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.
- 439 –The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
- 1512 –Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
- 1649 –New Ross town, Co. Wexford, Ireland, surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.
- 1781 –At Yorktown, Virginia, representatives of British commander Lord Cornwallis handed over Cornwallis’ sword and formally surrendered to George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau.
- 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.
- 1812 –Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow.
- 1813 –The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.
- 1864 –St. Albans Raid – Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.
- 1917 –The Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
- 1933 –Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
- 1943 –Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 –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.
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