About October 19
October 19, 2025 is the 292nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 73 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 121 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 19
- 202 BC –Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage.
- 1216 –King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.
- 1466 –The Thirteen Years War ends with the Second Treaty of Thorn.
- 1512 –Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
- 1649 –New Ross town, Co. Wexford, Ireland, surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.
- 1805 –Napoleonic Wars: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to the Grand Army of Napoleon at the Battle of Ulm. 30,000 prisoners are captured and 10,000 casualties inflicted on the losers.
- 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 a Confederate Army under Jubal Early.
- 1864 –St. Albans Raid – Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.
- 1912 –Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1944 –United States forces land in the Philippines.
- 1954 –First ascent of Cho Oyu.
- 1959 –The first discothèque opens, the Scotch-Club in Aachen, Germany.
- 1969 –The first Prime Minister of Tunisia in twelve years, Bahi Ladgham, is appointed by President Habib Bourguiba.
- 1974 –Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand.
- 1976 –Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon.
- 1987 –Black Monday - the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
- 2004 –Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the State Peace and Development Council on charges of corruption.
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