Historical Events in 2019 (Part 5)

Events 801 - 1,000 of 1,235

• Aug 6 Lawyer representing 800 boy scouts identify 350 sex abusers within Boy Scouts of America saying "It's the largest paedophile ring on earth"
• Aug 6 The Philippines declares a national dengue epidemic with 622 people killed and 146,000 cases so far in 2019
• Aug 6 US government imposes wide-ranging sanctions on the Venezuelan government

• Aug 7 Bodies of two teenagers at center of huge manhunt and suspected of killing three people on remote British Columbia roads found after apparent suicides
• Aug 7 Largest single-state immigration raid in Mississippi as nearly 700 people arrested
• Aug 7 Wanda Vazquez becomes Puerto Rico's third governor in a week after her predecessor Pedro Pierluisi is removed by the supreme court
• Aug 8 Nuclear accident at Russian nuclear-weapon testing site at closed city Sarov kills five scientists in mysterious circumstances
• Aug 9 Landslide from torrential rain kills 59 in Mon state, Myanmar, with 80,000 in emergency evacuation sites
• Aug 10 71 people die trying to siphon gas from an overturned tanker that explodes in Morogoro region, Tanzania
• Aug 10 Financier Jeffrey Epstein found dead of an apparent suicide in his jail cell in New York, while awaiting trail for sex trafficking charges
• Aug 10 Monsoon flooding in southern and western India kills at least 150 with 40 dead in Kerala state and 100,000 in emergency relief camps
• Aug 10 Rebel forces for the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council take control of the key port of Aden in Yemen's civil war
• Aug 10 Typhoon Lekima makes landfall in Zhejiang province, China, killing at least 32 with one million evacuated
• Aug 11 Argentine President Mauricio Macri suffers defeat in preliminary election to Alberto Fernández, prompting 20% fall in the value of the peso
• Aug 12 Baltimore Orioles concede 7 home runs in doubleheader defeats against NY Yankees to break the American League single season HRs allowed record with 248 and counting
• Aug 12 Beginning of the 'glitter revolution' in Mexico City when security chief showered with pink glitter in protest of violence against women after teenager raped by police

• Aug 12 Conservative Alejandro Giammattei elected president of Guatemala
• Aug 12 Hong Kong International Airport cancels all departures as thousands of anti-government protesters occupy the terminals
• Aug 12 Scientists say they are closer to an effective treatment for Ebola after new drug trial has 90% success rate in Democratic Republic of Congo
• Aug 13 Entertainment companies CBS and Viacom announce they will merge with a combined 28 billion revenue
• Aug 13 Measles cases have tripled worldwide in 2019 according to WHO with 364,808 reported against vs 129,239 in 2018
• Aug 14 "It is raining plastic," survey published, plastic found in 90% of rain samples taken in Colorado by the US Department of the Interior and US Geological Survey
• Aug 14 "The 1619 Project" produced by Nikole Hannah-Jones, to examine legacy of slavery in America, launched in "The New York Times Magazine"
• Aug 14 American rapper ASAP Rocky found guilty of assault in Stockholm and given a suspended sentence
• Aug 14 French woman Stephanie Frappart is the first woman to referee a major match in a European men's tournament - UEFA Super Cup Chelsea vs Liverpool in Istanbul
• Aug 14 Iowa congressman Steve King says without rape and incest "“Would there be any population of the world left if we did that?" in video for "The Des Moines Register"

• Aug 15 60th annual finger wrestling (Fingerhakeln) championships takes place in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, southern Germany, part of Partenkirchner Festival week
• Aug 15 American Michael Gargiulo, found guilty of stabbing three women, killing two in Los Angeles, while awaiting trial for third killing

