| 19/10/2003 | The Crete Golf Club, the first 18-hole golf course in Crete, is inaugurated in Hersonissos. The aim is to expand the tourist season during the winter months and the initiative belongs to the Municipality and Cretan businessmen and hotel owners, such as Mihalis Vranas of Robinson Club Lyttos and Andreas Metaxas of Maris Hotels, while Theodore Vassilakis, president of Aegean Airlines and golf player, will be the major sponsor of the annual Pro-Am golf tournament. |
| 19/10/1999 | Austrian ski champion (1994 silver olympic winner, 1996 world slalom champion) Elfi Eder retires at the age of 29 |
| 19/10/1996 | Former Colombian international Felipe Perez is murdered in Medellin, Colombia |
| 19/10/1990 | Stratos Apostolakis, recently traded from Olympiacos to Panathinaikos, plays his first match against his old team. Super Cup was cancelled for fear of violent incidents by distressed Olympiacos fans |
| 19/10/1988 | Tasos Mitropoulos scores in the Greece – Denmark (1-1) at OAKA for the World Cup qualifiers |
| 19/10/1982 | 57-year old John de Lorean is arrested trafficking in coccaine. De Lorean, who will die on 19 March 2005, is the founder of the motor company under his name and well known for developing the Pontial GTO muscle car and the De Lorean DMC-12 sports car |
| 19/10/1981 | Christos Ribas, AEK and national team goalkeeper dies aged 67. Ribas had 9 caps with the national team and made his debut on June 3, 1933 |
| 19/10/1974 | 23-year-old Georgia Christodoulou becomes the first Greek woman to compete in the classic Marathon race, finishing 427th in the overall ranking with a time of 5 hours, 1 minute and 20 seconds, recording the “first” national record. This classic race is the first where participation of female athletes is permitted and the winner is German Eva-Maria Westphal with 3:55.56. |
| 19/10/1968 | Lia Manoliu from Romania wins the gold medal in discus and becomes the oldest female athlete (36 years and 176 days old) to win olympic gold. Nevertheless, Dana Zatopkova from Czechoslovakia remains the oldest woman (37 years and 348 days old) to win a medal in athletic history |
| 19/10/1955 | Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Marianne Moore, was approached by Robert Young of the Ford Motor Company and asked to assist them in naming a new series of cars. A few days later she sent to Ford a number of delightful names, among which was the amazing, "Utopian Turtletop." |
| 19/10/1856 | Longest bare knuckle fight. James Kelly vs Jack Smith in Melbourne, Australia. The fight lasted 6 hours 15 minutes |
