Year 1216
King John of England died and his 9-year-old son Henry ascended the throne.
OCTOBER 19
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19 October: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 19 October.
Year 1689
Sambhaji's queen Yesubai and her child surrendered the Raigarh Fort to the Mughals.
Year 1774
Members of the Council and the Judge of Supreme Court of England came to improve the management in India.
Year 1812
Napoleon Bonaparte withdrew from Moscow.
Year 1875
The first section from Hathras Road to Mathura Cantonment was opened to traffic.
Year 1900
‘Planck’s law’ was proposed by the German scientist Max Planck. It is also called the ‘Black Body Emission’ rule.
Year 1913
At a meeting of the Natal Indian Congress in Durban, NIC secretaries, M. C. Anglia and Dada Osman, severely criticised Mahatma Gandhi and tender their resignations.
Year 1933
Germany withdrew from the League of Nations.
Year 1935
The League of Nations imposed economic sanctions on Italy over its invasion of Ethiopia.
Year 1950
Iran became the first country to accept technical assistance from the United States under the Point Four Program.
Year 1950
Mother Teresa founded the Missionary of Charities in Calcutta.
Year 1953
Sriramulu Potti started a fast-unto-death for the Andhra state.
Year 1954
Nehru and Mao meet in Peking.
Year 1967
Dr. C. V. Raman elucidated his new theory on wave motion in respect to vision and dim light.
Year 1970
Delivery of the first Indian-made MiG fighter jet to the Air Force. The Indian Air Force incorporated its first indigenously built MiG-21 aircraft into the Army. Privy purses and privileges of former Indian rulers were abolished.
Year 1983
Prof. Subramanyam Chandrasekhar shares the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics with fellow American Prof. William Fowler.
Year 1983
Union Government takes over the management of 13 textile undertakings in Bombay; marathon strike in cotton textile industry ends.
Year 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.
Year 1990
The Government of India under an ordinance puts forward a three-point formula for Ayodhya issue: (i) to acquire the land (ii) other land may be given for building temple except the disputed one (iii) the issue may referred to Supreme Court for speedy solution.
Year 1994
The government of Madhya Pradesh announced the Tansen Award to Rudraveena player Ustad Asad Ali Khan.
Year 2000
The Government creates an electronic database of all the principal Central Acts from 1834 to 1996 of all India application.
Year 2005
Saddam Hussein was tried for crimes against humanity.
Born 1870
Matangini Hazra, also known as Gandhi buri, was a revolutionary who stood strong for the Indian independence until she was shot dead
Born 1888
Namakkal Kavignar, Gandhian poet and painter, was born at Mohanur in Salem.
Born 1907
Sulochana Modi, first lady Mayor of Mumbai Mahanagar Palika, was born.
Born 1910
Subrahamanyam Chandrasekhar was born in Lahore. He was one of the world's leading astrophysicists. For his contributions to the study of stars, Chandrasekhar had received the highest award in Science, the Noble Prize in Physics in 1983.
Born 1911
Majaz, Indian Urdu poet and writer.
Born 1920
Pandurang Shastri Athavale was an activist, philosopher, spiritual leader, social revolutionary, and a religion reformist who founded the Swadhyaya Parivar in 1954.
Born 1920
Prakashchandra Sethi, former central minister, was born.
Born 1929
Nirmala Deshpande was a social activist who embraced the Gandhian philosophy.
Born 1929
Balbir Singh, India field hockey player (Olympic gold 1948-56), was born.
Born 1947
Kundan Shah was a director and writer.
Born 1954
Priya Tendulkar was an actress, writer, and social activist, who is known for her television series Rajani.
Born 1954
Jatinder Pannu, journalist and a social activist from Punjab, India
Born 1956
Ajay Singh Deol/ Sunny Deol is an actor, director, producer, and now also politician.
Born 1979
T. R. Baalu was born in Thalikottai, Distt. Thiruvarur (Tamil Nadu).
Born 1982
Nauheed Cyrusi is a model, actress, and Video Jockey.
Born 1987
Jamie Janumala is a stand-up comedian.
Died 1216
King John of England.
Died 1745
Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, and cleric.
Died 1875
Sir Charles Wheatstone, an English scientist, and inventor.
Died 1934
Vishwanath Kar, Indian-Oriya writer, editor, and social reformer.
Died 1937
Ernest Rutherford, Nobel Prize-winning British physicist.
Died 1974
T. S. Rajamanikkam Pillai, famous Tamil stage artist, died.
Died 1983
Mareez, born as Abbas Abdul Ali Vasi, was a Gujarati poet who is popular for his Ghazals. He is also popularly known as Ghalib of Gujarat.
Died 1986
Samora Mahal, Mozambique’s first president.
Died 1995
Baby Naz, Indian Child artist, and actress.
Died 2000
Sharad Vaidya was a surgeon who specialized in cancer surgery. He came from the Vaidya family which has been practicing medicine for over 350 years.
Died 2003
Alija Izetbegovic, the first president of Botswana and Herzegovina.
Died 2005
Mohan Segal was a director and producer.
Died 2006
Srividya, also known as Sreevidya, was a film actress known for her work in Malayalam and Tamil for 40 years. She has acted in over 800 films in her entire career.
Died 2009
Sushila Kerketta was a member of the Bihar Vidhan Sabha from 1985 to 2000 and also in Lok sabha from Khunti. She also held several important portfolios in the Bihar government and was the minister of state for irrigation from 1985 to 1988.
Died 2011
George Varghese Kakkanadan, popularly called Kakkanadan, was an Indian short story writer and novelist in the Malayalam language.
Died 2011
Kakkanadan, Indian author (b. 1935)
Died 2013
K. Raghavan was a Malayalam music composer.