October, 19th in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Tuesday 19, 2004:
Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the Thai government on charges of corruption.

Sunday 19, 2003:
Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.

Friday 19, 2001:
SIEV-X sinks en route to Christmas Island

Wednesday 19, 1994:
New Zealand's Goodnight Kiwi says good night for the last time.

Thursday 19, 1989:
they had spent 15 years in prison through a miscarriage of justice.

Monday 19, 1987:
(Black Monday) Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%.

Sunday 19, 1986:
Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others died when their Tupolev 134 plane crashed into the Lebombo Mountains.

Saturday 19, 1985:
The first Blockbuster Video store opens in Dallas, Texas.

Wednesday 19, 1983:
Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and executed in a military coup d'état led by Bernard Coard.

Tuesday 19, 1982:
John De Lorean is arrested for trafficking in cocaine.

Friday 19, 1973:
President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes.

Wednesday 19, 1960:
Mauretania gains independence from France.

Tuesday 19, 1954:
First ascent of Cho Oyu

Thursday 19, 1944:
United States forces land in the Philippines.

Tuesday 19, 1943:
Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.

Thursday 19, 1933:
Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.

Friday 19, 1917:
Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.

Monday 19, 1914:
The First Battle of Ypres begins.

Saturday 19, 1912:
Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.

Sunday 19, 1873:
Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.

Wednesday 19, 1864:
Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.

Tuesday 19, 1813:
The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.

Monday 19, 1812:
Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow.

Friday 19, 1781:
Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington and Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown, Virginia, ending the American Revolutionary War.

Saturday 19, 1512:
Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology .

Friday 19, 1466:
The Thirteen Years' War ended with the Second Treaty of Toru?. Gdansk Pomerania and Prussia as a whole was incorporated into Poland; the Teutonic Knights were allowed to rule its eastern part as Polish vassals.

Wednesday 19, 1453:
The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.

Wednesday 19, 439:
The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.

Tuesday 19, -202:
The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal.

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/19-october/on-this-day.html


People born on October 19

1976:
Michael Young, baseball player (b: October 19, 1976) (Biography of Michael Young (baseball player))

1972:
Pras, American musician (b: October 19, 1972) (Biography of Pras)

1969:
Trey Parker, American cartoonist, comedian, writer, and actor (b: October 19, 1969) (Biography of Trey Parker)

1966:
Jon Favreau, American actor, writer, director (b: October 19, 1966) (Biography of Jon Favreau)

1965:
Ty Pennington, American television carpenter (b: October 19, 1965) (Biography of Ty Pennington)

1962:
Evander Holyfield, American boxer (b: October 19, 1962) (Biography of Evander Holyfield)

1956:
Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (b: October 19, 1956 ; d: March 29, 2003) (Biography of Carlo Urbani)

1951:
Patricia Ireland, President of the National Organization for Women (b: October 19, 1951) (Biography of Patricia Ireland)

1947:
Giorgio Cavazzano, comics artist and illustrator (b: October 19, 1947) (Biography of Giorgio Cavazzano)

1946:
Philip Pullman English writer (b: October 19, 1946) (Biography of Philip Pullman)

1945:
Divine, American actor (b: October 19, 1945 ; d: March 7, 1988) (Biography of Glen Milstead)
John Lithgow, American actor (b: October 19, 1945) (Biography of John Lithgow)

1944:
Peter Tosh, Jamaican musician (b: October 19, 1944 ; d: September 11, 1987) (Biography of Peter Tosh)

1942:
Andrew Vachss, American author and attorney (b: October 19, 1942) (Biography of Andrew Vachss)

1940:
Michael Gambon, Irish actor (b: October 19, 1940) (Biography of Michael Gambon)

1937:
Peter Max, American artist (b: October 19, 1937) (Biography of Peter Max)

1932:
Robert Reed, American actor (b: October 19, 1932 ; d: May 12, 1992) (Biography of Robert Reed)

1931:
John le Carré, English novelist (b: October 19, 1931) (Biography of John le Carré)

1918:
Louis Althusser, French philosopher (b: October 19, 1918 ; d: October 23, 1990) (Biography of Louis Althusser)

1916:
Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (b: October 19, 1916 ; d: October 14, 1994) (Biography of Emil Gilels)

1913:
Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and songwriter (b: October 19, 1913) (Biography of Vinicius de Moraes)

1910:
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b: October 19, 1910 ; d: August 21, 1995) (Biography of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar)

1908:
Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (b: October 19, 1908 ; d: February 1, 1981) (Biography of Geirr Tveitt)

1907:
Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader (b: October 19, 1907 ; d: July 12, 1962) (Biography of Roger Wolfe Kahn)

1899:
Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemalan writer (b: October 19, 1899 ; d: June 9, 1974) (Biography of Miguel Ángel Asturias)

1895:
Lewis Mumford, American historian (b: October 19, 1895 ; d: January 26, 1990) (Biography of Lewis Mumford)

1885:
Charles Merrill, American investment banker (b: October 19, 1885) (Biography of Charles Merrill)

1873:
Jaap Eden, Dutch skater and cyclist (b: October 19, 1873 ; d: February 2, 1925) (Biography of Jaap Eden)

1862:
Auguste Lumière, French inventor (b: October 19, 1862) (Biography of Auguste Lumière)

1784:
John McLoughlin, Canadian fur trader (b: October 19, 1784 ; d: September 3, 1857) (Biography of John McLoughlin)

1688:
William Cheselden, English surgeon and anatomist (b: October 19, 1688) (Biography of William Cheselden)

1680:
John Abernethy, Irish protestant minister (b: October 19, 1680) (Biography of John Abernethy (minister))

1658:
Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b: October 19, 1658 ; d: May 12, 1708) (Biography of Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz)

1610:
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (b: October 19, 1610 ; d: July 21, 1688) (Biography of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde)

1605:
Thomas Browne, English writer (b: October 19, 1605 ; d: October 19, 1682) (Biography of Thomas Browne)

1582:
Dmitry Ivanovich, Tsarevich (b: October 19, 1582 ; d: May 15, 1591) (Biography of Dmitry Ivanovich)

1562:
Archbishop George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (b: October 19, 1562 ; d: August 5, 1633) (Biography of Archbishop George Abbot)

1433:
Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher (b: October 19, 1433 ; d: October 1, 1499) (Biography of Marsilio Ficino)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/19-october/births.html