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This day in history: 19 October

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Key facts

422 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 19 October.
Entries come from Wikipedia’s day pages and are ordered by page views.
2025: Pieces of the French Crown Jewels are successfully stolen during a heist on the Louvre Museum in Paris..

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Aaron (Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria)

Christian feast day: Aquilinus of Évreux

Christian feast day: Blessed Jerzy Popiełuszko

Christian feast day: Desiderius (Didier) of Auxerre

Christian feast day: Frideswide

Christian feast day: Henry Martyn (Anglican Communion)

Christian feast day: Isaac Jogues, Jean de Brébeuf, and Companions

Christian feast day: October 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Paul of the Cross

Christian feast day: Ptolemaeus and Lucius

Christian feast day: Varus

Christian feast day: Veranus of Cavaillon

Events

2025Pieces of the French Crown Jewels are successfully stolen during a heist on the Louvre Museum in Paris..

2019Members of Parliament met at the House of Lords to discuss the United Kingdom's Brexit deal, this was the first Saturday sitting in Parliament since 3 April 1982 during the Falklands War.

2013One hundred and five people are injured in a train crash in Buenos Aires.

2012A bomb explosion kills eight people and injures 110 more in Lebanon.

2005Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.

2005Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.

2004Thirteen people are killed when Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 crashes in Adair County, Missouri, while on approach to Kirksville Regional Airport.

2003Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.

2001SIEV X, an Indonesian fishing boat en route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 migrants, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people.

1989The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.

1988The British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Féin and eleven Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups.

1987Black Monday: The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.

1987The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.

1986The president of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, along with 33 others, die when their aircraft crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.

1974Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand.

1973President Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.

1960The United States imposes a near-total trade embargo against Cuba.

1956The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.

1955The General Assembly of the European Broadcasting Union approves the staging of the first Eurovision Song Contest.

1953Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is published.

1950China defeats the Tibetan Army at Chambo.

1950Iran becomes the first country to accept technical assistance from the United States under the Point Four Program.

1950Korean War: The Battle of Pyongyang ends in a United Nations victory. Hours later, the Chinese Army begins crossing the border into Korea.

1948Presidents North Carolina Gave the Nation, a monument honoring three presidents of the United States, was dedicated at the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh, North Carolina.

1944A coup is launched against Juan Federico Ponce Vaides, beginning the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution.

1944United States forces land in the Philippines.

1943Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.

1943The cargo vessel Sinfra is attacked by Allied aircraft at Crete and sunk. Two thousand and ninety-eight Italian prisoners of war drown with it.

1936New York World-Telegram reporter Herbert Ekins won a race against two other New York newspaper journalists to travel around the world on commercial airline flights. He accomplished the feat in 18 ½ days. His opponents were New York Evening

1935The League of Nations places economic sanctions on Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.

1922British Conservative MPs vote to terminate the coalition government with the Liberal Party.

1921The Portuguese Prime Minister and several officials are murdered in the Bloody Night coup.

1914World War I: The First Battle of Ypres begins.

1912Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.

1900Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.

1866In accordance with the Treaty of Vienna, Austria cedes Veneto and Mantua to France, which immediately awards them to Italy in exchange for the earlier Italian acquiescence to the French annexation of Savoy and Nice.

1864American Civil War: Confederate agents based in Canada rob three banks in Saint Albans, Vermont.

1864American Civil War: The Battle of Cedar Creek ends the last Confederate threat to Washington, DC.

1847The novel Jane Eyre is published in London.

1813War of the Sixth Coalition: Napoleon is forced to retreat from Germany after the Battle of Leipzig.

Born on this day

1999Carlotta Truman, German singer-songwriter

1998Noof Al Maadeed, Qatari women's rights activist

1996Bernadeth Pons, Filipino volleyball athlete

1996Chance Perdomo, American-British actor (died 2024)

1995Sammis Reyes, Chilean-American football and basketball player

1994Agnė Sereikaitė, Lithuanian speed skater

1994Anthony Santander, Venezuelan baseball player

1994Cal Petersen, American ice hockey player

1993Abby Sunderland, American sailor

1993Hunter King, American actress

1992Lil Durk, American rapper

1992Shiho, Japanese actress and model

1991Colton Dixon, American singer-songwriter and pianist

1990Ciara Renée, American actress and singer

1990Endō Shōta, Japanese sumo wrestler

1990Janet Leon, Swedish singer-songwriter and dancer

1990Tom Kilbey, English footballer

1989James Gavet, New Zealand rugby league player

1989Janine Tugonon, Filipino model and television host

1989Mindaugas Kuzminskas, Lithuanian basketball player

1989Miroslav Stoch, Slovak footballer

1989Rakuto Tochihara, Japanese actor

1988Chris Lawrence, Australian rugby league player

1988Markiyan Kamysh, Ukrainian writer

1988Zeph Ellis, English rapper and producer

1987Sam Groth, Australian tennis player

1987Tsunenori Aoki, Japanese actor

1984Danka Barteková, Slovak skeet shooter

1984Thundercat, American singer and record producer

1983Andy Lonergan, English footballer

1983Cara Santa Maria, American neuroscientist and blogger

1983Rebecca Ferguson, Swedish actress

1982Atom Araullo, Filipino journalist

1982Daan van Bunge, Dutch cricketer

1982Gillian Jacobs, American actress and director

1982Gonzalo Pineda, Mexican footballer

1982J. A. Happ, American baseball player

1982Louis Oosthuizen, South African golfer

1981Heikki Kovalainen, Finnish race car driver

1981Leon Bott, Australian rugby league player

Died on this day

2025Daniel Naroditsky, American chess grandmaster (born 1995)

2023Atsushi Sakurai, singer from Japanese rock band Buck-Tick (born 1966)

2021Jack Angel, American voice actor (born 1930)

2019Deborah Orr, Scottish journalist (born 1962)

2017Umberto Lenzi, Italian film director (born 1931)

2016Giovanni Steffè, Italian rower (born 1928)

2016Phil Chess, Czech-American record producer, co-founded Chess Records (born 1921)

2015Ali Treki, Libyan politician and diplomat, Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1938)

2015Bill Daley, American football player and sportscaster (born 1919)

2015Fleming Mackell, Canadian ice hockey player and singer (born 1929)

2014John Holt, Jamaican singer-songwriter (born 1947)

2014Raphael Ravenscroft, English saxophonist and composer (born 1954)

2014Serena Shim, Lebanese-American journalist (born 1984)

2014Stephen Paulus, American composer (born 1949)

2013John Bergamo, American drummer and composer (born 1940)

2013Mahmoud Zoufonoun, Iranian-American violinist and composer (born 1920)

2013Mikihiko Renjō, Japanese author (born 1948)

2013Noel Harrison, English singer, actor, and skier (born 1934)

2013Ronald Shannon Jackson, American drummer and composer (born 1940)

2012Fiorenzo Magni, Italian cyclist (born 1920)

2012Lincoln Alexander, Canadian lawyer and politician, 24th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (born 1922)

2012Mike Graham, American wrestler (born 1951)

2012Wissam al-Hassan, Lebanese general (born 1965)

2012Wiyogo Atmodarminto, Indonesian general and politician, 10th Governor of Jakarta (born 1922)

2011Kakkanadan, Indian author (born 1935)

2010Tom Bosley, American actor (born 1927)

2009Howard Unruh, American murderer (born 1921)

2009Joseph Wiseman, Canadian-American actor (born 1918)

2008Richard Blackwell, American actor, fashion designer, and critic (born 1922)

2007Jan Wolkers, Dutch author, sculptor, and painter (born 1925)

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“He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”

Lao Tzu

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