Historical eventOctober 192013
YouTube
British YouTube collective the Sidemen were formed as a Rockstar Games Social Club group in Grand Theft Auto Online.
In context
- When
- Saturday, October 19 201313 years ago
- Category
- Historical eventA dated happening — a battle, treaty, launch, discovery, disaster or decision — recorded on this calendar day.
- Era
- 21st century · 2010s
- Recorded from
- Wikipedia “On this day” feed
At a glance
Dates: From 2013.
What happened
YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen who were all former employees at PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google itself. In January 2024, YouTube had reached more than 2.7 billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of video every day. As of May 2019,
October 19 through the years
Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.
- 2001SIEV X
- 2003Mother Teresa
- 2004Corporate Airlines Flight 5966
- 2005Hurricane Wilma
- 2005Saddam Hussein
- 2012Assassination of Wissam al-Hassan
- 20132013 Buenos Aires train crash
- 2013YouTube
- 2017Robert Weryk
- 2019House of Lords
- 2025French Crown Jewels
Also in 2013
- May 112013 Reyhanlı car bombingsTwo car bombs by unknown perpetrators exploded in Reyhanlı, Turkey, resulting in 52 killed and 140 injured.
- September 12NASANASA confirms that its Voyager 1 probe has become the first manmade object to enter interstellar space.
- September 13TalibanTaliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead…
- September 15Ivan KuleshThe Belarusian serial killer Ivan Kulesh murdered two saleswomen in Lida.
- September 16Washington Navy Yard shootingA lone gunman fatally shot twelve people and injured three others at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C.
- September 17Grand Theft Auto VGrand Theft Auto V earns more than half a billion dollars on its first day of release.
- September 18Via RailA VIA Rail train crashes into a double-decker bus at a train station in Ottawa, Canada, killing six people and injuring 35 others.
- November 17Tornado outbreak of November 17, 2013An outbreak of 77 confirmed tornadoes occurred in seven U.S. states; it became the largest November tornado outbreak in Illinois and Indi…
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When did YouTube happen?
October 19 2013 — 13 years ago, on a Saturday.
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