Cold War: in Moscow, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
- 1981 –Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.
- 1987 –Hungerford Massacre: in the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with an assault rifle and then commits suicide.
- 1989 –Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist Prime Minister in 42 years.
- 1991 –Crown Heights Riot: Black groups target Hasidic Jews on the streets of Crown Heights during 3 days, after 2 black kids were struck by a car driven by a Hasidic man.
- 2010 –Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
Who were born on August 19?
- 1883 –Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, French clothing designer (d. 1971)
- 1899 –Charlie Hall, English comedian actor (d. 1959)
- 1921 –Gene Roddenberry, American television producer (d. 1991)
- 1944 –Charles Wang, Chinese-born philanthropist
- 1944 –Jack Canfield, American author and speaker
- 1957 –Paul-Jan Bakker, Netherland cricketer
- 1972 –Roberto Abbondanzieri, Argentine footballer
- 1973 –Carl Bulfin, New Zealand cricketer
- 1975 –Tracie Thoms, American actress
- 1982 –J. J. Hardy, American baseball player
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