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
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 1900 –Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission (Planck’s law).
- 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.
- 1921 –Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.
- 1950 –The People’s Republic of China joins the Korean War by sending thousands of troops across the Yalu river to fight United Nations forces.
- 1956 –The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.
- 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.
- 1986 –Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others die when their Tupolev 134 plane crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.
- 1987 –Black Monday - the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
- 2001 –SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing boat en-route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
- 2003 –Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
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