Hisdates•ComPage 7: Historical Events In October - 19
Saturday, 18 January 2025
1993 Bert Schoofs, table tennis star, dies at 48 on October - 19. 
1994 Martha Raye, actress (Pin Up Girl), dies after illness at 78 on this day in history.
1995 On this day in history don E Cherry, jazz Musician, dies at 58
1996 On this day in history frank Neville Hosband Robinson, physicist, dies at 71
1997 Glen Buxton, guitarist (Alice Cooper), dies of pneumonia at 49 on this day in history.
2005 On this day in history hurricane Wilma swells into a Category 5 storm.
2005 On October - 19 the Houston Astros won their first National League Championship to advance to their first ever World Series in franchise history.
2005 On October - 19 the Trials of Saddam Hussein begin.
2006 On this day in history on the 19th anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 12,000 for the first time gaining 19.05 points, or 0.16%, to 12,011.73.
2007 On this day in history a gas explosion rocked Glorietta, a shopping mall in Makati, Philippines which killed 11 and injured more than 100 people.
2012 8 people are killed and 78 injured by a car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon on October - 19.
2013 On this day in history 16 people are killed and 30 are wounded by a suicide bombing Beledweyne, Somalia
2014 On this day in history a working human intestine is generated in a laboratory from stem cells in the United States
2017 On this day in history new Zealand Labour Party forms a coalition government led by Jacinda Ardern (37), youngest NZ leader in 161 years
2017 On October - 19 outbreak of the Marburg virus declared by Uganda's Ministry of Health
2018 "Halloween" film reboot starring Jamie Curtis makes a record $77m for a horror film with a female lead, biggest debut any film with female lead over 55 in US on this day in history.
2018 On October - 19 at least 59 people are killed and at least 100 injured when a train runs through a crowd at a Hindu festival in Punjab, India.
2018 On October - 19 the unmanned European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo is launched on a seven-year journey to Mercury.
2019 On October - 19 an estimated one million people march through London in a protest organised by People's Vote, to demand a second referendum on Brexit.
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 40 million worldwide on October - 19.
2024 On this day in history 39th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Mary J. Blige ; Cher; Dave Matthews Band; Foreigner; Peter Frampton; Kool & The Gang; Ozzy Osbourne ; A Tribe Called Quest; Alexis Korner; John Mayall; Big Mama Thornton; Jimmy Buffett; MC5; Dionne Warwick ; and Norman Whitfield