Hisdates•ComPage 7: Historical Events In October - 19
Thursday, 18 September 2025
1993 On this day in history bert Schoofs, table tennis star, dies at 48 
1994 Martha Raye, actress (Pin Up Girl), dies after illness at 78 on October - 19.
1995 Don E Cherry, jazz Musician, dies at 58 on this day in history.
1996 Frank Neville Hosband Robinson, physicist, dies at 71 on October - 19.
1997 On October - 19 glen Buxton, guitarist (Alice Cooper), dies of pneumonia at 49
2005 Hurricane Wilma swells into a Category 5 storm on October - 19.
2005 The Houston Astros won their first National League Championship to advance to their first ever World Series in franchise history on this day in history.
2005 The Trials of Saddam Hussein begin on October - 19.
2006 On October - 19 on the 19th anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 12,000 for the first time gaining 19.05 points, or 0.16%, to 12,011.73.
2007 A gas explosion rocked Glorietta, a shopping mall in Makati, Philippines which killed 11 and injured more than 100 people on October - 19.
2012 8 people are killed and 78 injured by a car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon on October - 19.
2013 On October - 19 16 people are killed and 30 are wounded by a suicide bombing Beledweyne, Somalia
2014 On this day in history a working human intestine is generated in a laboratory from stem cells in the United States
2017 On October - 19 new Zealand Labour Party forms a coalition government led by Jacinda Ardern (37), youngest NZ leader in 161 years
2017 Outbreak of the Marburg virus declared by Uganda's Ministry of Health on this day in history.
2018 "Halloween" film reboot starring Jamie Curtis makes a record $77m for a horror film with a female lead, biggest debut any film with female lead over 55 in US on October - 19.
2018 On October - 19 at least 59 people are killed and at least 100 injured when a train runs through a crowd at a Hindu festival in Punjab, India.
2018 The unmanned European-Japanese spacecraft BepiColombo is launched on a seven-year journey to Mercury on this day in history.
2019 An estimated one million people march through London in a protest organised by People's Vote, to demand a second referendum on Brexit on this day in history.
2020 On October - 19 [COVID-19 pandemic] The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 40 million worldwide.
2024 39th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Mary J. Blige ; Cher; Dave Matthews Band; Foreigner; Peter Frampton; Kool & The Gang; Ozzy Osbourne ; A Tribe Called Quest; Alexis Korner; John Mayall; Big Mama Thornton; Jimmy Buffett; MC5; Dionne Warwick ; and Norman Whitfield on October - 19.