Your birthday on October 19th has many historical events associated with it.

Here are a few statistics about your birthday. There were 156 events on the October 19th, 5,048 historical events during October, 899 historical events during 1988, and 7,681 historical events during the decade of 1980. Only a small sample of the 156 historicial events on October 19th are offered to be posted to your wall due to the potential size of this list and Facebook's limits. If you don't receive any results, check your birthday carefully (Like make sure you didn't enter February 30th or something like that). Enjoy and here is your list! 1988 - Sourav Shofiullah's Birthday! 2006 - Dow closes above 12,000 for the first time 2005 - Saddam Hussein's trial begins in Iraq 1997 - "Annie," closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City 1997 - 700th World Series home run (Sandy Alomar, Cleveland Indians) 1997 - David Duval wins Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Golf Classic 1997 - Hyatt Regency Maui Kaanapali Senior Golf Classic 1996 - Braves beat New York Yankees by record tying 11 runs, 12-1 in a World Series 1995 - "Hello Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 118 performances 1994 - 160 killed at battles in Tsjetsjenie 1994 - Palestinian bomb attack on bus in Tel Aviv, kills 22 1993 - U.N. authorizes arms, miltary and police supply embargo against Haiti 1991 - Longest NCAA football game (3:52) as RI beats Maine 52-30 (6 OTs) 1991 - Lonnie Glieberman purchased Ottawa Rough Riders from CFL 1990 - HCA, Helsinki Citizens Assembly, forms in Prague 1989 - "Dangerous Games" opens at Nederlander Theater New York City for 4 performances 1989 - Astor Piazzolla and Wm Finn's musical "Dangerous Games" premieres in New York City 1989 - U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1988 - 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel 1988 - Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members 1988 - Car bomb kills 7 Israelis, wounds 11 near Lebanon border 1988 - Roxette releases "Roxette Look Sharp!" album 1988 - South Africa anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize 1988 - Senate passes bill curbing ads during children's TV shows 1987 - "Anything Goes" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 804 performances 1987 - "Black Monday"-Dow Jones down 508.32, 4 times previous record 1987 - Dow Jones Index drops 508.32 points (22%) (record) 1987 - U.S. warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf 1987 - Woody Woodward resigns as New York Yankee General Manager, Lou Piniella is named General Manager and Billy Martin is named New York Yankee manager for 5th and final time 1986 - "Flamenco Puro" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 40 performances 1986 - "Raggedy Ann" closes at Nederlander Theater New York City after 5 performances 1986 - Allan Border scores the 10,000th run in Tests (v India, Bombay) 1986 - U.S.S.R. expels 5 U.S. diplomats 1983 - Columbia moves to Orbiter Processing Facility 1983 - Grenada general Hudson Austin forms "revolutionary council" 1983 - Philadelphia Flyers begin 13 NHL game win streak 1983 - Senate establishes Martin Luther King, Jr. federal holiday 1982 - Automaker John DeLorean arrested on cocaine charges (Not guilty) 1981 - Los Angeles Dodgers beat Montreal Expos for NL pennant 1981 - Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Schawlow win Nobel for physics (laser) 1980 - Steve McPeak rides 101'9" unicycle

1977 - Corpse of kidnapped West German, H. M. Schleyer, found 1977 - Supersonic Concorde jet's 1st landing in New York City 1975 - "Chorus Line" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 6137 performances 1975 - Cleveland Browns' Don Cockroft kicks club record 5 field goals 1975 - Hamlisch and Klebans musical "Chorus Line" premieres in New York City 1975 - Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Japan Golf Classic 1974 - Det Red Wing Mickey Redmond scores 1st hat trick against Washington Caps 1974 - Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland (next win 6-1-90) 1973 - Ringo releases "Photograph" 1972 - "Mother Earth" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 12 performances 1971 - Last issue of "Look" magazine is published 1970 - "Rothschilds" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 505 performances 1970 - Amdahl Corp forms at Sunnyvale California 1970 - John Frazier kills Ohta's declares WW 3 has begun 1969 - J. Bock and S. Harnicks musical "Rothschilds," premieres in New York City 1969 - Mary Mills wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic 1969 - Oakland Darryle Lamonica passes for 6 touchdowns vs Buffalo (50-21) 1968 - Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars 1967 - Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of U.S.S.R., sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4" 1967 - Mariner 5 makes fly-by of Venus 1966 - U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. 1966 - Yardbird 1st U.S. tour (New York City) 1963 - Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand" 1962 - Stalin-monument removed in Prague 1962 - U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1960 - France grants Mauritania independence 1960 - KWCS (now KOOG) TV channel 30 in Ogden, UT (IND) begins broadcasting 1960 - Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested in Atlanta sit-in 1960 - U.S. imposes embargo on exports to Cuba 1959 - Florence Henderson joins Today Show panel 1959 - William Gibson's "Miracle Worker," premieres in New York City 1958 - U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1957 - "Damn Yankees" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 1,022 performances 1957 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Mont, became 1st NHLer to score 500 goals 1954 - Egypt and Great Britain sign treaty; British troops departs 1954 - KAKE TV channel 10 in Wichita, KS (ABC) begins broadcasting 1953 - 1st jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled service 1953 - Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on TV by Arthur Godfrey 1952 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betty Jameson Golf Tournament 1951 - Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Texas Women's Golf Open 1951 - President Harry S Truman formally ends state of war with Germany 1950 - Bird Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated 1950 - U.N. forces entered Pyongyang, capital of North Korea 1949 - A's trade 2nd baseman Nellie Fox to White Sox for Joe Tipton 1949 - Yankees trade Joe Gordon to Cleveland for Allie Reynolds 1948 - "My Romance" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 95 performances 1947 - De Gaulles RPF wins French municipal elections 1944 - British premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Moscow 1944 - Canadian troops liberate Aardensburg 1944 - John Van Druten's "I Remember Mama," premieres in New York City 1944 - Navy says black women can join WAVES 1944 - U.S. forces land in Philippines 1943 - Conference of foreign ministers in Moscow 1943 - Theater Guild presentation of "Othello" opens at Shubert 1943 - Yankee 2nd baseman Joe Gordon announces retirement (hates New York) 1941 - 1st woman jockey in North America, Anna Lee Wiley in Mexico 1939 - Goering begins plunder through Nazi's occupied areas 1936 - HR Ekins of "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters in a race around the world on commercial flights, by 18 days 1935 - Mao Tse Tung's army reaches Shanxi

