The 231st day of 2025 is today, Tuesday, August 19. The year has 134 days remaining.
Oscar Pistorius, a sprinter from South Africa, was charged with murder and illegal ammunition possession on August 19, 2013, in Pretoria, South Africa, for the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, at his house on Valentine’s Day 2013. Pistorius insisted he had mistaken her for an intruder. (Pistorius would be convicted of murder and given a prison term; in January 2024, he was granted parole.)
At Salem in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, four men and one woman were killed in 1692 after being found guilty of witchcraft; Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible was based on the tale of one of the men, John Proctor.
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In 1807, two days after embarking on its inaugural journey from New York, Robert Fulton’s North River Steamboat reached Albany.
The USS Constitution gained the moniker Old Ironsides in 1812 after defeating the British frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia.
British troops arrived in Benedict, Maryland, in 1814 as part of the War of 1812 with the intention of seizing Washington, D.C.
The First Sioux War began in 1854 when one of the troops shot and killed Brule Lakota Chief Conquering Bear, killing 31 U.S. soldiers.
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway held its first car race in 1909.
Voters in Germany gave Adolf Hitler complete executive authority in 1934.
About 200 people were killed in 1955 when Hurricane Diane’s heavy rainfall produced major flooding in the northeastern United States.
Francis Gary Powers, an American U2 pilot, was found guilty of espionage by a Moscow court in 1960. (Powers was repatriated to the United States in 1962 as part of a prisoner exchange, despite having been condemned to ten years in prison.)
When Saudia Flight 163 made a burning emergency return to the Riyadh airport in 1980, 301 individuals on board perished.
Seven years and five months after a U.S.-led invasion that started the Iraq War, the final American combat battalion left the country in 2010.
- Former tennis player & coach Renee Richards is 91.
- Actor Jill St. John is 85.
- Author Jack Canfield is 81.
- Rock singer Ian Gillan (Deep Purple) is 80.
- Former President Bill Clinton is 79.
- Actor Gerald McRaney is 78.
- Actor Jim Carter ( Downton Abbey ) is 77.
- Tipper Gore, ex-wife of former Vice President Al Gore, is 77.
- Rock bassist John Deacon (Queen) is 74.
- Actor-director Jonathan Frakes is 73.
- Political consultant Mary Matalin is 72.
- Actor Peter Gallagher is 70.
- Actor Adam Arkin is 69.
- Actor Martin Donovan is 68.
- Football Hall of Famer Anthony Munoz is 67.
- Musician Ivan Neville is 66.
- Football Hall of Famer Morten Andersen is 65.
- Actor John Stamos is 62.
- Actor Kyra Sedgwick is 60.
- Actor Kevin Dillon is 60.
- Country singer Lee Ann Womack is 58.
- Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is 58.
- Country singer Clay Walker is 56.
- Rapper Fat Joe is 55.
- Olympic gold medal tennis player Mary Joe Fernandez is 54.
- Actor Erika Christensen is 43.
- Actor Melissa Fumero is 43.
- Olympic gold medal snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis (jay-kuh-BEHL -ihs) is 40.
- Author Veronica Roth is 37.
- Rapper-TV personality Romeo is 36.
- Actor Ethan Cutkosky (TV: Shameless ) is 26.
