On this day — August 19

with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.

Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.

called Peace Mission 2005 begins.

A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children.

A Russian Mil Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.

tens of thousands of Serbians rally to demand the resignation of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milošević.

The August Coup begins when Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest while on holiday in the town of Foros, Ukraine.

part of the events that began the process of the Fall of the Berlin Wall.

In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide.