{"id":23036,"date":"2020-08-19T03:15:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T21:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=23036"},"modified":"2020-08-18T15:42:38","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T10:12:38","slug":"history-of-19-august-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-19-august-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 19 August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1991 &#8211; Soviet hard-liners announced\nthat President Mikhail Gorbachev had been removed from power. Gorbachev\nreturned to power two days later.<\/li><li>1998 &#8211; The first piece of the 351\nfoot bronze statue of Christopher Columbus arrived in San Juan, Puerto Rico.<\/li><li>1999 &#8211; Lorne Michaels received a\nstar on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/li><li>1999 &#8211; In Belgrade, thousands of\nSerbs attended a rally to demand the resignation of Yugoslavia&#8217;s President\nSlobodan Milosevic.<\/li><li>2004 &#8211; Google Inc. stock began\nselling on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The initial price was set at $85 and ended\nthe day at $100.34 with more than 22 million shares traded.<\/li><li>2016 &#8211; A federal judge ordered Hillary\nClinton to answer questions from the watchdog group Judicial Watch in writing\nabout her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. <\/li><li>2017&nbsp;\u2013 Tens of thousands of\nfarmed non-native&nbsp;Atlantic salmon&nbsp;are accidentally released into the\nwild in&nbsp;Washington&nbsp;waters in the&nbsp;2017 Cypress Island Atlantic\nsalmon pen break. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1981\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Nick Kennedy, English rugby player<\/li><li>1981 \u2013\u00a0Percy Watson, American football player and wrestler<\/li><li>1982\u00a0\u2013\u00a0J. J. Hardy, American baseball player<\/li><li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Kevin Rans, Belgian pole vaulter<\/li><li>1982 \u2013\u00a0Stipe Miocic, American professional mixed martial artist<\/li><li>1983\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mike Conway, English race car driver<\/li><li>1983 \u2013\u00a0Missy Higgins, Australian singer-songwriter<\/li><li>1983 \u2013\u00a0John McCargo, American football player<\/li><li>1984\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Simon Bird, English actor and screenwriter<\/li><li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Alessandro Matri, Italian footballer<\/li><li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Ryan Taylor, English footballer<\/li><li>1985\u00a0\u2013\u00a0David A. Gregory, American actor<\/li><li>1985 \u2013\u00a0Gavin Cooper, Australian rugby league player<\/li><li>1985 \u2013\u00a0Lindsey Jacobellis, American snowboarder<\/li><li>1986\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Sotiris Balafas, Greek footballer<\/li><li>1986 \u2013\u00a0Saori Kimura, Japanese volleyball player<\/li><li>1986 \u2013\u00a0Christina Perri, American singer and songwriter<\/li><li>1987\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Nick Driebergen, Dutch swimmer<\/li><li>1987 \u2013\u00a0Nico H\u00fclkenberg, German race car driver<\/li><li>1987 \u2013\u00a0Ana\u00efs Lameche, French-Swedish singer<\/li><li>1987 \u2013\u00a0Richard Stearman, English footballer<\/li><li>1988\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Hoodie Allen, American rapper<\/li><li>1988 \u2013\u00a0Kirk Cousins, American football player<\/li><li>1988 \u2013\u00a0Veronica Roth, American author<\/li><li>1989 \u2013\u00a0Romeo Miller, American basketball player, rapper, actor<\/li><li>1990\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Danny Galbraith, Scottish footballer<\/li><li>1994\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Guadalupe P\u00e9rez Rojas, Argentinian tennis player<\/li><li>1994 \u2013\u00a0Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian pentathlete and heptathlete<\/li><li>1994 \u2013\u00a0Fernando Gaviria, Colombian cyclist<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/August_19#cite_note-FGBirthDate-9\">[<\/a><\/sup><\/li><li>1995\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Dylan Phythian, Australian rugby league player<\/li><li>1996\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Hsu Ching-wen, Taiwanese tennis player<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1991 &#8211; Soviet hard-liners announced that President Mikhail Gorbachev had been removed from power. Gorbachev returned to power two days later. 1998 &#8211; The first piece of the 351 foot bronze statue of Christopher Columbus arrived in San Juan, Puerto Rico. 1999 &#8211; Lorne Michaels received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 1999 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[83,1358,1325],"class_list":{"0":"post-23036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-history-of-19-august","10":"tag-today-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-5Zy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23037,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23036\/revisions\/23037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}