| 93931 | August 19 | Event | 1934 – The creation of the position Führer is approved by the German electorate with 89.9% of the popular vote. |
| 93932 | August 19 | Event | 1940 – First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber. |
| 93933 | August 19 | Event | 1942 – World War II: Operation Jubilee: The 2nd Canadian Infantry Division leads an amphibious assault by allied forces on Dieppe, France and fails, many Canadians are killed or captured. The operation was intended to develop and try new amphibious landin |
| 93934 | August 19 | Event | 1944 – World War II: Liberation of Paris: Paris, France rises against German occupation with the help of Allied troops. |
| 93935 | August 19 | Event | 1945 – August Revolution: Viet Minh led by Ho Chi Minh take power in Hanoi, Vietnam. |
| 93936 | August 19 | Event | 1953 – Cold War: The CIA and MI6 help to overthrow the government of Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and reinstate the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. |
| 93937 | August 19 | Event | 1955 – In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives. |
| 93938 | August 19 | Event | 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. |
| 93939 | August 19 | Event | 1960 – Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2: The Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka, 40 mice, two rats and a variety of plants. |
| 93940 | August 19 | Event | 1964 – Syncom 3, the first geostationary communication satellite, was launched. |
| 93941 | August 19 | Event | 1965 – Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa Prefecture. |
| 93942 | August 19 | Event | 1978 – Cinema Rex fire caused more than 400 deaths. |
| 93943 | August 19 | Event | 1980 – Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, killing 301 people. |
| 93944 | August 19 | Event | 1981 – Gulf of Sidra Incident: United States fighters intercept and shoot down two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets over the Gulf of Sidra. |
| 93945 | August 19 | Event | 1987 – Hungerford massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide. |
| 93946 | August 19 | Event | 1989 – Polish president Wojciech Jaruzelski nominates Solidarity activist Tadeusz Mazowiecki to be the first non-communist prime minister in 42 years. |
| 93947 | August 19 | Event | 1989 – Radio Caroline, the offshore pirate station in the North Sea, is raided by British and Dutch governments. |
| 93948 | August 19 | Event | 1989 – Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events that began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. |
| 93949 | August 19 | Event | 1991 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine. |
| 93950 | August 19 | Event | 1991 – Crown Heights riot: Black groups target Hasidic Jews on the streets of Crown Heights in New York City for three days, after two black children were hit by a car driven by a Hasidic man. |
| 93951 | August 19 | Event | 1999 – In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević. |
| 93952 | August 19 | Event | 2002 – Khankala Mi-26 crash: A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside Grozny, killing 118 soldiers. |
| 93953 | August 19 | Event | 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. |
| 93954 | August 19 | Event | 2003 – A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children, in the Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing. |
| 93955 | August 19 | Event | 2005 – The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins. |
| 93956 | August 19 | Event | 2005 – A series of strong storms lashes Southern Ontario spawning several tornadoes as well as creating extreme flash flooding within the city of Toronto and its surrounding communities. In Toronto, it is also dubbed the "Toronto Supercell". |
| 93957 | August 19 | Event | 2009 – A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others. |
| 93958 | August 19 | Event | 2010 – Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait. |
| 93959 | August 19 | Event | 2012 – A plane crash kills 32 people in Sudan. |
| 93960 | August 19 | Event | 2013 – A train accident in India kills at least 37 people and injures over a dozen. |