October 19th Events |
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| October 19th, 2007 (October 19 2007) | Event | Philippines. Amidst corruption controversies hounding the Arroyo administration, a bomb explosion rocked Glorietta 2, a shopping mall in Makati, which killed 11 and injured more than 100 people. | |
| October 19th, 2005 (October 19 2005) | Event | Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity. | Saddam Hussein Quotes |
| October 19th, 2005 (October 19 2005) | Event | Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb. | |
| October 19th, 2004 (October 19 2004) | Event | Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the SPDC on charges of corruption. | |
| October 19th, 2004 (October 19 2004) | Event | Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan is kidnapped in Iraq. | |
| October 19th, 2003 (October 19 2003) | Event | Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II. | |
| October 19th, 2001 (October 19 2001) | Event | SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing boat en-route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sank in international waters with the loss of 353 people. | |
| October 19th, 1998 (October 19 1998) | Event | The Earth Liberation Front sets fire to the Vail Mountain ski resort in Vail, Colorado, causing $12 million in damage. | |
| October 19th, 1994 (October 19 1994) | Event | The Goodnight Kiwi airs in New Zealand for the last time as TV2 moves to 24-hour television 7 days a week. | |
| October 19th, 1989 (October 19 1989) | Event | Guildford Four convictions are quashed by the Court of Appealthey had spent 15 years in prison through a miscarriage of justice. | |
| October 19th, 1987 (October 19 1987) | Event | In retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy disables three of Iran s offshore oil platforms. | |
| October 19th, 1987 (October 19 1987) | Event | (Black Monday) Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points. This is considered a Stock Market Crash. | |
| October 19th, 1986 (October 19 1986) | Event | Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others died when their Tupolev 134 plane crashed into the Lebombo Mountains. | |
| October 19th, 1983 (October 19 1983) | Event | Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and executed in a military coup d etat led by Bernard Coard. | |
| October 19th, 1976 (October 19 1976) | Event | Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon. The same day, the Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) is placed on the List of Endangered Species. | |
| October 19th, 1974 (October 19 1974) | Event | Niue becomes self-govering colony of New Zealand | |
| October 19th, 1973 (October 19 1973) | Event | President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes. | |
| October 19th, 1969 (October 19 1969) | Event | The first Prime Minister of Tunisia in twelve years, Bahi Ladgham, is appointed by President Habib Bourguiba. | |
| October 19th, 1960 (October 19 1960) | Event | The United States government places an embargo on Communist Cuba. | |
| October 19th, 1954 (October 19 1954) | Event | First ascent of Cho Oyu | |
| October 19th, 1950 (October 19 1950) | Event | The military of the People s Republic of China takes control of the town of Chamdo in eastern Tibet. | |
| October 19th, 1944 (October 19 1944) | Event | United States forces land in the Philippines. | |
| October 19th, 1943 (October 19 1943) | Event | Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University. | |
| October 19th, 1935 (October 19 1935) | Event | The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia. | |
| October 19th, 1933 (October 19 1933) | Event | Germany withdraws from the League of Nations. | |
| October 19th, 1921 (October 19 1921) | Event | Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup. | |
| October 19th, 1917 (October 19 1917) | Event | Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened. | |
| October 19th, 1914 (October 19 1914) | Event | The First Battle of Ypres begins. | |
| October 19th, 1912 (October 19 1912) | Event | Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire. | |
| October 19th, 1904 (October 19 1904) | Event | Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O Reilley. | |
| October 19th, 1873 (October 19 1873) | Event | Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules. | |
| October 19th, 1864 (October 19 1864) | Event | Battle of Cedar CreekUnion Army under Philip Sheridan destroys Confederate Army under Jubal Early. | |
| October 19th, 1864 (October 19 1864) | Event | Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada. | |
| October 19th, 1822 (October 19 1822) | Event | In Parnaiba; Simplicio Dias da Silva, Joao Candido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piaui. | |
| October 19th, 1813 (October 19 1813) | Event | The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats. | Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| October 19th, 1812 (October 19 1812) | Event | Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow. | |
| October 19th, 1789 (October 19 1789) | Event | Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States. | |
| October 19th, 1781 (October 19 1781) | Event | At Yorktown, Virginia, British commander Lord Cornwallis surrendered to a Franco-American force led by George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau, paving the way for the end of the American Revolutionary War. | George Washington Quotes |
| October 19th, 1649 (October 19 1649) | Event | New Ross town, Co. Wexford, Ireland, surrenders to Oliver Cromwell. | Oliver Cromwell Quotes |
| October 19th, 1512 (October 19 1512) | Event | Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia). | Martin Luther Quotes |
| October 19th, 1469 (October 19 1469) | Event | Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain. | |
| October 19th, 1466 (October 19 1466) | Event | The Thirteen Years War ends with the Second Treaty of Thorn. | |
| October 19th, 1453 (October 19 1453) | Event | The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil. | |
| October 19th, 1216 (October 19 1216) | Event | King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry. | |
| October 19th, 0439 (October 19 0439) | Event | The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa. | |
| October 19th, 0202 (October 19 0202) | Event | The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal. | |
