Notable Historical Events on October 19th
October 19th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
202 |
Battle of Zama: Hannibal Barca, leader of the invading Carthaginian army, defeated by Roman legions under Scipio Africanus. |
BC AD | |
439 |
The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa. |
615 |
St Deusdedit I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
1031 |
Abbot Humbertus van Echternach opens grave of Saint Willibrord |
1216 |
King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry. |
1298 |
Rindfleisch-140 Jews of Heilbron Germany are murdered |
1453 |
2nd Battle at Castillon: French forces defeat beats the English, end of The Hundred Years' War |
1466 |
The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Peace of Thorn, Germany |
1492 |
Columbus sites "Isabela" (Fortune Island, Bahamas) |
1512 |
Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia). |
1576 |
Dutch provinces begin consultation about Spanish existence |
1630 |
In Boston the 1st general court is held |
1634 |
Beach Island in North Sea destroyed by a heavy storm flood |
1682 |
English Lord Shaftesbury flees to Holland |
1722 |
Frenchman C Hopffer patents fire extinguisher |
1739 |
England declares war on Spain [OS=Oct 30] |
1765 |
Stamp Act Congress met in NY, wrote decl of rights & liberties |
1781 |
British General Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 pm; US Revolutionary War ends |
1812 |
Napoleon's forces begin their retreat from Moscow |
1818 |
US Government & Chicasaw Indians sign a treaty |
1822 |
In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí. |
1845 |
Richard Wagner's opera "Tannhäuser," premieres in Dresden |
1853 |
1st flour mill in Hawaii begins operations |
1856 |
James Kelly & Jack Smith fight bareknuckle for 6h15m in Melbourne |
1859 |
Wilhelm Tempel discovers diffuse nebula around Pleid star Merope |
1863 |
Battle of Buckland Mills, VA |
1864 |
Approx 25 Confederates make surprise attack on St Albans, Vermont |
1864 |
Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, Union beats back Conf attackers |
1864 |
US Brigadier General Emory Upton (25) promoted to Major General |
1870 |
1st African Americans (4) elected to US House of Representatives |
1870 |
British steamship SS Cambria wrecked off the north-west of Ireland with the loss of 178 lives |
1872 |
World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales |
1879 |
Afghan's emir Mohammed Yakub forced to resign |
1882 |
Pierre de Brazza meets Henry Morton Stanley |
1888 |
Moshav Gederah is attacked by Arabs |
1900 |
Henry O Tanner, painter, wins Medal of Honor at Paris Exposition |
1900 |
South African President Paul Kruger departs for Europe |
1901 |
Edward Elgar's "Pomp & Circumstance March," premieres in Liverpool |
1901 |
Santos-Dumont proves airship maneuverable by circling Eiffel Tower |
1904 |
Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley. |
1907 |
1st printing of Dutch Tribune (Wijnkoop/Van Ravesteyn/Ceton) |
1911 |
Royal Mint in London sends dies for $1 coin to Ottawa Branch |
1912 |
Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control |
1913 |
At a meeting of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in Durban, NIC secretaries, M. C. Anglia and Dada Osman, severely criticise Mahatma Gandhi and tender their resignations |
1914 |
US post office 1st used an automobile to collect & deliver mail |
1915 |
Russia/Italy declares war on Bulgaria |
1915 |
US bankers arrange a $500 million loan to the British and French |
1916 |
France extends formal recognition of the Provisional Government in Crete proclaimed Eleftherios Venizelos |
1917 |
Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened. |
1919 |
1st Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman |
1919 |
Reds beat White Sox, 5 games to 3 in 16th World Series. This series is known as black sox scandal as 8 White Sox throw series |
1921 |
Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup. |
1923 |
Ban Johnson persuades AL owners to prohibit boxing in their parks |
1923 |
Beierse government refuses to prohibit NSDAP newspaper Völkischer Beobachter |
1924 |
General Christian Worker's union demands 8 hr work day in Belgium |
1925 |
Italian army takes Somalia |
1926 |
John C Garand patents semi-automatic rifle |
1926 |
Russian Politburo throws out Leo Trotsky & followers |
1930 |
Jules Ladoumègue runs world record 1 km (2:23.6) |
1932 |
Austria forbids demonstration by nazi's & anti fascists |
1932 |
British government signs trade agreement with Soviet Union |
1932 |
Henry Ford gives his 1st radio speech |
1932 |
Jimmie Foxx wins AL MVP & Chuck Klein wins NL MVP |
1933 |
