Otázky o dni 19. augusta
1. Čo sa stalo 19. augusta?
- 2017 – Around 250,000 farmed non-native Atlantic salmon were accidentally released into the wild near Cypress Island, Washington.
- 2005 – Thunderstorms in southern Ontario, Canada, spawned at least three tornadoes that caused over C$500 million in damage.
- 2003 – A Hamas suicide bomber killed 23 people and wounded more than 130 others, including many Orthodox Jewish children, on a crowded public bus in Shmuel HaNavi, Jerusalem.
- 2003 – A car bomb destroyed the United Nations headquarters at Baghdad's Canal Hotel, killing Brazilian diplomat Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 others.
- 2002 – Second Chechen War: A Russian Mil Mi-26 was brought down by Chechen separatists with a man-portable air-defense system near Khankala, killing 127 people in the deadliest helicopter crash in history.
2. Kto sa narodil 19. augusta?
- 2004 – Chae Hyun-woo, South Korean football player
- 2004 – Nguyễn Đình Bắc, Vietnamese football player
- 2001 – Awak Kuier, Finnish basketball player
- 2000 – Keegan Murray, American basketball player
- 1999 – Ethan Cutkosky, American actor and musician
3. Kto zomrel 19. augusta?
- 2024 – Maria Branyas, American-Spanish supercentenarian (born 1907)
- 2023 – Václav Patejdl, Slovak musician (born 1954)
- 2022 – Tekla Juniewicz, Polish supercentenarian (born 1906)
- 2021 – Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor (born 1939)
- 2019 – Lars Larsen, Danish businessman and billionaire, founder and owner of the Danish retail chain JYSK (born 1948)
4. Čo sa oslavuje 19. augusta?
- Afghan Independence Day, commemorates the Treaty of Rawalpindi in 1919, granting independence from Britain (Afghanistan)
- August Revolution Commemoration Day (Vietnam)
- Birthday of Crown Princess Mette-Marit (Norway)
- Christian Feast Day: Bertulf of Bobbio
- Christian Feast Day: Saint Calminius