About October 19
October 19, 2023 is the 292nd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 73 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 114 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 19
- 1512 –Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
- 1789 –Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
- 1864 –St. Albans Raid – Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.
- 1866 –Venice - Annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy - At Hotel Europa, Austria hands over Veneto to France, which hands it immediately over to Italy.
- 1900 –Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission (Planck’s law).
- 1914 –The First Battle of Ypres begins.
- 1917 –The Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
- 1935 –The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
- 1950 –The People’s Liberation Army takes control of the town of Qamdo; this is sometimes called the “Invasion of Tibet”.
- 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.
- 1954 –First ascent of Cho Oyu.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2004 –Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan is kidnapped in Iraq.
- 2005 –Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
- 2007 –Philippines: A bomb explosion rocked Glorietta 2, a shopping mall in Makati. The blast killed 11 and injured more than 100 people.
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