On This Day: October 19th

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.

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

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

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.