• Aug 15 Israel bars US Democratic congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from entering for supporting Palestinian-led boycott movement
• Aug 15 Whistleblower releases damaging report on General Electric titled "General Electric, a Bigger Fraud Than Enron" claiming $38 billion accountancy fraud
• Aug 16 Huge fire in Chalantika slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh, destroys 1,200 houses and leaves up to 10,000 homeless
• Aug 17 Huge wildfires begin on Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands prompting evacuation of 9,000 people
• Aug 17 Landmark power-sharing deal signed by military and civilian leaders celebrated in Khartoum, Sudan, with transitional government to take over Sept 1
• Aug 17 Suicide bombing at a wedding in Kabul, Afghanistan, kills 63, with over 200 injured. The Islamic State claims responsibility
• Aug 18 1.7 million take part in pro-democracy protest peacefully in Hong Kong, a quarter of the population
• Aug 18 Iceland holds a funeral for the first glacier lost to climate change at site of Okjökull glacier

• Aug 19 Evelyn Hernández cleared of killing her newborn baby in landmark case in a retrial in El Salvador

• Aug 20 Computer systems in 22 small Texas towns hacked and held to ransom in coordinated attack prompts FBI investigation

• Aug 20 NASA confirms mission to Jupiter's ice-covered moon Europa to search for alien life, to launch 2025
• Aug 21 74,155 fires caused by land clearing are burning in the Amazon rain forest, the most ever recorded, according the Brazil's National Institute for Space Research

• Aug 21 US President Donald Trump says Danish PM Mette Frederiksen was "nasty" to him over his interest in buying Greenland and cancels his trip to Denmark
• Aug 22 Bielefeld in Germany offers €1m prize to anyone in who can prove the town doesn't exit to disprove 25-year-old conspiracy theory
• Aug 22 Russia launches Fedor, the first life-sized robot, into space to the International Space Station on a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
• Aug 22 South Korea says it is leaving an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan in an escalation of the rift between the two countries
• Aug 23 Russia launches the 1st floating nuclear power station the Akademik Lomonosov from port of Murmansk

• Aug 24 Britain's Prince Andrew denies knowing his friend Jeffrey Epstein was involved in sexual trafficking of underage girls after public accusations made against him
• Aug 24 US adventurer Victor Vescovo is the first person to visit the deepest point of every ocean when he reaches Molloy Hole, in the Arctic
• Aug 25 Double Dave, a rare two-headed timber rattlesnake found in Pine Barrens forest, New Jersey
• Aug 25 NASA investigates possibly the 1st crime in space over astronaut Anne McClain illegally accessing bank a/c from space

• Aug 26 Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay state of Oklahoma $572 million in 1st trial against opioid manufacturer
• Aug 26 Leo DiCaprio's environmental organization Earth Alliance donates $5m to fighting fires in the Amazon
• Aug 26 Meeting of the G7 agrees on $20 million aid package to fight fires in the Amazon in Biarritz
• Aug 27 At least 25 people killed in a fire at a bar, deliberately lit by gang members in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico
• Aug 27 Race car driver Jessi Combs dies while setting new fastest women's land speed record of 522.783 mph at Alvord Desert, Oregon (posthumously awarded 2020)
• Aug 28 British PM Boris Johnson prorogues parliament, suspending it for 5 weeks to limit opposition to a no deal Brexit, prompting a furious backlash

• Aug 28 Discovery of 3.8-million-year-old skull of early human ancestor Australopithecus anamensis, found by Yohannes Haile-Selassie, at Miro Dora, Ethiopia, upends previous evolutionary theory published in journal "Nature"

• Aug 28 US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand ends her campaign for president
• Aug 29 Discovery of world's largest child sacrifice site announced by archaeologists with 227 victims from Chimú culture in Huanchaco, Peru
• Aug 29 Scientists announce there is no single 'gay' gene with genetics accounting for at most 25% of same-sex behavior, in study published in "Science"
• Aug 30 Outlook for the Great Barrier Reef downgraded to very poor according to official Australian report
• Aug 30 Second interstellar comet ever detected by Ukrainian amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov (later named 2I/Borisov)
• Aug 31 Gunman kills seven and injures 22 during high speed chase in Odessa, Texas
• Aug 31 India removes citizenship status from 1.9 million people in state of Assam, leaving them off its new National Register of Citizens
• Aug 31 Major track crash during Formula 2 race at Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium kills Anthoine Hubert and critically injures Juan Manuel Correa
• Aug 31 Minnesota Twins smash 6 HRs in 10-7 loss to the Tigers in Detroit; break MLB record by hitting 268th home run of the season
• Aug 31 US missile attack in al-Qaeda jihadist training camp in Idlib province, Syria, kills 40

