On August 19, 2011, three men, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, who were convicted as teenagers in 1994 of the murders of three boys in Arkansas, are released from prison in a special legal deal allowing them to maintain their innocence while acknowledging that prosecutors had sufficient evidence to convict them.

The actors Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin marry in East Hampton, New York on August 19, 1993.

On August 19, 1964, more than six months after taking the East Coast by storm, the Fab Four travel to California to take the stage at the Cow Palace in San Francisco for opening night of their first-ever concert tour of North America.

Dogs Belka and Strelka Make History as First Living Organisms to Orbit Earth and Return

First Commercial Atomic Reactor in U.S. Achieves Major Milestone and Later Shuts Down

In the USSR, captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for his confessed espionage.

The Iranian military, with the support and financial assistance of the United States government, overthrows the government of Premier Mohammad Mosaddeq and reinstates the Shah of Iran.

Breakthroughs in Vitamin A Research: From Early Discoveries to Synthesis Innovations in 1947

On August 19, 1946, William Jefferson Blythe III is born in Hope, Arkansas.

On August 19, 1919, in a break with conventional practice, U.