August 19 - Holidays

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Jean-Eudes de Mézeray
  • Louis of Toulouse
  • Magnus of Anagni
  • Magnus of Avignon
  • Sebaldus
  • August 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Independence Day, commemorates the Treaty of Rawalpindi in 1919, granting independence from Britain. (Afghanistan)
• Manuel Luis Quezón Day (Quezon City)
• National Aviation Day (United States)
• Saviour's Transfiguration, popularly known as the "Apples Feast". (Russian Orthodox Church and Georgian Orthodox Church), and its related observances:
  • Buhe (Ethiopian Orthodox Church)
• Vinalia Rustica (Roman Empire)
• World Humanitarian Day (International)