August 19
People born on this day are Leo.
- 1987
Hungerford massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide.
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Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist prime minister in 42 years.
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Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events that began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The August Coup begins when Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine.
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Crown Heights riot in New York City begins.
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In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.
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Khankala Mi-26 crash: A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.
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A truck-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
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Google Inc. has its initial public offering on Nasdaq.
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Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
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The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.
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Tens of thousands of farmed non-native Atlantic salmon are accidentally released into the wild in Washington waters in the 2017 Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break.
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2004Nguyễn Đình Bắc, Vietnamese football player
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2001Awak Kuier, Finnish basketball player
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2000Keegan Murray, American basketball player
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1999Thomas Flegler, Australian rugby league player
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1999Florentino Luís, Portuguese footballer
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1996Jung Ye-rin, South Korean singer and actress
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1996Lachlan Lewis, Australian rugby league player
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1994Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian pentathlete and heptathlete
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1994Fernando Gaviria, Colombian cyclist
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1993Pio Seci, Fijian rugby league player
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1992David Rittich, Czech ice hockey player
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1991Salem Al-Dawsari, Saudi Arabian footballer
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