27 Mehr 1385

Events

• 1512 (514 years ago) Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology.
• 1864 (162 years ago) American Civil War: The Battle of Cedar Creek ends the last Confederate threat to Washington, DC.
• 1900 (126 years ago) Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.
• 1914 (112 years ago) World War I: The First Battle of Ypres begins.
• 1950 (76 years ago) Korean War: The Battle of Pyongyang ends in a United Nations victory. Hours later, the Chinese Army begins crossing the border into Korea.
• 2003 (23 years ago) Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
• 2005 (21 years ago) Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
• 2025 (a year ago) Pieces of the French Crown Jewels are successfully stolen during a heist on the Louvre Museum in Paris..

Births

• 1433 (593 years ago) Marsilio Ficino, Italian astrologer and philosopher (died 1499)
• 1899 (127 years ago) Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1974)
• 1910 (116 years ago) Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-American astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)
• 1931 (95 years ago) John le Carré, English intelligence officer and author (died 2020)
• 1940 (86 years ago) Michael Gambon, Irish-British actor (died 2023)
• 1945 (81 years ago) John Lithgow, American actor
• 1946 (80 years ago) Philip Pullman, English author and academic
• 1966 (60 years ago) Jon Favreau, American actor, director, and screenwriter

Deaths

• 1216 (810 years ago) John, King of England (born 1166)
• 1745 (281 years ago) Jonathan Swift, Irish satirist and essayist (born 1667)
• 1936 (90 years ago) Lu Xun, Chinese author and critic (born 1881)
• 1937 (89 years ago) Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1871)
• 1950 (76 years ago) Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet and playwright (born 1892)
• 1970 (56 years ago) Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexican general and politician, 44th President of Mexico (born 1895)
• 1986 (40 years ago) Samora Machel, Mozambican commander and politician, 1st President of Mozambique (born 1933)
• 2003 (23 years ago) Alija Izetbegović, Bosniak lawyer and politician, 1st President of Bosnia and Herzegovina (born 1925)

All 422 events, births and deaths of October 19