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October 19 in history

201 sourced entries recorded on October 19, from 202 BCE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 202 BCEThe Battle of Zama (130 kilometers south-west of Carthage) ends the Second Punic War and largely destroys the power of Carthage. Roman and Numidian forces under the leadership of the Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio and his Numidian ally, Masinissa, defeat a combined army of Carthaginians and their Numidian allies under the command of Hannibal and force Carthage to capitulate. Hannibal loses 20,000 men in the defeat, but he is able to escape Masinissa's pursuit.source
  • 439Carthage falls to the Vandals. Genseric makes it his capital and establishes the Vandal Kingdom.source
  • 764October 14–21 – Fujiwara no Nakamaro Rebellion: A short-lived revolt led by Fujiwara no Nakamaro is suppressed. Emperor Junnin is deposed after a 6-year reign, and forced into exile. Former empress Kōken reassumes the imperial throne of Japan, and takes the name Shōtoku. She appoints her close associate, the priest Dōkyō, prime minister (taishi), running the government with him. Nakamaro is captured and killed with his wife and children.source
  • 131419 October 1314 imperial election for the Holy Roman Emperor at Sachsenhausen (Frankfurt am Main). The 25-year-old Frederick the Fair of the House of Habsburg is elected by four of the electors and is crowned at Bonn Minster on November 25; however, in a dispute over validity of the election, Louis IV the Bavarian of the House of Wittelsbach is elected the following day by the remaining three electors and is crowned at Aachen, leading to civil war in the Empire.source
  • 1330King Edward III of England starts his personal reign, arresting his regent Roger Mortimer, and having him executed.source
  • 1387The Scaliger rule over the independent Lordship of Verona comes to an end after 125 years when the dictator Antonio I della Scala is forced by the nobles of the Lordship of Milan, led by Gian Galeazzo Visconti, to flee the city.source
  • 1399Thomas Arundel is formally restored as Archbishop of Canterbury by King Henry, replacing Roger Walden, who had been installed by King Richard II upon Arundel's dismissal in 1397.source
  • 1416The English Parliament is opened by King Henry V. The House of Commons elects Roger Flower as its Speaker.source
  • 1429Princess Isabella of Portugal, daughter of King João I, departs her homeland, accompanied by a flotilla of 20 ships and 2,000 Portuguese troops and royal officials, to make the voyage to the Duchy of Burgundy, where she is to formally marry Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. Because of storms, the voyage takes more than two months.source
  • 1437After negotiating a surrender and exchanging prisoners of war with the Moroccans, the Portuguese troops leave Tangier and sail away from Morocco.source
  • 1461With the Yorkist victory in the War of the Roses, the proposal by the new English King, Edward IV for an alliance with Scottish nobles against the former King Henry VI is approved by Scottish Highland lords at Ardtornish Castle. The agreement will become the basis for the Treaty of Westminster four months later on February 13, 1462.source
  • 1466The Second Peace of Thorn is signed between King Casimir IV Jagiellon of Poland and the Teutonic Knights Grand Master, Ludwig von Erlichshausen, ending the Thirteen Years' War.source
  • 1469Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile in Valladolid, bringing about a dynastic union.source
  • 1512Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).source
  • 1560The siege of Castle Semple ends after 31 days when the defenders wave the white flag of surrender.source
  • 1562La Herradura naval disaster: Twenty-five ships sink in a storm off of the coast of Spain in the bay of La Herradura, where 28 ships had been anchored to weather the elements. At least 3,000 people are killed, and perhaps as many as 5,000, while another 2,000 survivors, mostly slaves on the galleys, are able to escape to shore.source
  • 1566Gastón de Peralta, 3rd Marquess of Falces becomes the Viceroy of New Spain, replacing Francisco Ceinos. Peralta is removed from office by King Philip II after charges are made that Peralta is planning a rebellion against the crown.source
  • 1577In Italy, Giovanni Battista Gentile Pignolo is elected as the new Doge of the Republic of Genoa for a two-year term, replacing Prospero Centurione Fattinanti.source
