Today in History
19 August
221 births · 90 deaths · 60 events recorded
Notable Births
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Keegan Murray
b. 2000
American basketball player (born 2000)
Thomas Flegler
b. 1999
Australian rugby league footballer
Florentino Luís
b. 1999
Portuguese footballer (born 1999)
Yerin (entertainer)
b. 1996
South Korean singer and actress (born 1996)
Lachlan Lewis
b. 1996
Australian rugby league footballer (born 1996)
Nafissatou Thiam
b. 1994
Belgian athlete (born 1994)
Alfred Rouleau
b. 1915
Canadian businessman (1915–1985)
Tom Wills
b. 1835
Australian sportsman (1835–1880)
Notable Deaths
All 90 ›
Maria Branyas
d. 2024
American-born Spanish supercentenarian (1907–2024)
Vašo Patejdl
d. 2023
Slovak musician and composer (1954–2023)
Tekla Juniewicz
d. 2022
Polish supercentenarian (1906–2022)
Sonny Chiba
d. 2021
Japanese actor and martial artist (1939–2021)
Dick Gregory
d. 2017
American comedian, actor, writer, activist and social critic (1932–2017)
Jack Riley (actor)
d. 2016
American actor (1935–2016)
Samih al-Qasim
d. 2014
Palestinian Druze poet (1939–2014)
Mark Donohue
d. 1975
American racing driver (1937–1975)
On This Day in History
All 60 ›
2017
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.
Atlantic salmon
2013
The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.
Dhamara Ghat train accident
2010
Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
Iraq War
2009
A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.
August 2009 Baghdad bombings
2005
The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.
Peace Mission 2005
2004
Google Inc. has its initial public offering on Nasdaq.
2003
A truck-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
Canal Hotel bombing
2003
Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing: A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children.
Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing