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People born on October 19
1870 - Matangini Hazara - Famous female revolutionary.
1887 - Sarangdhar Das was a freedom fighter.
1903 - R. C. Boral - Famous composer of Hindi films.
1910 – Subramaniam Chandrasekhar, an astronomer and Nobel laureate, was born in Lahore (British India).
1920 – Pandurang Shastri Athalve, the famous Indian philosopher and social reformer, the founder of the Swadhyaya family, was born in Maharashtra.
1923 - Bholashankar Vyas - famous litterateur of 'Kashi' (present-day Banaras).
1929 - Nirmala Deshpande - Famous female social worker associated with Gandhian ideology.
1961 - Ajay Singh, better known as Sunny Deol, Hindi film actor.
Died on 19 October
1745 – Jonathan Swift, author of the famous book Gulliver's Journeys, died.
1971 - Ramavadh Dwivedi - One of the famous litterateurs.
Important Occasions and Celebrations of 19 October
- Shri Subramaniam Chandrasekhar Birthday.
Important Events of 19 October
1630 - The first general court is held in Boston.
1689 - Sambhaji's widow and her child surrender to Aurangzeb at Raigad Fort.
1722 - C. Hofer of France patents a fire extinguisher.
1739 - England declares war on Spain.
1781 - British General Cornwallas surrenders to America.
1781 - The American Revolution War ends.
1813 - The Battle of Lapzing ends.
1853 - The first flour mill was started in the US state of Hawaii.
1872 - The world's largest gold piece (215 kg) was found in New South Wales.
1889 - French leader Napoleon Bonaparte withdraws his army from the Russian capital.
1900 - 'Planck's law' was propounded by the German scientist Max Planck. It is also called the law of 'black body emission'.
1915 - Russia and Italy declare war on Bulgaria.
1917 - 1917 Dallas Love Field Airport is opened to the public.
1924 - Abdul Aziz proclaims himself the protector of the holy places in Mecca.
1926 - John C. Garrand patents the semi-automatic rifle.
1932 - The British government signed a trade deal with the Soviet Union.
1932 – Henry Ford, owner of the Ford Motor Company, gives his first radio speech.
1933 - Germany comes out of the Treaty of the Allies.
1943 – Albert Schatz, a student at Rutgers University, developed streptomycin, a drug used to treat tuberculosis.
1944 – War begins between the armies of the United States and Japan in the Philippine Islands.
1950 - Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charities in Kolkata. Mother Teresa was a Roman Catholic nun who had Indian citizenship.
1952 – Sriramulu Potti begins a fast unto death demanding the creation of a separate Telugu-speaking state Andhra Pradesh from Madras Province.
1956 - Russia and Japan sign the war, officially ending the 1945 war between the two countries.
1960 – Martin Luther King-Jr of America, who campaigned for civil rights, was arrested in Atlanta
1970 – The first MiG-21 aircraft manufactured in India is inducted into the Indian Air Force. It is a super sonic fighter jet that was manufactured by the Soviet Union.
1983 - American citizen of Indian origin Dr. S. Another American scientist, Prof. Chandrashekhar. 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics with Williams Fowler.
1987 – Amid heavy selling pressure in New York's Wall Street, a sharp fall in the stock price is recorded, and this has an effect on the stock markets around the world.
1994 - North Korea and the UN in Geneva. The US signed a historic agreement to keep the Korean peninsula free from the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
2000 - The Government of India announced the creation of an electronic database of all Central Acts from 1834 to 1996.
2003 - Pope John Paul II declares Mother Teresa blessed. This is the first step towards being given the title of a saint.
2004 - US Secretary of State Colin Powell reveals that India-Pakistan war was averted by US efforts.
2004 - China launched its first commercial weather satellite.
2004 - Suu Win becomes the new Prime Minister of Myanmar.
2005 - Trial begins in Baghdad against Iraq's ousted President Saddam Hussein.
2007 - Indian High Commissioner meets with former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto after the attack.
2008 - Tata Motors lays off 300 temporary workers due to slowdown in the automobile market.
2012 – Eight people are killed, 110 others injured in a bombing in the Lebanese capital Beirut.
2019 – A 15-day state of emergency is declared in Chile.
2019 - Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal inaugurated 100 new Mohalla Clinics.
2019 – The General Meeting of the United Nations elected 14 nations (Armenia, Brazil, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Libya, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Namibia, Netherlands, Poland, Republic of Korea, Sudan and Venezuela) to the UNHRC.
2019 – Sri Lanka is removed from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) gray list (Colombo Gazette).
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