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.
1386 : The oldest university in Germany, Heidelberg University was founded.
1867 : The United States took possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2 million.
1879 : The Theosophical Society was established.
1906 : Depressed Class Mission established by Maharshi Vitthal Ramji Shinde.
1922 : Establishment of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
1954 : Texas Instruments announced the first transistor radio.
1963 : Lord Home was elected as the next Prime Minister of the UK after an uproar for leadership in the Conservative Party.
1967 : Soviet Russia’s Venera-4 spacecraft lands on Venus.
1977 : 2060 – Chiron, the farthest asteroid in space, was discovered.
1989 : Communist leader Eric Honecker of East Germany was removed from his post.
2002 : Sachin Tendulkar became the first cricketer to score 20,000 runs in Tests and ODIs.
2007 : Karachi Bombing: A suicide attack on a motorcade carrying former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto killed 139 and injured 450 more. Bhutto herself was uninjured.
Famous Birthdays – October 18
1804: King Mongkut Ram (IV) of Thailand.
1861: Bharatcharya Chintamanrao Vaidya, an Indian judge, and writer.
1925: Ibrahim Alkazi, Indian theatre director, and drama teacher, and director of the National School of Drama (NSD).
1925: Ramiz Alia, the first president of Albania.
1944: Deepak Parekh, Chairman of India’s Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC).
1950: Om Puri, Indian actor.
1956: Martina Navratilova, a lawn tennis player from Czechoslovakia.
1965: Zakir Naik, founder, and chairman of the Islamic Research Foundation (IRF).
1977: Jyothika, Indian actress.
1974: Amish Tripathi, an Indian writer.
Death Anniversaries – October 18
1871: Charles Babbage, English polymath, mechanical engineer, mathematician, father of the first mechanical computer.
1909: Lal Mohan Ghosh, sixteenth President of the Indian National Congress and eminent Bengali barrister.
1931: Thomas Alva Edison, American researcher, and entrepreneur.
1976: Vishwanath Satyanarayana, Indian poet, and writer.
1757 : Austrian army captured Germany’s capital Berlin.
1775 : British troop’s burned down Portland, Maine.
1846 : Dr. John Warren, an American physician, first used the chemical ether to anesthetize during surgery.
1868 : Denmark sold all Nicobar Islands to the British.
1905 : Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India, ordered partition of Bengal.
1919 : Adolf Hitler delivered his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers’ Party.
1923 : The Walt Disney Company was founded by Walt Disney and his brother Roy Disney.
1951 : Pakistan’s first Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan was assassinated in Rawalpindi.
1968 : Yasunari Kawabata became the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1978 : Wanda Rutkiewicz became the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1986 : Reinhold Messner became the first person to climb 14 peaks above 8,000 meters.
1975 : Rahima Banu, a 2-year-old girl from Bangladesh, became the last patient of Devi (Smallpox).
2005 : G-20 countries agreed to reform the World Bank and the IMF.
Famous Birthdays – October 16
1670: Banda Singh Bahadur, Sikh general.
1854: Oscar Wilde, Irish writer, and playwright.
1878: Vallathol Narayana Menon, an Indian poet.
1886: David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister.
1888: Eugene O’Neill, American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature.
1890: Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary leader.
1896: Seth Govind Das, Indian independence activist, and a distinguished parliamentarian.
1926: Charles Francis “Chuck” Dolan, American billionaire and the founder of Cablevision.
1946: Naveen Patnaik, Indian politician, chief minister of Orissa.
1948: Hema Malini, Indian actress, director, producer, Classical dancer, and choreographer.
1952: Crazy Mohan, Indian actor.
1982: Prithviraj Sukumaran, Indian actor, director, producer.
2003: Krittika, Princess of Nepal.
Death Anniversaries – October 16
1772: Ahmad Shāh Durrānī, also known as Ahmad Shah Abdali, the founder of the Durrani Empire and is regarded as the founder of the modern state of Afghanistan.
1793: Marie-Antoinette, the widow of King Louis XVI of France, was killed on a guillotine.
1799: Veerapadiya Kattabomman, Palayakarrar and chieftain from Panchalankurichi in Tamil Nadu, India.
1951: Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan’s first Prime Minister.
1981: Moshe Dayan, Israeli military leader, and politician.
1983: Harish-Chandra, American mathematician, and physicist.
1994: Ganesh Ghosh, an Indian independence activist, revolutionary, and politician.
2007: Deborah Kerr, English actresses.
Historical Events - October 17
1831 : Michael Faraday demonstrated the properties of electromagnetic induction.
1878 : John A. McDonald was elected Prime Minister of Canada once again after playing the role of opposition in government for five years.
1888 : Thomas Edison filed a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
1933 : Albert Einstein fled from Nazi Germany to the United States.
1943 : The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) was completed.
1956 : The first commercial nuclear power plant was officially opened in England.
1966 : Botswana and Lesotho joined the United Nations.
1979 : Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1998 : Awarded United Nations Prize to Fatima B. for setting up a model social service project in Andhra Pradesh.
2003 : China succeeded in sending humans to space as Asia’s first in space and third country after Russia.
