Historical Events on October 19.

1. 1216, 19th October: King John of England died and his 9-year-old son Henry ascended the throne.

2. 1812, 19th October: Napoleon Bonaparte withdrew from Moscow.

3. 1900, 19th October: ‘Planck’s law’ was proposed by the German scientist Max Planck. It is also called the ‘Black Body Emission’ rule.

4. 1933, 19th October: Germany withdrew from the League of Nations.

5. 1935, 19th October: The League of Nations imposed economic sanctions on Italy over its invasion of Ethiopia.

6. 1950, 19th October: Iran became the first country to accept technical assistance from the United States under the Point Four Program. 

7. 1970, 19th October: Delivery of the first Indian-made MiG fighter jet to the Air Force.

8. 1987, 19th October: A steep decline in the share price was recorded in New York’s Wall Street amid heavy selling pressure and its impact on the stock markets around the world.

9. 1994, 19th October: The government of Madhya Pradesh announced the Tansen Award to Rudraveena player Ustad Asad Ali Khan.

10. 2005, 19th October: Saddam Hussein was tried for crimes against humanity.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on October 19.

1. 1870: Matangini Hazra, Indian revolutionary.

2. 1910: Subramanian Chandrasekhar, Indian Astronomer, and Nobel Prize winner.

3. 1911: Majaz, Indian Urdu poet and writer.

4. 1920: Pudurang Shastri Athawale, Indian spiritual master and philosopher.

5. 1954: Priya Tendulkar, Indian actress, writer, and social activist in theater, film, and television. 

6. 1954: Jatinder Pannu,journalist and a social activist from Punjab, India

7. 1961: Sunny Deol, Indian actor.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on October 19.

1. 1216: King John of England.

2. 1745: Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric.

3. 1875: Sir Charles Wheatstone, an English scientist, and inventor.

4. 1934: Vishwanath Kar, Indian-Oriya writer, editor, and social reformer.

5. 1937: Ernest Rutherford, Nobel Prize-winning British physicist.

6. 1986: Samora Mahal, Mozambique’s first president.

7. 1995: Baby Naz, Indian Child artist, and actress.

8. 2003: Alija Izetbegovic, the first president of Botswana and Herzegovina.

9. 2011: Kakkanadan, Indian writer. 

19-October-1689

Sambhaji's queen Yesubai and her child surrendered the Raigarh Fort to the Mughals.

19-October-1774

Members of the Council and the Judge of Supreme Court of England came to improve the management in India.

19-October-1875

The first section from Hathras Road to Mathura Cantonment was opened to traffic.

19-October-1888

Namakkal Kavignar, Gandhian poet and painter, was born at Mohanur in Salem.

19-October-1905

Prince and Princess of Wales leave on an official visit to India at London.

19-October-1907

Sulochana Modi, first lady Mayor of Mumbai Mahanagar Palika, was born.

19-October-1910

Subrahamanyam Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore. He was one of the world's leading astrophysicists. For his contributions to the study of stars, Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science, the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983.

19-October-1920

Prakashchandra Sethi, former central minister, was born.

19-October-1921

Pandurangshastri Athvle, founder of 'Swadhyay Pariwar', was born.

19-October-1925

B. Shankaranand, former central minister, was born.

19-October-1929

Balbir Singh, India field hockey player (Olympic gold 1948-56), was born.

19-October-1954

Nehru and Mao meet in Peking.

19-October-1967

Dr. C. V. Raman elucidated his new theory on wave motion in respect to vision and dim light.

19-October-1970

First Indian-made MIG-21 handed over to the Air Force. Privy purses and privileges of former Indian rulers abolished.

19-October-1974

T. S. Rajamanikkam Pillai, famous Tamil stage artist, died.

19-October-1979

T. R. Baalu was born in Thalikottai, Distt. Thiruvarur (Tamil Nadu).

19-October-1983

Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler.

19-October-1983

Union Government takes over the management of 13 textile undertakings in Bombay; marathon strike in cotton textile industry ends.

19-October-1990

The Government of India under an ordinance puts forward a three-point formula for Ayodhya issue: (i) to acquire the land (ii) other land may be given for building temple except the disputed one (iii) the issue may referred to Supreme Court for speedy solution.

19-October-1997

BSP withdraws support to Kalyan Singh government in UP because of its 'anti-Dalit' policies.

19-October-1999

Sonia Gandhi will be the leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, says the Congress(I).

19-October-2000

The Government creates an electronic database of all the principal Central Acts from 1834 to 1996 of all India application.