Daily Calendar for Sunday, October 19, 2025
Died
- Jonathan Swift (author) –
- Leo Clarke (Victoria Cross recipient) –
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (poet) –
- Richard Blackwell (fashion designer & critic known simply as Mr. Blackwell”“) –
- Tom Bosley (actor) –
Born
- Martha Jefferson (wife of Thomas Jefferson; died before presidency) –
- Cassius Marcellus Clay (abolitionist) –
- Alice McLellan Birney (child welfare worker; the work by her and others led to the formation of the PTA) –
- Eddie Bauer (merchant) –
- Jack Anderson (journalist) –
- John Le Carre (author) –
- Robert Reed (actor) –
- Peter Max (artist) –
- John Lithgow (actor) –
- Giorgio Cavazzano (comic strip artist & illustrator) –
- Jennifer Holliday (singer) –
- Evander Holyfield (boxer) –
- Ty Pennington (carpenter; host of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) –
- Brad Daugherty (basketball player) –
- Jon Favreau (actor, writer, & director) –
- Chris Kattan (actor) –
- Keith Foulke (baseball player) –
Events
- Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia, effectively ending the American Revolutionary War –
- President Abraham Lincoln wrote to an 11-year-old girl who requested that he grow a beard –
- First wedding to take place in balloon occurred, over Cincinnati, Ohio –
- Government autos were first used to deliver U.S. mail –
- Watertown Senior High School, in South Dakota, was the first school to fingerprint students –
- Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, was first isolated by researchers at Rutgers University –
- Queen Elizabeth II went to a U.S. football game –
- The Miracle Worker, a dramatization of Helen Keller’s early life, opens on Broadway –
- U.S. auto executive, John DeLorean, was charged with the crime of selling cocaine to undercover police –
- The first Blockbuster Video store opened in Dallas, Texas –
- Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 22% on what has become known as Black Monday”“ –
- Mother Teresa was beatified by Pope John Paul II –
- In Indiana, a family’s pet Amazon parrot saved their lives by mimicking the sound of a fire alarm to alert them their house was on fire –
- An earthquake measuring 2.5 hit Littleton, Massachusetts –
- The Tampa Bay Rays won the American League Championship Series for the first time in franchise history –
- First object (‘Oumuamua) from another solar system detected in ours –
Weather
- A hurricane that blew for five hours swept Great Lakes waters into Buffalo, drowning 200 people –
- Hurricane Wilma made history by dropping pressure to 882 millibars –
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