About 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 this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Leo is the sun 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.
What Happened On August 19
- 43 BC –Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.
- 1504 –In Ireland, the Hiberno-Norman de Burghs (Burkes) and Anglo-Norman Fitzgeralds fight in the Battle of Knockdoe.
- 1612 –The “Samlesbury witches”, three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused for practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in English history.
- 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.
- 1759 –Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Year’s War between Britain and France.
- 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.
- 1782 –American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks – the last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Lord Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
- 1861 –First ascent of Weisshorn, fifth highest summit in the Alps.
- 1909 –First automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway takes place.
- 1927 –Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet Union.
- 1934 –The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
- 1940 –First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber.
- 1955 –In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
- 1960 –Sputnik program: Sputnik 5 – the Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants.
- 1965 –Japanese prime minister Eisaku Sato becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa.
- 1981 –Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.
- 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.
- 2005 –A series of strong storms lashes Southern Ontario spawning several tornadoes as well as creating extreme flash flooding within the city of Toronto and its surrounding communities. In Toronto, it is also dubbed as the Toronto Supercell.
- 2009 –A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.
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