New things happen every day, but not every event makes it to the books of history. They ought to be extraordinary events that are either worth applauding or extremely heart-wrenching.
Let’s walk you down memory lane to reminisce the historic events that happened on October 19.
- 1722 – The automatic fire extinguisher was patented by French C. Hopffer.
- 1901 -Santos-Dumont proved the airship is maneuverable by circling Eiffel Tower.
- 1927 – Australian Aborigines full-scale war.
- 1937 – USA plane crash that killed everyone on board.
- 1943 – The first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, Streptomycin, was isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
- 1950 – The battle of Chamdo ends.
- 1954 – Following a number of crashes of the Comet aircraft its certificate of airworthiness was withdrawn while an inquiry into why the crashes occurred, showed it was due to metal fatigue.
- 1957 – Canadian Maurice “Rocket” Richard, became the 1st NHLer to score 500 goals.
- 1958 – American politician, 7th Lieutenant Governor of Maryland Michael Steele, was born.
- 1975 – “A Chorus Line”, recorded longest-running Broadway show (6,137 performances), premiered on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre in New York
- 1978 – A new report released showed the widely-ranging costs of owning your own home in different parts of the country.
- 1982 – John DeLorean was arrested in an airport motel with a briefcase containing $24 million dollars worth of cocaine.
- 1988 – A bill passed by the senate limited the number of ads that can be shown during children’s TV programs.
- 1991 – A fire in the hills of Oakland, California, burnt thousands of homes and killed 25 people.
- 1996 – “Rescue Me” actor-comedian Lenny Clarke married former TV producer Jennifer Miller at Martha’s Vineyard in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- 1998 – Former Chilean Dictator got arrested by British Police responding to a Spanish Extradition Warrant issued for the murder, detention, and torture of Spanish citizens during his tenure.
- 2008 – A global economic summit to discuss the global financial crisis will be held in the US after November’s presidential election.
- 2011 – Google unveils Android version 4.0 code, named Ice Cream Sandwich, running on the new Samsung Galaxy Nexus mobile phone.
- 2012 – Stanford Ovshinsky, the man who invented the hybrid battery, died.
- 2015 – US scientists from the University of California found evidence that life on earth may have begun 4.1 billion years ago, 300 million.