Historical Events - October 19

 1216 : King John of England died and his 9-year-old son Henry ascended the throne.

1812 : Napoleon Bonaparte withdrew from Moscow.

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

1933 : Germany withdrew from the League of Nations.

1935 : The League of Nations imposed economic sanctions on Italy over its invasion of Ethiopia.

1950 : Iran became the first country to accept technical assistance from the United States under the Point Four Program. 

1970 : Delivery of the first Indian-made MiG fighter jet to the Air Force.

1987 : 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.

1994 : The government of Madhya Pradesh announced the Tansen Award to Rudraveena player Ustad Asad Ali Khan.

2005 : Saddam Hussein was tried for crimes against humanity.

 

Famous Birthdays   – October 19  

1870: Matangini Hazra, Indian revolutionary.

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

1911: Majaz, Indian Urdu poet and writer.

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

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

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

1961: Sunny Deol, Indian actor.

Death Anniversaries  – October 19

1216: King John of England.

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

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

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

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

1986: Samora Mahal, Mozambique’s first president.

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

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

2011: Kakkanadan, Indian writer.