• Sep 1 German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier asks for Polish forgiveness for WWII at 80 year commemoration in Pilsudski Square, Warsaw
• Sep 1 Houston Astros starter Justin Verlander strikes out 14 as he throws his third career no-hitter in a 2-0 decision against the Toronto Blue Jays
• Sep 1 Hurricane Dorian makes landfall on Elbow Cay in the Abaco islands, northern Bahamas as a category five storm with winds of 180mph (285km/h)
• Sep 1 Saudi-led coalition air strikes on Yemen city of Dhamar kills more than 100 people according to the Red Cross
• Sep 2 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson threatens a snap general election if rebel MPs pass bill against no-deal Brexit
• Sep 2 Diving boat catches fire at night killing 34 asleep on board off Santa Cruz Island, California
• Sep 2 Violence and looting directed at foreigners in Johannesburg results in five deaths and dozens arrested by South African police
• Sep 3 British PM Boris Johnson loses significant vote in parliament as MPs gain control of the timetable, orders whip withdrawn from 21 rebel Tory MPs
• Sep 3 Hurricane Dorian finally moves off Grand Bahama after stalling for more than a day bringing catastrophic devastation, killing at least 50 with over 2,000 people missing

• Sep 3 Walmart says it will stop selling handguns and some ammunition and ask customers not to openly carry firearms in response to El Paso shootings
• Sep 4 British rebel alliance of MPs vote to ban a no-deal Brexit and reject PM Boris Johnson's call for a snap election
• Sep 4 Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam withdraws controversial extradition bill to China after three months of massive protests

• Sep 5 Erramatti Mangamma becomes the world's oldest living mother after giving birth to twins, aged 74 in Hyderabad, India
• Sep 5 New theory the Loss Ness monster may be a giant eel after DNA study reveals no plesiosaur or sturgeon DNA found
• Sep 5 South African women march on parliament to protest violence against women after a month when 30 were killed by their spouses
• Sep 6 Sri Lankan cricket fast bowler Lasith Malinga takes 4 wickets in 4 balls and finishes with 5 for 6 as New Zealand all out for 88 in 37-run defeat in 3rd T-20 International in Pellekele
• Sep 7 Indian Space Agency loses contact with its Chandrayaan-2 moon lander just 2 km from landing on the Moon's surface
• Sep 7 US President Donald Trump says he has cancelled a secret meeting with the Taliban for peace talks at Camp David
• Sep 8 Brazil's Supreme Court rules Marvel comic depicting two men kissing can be sold after mayor of Rio de Janeiro attempted to ban it
• Sep 8 Cargo ship Golden Ray catches fire and capsizes in St Simons Sound, off coast of Georgia, trapping four crew inside

• Sep 8 Typhoon Faxai makes landfall near Tokyo, Japan, with winds of up to 210km/h (130mph)
• Sep 9 Australia experiences its earliest and most severe start to the fire season after fighting dozens of bushfires in Queensland and New South Wales

• Sep 9 Nigerian government says it will repatriate 600 people from South Africa after two people killed in wave of xenophobic violence in Johannesburg

• Sep 9 Scientist reveal evidence of humans earliest milk consumption, 6,000 years ago from the dental plaque of teeth of prehistoric farmers from Britain

• Sep 10 Bolivian wildfires have destroyed two million hectares (almost five million acres), of forest and grassland since August according to College of Biologists in La Paz
• Sep 10 Iranian woman Sahar Khodayari dies after setting herself on fire during her trial, for entering a stadium disguised as a man in Tehran
• Sep 10 Malaysia's National Disaster Management Agency delivers half a million face masks to Sarawak state, after more than 930,000 hectares (about 2.3 million acres) burnt in Indonesia cause hazardous levels of air pollution

• Sep 10 US President Donald Trump fires his third national security adviser John Bolton
• Sep 11 Water detected for first time on planet outside out solar system, on exoplanet K2-18b 110 light-years away, in findings published in "Nature Astronomy"

