8/19 [BC] birthday
8/19 1991 Conservative members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union attempt to depose Mikhail Gorbachev in a coup d'état
8/19 2010 Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait
1274 Edward I is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey after returning from the Ninth Crusade
1692 Five more people hanged for witchcraft (20 in all) in Salem, Massachusetts
USA
United States Declaration of Independence
1791 Benjamin Banneker sends a copy of his Almanac and writes a letter to Thomas Jefferson criticizing his pro-slavery stance and requesting justice for African Americans using language from the Declaration of Independence
1821 Failed liberal coup against French King Louis XVIII
1905 Russian Tsar Nicholas II installs "Imperial Duma", without legislative powers
1914 In a message to the Senate, US President Woodrow Wilson urges the American people to be 'neutral in fact as well as name'
1941 Romania annexes the Transnistria territory from the Soviet Union after Operation Barbarossa