October 19[edit]

1924: The earliest known category 5 hurricane struck the Pinar del Río Province of Cuba, killing around 90 people.

1983: Hurricane Tico made landfall near Mazatlán, Sinaloa, Mexico, killing more than 130 people

1989: Typhoon Elsie struck Luzon, Philippines, as a category 5 storm, killing 47 people.

2005: Hurricane Wilma produced the lowest sea-level atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere while over the Caribbean Sea, at 882 millibars (26.05 inHg).

2006: MetOp-A, the first weather satellite of the European MetOp program, was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.