19 October

The 19t o October is the 292nt day o the year (293rd in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 73 days bidin.

 Events 
 1216 - Henry III o Ingland becomes Keeng agit nine.
 1812 - Napoleon I retreats frae Moscow.
 1813 - Napoleon I is defeatit at Leipzig, bi forces frae Roushie an Proushie.
 1868 - The Peseta becomes the offeecial currency o Spain.
 1870 - Breetish passenger steamer "Cambria" crashes intae rocks aff Ireland an sinks, killin 179 fowk.
 1921 - The Portuguese Prime meenister an several offeecials are murthert in the Bloody Nicht coup.
 1933 - Germany withdraws frae the League o Naitions.
 1935 - Fascist Italy invades Ethiopie.
 1954 - The Himalayan peak o Cho Oyu is climbed for the first time, bi an Austrick expedeetion.
 1957 - Fitbaa: Celtic defeat Rangers 7-1 at Hampden Park in Glesga, in the League Cup feenal - the biggest margin o victory in an Auld Firm match.
 1974 - The Paceefic island o Niue becomes a state wi free association wi New Zealand.
 1987 - Black Monday o warld financial mercats, an heavy losses on the Dow Jones.
 1991 - A yirdquauk kills 2,000 fowk in Northren Indie.
 2001 - A fishin boat sinks aff Java, Indonesie, killin 353 fowk.
 2002 - A referendum in the Republic o Ireland approves the Treaty o Nice.
 2003 - Mither Teresa is beatified.
 2005 - Umwhile Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein goes on trial.
 2008 - Republican Colin Powell endorses Democrat Barack Obama for Preses o the Unitit States ower John McCain.
 2015 - Justin Trudeau's Liberal Pairty wins Canadae's general election, defeatin Stephen Harper's Conservatives.
 2017 - A stick-shapit object cried 'Oumuamua is discoverit while traivellin through the Solar Seestem.
 2018 - A train runs through a croud durin a Hindu festival in Amritsar, Indie, killin at least 60 fowk.
 2018 - Unmanned European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo is launched on a 7-year journey tae the planet Mercur.
 2018 - Saudi Arabie admits tae the daith o the jurnalist Jamal Khashoggi in its consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
 2019 - A splosion at a gowd mine at the Seiba river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberie, Roushie, kills 15 fowk.
 2019 - The Hoose o Commons o the Unitit Kinrick haulds its first Saiturday sittin syne 1982 in order tae debate the way forrit ower Brexit.

 Births 
 1433 - Marsilio Ficino, Italian humanist an philosopher (d. 1499)
 1650 - Charles Erskine, 22nt Yerl o Mar, Scots nobleman (d. 1689)
 1882 - Umberto Boccioni, Italian penter (d. 1916)
 1899 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer (d. 1974)
 1910 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indie-American astropheesicist (d. 1995)
 1918 - Robert Schwarz Strauss, American politeecian an diplomat (d. 2014)
 1931 - John le Carré, Inglis writer
 1940 - Michael Gambon, Erse-Inglis actor
 1941 - Joe Gilroy, Scots fitbawer
 1945 - Angus Deaton, Scots-American economist
 1945 - John Lithgow, American actor
 1946 - Philip Pullman, Inglis writer
 1952 - Peter Bone, Inglis politeecian
 1954 - Ken Stott, Scots actor
 1962 - Evander Holyfield, American boxer
 1969 - Trey Parker, American actor, producer an animator
 1976 - Paul Hartley, Scots fitbawer
 1981 - Heikki Kovalainen, Finnish racin driver
 1984 - Luke Graham, Scots politeecian

 Daiths 
 1187 - Pape Urban III
 1216 - John, Keeng o Ingland (b. 1166)
 1745 - Jonathan Swift, Erse writer (b. 1667)
 1749 - William Ged, Scots gowdsmith (b. 1699)
 1935 - John Montagu Douglas Scott, 7t Duke o Buccleuch, Scots politeecian (b. 1864)
 1936 - Lu Xun, Cheenese author (b. 1881)
 1937 - Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand pheesicist (b. 1871)
 1981 - Johnny Doyle, Scots fitbawer (b. 1951)
 1999 - Nathalie Sarraute, French writer (b. 1900)
 2003 - Alija Izetbegovic, Bosnie politeecian (b. 1925)
 2014 - Lynda Bellingham, Canadian-Inglis actress (b. 1948)
 2018 - Osamu Shimomura, Japanese biochemist (b. 1928)

 Halidays 
 Constitution Day (Niue)
 Mither Teresa Day (Albanie)

Category:Days o the year