On This Day - 19th October

1922 - Jack Anderson born
1931 - John Le Carre born
1932 - Robert Reed born
1937 - Peter Max born
1945 - Jeannie C. Riley, John Lithgow and Divine born
1954 - The first day of the public inquiry into the crashes of two Comet airliners within months of each other hears that metal fatigue is the most likely cause.
1962 - Evander Holyfield born
1965 - Ty Pennington born
1967 - The American spacecraft Mariner 5 successfully flies past the planet Venus, just one day after a Soviet space probe disappeared into its atmosphere.
1970 - The oil company British Petroleum announces it has struck oil in the North Sea and Chris Kattan born
1976 - Omar Gooding born
1977 - The body of kidnapped businessman Hanns-Martin Schleyer is found in the boot of a car in France.
1987 - The UK stock market bottoms out after shares on Wall Street plummet following a wave of panic selling.
1989 - The Guildford Four are released after the Court of Appeal quashes their convictions.
2001 - Two inquiries are launched into the cause of a massive blunder that led to five years of research into the possibility of BSE in sheep being scrapped.
2003 - The American illusionist David Blaine has his feet back on solid ground after ending 44 days suspended in a glass box by the River Thames in London without food.
2004 - A senior aid worker for Care International, Margaret Hassan, is kidnapped on her way to work in Iraq.
2010 - Actor Tom Bosley, famous for playing Mr Cunningham in the TV series Happy Days dies aged 83.