Berlin Olympic Committee vote to introduce basketball in 1936 |
1935 |
Mao Zedong's army reaches Shanxi |
1936 |
HR Ekins of "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters in a race around the world on commercial flights, by 18½ days |
1939 |
Hermann Goering begins plunder through Nazi's occupied areas |
1941 |
1st woman jockey in North America, Anna Lee Wiley in Mexico |
1943 |
Conference of foreign ministers in Moscow |
1943 |
Theater Guild presentation of "Othello" opens at Shubert |
1943 |
Yankee 2nd baseman Joe Gordon announces retirement (hates NY) |
1943 |
Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University. |
1944 |
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill flies back to London from Moscow |
1944 |
Canadian troops liberate Aardensburg |
1944 |
John Van Druten's "I Remember Mama," premieres in NYC |
1944 |
US Navy says black women can join WAVES |
1944 |
US forces land in Philippines |
1947 |
De Gaulles RPF wins French municipal elections |
1948 |
"My Romance" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 95 performances |
1949 |
A's trade 2nd baseman Nellie Fox to White Sox for Joe Tipton |
1949 |
Yanks trade Joe Gordon to Cleveland for Allie Reynolds |
1950 |
Bird Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated |
1950 |
UN forces entered Pyongyang, capital of North Korea |
1951 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Texas Women's Golf Open |
1951 |
US President Harry Truman formally ends state of war with Germany |
1952 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betty Jameson Golf Tournament |
1952 |
Alain Bombard departs from the Canary Islands on his solitary journey across the Atlantic ocean with almost no provisions and only a sextant for navigation to test his theory that a shipwrecked person could survive |
1953 |
1st jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled service |
1953 |
Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on TV by Arthur Godfrey |
1954 |
Egypt & Great Britain sign treaty; British troops departs |
1954 |
KAKE TV channel 10 in Wichita, KS (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
First ascent of Cho Oyu, sixth highest mountain in the world at 8,201 metres |
1957 |
"Damn Yankees" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 1,022 performances |
1957 |
Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Mont, became 1st NHLer to score 500 goals |
1958 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1959 |
Florence Henderson joins Today Show panel |
1959 |
William Gibson's "Miracle Worker," premieres in NYC |
1960 |
France grants Mauritania independence |
1960 |
KWCS (now KOOG) TV channel 30 in Ogden, UT (IND) begins broadcasting |
1960 |
Martin Luther King Jr. arrested in Atlanta sit-in |
1960 |
US imposes embargo on exports to Cuba |
1962 |
Stalin monument removed in Prague |
1962 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1963 |
Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand" |
1966 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1966 |
Yardbird 1st US tour (NYC) |
1966 |
Bobby Orr makes his NHL regular-season debut for the Boston Bruins against the Detroit Red Wings |
1967 |
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR, sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4" |
1967 |
Mariner 5 makes fly-by of Venus |
1968 |
Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars |
1968 |
Derry Citizen's Action Committee, formed on Oct 9, stage an illegal sit-down at Guildhall Square as part of large civil disobedience campaign |
1969 |
J Bock & S Harnicks musical "Rothschilds," premieres in NYC |
1969 |
Mary Mills wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic |
1969 |
Oakland Darryle Lamonica passes for 6 touchdowns vs Buffalo (50-21) |
1970 |
"Rothschilds" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 505 performances |
1970 |
Amdahl Corp forms at Sunnyvale Calif |
1970 |
John Frazier kills Ohta's declares WW 3 has begun |
1971 |
Last issue of "Look" magazine is published |
1971 |
A group of f Northern Ireland Members of Parliament begin a 48 hour hunger strike against the policy of Internment |
1972 |
"Mother Earth" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 12 performances |
1972 |
Ulster Vanguard leader William Craig speaks at a meeting of right-wing Members of Parliament at Westminster: "We are prepared to come out and shoot and kill" |
1973 |
Ringo releases "Photograph" |
1973 |
Saudi Arabia, Libya, and other Arab states proclaim an embargo on oil exports to the United States |
1974 |
Det Red Wing Mickey Redmond scores 1st hat trick against Wash Caps |
