Monday August 19, 2024
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

August 19: Day of the Week

August 19, 2024 is the 232nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 134 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Monday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is lunes.

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Here’s the August calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

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.

August 19 Historical Event(s)

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.
1821
Greek rebels massacre all the population of Navarino.
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.
1945
Vietnam War: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam.
1965
Japanese prime minister Eisaku Sato becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa.
1980
Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people.
1989
Raid on offshore pirate station, Radio Caroline in North Sea by British and Dutch governments.
1989
Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events which began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
2009
A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.

Who were born on August 19?

1853
Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (d. 1926)
1902
J. B. L. Reyes, Filipino jurist (d. 1994)
1913
Richard Simmons, American actor (d. 2003)
1918
Jimmy Rowles, pianist (d. 1996)
1955
Ned Yost, American baseball player and manager
1957
Paul-Jan Bakker, Netherland cricketer
1961
Jonathan Coe, British author
1968
Mark McGuinn, country music singer
1973
Carl Bulfin, New Zealand cricketer
1973
Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway

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