August 19 Holidays

✡️ Religious Observances

• Islamic: Birth of Mawlāna Jalāluddīn Rūmi ق major
• Hindu: Raksha Bandhan major
• Chinese: Qixi Festival major

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2013 — The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar. ↗
• 2010 — Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait. ↗
• 2009 — A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others. ↗
• 2005 — The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins. ↗
• 2003 — A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees. ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1996 — Hsu Ching-wen, Taiwanese tennis player
• 1995 — Dylan Phythian, Australian rugby league player
• 1994 — Guadalupe Pérez Rojas, Argentinian tennis player
• 1994 — Nafissatou Thiam, Belgian pentathlete
• 1990 — Danny Galbraith, Scottish footballer