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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