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19 October 2020
Holidays, observances, history and sky information for this date.
Holidays
No listed India public holiday for this date.
Observances
No UN observance in the current list for this date.
Selected anniversaries
Anniversary
2017 - Canadian astronomer Robert Weryk discovered ʻOumuamua (depicted), the first known interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System.Canadian astronomer
Anniversary
2013 - British YouTube collective the Sidemen were formed as a Rockstar Games Social Club group in Grand Theft Auto Online.Video-sharing platform
Anniversary
2005 - Hurricane Wilma (pictured) became the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum atmospheric pressure of 882 mbar (26.05 inHg).Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2005
Anniversary
1988 - The British government restricted the broadcast of the voices of representatives from Sinn Féin and several Irish republican and loyalist paramilitary groups on television and radio.Partial ban on voices of specific speakers
Anniversary
1987 - Iran–Iraq War: U.S. Navy forces destroyed two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf in response to an Iranian missile attack on a Kuwaiti oil tanker three days earlier.1980–1988 armed conflict in West Asia
Historical events
History
2025 - Pieces of the French Crown Jewels are successfully stolen during a heist on the Louvre Museum in Paris..Symbols of French power, 752–1825
History
2019 - Members of Parliament met at the House of Lords to discuss the United Kingdom's Brexit deal, this was the first Saturday sitting in Parliament since 3 April 1982 during the Falklands War.Upper house of the UK Parliament
History
2013 - One hundred and five people are injured in a train crash in Buenos Aires.Rail disaster in Argentina
History
2012 - A bomb explosion kills eight people and injures 110 more in Lebanon.2012 car bomb attack in Beirut, Lebanon
History
2005 - Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
History
2005 - Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.Category 5 Atlantic hurricane in 2005
History
2004 - Thirteen people are killed when Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 crashes in Adair County, Missouri, while on approach to Kirksville Regional Airport.2004 aviation accident in Missouri
History
2003 - Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.Albanian-Indian Catholic saint (1910–1997)
History
2001 - SIEV X, an Indonesian fishing boat en route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 migrants, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people.Indonesian illegal immigrant boat to Australia; sank in international waters (2001)
History
1989 - The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.People wrongly convicted of terrorism
Notable births
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Notable deaths
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Sky
Moon phase
Waxing Crescent
6.3% illuminated
Lunar age: 2.4 days
Sun zodiac
Libra
26.56 degrees
Constellation: Virgo
Moon zodiac
Sagittarius
4.49 degrees
Constellation: Scorpius
Astronomy events
No major astronomy event in the current calendar for this date.