August 19

This day in history:

• 1960 – Cold War: In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
• 1981 – Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States F-14A Tomcat fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra.
• 2009 – A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.
• 1989 – Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist prime minister in 42 years.

Births:

• 1983 – Mike Conway, English racing driver
• 1986 – Christina Perri, American singer and songwriter
• 1946 – Dawn Steel, American film producer (died 1997)

Deaths:

• 1970 – Paweł Jasienica, Polish soldier and historian (born 1909)
• 2012 – Edmund Skellings, American poet and academic (born 1932)
• 2015 – Sanat Mehta, Indian activist and politician (born 1935)

Holidays:

• Manuel Luis Quezón Day (Quezon City and other places in the Philippines named after Manuel L. Quezon)
• *Christian Feast Day:*
• World Humanitarian Day

Random Article of the day:

Robert Roth (sport wrestler)

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