It happened on this day, August 19th.
Events:
1920 – The French High Commissioner in Syria and Cilicia, General Henri Gouraud, issues a decree separating the Jisr al-Shughur district, the Bahr and Boujaq district (Latakia district) and the Kinsba district (Zion district) from the autonomous district of Alexandretta.
✴️ The French High Commissioner issues a decision considering the notes issued by the Bank of Syria (later the Grand Bank of Syria and Lebanon, then the Bank of Syria and Lebanon) as the official currency on the basis of which taxes, fees and other payments are calculated.
1934 – German Chancellor Adolf Hitler is elected president, an unprecedented development in the history of the Republic.
1940 – Italian forces take control of British Somaliland during World War II.
1953 – The Iranian military, with support and assistance from the United States, overthrows the government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and reinstalls Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as Shah of Iran.
1973 – France detonates its third atomic bomb seven hundred and fifty kilometers from the island of Tahiti in the Pacific Ocean.
1981 – Two American F-14 Tomcat aircraft shot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-17 aircraft in the Gulf of Sirte off the coast of Libya, an incident known as the Gulf of Sirte incident.
1987 – Hungerford Massacre.
1991 – An attempted coup in the Soviet Union led by Vice President Gennady Yanayev led to the overthrow of President Mikhail Gorbachev and the formation of a presidential committee headed by Yanayev. However, the coup failed and Gorbachev returned to power within days.
2003 – Taha Yassin Ramadan is arrested by Kurdish Peshmerga forces, who hand him over to U.S. forces.
2009 – Bombings in Baghdad targeting government and private facilities, killing 95 people and injuring 565 others.
2010 – The last U.S. combat units leave Iraq about two weeks before the deadline for their withdrawal and the end of U.S. military combat missions in Iraq, about seven and a half years after the U.S. invasion.
2015 – Four Palestinian travelers from Gaza were kidnapped in the town of Rafah in northern Sinai, Egypt.
2014 – The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (IS) releases a tape showing the execution of American journalist James Foley, kidnapped in Syria in November 2013.
2017 – At least 23 people were killed and 156 others were injured in a train derailment in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
2020 – The number of confirmed infections from the Corona pandemic exceeds 22 million people worldwide, including more than 781,000 deaths and approximately 14 million 135,000 recovered cases.
✴️ The President of the Republic of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, announces his resignation and the dissolution of the government following his arrest by the army during a military coup after several months of popular protests.
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Births:
1848 – Gustave Caillebotte, French painter.
1853 – Alexei Brusilov, Russian general.
1863 – Al-Hassan bin Yahya Al-Qasimi, Yemeni Zaidi Muslim scholar and jurist.
1871 – Orville Wright, one of the American Wright brothers who invented the airplane.
1878 – Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippines.
1881 – George Enescu, Romanian musician.
1890 – Ibrahim Al-Mazni, Egyptian writer and poet.
1910 – Ibrahim Amara, Egyptian actor and director.
1914 – Lajos Baruti, Hungarian footballer and coach.
1946 – Bill Clinton, President of the United States.
1947 – Roger Schaller Bagnall, American papyrologist.
1948 – Hamda Khamis, Bahraini poet.
1951 – John Deacon, member of Queen.
1967 – Saeed Al-Owairan, Saudi footballer.
1969 – Matthew Perry, American actor.
1971 – João Vieira Pinto, Portuguese footballer.
1972 – Roberto Abondazzerre, Argentine football goalkeeper.
1973 – Razan Maghribi, Lebanese journalist.
** Marco Materazzi, Italian footballer.
1978 – Qais Al-Khanji, Omani businessman.
1979 – Ghazlan Nasser, Lebanese actress working in Saudi Arabia.
1980 – Ola Rushdi, Egyptian actress.
** Maysoon Al-Ruwaili, a Saudi actress.
1983 – Mayssa Maghribi, Moroccan actress.
1984 – Alessandro Matri, Italian footballer.
1987 – Richard Stearman, English footballer.
1989 – Shaila Sabt, Bahraini actress and model.
1991 – Salem Al-Dosari, Saudi footballer.
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Death:
14 – Augustus Caesar, first emperor of the Roman Empire.
1580 – Andrea Palladio, Venetian architect.
1662 – Blaise Pascal, French physicist, mathematician and philosopher.
1753 – Johann Balthasar Neumann, German military engineer and architect.
1923 – Vilfredo Pareto, Italian philosopher and economist.
1954 – Alcide de Gasperi, Italian Prime Minister.
1957 – Hadi Al-Sayegh, Iraqi jurist, teacher and writer.
1981 – Muhammad Suleiman Al-Ahmad (Badawi Al-Jabal), Syrian poet and former minister.
1993 – Salah Jadid, the most prominent leader of the Baath Party before Hafez al-Assad came to power.
1994 – Antoun Boutros Khraish, Patriarch of the Maronite Church. Linus Pauling, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1954 and Nobel Peace Prize in 1962.
1996 – Abdel Fattah Ayesh Amr, Jordanian Sharia judge and poet.
2007 – Etab, Saudi singer.
2010 – Amin al-Hindi, Palestinian politician and military man.
2011 – Hussein Rashid Khreis, Jordanian poet.
2013 – Musaed bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Saudi prince.
2014 – Samih Al-Qasim, Palestinian poet from the Arabs of 1948.
2016 – Donald Henderson, American epidemiologist, physician and educator, played a key role in the elimination of smallpox.
2017 – Mahfouz Abdel Rahman, Egyptian writer.
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Public holidays and occasions:
⬅️ National Aviation Day in the United States.
⬅️ Filipino Language Day.
