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Events on October 19

• 1813 The Battle of Leipzig during the Wars of Liberation ends with the decisive defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte and the march of the allied Prussian and Russian troops into Leipzig.
• 1845 The premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Tannhäuser takes place at the Royal Saxon Court Theatre (Semperoper) in Dresden. Joseph Tichatschek sings Tannhäuser, and Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient can be heard as Venus.
• 1878 The Reichstag of the German Reich passes the law against the dangerous activities of Social Democracy, thereby legalizing the persecution of socialists that Otto von Bismarck had elevated to state doctrine.
• 1913 The German Life-Saving Association (DLRG) is founded at the Hotel de Prusse in Leipzig.
• 1965 Peter Weiss' play The Investigation, which addresses the first Frankfurt Auschwitz trial, is premiered simultaneously at fifteen West and East German theaters as part of a cycle of premieres, as well as by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London.
• 1971 The Munich U-Bahn is ceremonially opened with the start of operations on the first line, U6.
• 1972 Heinrich Böll receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1977 Hanns Martin Schleyer, who was abducted on September 5, is found dead in Mulhouse, Alsace.
• 1987 On Black Monday, the first stock market crash since the Second World War occurs.
• 1990 In the Münchberg basin of the BAB 9 near Münchberg, one of Germany's worst traffic accidents occurs. Suddenly arising fog leads to a mass collision involving 121 vehicles, claiming 10 lives and causing 122 injuries. The accident leads to the construction of a valley bridge.
• 2004 25,000 people demonstrate in front of the Bochum Schauspielhaus against the threatened closure of the Bochum Opel plant. After six days of strike action, the corporate management gives in and rules out closing the site.
• 2017 The interstellar object Oumuamua is discovered by the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii after it had already passed Earth five days earlier at a distance of 24 million kilometres.

Born on October 19

• 1862 Auguste Lumière, French chemist and entrepreneur
• 1900 Erna Berger, German soprano
• 1905 Wolfgang Lukschy, German actor and voice actor
• 1921 Gunnar Nordahl, Swedish football player
• 1931 John le Carré, British author
• 1940 Michael Gambon, Irish-British actor
• 1952 Edo Zanki, German musician, singer and producer
• 1980 Martin Stadtfeld, German pianist
• 1981 Heikki Kovalainen, Finnish racing driver
• 1981 Karoline Schuch, German actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „19. Oktober“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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