Today's Holidays in October 19

✡️ Religious Observances

• Chinese: Chongyang Festival major

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2013 — At least 105 people are injured in a train crash at the Once railway station in Buenos Aires. ↗
• 2012 — A bomb explosion kills eight people and injures 110 people in Beirut, Lebanon. ↗
• 2005 — Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity. ↗
• 2005 — Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb. ↗
• 2003 — Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II. ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1994 — Agnė Sereikaitė, Lithuanian speed skater
• 1993 — Abby Sunderland, American sailor
• 1992 — Shiho, Japanese actress and model
• 1991 — Colton Dixon, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1990 — Tom Kilbey, English footballer