October 19
October 19 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar . There are 73 days remaining.
Events
300 BC-AD 1899
202 BC - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal .
AD 439 - The Vandals , led by King Gaiseric , take Carthage in North Africa .
1453 - The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.
1466 - The Thirteen Years' War ended with the Second Treaty of Thorn . Prussia as a whole was incorporated into Poland ; the Teutonic Knights were allowed to rule its eastern part as Polish vassals .
1781 - Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington and Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown, Virginia , ending the American Revolutionary War .
1812 - Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow .
1813 - The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.
1864 - Battle of Cedar Creek - Union Army under Philip Sheridan destroys Confederate Army under Jubal Early .
1864 - Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada .
1873 - Yale , Princeton , Columbia , and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
1900-1999
1912 - Italy takes possession of Tripoli , Libya from the Ottoman Empire .
1914 - The First Battle of Ypres begins.
1917 - Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
1933 - Germany withdraws from the League of Nations .
1943 - Streptomycin , the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis , is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University .
1944 - United States forces land in the Philippines .
1954 - First ascent of Cho Oyu
1960 - Mauretania gains independence from France .
1973 - President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes.
1982 - John De Lorean is arrested for trafficking in cocaine .
1983 - Maurice Bishop , Prime Minister of Grenada , is overthrown and executed in a military coup d'état led by Bernard Coard .
1985 - The first Blockbuster Video store opens in Dallas, Texas .
1986 - Samora Machel , President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO , and 33 others died when their Tupolev 134 plane crashed into the Lebombo Mountains .
1987 - In retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf , the U.S. Navy disables three of Iran's offshore oil platforms .
1987 - (Black Monday ) Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%.
1989 - Guildford Four convictions are quashed by the Court of Appeal - they had spent 15 years in prison through a miscarriage of justice .
1991 - Paul Glover buys a samosa at the Farmers' Market with Half HOUR #751; the first use of Ithaca Hours .
1994 - New Zealand 's Goodnight Kiwi airs for the last time.
2000-2099
Births
1500-1899
1900-1999
1907 - Roger Wolfe Kahn , band leader (d. 1962 )
1908 - Geirr Tveitt , Norwegian composer
1910 - Jean Genet , French author (d. 1986 )
1916 - Emil Gilels , Ukrainian pianist (d. 1994 )
1918 - Louis Althusser , French Marxist philosopher
1931 - John le Carré , English novelist
1932 - Robert Reed , actor (d. 1992 )
1937 - Peter Max , pop artist
1942 - Andrew Vachss , author and attorney
1944 - Peter Tosh , musician
1945 - Divine (Glen Milstead) , actor (d. 1988 )
1945 - John Lithgow , actor
1946 - Philip Pullman writer
1947 - Giorgio Cavazzano , comics artist and illustrator
1951 - Steve Pearson (photographer), in Mudgee NSW Aust
1951 - Patricia Ireland , President of the National Organization for Women
1962 - Evander Holyfield , boxing champion
1966 - Jon Favreau , actor, writer, director
1969 - Trey Parker , cartoonist , comedian, writer, actor
1972 - Pras , musician
1976 - Michael Young , American baseball player
1976 - Balazs Varady , musician
Deaths
1100-1899
1900-1999
1943 - Camille Claudel , French sculptor
1950 - Edna St. Vincent Millay , poet
1956 - Isham Jones , jazz musician (b. 1894 )
1973 - Walt Kelly , cartoonist
1983 - Maurice Bishop , Prime Minister of Grenada
1987 - Jacqueline Du Pré , English cellist (b. 1945 )
1988 - Son House , blues musician
1992 - Arthur Wint , Jamaican runner
1994 - Martha Raye , comedienne, actress
2000-2099
Holidays
External links
October 18 - October 20 - November 19 - September 19 - more historical anniversaries
