Global Days & Remarks on 19th of October
19th Oct: International Gin and Tonic Day.
Important Events on 19th of October
202 B.C. = Battle of Zama (In this battle Hannibal Barca & the Carthaginian army are defeated by Roman legions under Scipio Africanus).
1864 A.D. = Battle of Cedar Creek.
1900 A.D. = Max Planck proposed Planck’s Law (law of physics for black-body radiation).
1914 A.D. = First Battle of Ypres.
1943 A.D. = Streptomycin (world's first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis) is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey.
1983 A.D. = Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler.
1987 A.D. = Stock markets have the largest‑ever one‑day crash on Monday & after that event remember as “Black Monday”.
1988 A.D. = US Senate passes a bill curbing advertisements during children's TV shows.
2005 A.D. = Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was tried for his crimes against humanity.
2008 A.D. = NASA launched - Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) satellite from the Stargazer mother ship launch pad above the Marshall Islands. The primary purpose of it was to use energetic neutral atoms to take photos of the boundary between our solar system and interstellar space.
2015 A.D. = Scientists from the University of California find evidence that life on Earth may have begun 4.1 billion years ago.
2017 A.D. = Uganda Ministry of Health announced they were under an outbreak of a Marburg virus, a virus similar to Ebola.
Important Birthdays on 19th of October
1907 A.D. = Sulochana Modi (first lady Mayor of Mumbai Mahanagar Palika).
1910 A.D. = Subrahamanyam Chandrasekhar (Astrophysicists).
Important Death Anniversaries on 19th of October
1974 A.D. = T. S. Rajamanikkam Pillai (Tamil Stage Artist).
