What Day of the Week

August 19, 2019 was the 231^st day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 134 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was 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.

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.

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• 43 BC

  Octavian, later known as Augustus, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul.
• 1745

  Prince Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard in Glenfinnan – the start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion, known as “the 45”.
• 1759

  Battle of Lagos Naval battle during the Seven Year’s War between Britain and France.
• 1813

  Gervasio Antonio de Posadas joins Argentina’s Second Triumvirate.
• 1895

  American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
• 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.
• 2003

  A Hamas planned suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem kills 23 Israelis, 7 of them children in the Jerusalem bus 2 massacre.
• 2003

  A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency’s top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
• 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.

• 1881

  George Enescu, Romanian composer (d. 1955)
• 1883

  Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, French clothing designer (d. 1971)
• 1883

  José Mendes Cabeçadas, 95th Prime Minister of Portugal and 9th President of Portugal (d. 1965)
• 1889

  Arthur Waley, English orientalist and sinologist (d. 1966)
• 1900

  Colleen Moore, American film actress.(d. 1988)
• 1946

  Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States
• 1953

  Mary Matalin, American political consultant
• 1955

  Ned Yost, American baseball player and manager
• 1963

  Yip Sai Wing, Hong Kong musician (Beyond)
• 1980

  Jun Jin, Korean rapper (Shinhwa)

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