  • 1579King James VI of Scotland makes his ceremonial entry into Edinburgh to assume the throne at the age of 13, after being declared to have reached the age of majority. Scotland had been ruled by regents since 1567, when James was declared king.source
  • 1579Entry of James VI into Edinburgh, ceremonially marking the start of his personal rule.source
  • 1586Burmese–Siamese War (1584–1593): Nanda Bayin, King of Burma, launches a two-pronged invasion of the Ayutthaya Kingdom (now Thailand) with 25,000 troops, 1,200 horses and 220 elephants. The invasion will fail, as thousands of troops die from starvation and disease and the Burmese troops will withdraw in April.source
  • 1591The Islamic calendar year 1000 A.H. begins with the first day of the month of Muharram, with concerns that the new year will herald the end of the world. When the year ends on October 7, 1592, without an apocalypse, the official interpretation among Ottoman Muslims is that the Ottoman Empire "had come closer to perfection than any other Muslim state.source
  • 1596The Spanish galleon San Felipe founders in Japan, leading to 26 Christians being martyred the next year.source
  • 1598The Siege of Suncheon, an attempt by Korean and Chinese troops to capture the Japanese-occupied Suncheon Castle. An attempt to lure Japanese General Konishi Yukinaga into an ambush fails when a Korean Army cannon is fired too early and gives away the Korean plan.source
  • 1655Swedish King Karl X Gustav occupies Kraków (Poland).source
  • 1662An English Buccaneer force led by Royal Navy commodore Christopher Myngs launches an attack on Santiago de Cuba.source
  • 1669The Parliament of Scotland holds its first new session in six years (although two Conventions of Estates had been held briefly in 1665 and 1667). The session is opened in Edinburgh by Charles II of England in his capacity as King of Scotland.source
  • 1682Kara Mustafa departs with the Ottoman army to Adrianople.source
  • 1694A major windstorm begins and continues for several days, spreading the Culbin Sands over a large area of farmland in the Scottish Highlands in the County of Moray and burying the now-abandoned village of Culbin.source
  • 1697Misión Loreto, the first Roman Catholic mission on Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, is founded by Spanish missionary Juan María de Salvatierra.source
  • 1699The funeral of Christian V takes place at Roskilde Cathedral.source
  • 1702The opera Der Sieg der fruchtbaren Pomona by Reinhard Keiser is premiered at the Hamburg Opera for the birthday of King Frederick IV of Denmark.source
  • 1706an Edinburgh mob opposed to the Union threatens the Lord Provost.source
  • 1725Joan Paul Schaghen is appointed by the Dutch East India Company to serve as the Governor of Ceylon after the death of Johannes Hertenberg.source
  • 1729John Harris is consecrated as Bishop of Llandaff.source
  • 1740October 9–22 – Batavia Massacre: Troops of the Dutch East India Company massacre at least 10,000 Chinese Indonesians in Batavia.source
  • 1744William Shirley, the British colonial Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, announces the declaration of war against the Miꞌkmaq and Maliseet Indian tribes.source
  • 1745Jonathan Swift, satirist and Dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, dies aged 78. His body is laid out in public for the people of Dublin to pay their last respects, and he is buried, in accordance with his wishes, in his cathedral by Esther Johnson's side with his own epitaph: Ubi sæva Indignatio / Ulterius / Cor lacerare nequit ("where savage indignation can no longer lacerate the heart").source
  • 1749Two months after Pierre Céloron begins his inspection of the Ohio territory on behalf of France, Christopher Gist starts his survey of the lands along the right bank of the Ohio River on behalf of the British grant to the Ohio Company.source
  • 1781American Revolution: Following the Siege of Yorktown, General Charles Cornwallis surrenders to General George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia, ending the armed struggle of the American Revolution.source
  • 1781American Revolutionary War: following the Siege of Yorktown, General Charles Cornwallis surrenders to General George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia, ending the armed struggle of the American Revolutionary War.source
