Template:OpenHistoricalMap/On this day/08/19
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
- 1893
- Under a treaty between the United States and the Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma Territory annexes the Cherokee Outlet from Indian Territory.
- 1919
- Afghanistan gains independence from the British Empire.
- 1938
- Plot number 9/28 is established along Søre Van Der Weldes Way on a former farm in Fana, Bergen, Norway.
- 1978
- The Quezon Memorial Shrine by Federico Ilustre is dedicated in Quezon City, Metro Manila.
- 2009
- The boundary between China and Vietnam is demarcated across Dậu Gót / Youjiao islet by a pair of boundary markers.
- 2018
- The Presidential Car Museum opens in Quezon City, Metro Manila.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on August 19, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on August 19 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
Contributing
We appreciate your help in curating these events from OpenHistoricalMap data. Items should be based on fully qualified start_date=* and end_date=* tags, plus any other metadata tagged on features in OpenHistoricalMap. To the extent possible, the list should feature a wide range of years and include events from different continents.