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This is a list of selected October 19 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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Mother Teresa Day in Albania date not cited
Constitution Day in Niue (1974); stub, unreferenced
202 BCPublius Cornelius Scipio, a consul of the Roman Republic, decisively defeated Hannibal and the Carthaginians at Zama, ending the Second Punic War. refimprove section
1469Ferdinand II of Aragon married Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paved the way for the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain. both: unreferenced section
1789John Jay was sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States. external links
1900 – German physicist Max Planck proposed his law of black body emission, a pioneer result of modern physics and quantum theory. probably too technical for the Main Page
1943Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, was first isolated by a PhD student at Rutgers University. Referencing issues
1950 – The Chinese Army captured the town of Qamdo as part of China's plan to take control of Tibet. refimprove section
1985 – The first Blockbuster, at one time one of the world's largest video rental chains, opened in Dallas, Texas. unreferenced section
1986 – President of Mozambique Samora Machel and 43 others were killed when his presidential aircraft crashed in the Lebombo Mountains just inside the border of South Africa. refimprove
1998 – The eco-terrorist group Earth Liberation Front set fire to the Vail Ski Resort in Vail, Colorado, US, causing $12 million in damage. refimprove section, date not in article
1989The Troubles: The Guildford Four had their convictions quashed after serving 15 years for their alleged involvement in the Guildford pub bombings. unreferenced section, refimprove section
2001SIEV X, an Indonesian fishing boat en route to Christmas Island carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sank in international waters, killing 353 of them. needs more footnotes
2004 – Irish aid worker Margaret Hassan was abducted in Baghdad by unidentified kidnappers, who murdered her about four weeks later. refimprove
John Juvenal Ancina |b|1545| too many unreferenced paragraphed, at least 8 {cn} tags
Jacobus Arminius |d|1609| too manu Cns
Saki Fujita |b|1984| refimprove

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