WHAT HAPPENED ON 19. AUGUST
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Several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic, part of the events which began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. (19. August 1989)

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. (19. August 1991)

Crown Heights riot: Black groups target Hasidic Jews on the streets of Crown Heights in New York, New York for three days, after two black children were hit by a car driven by a Hasidic man. (19. August 1991)

In Belgrade, Yugoslavia, tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević. (19. August 1999)

A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside Grozny, killing 118 soldiers. (19. August 2002)

A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees. (19. August 2003)

A Hamas planned suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children, in the Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing. (19. August 2003)

The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins. (19. August 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". (19. August 2005)

A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others. (19. August 2009)

Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait. (19. August 2010)

A plane crash kills 32 people in Sudan. (19. August 2012)

A train accident in India kills at least 37 people and injures over a dozen. (19. August 2013)