What day of the week was August 19, 1960?

The day of the week August 19th, 1960 fell on was a Friday.

Morten Andersen the American football player was born on 19 August in 1960. As was Ron Darling the American baseball player and sportscaster .

Cold War: in Moscow the Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage. Sputnik program: Korabl-Sputnik 2 – the Soviet Union launches the satellite with the dogs Belka and Strelka the 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants.