October 19

Facts & Historical Events On This Day

2018

A remake of the American horror slasher movie 'Halloween' was released starring Jamie Curtis.

2017

Uganda Ministry of Health announced they were under an outbreak of a Marburg virus, a virus similar to Ebola.

2015

University of California scientists found evidence that life on Earth probably began 4.1 billion years ago.

2008

NASA launched its IBEX satellite from the Stargazer mother ship launch pad above the Marshall Islands.

2005

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was tried for his crimes against humanity.

1998

Cher's 'Believe' was released and became the Billboard 1999 Song of the Year.

1990

The 1991 Best Picture, 'Dances With Wolves,' premiered in Washington, D.C.

1983

A bill to recognize Martin Luther King Jr's birthday as a national holiday passed the US Senate.

1943

Researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey, US, isolated Streptomycin, which became the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis (TB).

1900

Max Planck proposed Planck's Law, a new law of physics for black-body radiation.

1813

Napoleon was forced to retreat from Germany after the Battle of Leipzig.

1781

The American Revolutionary War hostiles ended after the British conceded at Yorktown.

1512

German professor Martin Luther became a doctor when he was awarded his Doctor of Theology from the University of Wittenberg, Germany.

1386

Germany’s oldest university, and one of the world’s oldest surviving universities, The Universität Heidelberg, held a lecture for the first time.