What are the important events that happened on October 19? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

October 19: Facts & Myths About This Day

October 19 is the 292^nd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 73 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 6, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,760,832,000 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaenneacontadigon’ day.

Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 121 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,685 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

October 19 Historical Events

• 1649 –
  New Ross town, Co. Wexford, Ireland, surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.
• 1805 –
  Napoleonic Wars: Austrian General Mack surrenders his army to the Grand Army of Napoleon at the Battle of Ulm. 30,000 prisoners are captured and 10,000 casualties inflicted on the losers.
• 1864 –
  Battle of Cedar Creek – Union Army under Philip Sheridan destroys a Confederate Army under Jubal Early.
• 1912 –
  Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
• 1956 –
  The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.
• 1973 –
  President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
• 1989 –
  The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.
• 2004 –
  Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the State Peace and Development Council on charges of corruption.
• 2005 –
  Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
• 2007 –
  Philippines: A bomb explosion rocked Glorietta 2, a shopping mall in Makati. The blast killed 11 and injured more than 100 people.

Who were born on October 19?

• 1688 –
  William Cheselden, English surgeon and anatomist (d. 1752)
• 1720 –
  John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (d. 1772)
• 1899 –
  Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
• 1940 –
  Michael Gambon, Irish-born British actor
• 1955 –
  Melpo Kosti, Greek actress
• 1957 –
  Karl Wallinger, Welsh musician
• 1973 –
  Hicham Arazi, Moroccan tennis player
• 1973 –
  Joaquin Gage, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 –
  Joy Bryant, American actress
• 1980 –
  Benjamin Salisbury, American actor

Who died on October 19?

• 1851 –
  Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte (b. 1778)
• 1856 –
  William Sprague III, American politician from Rhode Island (b. 1799)
• 1889 –
  King Louis of Portugal (b. 1838)
• 1893 –
  Lucy Stone, American suffragist and women’s rights activist (b. 1818)
• 1897 –
  George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (b. 1831)
• 1901 –
  Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (b. 1829)
• 1937 –
  Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1871)
• 1956 –
  Isham Jones, American musician (b. 1894)
• 1994 –
  Martha Raye, American comedian and actress (b. 1916)
• 2000 –
  Hortense Ellis, Jamaican reggae singer (b. 1941)