  • 1781American Revolution: Following the Siege of Yorktown, General Cornwallis surrenders to General George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia, ending the armed struggle of the American Revolution.source
  • 1791The Treaty of Drottningholm is signed between the Russian Empire and Sweden establishing an alliance between the two.source
  • 1805October 16–October 19 – War of the Third Coalition: Ulm Campaign – Battle of Ulm: Austrian General Mack von Leiberich is forced to surrender his entire army to Napoleon, after being surrounded.source
  • 1813October 16–19 – Napoleonic Wars – Battle of Leipzig: Napoleon is defeated by the forces of the Sixth Coalition. More than 600,000 troops are in the field, with well over 10% killed, wounded or missing. Many of the German states forming the Confederation of the Rhine defect from Napoleon I to the Coalition, as a result of the battle.source
  • 1818The Spanish frigate Maria Isabel is captured by a Chilean squadron commanded by Manuel Blanco Encalada.source
  • 1839Charles Thomson, Governor of Upper and Lower Canada, arrives. It is determined that Upper and Lower Canada shall share revenue in the ratio of 2 to 3.source
  • 1844Postal convention between Britain and Belgium signed in London.source
  • 1845Richard Wagner's opera Tannhäuser debuts at the Dresden Royal Court Theater.source
  • 1847Charlotte Brontë publishes Jane Eyre under the pen name of Currer Bell in England.source
  • 1850The Phi Kappa Sigma international fraternity is founded, at the University of Pennsylvania.source
  • 1860A new Māori revolt begins in New Zealand.source
  • 1860October 18–21 – Beijing's Old Summer Palace is burned to the ground by orders of British general Lord Elgin, in retaliation for mistreatment of several prisoners of war, during the Second Opium War.source
  • 1866October 7–21 – The Second Plenary Council of American Roman Catholic bishops is held in Baltimore.source
  • 1870SS Cambria is wrecked on Inishtrahull with the loss of 179 lives.source
  • 1870SS Cambria is wrecked on Inishtrahull (Ireland) with the loss of 179 lives.source
  • 1874The modern University of Zagreb is founded.source
  • 1876The 2,700 ton steamer Windsor Castle sinks off Dassen Island.source
  • 1878First Anti-Socialist law passed by the German Reichstagsource
  • 1879Legislative electionsource
  • 1887The Sydney-bound steamer SS Cheviot is wrecked near Point Nepean, Victoria, claiming 35 lives.source
  • 1889Jacob Kielland, naval officer and politician (born 1825)source
  • 1895Nekata Bank (根方銀行), as predecessor of Suruga Bank was founded in Shizuoka Prefecture.source
  • 1898The Universidad Literaria y Cientifica de Filipinas, the first Filipino operated university and the precursor to the University of the Philippines, is established shortly after the proclamation of the First Philippine Republic.source
  • 1899Boer troops commanded by Johannes Kock capture the railway station in Elandslaagte and cut the telegraph line between the British Army headquarters at Ladysmith and its station at Dundee.source
  • 1899Robert H. Goddard receives his inspiration to develop the first rocket capable of reaching outer space, after viewing his yard from high in a tree and imagining "how wonderful it would be to make some device which had even the possibility of ascending to Mars, and how it would look on a small scale, if sent up from the meadow at my feet."source
  • 1900Max Planck first states Planck's law of black-body radiation to a meeting of the German Physical Society in Berlin, marking the birth of modern quantum mechanics. He restates it on December 14.source
  • 1901Aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont wins the Deutsch de la Meurthe prize with a flight that rounds the Eiffel Tower,source
  • 1904Polytechnic University of the Philippines is founded as Manila Business School, through the superintendence of American C. A. O'Reilley.source
  • 1912October 18–21 – First Balkan War: The Greek navy captures the island of Lemnos for use as a forward base against the Dardanelles.source
  • 1914The Race to the Sea effectively ends, with the Western Front reaching the Belgian coast.source
  • 191419 October – 22 November – World War I: First Battle of Ypres fought between British, French and German forces in Ypres in Belgium.source
  • 1915Mexican Revolution: The U.S. recognizes the Mexican government of Venustiano Carranza de facto (not de jure until 1917).source
  • 1916Cardinal Mercier protests the deportation of forced labourers to Germany.source
