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On This Day, August 19
- 2017: Tens of thousands of farmed non-native Atlantic salmon are accidentally released into the wild in Washington waters in the 2017 Cypress Island Atlantic salmon pen break.
- 2013: The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.
- 2010: Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.
- 2009: A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.
- 2005: The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.