19 Mehr 1477

Events

• 1492 (534 years ago) The crew of Christopher Columbus's ship, the Santa Maria, attempt a mutiny.
• 1846 (180 years ago) Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered by English astronomer William Lassell.
• 1868 (158 years ago) The Ten Years' War begins against Spanish rule in Cuba.
• 1957 (69 years ago) U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he is refused service in a Delaware restaurant.
• 1970 (56 years ago) Fiji becomes independent.
• 1975 (51 years ago) Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
• 2009 (17 years ago) Armenia and Turkey sign the Zurich Protocols, intended to normalize relations. However, they are never ratified by either side.
• 2018 (8 years ago) Hurricane Michael makes landfall in the Florida Panhandle as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. It kills 57 people in the United States, 45 in Florida, and causes an estimated $25.1 billion in damage.

Births

• 1731 (295 years ago) Henry Cavendish, French-English chemist, physicist, and philosopher (died 1810)
• 1813 (213 years ago) Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer and philanthropist (died 1901)
• 1830 (196 years ago) Isabella II of Spain,
• 1861 (165 years ago) Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, scientist, and humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1930)
• 1900 (126 years ago) Helen Hayes, American actress (died 1993)
• 1913 (113 years ago) Claude Simon, Malagasy-French novelist and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2005)
• 1930 (96 years ago) Harold Pinter, English playwright, screenwriter, director Nobel Prize laureate (died 2008)
• 1946 (80 years ago) Naoto Kan, Japanese lawyer and politician, 61st Prime Minister of Japan

Deaths

• 680 (1346 years ago) Husayn ibn Ali, third Shia Imam and grandson of Muhammad (born 626)
• 1659 (367 years ago) Abel Tasman, Dutch merchant and explorer (born 1603)
• 1827 (199 years ago) Ugo Foscolo, Italian author and poet (born 1778)
• 1963 (63 years ago) Édith Piaf, French singer-songwriter and actress (born 1915)
• 1973 (53 years ago) Ludwig von Mises, Ukrainian-American economist and sociologist (born 1881)
• 1985 (41 years ago) Orson Welles, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1915)
• 2000 (26 years ago) Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (born 1916)
• 2004 (22 years ago) Christopher Reeve, American actor, producer, and activist (born 1952)

All 443 events, births and deaths of October 10