About October 19
October 19, 2024 is the 293rd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 73 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 102 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1900 –Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission (Planck’s law).
- 1933 –Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
- 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”.
- 1954 –First ascent of Cho Oyu.
- 1959 –The first discothèque opens, the Scotch-Club in Aachen, Germany.
- 1973 –President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
- 1974 –Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand.
- 1987 –In retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy disables three of Iran’s offshore oil platforms.
- 2003 –Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
- 2004 –Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan is kidnapped in Iraq.
- 2004 –Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the State Peace and Development Council on charges of corruption.
- 2005 –Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
- 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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