• Sep 14 Drone attack on Abqaiq oil plant in Saudi Arabia takes out half of country's oil production and 5% of the world's. Yemen Houthi rebels claim responsibility.
• Sep 14 Former Welsh rugby union and league player Gareth Thomas reveals he is HIV positive
• Sep 15 Hong Kong police use water cannons and tear gas attempting to disperse thousands of protesters outside the British embassy, as protests continue in the city
• Sep 15 Norman Lear (97) becomes oldest person to win an Emmy Award, in the variety special category for ABC’s “Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in the Family"
• Sep 15 UK PM Boris Johnson compares himself to Marvel Hulk character in newspaper interview "The madder Hulk gets, the stronger Hulk gets" about UK exiting the EU
• Sep 16 50,000 workers at General Motors go on strike in the US over pay and factory closings
• Sep 16 Guantánamo Bay is the world's most expensive prison at US$13 million per prisoner according to investigation by "The New York Times"
• Sep 16 Marvel actor Mark Ruffalo rebuffs UK PM Boris Johnson, who compared himself to Hulk, "Boris Johnson forgets that the Hulk only fights for the good of the whole"
• Sep 16 Personal data on every Ecuadorean citizen discovered online on unsecured cloud server
• Sep 16 Study puts prices on value of "thoughts and prayers", average Christian willing to pay US$4 for a prayer, average atheists would pay US$3 not to receive one, published in "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences"
• Sep 17 Indonesia raises the female marriage age to 19, in line with males, to curb child marriages

• Sep 17 Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg tells US Congress "I know you are trying but just not hard enough. Sorry.”
• Sep 18 Boarding school fire kills at least 27 in Monrovia, Liberia
• Sep 18 Indian government proposes a ban on e-cigarettes

• Sep 18 Saudi Arabia's Defense Ministry says Iran was to blame for drone attack on Saudi oil facilities

• Sep 18 US White House bars California and other states from setting their own emission standards
• Sep 19 Likely US drone attack kills at least 30 and injures 28 in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
• Sep 19 North America has lost 3 billion birds (29%) since 1970 according to analysis published in "Science"
• Sep 19 Taliban suicide truck bombing kills 22 and injures 90 at a hospital in Zabul Province, southern Afghanistan
• Sep 19 Tropical Depression Imelda hits southeast Texas and Louisiana prompting widespread evacuations
• Sep 20 Australian PM Scott Morrison welcomed for week-long visit at the White House by US President Donald Trump
• Sep 20 Batman Day - 80th anniversary of the first Batman comic
• Sep 20 Rare Egyptian political protests take place against corruption in President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi's government in Tahrir Square, Cairo and elsewhere
• Sep 20 Researchers for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) propose that aliens may have bugged earths co-orbitals (nearby orbiting rocks) in "The Astronomical Journal"
• Sep 20 Students from 185 countries stage the world's largest-ever protest on climate change culminating in Manhattan rally led by Greta Thunberg
• Sep 20 The MOSAiC expedition, the greatest Arctic research expedition ever, sets sail from Norway, aims to stay trapped in ice for a year to study climate change
• Sep 21 "Queer Eye" star Jonathan Van Ness reveals he is living with HIV and is a sexual abuse survivor, ahead of the publication of his autobiography
• Sep 21 Skies turn red over Jambi province, Indonesia, as worst illegal forest fires since 2015 burn more than 800,000 acres, creating respiratory problems for a million people

• Sep 22 Billy Porter becomes the first openly gay actor to win an Emmy for lead actor in a drama series for "Pose"

• Sep 22 US President Donald Trump admits he spoke to Ukrainian President about Joe Biden's son, after news a US intelligence officer made an official complaint about the call
• Sep 23 178 year old British travel company Thomas Cook goes into liquidation, stranding 600,000 travellers worldwide, prompting the largest postwar repatriation effort by the UK government
• Sep 23 Climate activist Greta Thunberg scolds world leaders "How Dare You" for not addressing climate change at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York
• Sep 23 Haitian Senator Jean-Marie Ralph Féthière opens fire hitting a journalist leaving parliament in Port-au-Prince
• Sep 23 Renewed violence in West Papua region, Indonesia, leaves 27 dead in capital Wamena after protesters set fire to buildings over racism claims
• Sep 23 US police officer fired after arresting two six-year-olds at a school on charges of misdemeanour battery in Florida
• Sep 24 5.8 magnitude earthquake in northern Pakistan kills at least 10 and injures 300

