Historical timeline for October 19

Pieces of the French Crown Jewels are successfully stolen during a heist on the Louvre Museum in Paris..

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.

One hundred and five people are injured in a train crash in Buenos Aires.

A bomb explosion kills eight people and injures 110 more in Lebanon.

Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.

Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.

Thirteen people are killed when Corporate Airlines Flight 5966 crashes in Adair County, Missouri, while on approach to Kirksville Regional Airport.

Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.

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.

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.

The British government imposes a broadcasting ban on television and radio interviews with members of Sinn Féin and eleven Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups.

Black Monday: The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.

The United States Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer, an attack on two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.

The president of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, along with 33 others, die when their aircraft crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.

Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand.

President Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.

The United States imposes a near-total trade embargo against Cuba.

The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the two countries that had existed since August 1945.

The General Assembly of the European Broadcasting Union approves the staging of the first Eurovision Song Contest.

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is published.