Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on October 19 throughout history.
The French Crown Jewels and Regalia comprise the crowns, orb, sceptres, diadems and jewels that were symbols of royal or imperial power between 752 and 1870. These were worn by ma…
Pieces of the French Crown Jewels are successfully stolen during a heist on the Louvre Museum in Paris..
The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the lower house, the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster in London, England…
Members of Parliament met at the House of Lords to discuss the United Kingdom's Brexit deal, this was the first…
The Buenos Aires train crash occurred on October 19, 2013 when a passenger train failed to stop at a terminal station in Buenos Aires, Argentina, injuring 105 people. As of Octobe…
One hundred and five people are injured in a train crash in Buenos Aires.
On 19 October 2012, Wissam al-Hassan, a brigadier general of the Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF) and the head of its intelligence-oriented information branch, died along w…
A bomb explosion kills eight people and injures 110 more in Lebanon.
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was an Iraqi politician and revolutionary who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 1979 until his overthrow in 2003. He also served as…
Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
Hurricane Wilma was the most intense tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin and the second-most intense tropical cyclone in the Western Hemisphere, both based on barometric pressu…
Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 was a scheduled passenger flight from St. Louis to Kirksville, Missouri, United States. On October 19, 2004, the British Aerospace Jetstream 32 airc…
Thirteen people are killed when Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 crashes in Adair County, Missouri, while on approach to…
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and a Catholi…
Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
SIEV X was the name assigned by Australian authorities to an Indonesian fishing boat carrying over 400 asylum seekers en route to Australia, which capsized in international waters…
SIEV X, an Indonesian fishing boat en route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 migrants, sinks in international…
The Guildford Four and Maguire Seven were two groups of people, mostly from Northern Ireland, who were wrongly convicted in English courts in 1975 and 1976 of the Guildford pub b…
The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15…
From October 1988 to September 1994 the British government banned broadcasts of the voices of representatives from Sinn Féin and ten other Irish republican and loyalist groups on …
The British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Féin and…
Operation Nimble Archer was the 19 October 1987 attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf by United States Navy forces. The attack was a response to Iran's missile a…
The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
Black Monday was a global, severe and largely unexpected stock market crash on Monday, October 19, 1987. Worldwide losses were estimated at US$1.71 trillion. The severity sparked …
Black Monday: The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
On 19 October 1986, a Tupolev Tu-134 jetliner with a Soviet crew carrying President Samora Machel and 43 others from Mbala, Zambia to the Mozambican capital Maputo crashed at Mbuz…
The president of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, along with 33 others, die when their aircraft crashes…
The Schedules of the Niue Constitution Act 1974 form the Constitution of Niue. It stipulates the make-up of the executive branch of the government, the legislative branch, and the…
Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand.
Audio recordings of conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and Nixon administration officials, Nixon family members, and White House staff surfaced during the Watergat…
President Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
A United States embargo has prevented U.S. businesses and citizens from conducting trade or commerce with Cuban interests since 1960. Modern diplomatic relations are cold, stemmin…
The United States imposes a near-total trade embargo against Cuba.
The Soviet Union did not sign the 1951 Treaty of Peace with Japan, which had re‑established peaceful relations between most other Allied Powers and Japan. On 19 October 1956, Japa…
The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that…
The Eurovision Song Contest was first held in 1956. Following a series of exchange broadcasts in 1954 through its Eurovision transmission network, the European Broadcasting Union …
The General Assembly of the European Broadcasting Union approves the staging of the first Eurovision Song Contest.
Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, scienc…
Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is published.