  • 1917Carl Swartz leaves office as Prime Minister of Sweden, after dismal election results for the right-wing in the Riksdag elections in September. He is replaced by liberal leader and history professor Nils Edén.source
  • 1917Dallas Love Field Airport is opened in Texas.source
  • 1924Abdul Aziz, founder of Saudi Arabia, declares himself protector of holy places in Mecca.source
  • 1925October 19–29 – Incident at Petrich: A brief conflict occurs between Bulgaria and Greece after a Greek soldier accidentally crosses into the Bulgarian side and is shot by border guards.source
  • 1926The 1926 Imperial Conference opens in London.source
  • 1929October 18–24: battle at Zhengzhou, Henan between Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Army and National Revolutionary Armysource
  • 1932Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden marries Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.source
  • 1935A group of assassins aiming to assassinate Atatürk were arrested.source
  • 1935Transvaal – Springs to Kaydale, 19 mi 68 ch.source
  • 1936H. R. Ekins, reporter for the New York World-Telegram, wins a race to travel around the world on commercial airline flights, beating Dorothy Kilgallen of the New York Journal and Leo Kieran of The New York Times. The flight takes 18½ days.source
  • 1936H.R. Ekins, reporter for the New York World-Telegram, wins a race to travel around the world on commercial airline flights, beating Dorothy Kilgallen of the New York Journal and Leo Kieran of The New York Times. The flight takes 18 ½ days.source
  • 1937October 18–21 – Spanish Civil War: The whole Spanish northern seaboard falls into the Falangists' hands; Republican forces in Gijón, Spain, set fire to petrol reserves prior to retreating before the advancing Falangists.source
  • 1940October 18–19 – WWII: Thirty-two ships are sunk from Convoy SC 7 and Convoy HX 79 by the most effective "wolfpack" of the war, including Otto Kretschmer, Günther Prien and Joachim Schepke.source
  • 1941State Defence Committee introduced the state of siege in Moscow and adjacent areassource
  • 1943WWII: Allied aircraft sink the German-controlled cargo ship MS Sinfra in the Mediterranean, killing over 2,000 people, mostly Italian military internees.source
  • 1945Members of the Indonesian People's Army attack Anglo-Dutch forces in Indonesia.source
  • 1947Gunnar Staalesen, writersource
  • 1948Presidents North Carolina Gave the Nation, a monument honoring three presidents of the United States, was dedicated at the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh, North Carolina.source
  • 1951The state of war between the United States and Germany is officially ended.source
  • 1952Alain Bombard begins to sail from the Canary Islands to Barbados in 65 days without using provisions; he reaches them December 23.source
  • 19521952 Albanian Cup: team Dinamo Tirana wins the finals, beating Puna Tirana with a score of 4–1.source
  • 1956The Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956 is signed in Moscow, ending the legal state of war between the Soviet Union and Japan (with effect from December 12) and making possible the restoration of diplomatic relations between the two nations.source
  • 1962October 14–28 — The Cuban Missile Crisis occurs between the United States and Soviet Union over the deployment of Soviet ballistic missiles to Cuba.source
  • 1963Alec Douglas-Home succeeds Harold Macmillan as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.source
  • 1964October 10–24 – The 1964 Summer Olympics are held in Tokyo, Japan, the first in an Asian country.source
  • 1967The Mariner 5 probe flies by Venus.source
  • 1976The Battle of Aishiya is fought in Lebanon.source
  • 1976The Copyright Act of 1976 extends copyright duration for an additional 19 years in the United States.source
  • 1976The Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) is placed on the list of endangered species.source
  • 1977German Autumn: Kidnapped industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer is found murdered in Mulhouse, France.source
  • 197913 U.S. Marines die in a fire at Camp Fuji, Japan, as a result of Typhoon Tip.source
  • 197913 US Marines die in fire at Camp Fuji, Shizuoka Prefecture, caused by Typhoon Tip.source
  • 1981October 14–21. A delegation of Solidarity visits France.source
  • 1984Polish secret police kidnapped and assassinated Father Jerzy Popiełuszko, a Catholic priest who supported the Solidarity movement. His body was found in a reservoir 11 days later on October 30.source
