According to the Gregory calendar, October 19 is the 292nd (293th day of the leap year) day of the year. There are still 73 days left in the year.
Important events of 19 October
1689 - Sambhaji's widow and her child surrender to Aurangzeb at Raigad Fort.
1889 - French leader Napoleon Bonaparte withdraws his army from the capital of Russia.
1933 - Germany comes out of the Treaty of Allies.
1924 - Abdul Aziz declares himself a protector of holy places in Mecca.
1950 - Mother Teresa founded the Missionary of Charities in Calcutta (India).
1952 - Sriramulu Potti starts a fast unto death for the separate Andhra state.
1970 - The first MiG-21 aircraft built in India was inducted into the Indian Air Force.
1983 - Indian-American citizen Dr. S. Chandrashekhar was given another American scientist Prof. 1983 Nobel Prize in Physics with Williams Fowler.
1994 - North Korea and the United Nations in Geneva. The US signed a landmark agreement to keep Korea free from the proliferation of nuclear weapons.
2003 - Pope John Paul II declares Mother Teresa blessed. This is the first step towards the title of saint.
2004 - US Secretary of State Colin Powell made the revelation that India-Pakistan war was averted by US efforts. China launched its first commercial weather satellite. Soo Win became the new Prime Minister of Myanmar.
2005 - Trial begins in Baghdad against Iraq's ousted President Saddam Hussein.
2007 - Indian High Commissioner met him after the attack on former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
2008 - Tata Motors removes 300 temporary workers due to slowdown in automobile market.
2012 - Eight people killed, 110 others injured in bomb blast in Lebanon's capital, Beirut.
Person born on 19 October
1870 - Matangini Hazara - Famous female revolutionary.
1887 - Sarangadhar Das - Freedom fighter.
1903 - R.B. C. Boral - Famous composer of Hindi films.
1910 - Subrahmanyam Chandrasekhar, astrophysicist
1911 - Majaz, Famous Poet
1923 - Bholashankar Vyas - Famous litterateur of 'Kashi' (present Banaras).
1961 - Ajay Singh, Hindi film actor, popularly known as Sunny Deol.
1929 - Nirmala Deshpande - Famous female social worker associated with Gandhian ideology.
1920 - Pandurang Shastri Athawale - Famous Indian philosopher and social reformer.
Died on October 19
1971 - Ramavadh Dwivedi - one of the famous litterateurs.
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