October 19th, 1944

Born on October 19th, 1944

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What happened on October 19th, 1944?

October 19th, 1944

A coup is launched against Juan Federico Ponce Vaides, beginning the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Federico_Ponce_Vaides

What else happened on October 19th?

October 19th, 2017

Canadian astronomer Robert Weryk discovered ʻOumuamua (depicted), the first known interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System.

October 19th, 2013

British YouTube collective the Sidemen were formed as a Rockstar Games Social Club group in Grand Theft Auto Online.

October 19th, 2005

Hurricane Wilma became the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum atmospheric pressure of 882 mbar (26.05 inHg).

October 19th, 1988

The British government restricted the broadcast of the voices of representatives from Sinn Féin and several Irish republican and loyalist paramilitary groups on television and radio.

October 19th, 1987

Iran–Iraq War: U.S. Navy forces destroyed two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf in response to an Iranian missile attack on a Kuwaiti oil tanker three days earlier.

October 19th, 1955

At a meeting of its general assembly, the European Broadcasting Union approved the staging of the first Eurovision Song Contest.

October 19th, 1943

World War II: Allied aircraft sank the German cargo ship Sinfra, killing mostly Italian POWs.

October 19th, 1914

First World War: Allied forces began engaging German troops at the First Battle of Ypres.

October 19th, 1864

American Civil War: Despite incurring nearly twice as many casualties as the Confederates, the Union Army emerged victorious at the Battle of Cedar Creek.

October 19th, 1781

American Revolutionary War: British forces led by Lord Cornwallis officially surrendered to Franco-American forces under George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau, ending the Siege of Yorktown.

October 19th, 1752

The Pennsylvania Gazette published a statement by Benjamin Franklin describing a kite experiment (depicted) to determine the electrical nature of lightning.

October 19th, 1596

The Spanish ship San Felipe was shipwrecked on the Japanese island of Shikoku, and its cargo confiscated by the local daimyō.

October 19th, 1579

A ceremony was held in Edinburgh marking the coming of age of James VI of Scotland as an adult ruler.

October 19th, 2019

Members of Parliament met at the House of Lords to discuss the United Kingdom's Brexit deal, this was the first Saturday sitting in Parliament since 3 April 1982 during the Falklands War.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on October 19th

Born on October 19th, 1944

42

Peter Tosh

Jamaican reggae singer and musician

*October 19th, 1944, Grange Hill †September 11th, 1987, Kingston

79

George McCrae

American musician

*October 19th, 1944, West Palm Beach

79

Dirk Kaesler

German sociologist

*October 19th, 1944, Wiesbaden

79

Bill Melchionni

American basketball player

*October 19th, 1944, Philadelphia

75

Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri

Iranian ayatollah (1944-2020)

*October 19th, 1944, Najaf †August 18th, 2020, Tehran

79

Oh Yeong-su

South Korean actor (born 1944)

*October 19th, 1944, Tanhyun-myeon

79

Desmond Barrit

British actor

*October 19th, 1944, Morriston

79

Richard Kinder

American businessman

*October 19th, 1944, Cape Girardeau

Same Day
Who's birthday is on October 19th?

78

John Lithgow

American actor

*October 19th, 1945, Rochester

77

Jürgen Croy

East German association football player and manager

*October 19th, 1946, Zwickau

82

Michael Gambon

British actor (1940–2023)

*October 19th, 1940, Dublin †September 27th, 2023, Witham

65

Alexander Held

German actor

*October 19th, 1958, Munich

77

Philip Pullman

English author

*October 19th, 1946, Norwich

78

Angus Deaton

British microeconomist

*October 19th, 1945, Edinburgh

78

Gloria Jones

American singer

*October 19th, 1945, Cincinnati

89

John le Carré

British novelist and spy (1931-2020)

*October 19th, 1931, Poole †December 12th, 2020, Royal Cornwall Hospital

69

Ken Stott

British actor

*October 19th, 1954, Edinburgh

63

Jennifer Holliday

American actress and singer

*October 19th, 1960, Houston

78

Jeannie C. Riley

American singer

*October 19th, 1945, Stamford

34

Nikolija Jovanović

Serbian singer and rapper

*October 19th, 1989, Zagreb

80

Adolfo Aristarain

Argentine film director

*October 19th, 1943, Buenos Aires

87

Tony Lo Bianco

Actor

*October 19th, 1936, Brooklyn

54

Caroline Catz

British film, television, theatre and radio actress

*October 19th, 1969, Manchester

84

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Indian-American astrophysicist

*October 19th, 1910, Lahore †August 21st, 1995, Chicago

61

Evander Holyfield

American boxer

*October 19th, 1962, Atmore

70

Wang Yi

Member of the 20th Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party

*October 19th, 1953, Beijing

57

Jon Favreau

American actor and filmmaker (born 1966)

*October 19th, 1966, New York City

77

Sylvia Browne

American author, psychic and medium (1936-2013)

*October 19th, 1936, Kansas City †November 20th, 2013, San Jose

Same year
Born in 1944

79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

79

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

79

John Rhys-Davies

British actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

79

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

79

Dieter Hertrampf

German musician, singer and guitarist

*November 29th, 1944, Berlin

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Leap year

Yes: 1944 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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