1974 |
Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland (next win 6-1-90) |
1974 |
Niue becomes self-govering, in association with New Zealand |
1975 |
"Chorus Line" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 6137 performances |
1975 |
Cleveland Browns' Don Cockroft kicks club record 5 field goals |
1975 |
Hamlisch & Klebans musical "Chorus Line" premieres in NYC |
1975 |
Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Japan Golf Classic |
1976 |
Battle of Aishiya, Lebanon during Lebanese Civil War. |
1977 |
Corpse of kidnapped West German, H M Schleyer, found |
1977 |
Supersonic Concorde jet's 1st landing in NYC |
1980 |
Steve McPeak rides 101'9" unicycle |
1981 |
LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos for NL pennant |
1981 |
Nicolaas Bloembergen & Arthur Schawlow win Nobel for physics (laser) |
1982 |
Automaker John DeLorean arrested on cocaine charges (Not guilty) |
1983 |
Columbia moves to Orbiter Processing Facility |
1983 |
Grenada general Hudson Austin forms "revolutionary council" |
1983 |
Phila Flyers begin 13 NHL game win streak |
1983 |
Senate establishes Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday |
1986 |
"Flamenco Puro" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 40 perfs |
1986 |
"Raggedy Ann" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 5 performances |
1986 |
Allan Border scores the 1,000,000th run in Tests (v India, Bombay) |
1986 |
USSR expels five US diplomats |
1987 |
"Anything Goes" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 804 performances |
1987 |
"Black Monday" Dow Jones down 508.32 points (22%), 4½ times previous record |
1987 |
US warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf |
1987 |
Woody Woodward resigns as NY Yankee GM, Lou Piniella is named GM & Billy Martin is named NY Yankee manager for 5th & final time |
1988 |
3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel |
1988 |
Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members |
1988 |
Car bomb kills 7 Israelis, wounds 11 near Lebanon border |
1988 |
Roxette releases "Roxette Look Sharp!" album |
1988 |
South African anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize |
1988 |
Senate passes bill curbing ads during children`s TV shows |
1989 |
"Dangerous Games" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 4 performances |
1989 |
Astor Piazzolla & Wm Finn's musical "Dangerous Games" premieres in NYC |
1989 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1990 |
HCA, Helsinki Citizens Assembly, forms in Prague |
1991 |
Longest NCAA football game (3:52) as RI beats Maine 52-30 (6 OTs) |
1991 |
Lonnie Glieberman purchased Ottawa Rough Riders from CFL |
1993 |
UN authorizes arms, military & police supply embargo against Haiti |
1994 |
160 killed in fighting in Tsjetsjenie (Chechnya) |
1994 |
Palestinian bomb attack on bus in Tel Aviv, kills 22 |
1995 |
"Hello Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 118 performances |
1996 |
Braves beat NY Yanks by record tying 11 runs, 12-1 in a World Series |
1997 |
"Annie," closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC |
1997 |
700th World Series home run (Sandy Alomar, Cleve Indians) |
1997 |
David Duval wins Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Golf Classic |
1997 |
Hyatt Regency Maui Kaanapali Senior Golf Classic |
1998 |
The Earth Liberation Front sets fire to the Vail Mountain ski resort in Vail, Colorado, causing $12 million in damage. |
2001 |
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. |
2003 |
Mother Teresa of Calcutta is beatified by Pope John Paul II. |
2004 |
Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the SPDC on charges of corruption. |
2004 |
Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan is kidnapped in Iraq. |
2005 |
Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity. |
2005 |
Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb. |
2007 |
Bomb explosion rocks Glorietta 2, a shopping mall in Makati, the Philippines killing 11, injuring more than 100 people. |
2012 |
8 people are killed and 78 injured by a car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon |
2013 |
16 people are killed and 30 are wounded by a suicide bombing Beledweyne, Somalia |
2013 |
11 people are killed after a plane crashes in Namur, Belgium |
2014 |
A working human intestine is generated in a laboratory from stem cells in the United States |
2016 |
Obama disputes Trump on rigged election, tells him to 'stop whining' |
2016 |
Chuck Berry announces new album on 90th birthday |
2017 |
Death toll rises to 42 in California wildfires |
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