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
- 1216 –King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.
- 1386 –The Universität Heidelberg held its first lecture, making it the oldest German university.
- 1466 –The Thirteen Years War ends with the Second Treaty of Thorn.
- 1649 –New Ross town, Co. Wexford, Ireland, surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.
- 1789 –Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
- 1812 –Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow.
- 1822 –In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí.
- 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.
- 1912 –Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1914 –The First Battle of Ypres begins.
- 1921 –Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.
- 1943 –Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2004 –Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan is kidnapped in Iraq.
- 2005 –Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
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