  • 1984Wapiti Aviation Flight 402 crashes into terrain 40 km southeast of High Prairie, Alberta, Canada. Six are killed including leader of the Alberta NDP, Grant Notley, while the four survivors are later rescued the next day.source
  • 1985The first Blockbuster store opened in Dallas, Texas.source
  • 1985The start of the construction to expand Yunlin Prison in Huwei Township, Yunlin County.source
  • 1986Mozambican President Samora Machel's plane crashes in South Africa, killing him and 33 and others.source
  • 1987Operation Earnest Will: US warships destroy two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.source
  • 1987Black Monday: Stock market levels fall sharply on Wall Street and around the world.source
  • 1988Broadcasting ban against Sinn Féin and other paramilitary linked groups begins.source
  • 1988The newspaper Der Standard is first published.source
  • 1989Vandellòs I nuclear accident: a fire breaks out in one of the nuclear plant's generators killing 31 employees and firefighters and exposing 130,000 people to radiation.source
  • 1992The Chinese Communist Party promotes several market-oriented reformers to the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, signaling a defeat for hard-line ideologues.source
  • 1995SES launches its fifth satellite, Astra 1E.source
  • 2003Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.source
  • 2005The trial of Saddam Hussein begins.source
  • 2006An Uzbek military Antonov An-2 aircraft crashes near Tashkent killing all of the 15 people on board. The Uzbek Emergency Ministry says the pilots lost control of the plane while trying to land.source
  • 2007October 15 – October 21 – The 17th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party is held in Beijing, China.source
  • 2007EU leaders agree in Lisbon that the transcription "eвро" (evro) will be used in Bulgarian translations of the euro in official EU documents.source
  • 2014The Roman Catholic Church beatifies Pope Paul VI.source
  • 2018The uncrewed European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo is launched on a seven-year journey to Mercury.source
  • 2019An estimated one million people march through London in a protest organised by People's Vote, to demand a second referendum on Brexit.source
  • 2022October 16–October 23 – The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party is held. Xi Jinping is elected as General Secretary by the Central Committee, beginning a third term as the paramount leader of China.source
  • 2022Belarus says that it is unable to pay off its debt because of international sanctions imposed due to its role in the Russo-Ukrainian War.source
  • 2024A case of bird flu of the H5N1 variant is detected in a deceased goose at the Skopje Zoo, prompting its closure for three weeks and the culling of several birds.source
  • 20252025 Louvre heist: Pieces of the French Crown Jewels are stolen during a robbery from the Galerie d'Apollon of the Louvre in Paris.source

Births

  • 879Yingtian, empress of the Khitan Liao Dynasty (died 953)source
  • 1154Vsevolod the Big Nest, Grand Prince of Vladimir-Suzdal (died 1212)source
  • 1276Hisaaki, Japanese prince and shogun (died 1328)source
  • 1433Marsilio Ficino, Florentine philosopher (died 1499)source
  • 1472John Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (died 1545)source
  • 1545John Juvenal Ancina, Italian oratorian and bishop (died 1604)source
  • 1562George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (died 1633)source
  • 1582Dmitri Ivanovich, Russian Tsarevich (died 1591)source
  • 1605Sir Thomas Browne, English physician and philosopher (died 1682)source
  • 1609Gerrard Winstanley, English Protestant religious reformer (died 1676)source
  • 1610James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier (died 1688)source
  • 1613Charles of Sezze, Italian Franciscan friar and saint (died 1670)source
  • 1659Wilhelm Edinger, merchant and ship-owner (died 1733)source
  • 1669Count Wirich Philipp von Daun, Austrian military leader (died 1741)source
  • 1676Rodrigo Anes de Sá Almeida e Meneses, 1st Marquis of Abrantes, Portuguese diplomat (died 1733)source
  • 1680John Abernethy, Irish Protestant minister (died 1740)source
  • 1720John Woolman, American Quaker preacher, abolitionist (died 1772)source
  • 1784Leigh Hunt, British critic, essayist (died 1859)source
