About October 19
October 19, 2025 is the 292nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 73 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 121 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 19
- 1469 –Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.
- 1512 –Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
- 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.
- 1900 –Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission (Planck’s law).
- 1912 –Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1914 –The First Battle of Ypres begins.
- 1917 –The Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
- 1921 –Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.
- 1933 –Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
- 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.
- 1973 –President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
- 1976 –Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon.
- 1987 –In retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy disables three of Iran’s offshore oil platforms.
- 2003 –Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
- 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.
- 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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