On This Day: August 19th

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.

The Dhamara Ghat train accident kills at least 37 people in the Indian state of Bihar.

Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, with the last of the United States brigade combat teams crossing the border to Kuwait.

A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills 101 and injures 565 others.

The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.

Google Inc. has its initial public offering on Nasdaq.

A truck-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.

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

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

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