• Sep 24 Protests outside Indonesian parliament and elsewhere over proposed new laws banning sex before marriage, abortion and insulting the president

• Sep 24 UK Supreme Court rules the suspension of UK parliament for 5 weeks by Boris Johnson's Conservative government was unlawful
• Sep 25 Australia's Capital Territory becomes the 1st state in Australia to legalize recreational marijuana
• Sep 25 Bulgarian economist Kristalina Georgieva named as the new head of the IMF

• Sep 25 Hazzaa Al Mansoori becomes first Emirati in space and the first Arab astronaut to travel to the International Space Station, travelling on Russian Soyuz-MS 15 spacecraft
• Sep 25 Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige reported to have been asked to develop a Star Wars film by the Walt Disney Company
• Sep 25 Oaxaca becomes the second Mexican state to decriminalize abortion, during the first 12 weeks
• Sep 26 Abortion is decriminalized in New South Wales, the last remaining Australian state to do so
• Sep 26 US Income inequality widest for over 50 years, worst in California, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana and New York, according to new census figures
• Sep 26 WHO announces 800,000 children in DR Congo will be vaccinated in nine days in worlds's largest measles epidemic that has taken over 3,500 lives

• Sep 28 Hurricane Lorenzo becomes 1st category 5 storm to be recorded so far north and east, 1,420 miles southwest of the Azores
• Sep 29 Houthi rebels from Yemen claim they have killed 500 Saudi soldiers and captured 2,000 along with military a convoy in Najran region, Saudi Arabia

• Sep 30 315 billion-tonne iceberg named D28 breaks away from Amery Ice Shelf, Antarctica
• Oct 1 China celebrates 70th anniversary of Communism with military parade of 15,000 soldiers in Beijing
• Oct 1 Former Dallas police Officer Amber Guyger found guilty of murdering her black neighbor in his apartment in landmark case on use of police force and racial bias
• Oct 1 Indian government bans the export of onions, an important food staple to control prices, causing shortages in Bangladesh and Nepal
• Oct 1 Law allowing teachers to carry guns in schools comes into effect in US state of Florida
• Oct 1 Political crisis in Peru as President Martín Vizcarra dissolves Congress over its refusal to support his anti-corruption reforms

• Oct 2 Australian women's cricket wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy smashes T20I world record 148 not out off 61 balls against Sri Lanka in Sydney; her century from Australian record 46 balls
• Oct 2 Two politicians in Peru claim to be the country's leader for a day until Mercedes Aráoz resigns so the constitutional court can rule on the matter
• Oct 4 Fuel subsidies end in Ecuador after four decades, prompting nationwide protests and President Lenín Moreno to declare 60-day state of emergency

• Oct 6 99 Iraqis have died and 4,000 injured in protests over 5 days against living conditions, unemployment and corruption according to human rights group
• Oct 6 Tens of thousands of Hong Kong protesters march in defiance of a new ban on face masks
• Oct 7 Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology awarded to Peter Ratcliffe, William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza for discovering how cells sense oxygen
• Oct 8 FBI confirm Samuel Little is America's most prolific serial killer, after verifying more than half of his 93 confessed murders
• Oct 8 Montgomery, Alabama, home of the US civil rights movement, elects Steven Reed as its first black mayor in 200 years
• Oct 8 Noble Prize for Physics awarded to James Peebles (work on evolution of the universe), and Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz (discovery of planet 51 Pegasi b, orbiting another star)
• Oct 9 Nearly 1 million people in northern California have their power cut by Pacific Gas and Electric to prevent wildfires amid high winds
• Oct 9 Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino for development of lithium-ion batteries, Goodenough oldest-ever winner at 97
• Oct 9 Turkey launches airstrikes on Kurdish forces in Northern Syria after US President Donald Trump announces decision to pull back US forces
• Oct 10 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, after a year's delay due to Swedish Academy scandal

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