October 19

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October 19 is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 73 days remaining until the end of the year.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

Events

202 BCE - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal.
439 - The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
1216 - King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.
1453 - The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years' War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.
1466 - The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Treaty of Thorn.
1469 - 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.
1512 - Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
1649 - New Ross town, Co. Wexford, Ireland, surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.
1781 - 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.
1789 - Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
1812 - Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow.
1813 - The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.
1822 - In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí.
1864 - Battle of Cedar Creek - Union Army under Philip Sheridan destroys Confederate Army under Jubal Early.
1864 - Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.
1873 - Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
1904 - Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.
1912 - Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
1914 - The First Battle of Ypres begins.
1917 - Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
1921 - Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.
1933 - Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
1935 - The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
1943 - Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
1944 - United States forces land in the Philippines.
1950 - The military of the People's Republic of China takes control of the town of Chamdo in eastern Tibet.
1954 - First ascent of Cho Oyu
1960 - The United States government places an embargo on Communist Cuba.
1969 - The first Prime Minister of Tunisia in twelve years, Bahi Ladgham, is appointed by President Habib Bourguiba.
1973 - President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes.
1974 - Niue becomes self-govering colony of New Zealand
1976 - Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon. The same day, the Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) is placed on the List of Endangered Species.
1983 - Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and executed in a military coup d'état led by Bernard Coard.
1986 - 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.
1987 - In retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy disables three of Iran's offshore oil platforms.
1987 - (Black Monday) Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points. This is considered a Stock Market Crash.
1989 - Guildford Four convictions are quashed by the Court of Appeal - they had spent 15 years in prison through a miscarriage of justice.
1994 - The Goodnight Kiwi airs in New Zealand for the last time as TV2 moves to 24-hour television 7 days a week.
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 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 - 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.

