On this day: October 19

POSTED: 2:05 PM Oct 17 2012 UPDATED: 2:00 AM Oct 19 2012

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The first disco opens, the United States slaps an embargo on Cuba, Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested at an Atlanta sit-in, and Saddam Hussein goes on trial, all on this day.

OTD October 19 - Jonathan Swift — 1 / 27

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1745: Irish author Jonathan Swift, one of the English language's foremost prose satirists who is best remembered for works such as "Gulliver's Travels" and "A Modest Proposal," dies at age 77 in Ireland.

OTD October 19 - Jonathan Swift

OTD October 19 - John Jay

OTD October 19 - George Pullman

OTD October 19 - John le Carre

OTD October 19 - Robert Reed

OTD October 19 - Michael Gambon

OTD October 19 - Peter Tosh

OTD October 19 - Divine

OTD October 19 - John Lithgow

OTD October 19 - Scotch-Club

OTD October 19 - Puerto Rico

OTD October 19 - Martin Luther King

OTD October 19 - Evander Holyfield

OTD October 19 - I Second that Emotion

OTD October 19 - Trey Parker

OTD October 19 - Chris Kattan

OTD October 19 - Prince

OTD October 19 - MLK Day

OTD October 19 - Black Monday

OTD October 19 - Mother Teresa

OTD October 19 - Road Warrior Hawk

OTD October 19 - David Blaine

OTD October 19 - Saddam Hussein

OTD October 19 - Hurricane Wilma

OTD October 19 - Mr Blackwell

OTD October 19 - Colin Powell

OTD October 19 - Tom Bosley

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