1933 - Berlin Olympic Committee vote to introduce basketball in 1936 1932 - Austria forbids demonstration by Nazi's and anti fascists 1932 - British government signs trade agreement with Soviet Union 1932 - Henry Ford gives his 1st radio speech 1932 - Jimmie Foxx wins AL MVP and Chuck Klein wins NL MVP 1930 - Jules Ladoumegue runs world record 1 km (2:23.6) 1926 - John C Garand patents semi-automatic rifle 1926 - Russian Politburo throws out Leo Trotsky and followers 1925 - Italian army takes Somalia 1924 - General Christian Worker's union demands 8 hr work day in Belgium 1923 - Ban Johnson persuades AL owners to prohibit boxing in their parks 1923 - Beierse government refuses to prohibit NSDAP newspaper Volkischer Beobachter 1919 - 1st Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman 1919 - Reds beat White Sox, 5 games to 3 in 16th World Series. This series is known as black sox scandal as 8 White Sox throw series 1915 - Russia/Italy declares war on Bulgaria 1914 - U.S. Post Office 1st used an automobile to collect and deliver mail 1912 - Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control 1911 - Royal Mint in London sends dies for $1 coin to Ottawa Branch 1907 - 1st printing of Dutch Tribune (Wijnkoop/Van Ravesteyn/Ceton) 1906 - Georges Chemenceau succeeds Sarien premier of France 1901 - Edward Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance March," premieres in Liverpool 1901 - Santos-Dumont proves airship maneuverable by circling Eiffel Tower 1900 - Henry O. Tanner, painter, wins Medal of Honor at Paris Exposition 1900 - South African President Paul Kruger departs for Europe 1888 - Moshav Gederah is attacked by Arabs 1882 - Pierre de Brazza meets Henry Morton Stanley 1879 - Afghan's emir Mohammed Yakub forced to resign 1879 - Thomas Edison demonstrates electric light 1874 - Mary Walsh and Charles Colson are 1st couple to be married in a balloon 1872 - World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales 1870 - 1st (4) blacks elected to House of Reps 1870 - British SS Cambria leaves for Noth sea coast, 196 killed 1864 - Approx 25 Confederates make surprise attack on St. Albans, Vermont 1864 - Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, Union beats back Confederate attackers 1864 - U.S. Brigadier General Emory Upton (25) promoted to general-major 1863 - Battle of Buckland Mills, VA 1859 - Wilhelm Tempel discovers diffuse nebula around Pleid star Merope 1856 - James Kelly and Jack Smith fight bareknuckle for 6h15m in Melbourne 1853 - 1st flour mill in Hawaii begins operations 1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman in U.S. to receive medical degree 1845 - Richard Wagners opera "Tannhauser," premieres in Dresden 1818 - U.S. and Chicasaw Indians sign a treaty 1812 - Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow 1781 - Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 PM; Revolutionary War ends 1765 - Stamp Act Congress met in New York, wrote declaration of rights and liberties 1739 - England declares war on Spain 1722 - French C. Hopffer patents fire extinguisher 1682 - English Lord Shaftesbury flees to Holland 1655 - Swedish King Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow 1634 - Beach Island in North sea destroyed by a heavy storm flood 1630 - In Boston the 1st general court is held 1576 - Dutch provinces begin consultation about Spanish existence 1492 - Columbus sites "Isabela" (Fortune Island, Bahamas) 1466 - 2nd Peace of Thorn 1453 - 2nd Battle at Castillon: France beats English, end of hundred year war 1298 - Rindfleish-140 Jews of Heilbron Germany are murdered 1031 - Abbot Humbertus van Echternach opens grave of Saint Willibrord