Births

1276 - Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun (d. 1328)
1433 - Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher (d. 1499)
1562 - Archbishop George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1633)
1582 - Dmitry Ivanovich, Russian Tsarevich (d. 1591)
1605 - Thomas Browne, English writer (d. 1682)
1610 - James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (d. 1688)
1658 - Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1704)
1680 - John Abernethy, Irish Protestant minister (d. 1740)
1688 - William Cheselden, English surgeon and anatomist (d. 1752)
1718 - Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (d. 1804)
1720 - John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (d. 1772)
1721 - Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist (d. 1800)
1784 - John McLoughlin, Canadian fur trader (d. 1857)
1810 - Cassius Marcellus Clay, American abolitionist (d. 1903)
1851 - Empress Myeongseong, Empress of Korea (d. 1895)
1858 - George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (d. 1937)
1862 - Auguste Lumière, French inventor (d. 1954)
1873 - Jaap Eden, Dutch skater and cyclist (d. 1925)
1873 - John Barton King, American cricketer (d. 1965)
1876 - Mordecai Brown, American baseball player (d. 1945)
1882 - Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1916)
1885 - Charles Merrill, American investment banker (d. 1956)
1895 - Lewis Mumford, American historian (d. 1990)
1895 - Frank Durbin, last American veteran of the Battle of Verdun (d.1999)
1896 - Bob O'Farrell, American baseball player (d. 1988)
1897 - Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (d. 1994)
1899 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
1900 - Bill Ponsford, Australian cricketer (d. 1991)
1900 - Roy Worters, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (d. 1957)
1900 - Erna Berger, German soprano (d. 1990)
1901 - Arleigh Burke, American admiral (d. 1996)
1903 - Tor Johnson, Swedish wrestler and actor (d. 1971)
1907 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader (d. 1962)
1908 - Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (d. 1981)
1909 - Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (d. 1981)
1909 - Marguerite Perey, French physicist (d. 1975)
1910 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
1910 - Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (d. 1980)
1913 - Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and songwriter (d. 1980)
1915 - Farid al-Atrash, Syrian composer, musician, and actor (d. 1974)
1916 - Jean Dausset, French immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1916 - Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (d. 1985)
1920 - Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian philosopher (d. 2003)
1922 - Jack Anderson, American journalist (d. 2005)
1926 - Joel Feinberg, American moral philosopher (d. 2004)
1926 - Arne Bendiksen, Norwegian singer and songwriter
1931 - John le Carré, English novelist
1932 - Robert Reed, American actor (d. 1992)
1936 - Tony Lo Bianco, American actor
1936 - James Bevel, American activist
1937 - Peter Max, American artist
1937 - Marilyn Bell, Canadian swimmer
1940 - Michael Gambon, Irish actor
1941 - Simon Ward, British actor
1942 - Andrew Vachss, American author and attorney
1943 - Robin Holloway, British composer
1943 - Takis Ikonomopoulos, Greek footballer
1944 - Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician, political activist (d. 1987)
1944 - George McCrae, American soul singer
1945 - Divine, American actor (d. 1988)
1945 - Patricia Ireland, American attorney and feminist
1945 - John Lithgow, American actor
1945 - Jeannie C. Riley American country and gospel singer
1946 - Philip Pullman, English writer
1947 - Giorgio Cavazzano, Italian comic strip artist
1948 - Patrick Simmons, American musician
1949 - Lynn Dickey, American football player
1949 - Jamie McGrigor, British politician
1951 - Demetrios Christodoulou, Greek mathematical physicist, recipient of the Bôcher Memorial Prize
1952 - Verónica Castro, Mexican actress and singer
1954 - Joe Bryant, American basketball player
1954 - Sam Allardyce, English football manager
1954 - Deborah Blum, American writer
1955 - Melpo Kosti, Greek actress
1956 - Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (d. 1993)
1956 - Bruce Weber, American Basketball Coach
1956 - Sunny Deol, Indian actor
1956 - Didier Theys, Belgian racing driver
1957 - Ray Richmond, American columnist and critic
1957 - Karl Wallinger, Welsh musician
1957 - Doug Kirby, American author and travel guide
1958 - Tiriel Mora, Australian actor
1958 - Lou Briel, Puerto Rican singer and actor
1960 - Jonathan FeBland, English musician and artist
1962 - Tracy Chevalier, American author
1962 - Evander Holyfield, American boxer
1963 - Prince Laurent of Belgium
1964 - Jorge Luis Gonzales, Cuban-born American boxer
1965 - Brad Daugherty, American basketball player
1965 - Ty Pennington, American television carpenter
1966 - Roger R. Cross, Jamaican-born actor
1966 - Jon Favreau, American actor, writer and director
1967 - Yoko Shimomura, Japanese composer
1968 - Sinitta, American singer
1969 - Trey Parker, American cartoonist and actor
1969 - Erwin Sánchez, Bolivian footballer
1969 - DJ Sammy, Spanish DJ
1969 - John Edward, American TV Psychic
1970 - Chris Kattan, American comedian and actor
1972 - Keith Foulke, American baseball pitcher
1972 - Pras, American musician
1973 - Hicham Arazi, Moroccan tennis player
1973 - Joaquin Gage, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 - Joy Bryant, American actress
1976 - Omar Gooding, American actor
1976 - Desmond Harrington, American actor
1976 - Dan Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 - Michael Young, baseball player
1977 - Louis-José Houde, Canadian stand-up comic
1977 - Jason Reitman, Canadian filmmaker
1977 - Raúl Tamudo, Spanish footballer
1978 - Enrique Bernoldi, Brazilian race car driver
1978 - Zakhar Dubenskiy, Russian footballer
1978 - Henri Sorvali, Finnish musician
1979 - Brian Robertson, American trombonist
1979 - José Luis "Parejita" López, Mexican footballer
1980 - Benjamin Salisbury, American actor
1981 - Heikki Kovalainen, Finnish race car driver
1982 - Gonzalo Pineda, Mexican footballer