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History of 19 August

  • 1991 – Soviet hard-liners announced that President Mikhail Gorbachev had been removed from power. Gorbachev returned to power two days later.
  • 1998 – The first piece of the 351 foot bronze statue of Christopher Columbus arrived in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • 1999 – Lorne Michaels received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
  • 1999 – In Belgrade, thousands of Serbs attended a rally to demand the resignation of Yugoslavia’s President Slobodan Milosevic.
  • 2004 – Google Inc. stock began selling on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The initial price was set at $85 and ended the day at $100.34 with more than 22 million shares traded.
  • 2016 – A federal judge ordered Hillary Clinton to answer questions from the watchdog group Judicial Watch in writing about her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.
  • 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.

Celebrating Birthday Today

  • 1981 – Nick Kennedy, English rugby player
  • 1981 – Percy Watson, American football player and wrestler
  • 1982 – J. J. Hardy, American baseball player
  • 1982 – Kevin Rans, Belgian pole vaulter
  • 1982 – Stipe Miocic, American professional mixed martial artist
  • 1983 – Mike Conway, English race car driver
  • 1983 – Missy Higgins, Australian singer-songwriter
  • 1983 – John McCargo, American football player
  • 1984 – Simon Bird, English actor and screenwriter
  • 1984 – Alessandro Matri, Italian footballer
  • 1984 – Ryan Taylor, English footballer
  • 1985 – David A. Gregory, American actor
  • 1985 – Gavin Cooper, Australian rugby league player
  • 1985 – Lindsey Jacobellis, American snowboarder
  • 1986 – Sotiris Balafas, Greek footballer
  • 1986 – Saori Kimura, Japanese volleyball player
  • 1986 – Christina Perri, American singer and songwriter
  • 1987 – Nick Driebergen, Dutch swimmer
  • 1987 – Nico Hülkenberg, German race car driver
  • 1987 – Anaïs Lameche, French-Swedish singer
  • 1987 – Richard Stearman, English footballer
  • 1988 – Hoodie Allen, American rapper
  • 1988 – Kirk Cousins, American football player
  • 1988 – Veronica Roth, American author
  • 1989 – Romeo Miller, American basketball player, rapper, actor
  • 1990 – Danny Galbraith, Scottish footballer
  • 1994 – Guadalupe Pérez Rojas, Argentinian tennis player
  • 1994 – Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian pentathlete and heptathlete
  • 1994 – Fernando Gaviria, Colombian cyclist[
  • 1995 – Dylan Phythian, Australian rugby league player
  • 1996 – Hsu Ching-wen, Taiwanese tennis player
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