This is a list of selected October 19 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Mother Teresa Day in Albania | date not cited |
| Constitution Day in Niue (1974); | stub, unreferenced |
| 202 BC – Publius Cornelius Scipio, a consul of the Roman Republic, decisively defeated Hannibal and the Carthaginians at Zama, ending the Second Punic War. | refimprove section |
| 1469 – Ferdinand II of Aragon married Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paved the way for the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain. | both: unreferenced section |
| 1789 – John Jay was sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States. | external links |
| 1900 – German physicist Max Planck proposed his law of black body emission, a pioneer result of modern physics and quantum theory. | probably too technical for the Main Page |
| 1943 – Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, was first isolated by a PhD student at Rutgers University. | Referencing issues |
| 1950 – The Chinese Army captured the town of Qamdo as part of China's plan to take control of Tibet. | refimprove section |
| 1985 – The first Blockbuster, at one time one of the world's largest video rental chains, opened in Dallas, Texas. | unreferenced section |
| 1986 – President of Mozambique Samora Machel and 43 others were killed when his presidential aircraft crashed in the Lebombo Mountains just inside the border of South Africa. | refimprove |
| 1998 – The eco-terrorist group Earth Liberation Front set fire to the Vail Ski Resort in Vail, Colorado, US, causing $12 million in damage. | refimprove section, date not in article |
| 1989 – The Troubles: The Guildford Four had their convictions quashed after serving 15 years for their alleged involvement in the Guildford pub bombings. | unreferenced section, refimprove section |
| 2001 – SIEV X, an Indonesian fishing boat en route to Christmas Island carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sank in international waters, killing 353 of them. | needs more footnotes |
| 2004 – Irish aid worker Margaret Hassan was abducted in Baghdad by unidentified kidnappers, who murdered her about four weeks later. | refimprove |
| John Juvenal Ancina |b|1545| | too many unreferenced paragraphed, at least 8 {cn} tags |
| Jacobus Arminius |d|1609| | too manu Cns |
| Saki Fujita |b|1984| | refimprove |
Eligible
- 1596 – The Spanish ship San Felipe was shipwrecked on the Japanese island of Shikoku, and its cargo confiscated by the local daimyō.
- 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British forces led by Lord Cornwallis officially surrendered to Franco-American forces under George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau, ending the Siege of Yorktown.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Despite incurring nearly twice as many casualties as the Confederates, the Union Army emerged victorious at the Battle of Cedar Creek.
- 1943 – World War II: Allied aircraft sank the German cargo ship Sinfra, killing mostly Italian POWs.
- 1955 – At a meeting of its general assembly, the European Broadcasting Union approved the staging of the first Eurovision Song Contest.
- 1965 – Vietnam War: The Siege of Plei Me began with the first major confrontation between soldiers of the North Vietnamese Army and the U.S. Army.
- 1965 – A group of ethnic Hutu military officers failed in their attempt to overthrow the Burundian government.
- 1987 – Iran–Iraq War: U.S. Navy forces destroyed two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf in response to an Iranian missile attack on a Kuwaiti oil tanker three days earlier.
- 1987 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 22.6 percent on Black Monday, the largest one-day percentage decline in the stock market index's history.
- 1988 – The British government restricted the broadcast of the voices of representatives from Sinn Féin and several Irish republican and loyalist paramilitary groups on television and radio.
- 2005 – Hurricane Wilma became the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum atmospheric pressure of 882 mbar (26.05 inHg).
- 2013 – British YouTube collective the Sidemen were formed as a Rockstar Games Social Club group in Grand Theft Auto Online.
- 2017 – Canadian astronomer Robert Weryk discovered ʻOumuamua (depicted), the first known interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System.
- Born/died this day: |Yusuf I of Granada |d|1354| Annie Smith Peck |b|1850| Salimuzzaman Siddiqui |b|1897| Peter Aduja |b|1920| Edna St. Vincent Millay |d|1950| V. Gordon Childe |d|1957| Yoko Shimomura |b|1967| Fred Keenor |d|1972 |
Notes
- Typhoon Tip appears on October 12, so Hurricane Wilma should not appear in the same year
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- 1579 – A ceremony was held in Edinburgh marking the coming of age of James VI of Scotland as an adult ruler.
- 1752 – The Pennsylvania Gazette published a statement by Benjamin Franklin describing a kite experiment (depicted) to determine the electrical nature of lightning.
- 1914 – First World War: Allied forces began engaging German troops at the First Battle of Ypres.
- 1944 – The Guatemalan Revolution began with a small group of army officers led by Francisco Javier Arana and Jacobo Árbenz launching a coup against dictator Jorge Ubico.
- John Rolph (d. 1870)
- Demetrios Christodoulou (b. 1951)
- Josef Hoop (d. 1959)
- Ali Treki (d. 2015)
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