  • 1784John McLoughlin, Canadian fur trader (died 1857)source
  • 1784John McLoughlin, physician, fur trader, and merchant (d.1857)source
  • 1798George Coles, English cricketer (died 1865)source
  • 185619 October − Elín Briem, teacher and writer.source
  • 1897Henrieta Delavrancea, architect (died 1987).source
  • 1900Bill Ponsford, Australian cricketer (died 1991)source
  • 1913Sumbat Der Kiureghian, Iranian-armenian artist.source
  • 1969Pedro Castillo, 63rd President of Perusource
  • 1970Kem Ley, political activist (died 2016)source

Deaths

  • 256Sun Jun (or Ziyuan), Chinese general and regent (born 219)source
  • 727Frithuswith or Frideswide, Anglo-Saxon princess and abbesssource
  • 993Conrad I, king of Burgundysource
  • 1103Humbert II, count of Savoy (born 1065)source
  • 1175Andrew of Saint Victor, English abbot and scholarsource
  • 1216Nine-year-old Henry III succeeds his father, King John of England, when the latter dies of dysentery at Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire. William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, becomes regent.source
  • 1216John (Lackland), king of England (born 1166)source
  • 1271Philip Basset, English chief justiciar (born 1185)source
  • 1287Bohemond VII, ruler of Tripoli, dies childless. He is succeeded by his sister Lucia, who is married to Charles I of Naples' former Grand Admiral, Narjot de Toucy. But the nobles, not pleased with this decision, offer the county to Bohemond's mother, Dowager-Princess Sibylla of Armenia.source
  • 1287Bohemond VII, Outremer nobleman (born 1261)source
  • 1354Yusuf I, Sultan of Granada (born 1318)source
  • 1375Cansignorio della Scala, Lord of Verona (born 1340)source
  • 1401John Charleton, 4th Baron Cherleton (born 1362)source
  • 1408Awang Pateh Berbai, in Nanjing in China as part of the family accompanying his nephew, the Sultan Abdul Majid Hassan, becomes the new Sultan of Brunei when Abdul dies from an illness.source
  • 1432John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (born 1392)source
  • 1585Johannes Crato von Krafftheim, German humanist and physician (born 1519)source
  • 1587Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (born 1541)source
  • 1592Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu, English politician (born 1528)source
  • 1595Philip Howard, 20th Earl of Arundel, English nobleman (born 1537)source
  • 1597Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shōgun (born 1537)source
  • 1608Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (born 1551)source
  • 1609Jacobus Arminius, Dutch Reformed theologian (born 1560)source
  • 1634Agnes of Jesus, French Catholic nun (born 1602)source
  • 1640Aubert Miraeus, Belgian historian (born 1573)source
  • 1682Sir Thomas Browne, English author, physician and philosopher (born 1605)source
  • 1723Godfrey Kneller, German-born artist (born 1646)source
  • 1745Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish writer (born 1667)source
  • 1796French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Emmendingen – Austrian forces force the French to retreat, but commanding generals on both sides are killed.source
  • 1813Józef Poniatowski, Polish prince, Marshal of France (friendly fire) (born 1763)source
  • 1814Mercy Otis Warren, American playwright (born 1728)source
  • 1851Madame Royale Marie Thérèse of France (born 1778)source
  • 1856Josceline Percy, British admiral (born 1784)source
  • 1856Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman (born 1797)source
  • 1889Luís I of Portugal, king (born 1838)source
  • 1897George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (born 1831)source
  • 1909Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminologist, physician (born 1835)source
  • 1914Julio Argentino Roca, Argentine general and statesman, 2-time President of Argentina (born 1843)source
  • 1926Victor Babeș, bacteriologist and physician (born 1854).source
  • 1937Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand physicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient (born 1871)source
  • 1957V. Gordon Childe, Australian archaeologist (born 1892)source
  • 1983Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, and 40 others are assassinated in a military coup.source
  • 2003Alija Izetbegović, politician, member and chairman of the Presidency (born 1925).source
  • 2014October 18 - 22 people are killed in heavy rainfall, with 9 killed in the capital of Managua by a wall collapse.source