Wikipedia: October 19

October 19
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October 19 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 74 days remaining.

Events

202 BC - Battle of Zama, resulting in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal.
439 - The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
1781 - Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered 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.
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.
1912 - Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
1917 - Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
1933 - Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
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 DeLorean arrested for trafficking in cocaine.
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%.

Roman Empire - Armilustrium in honor of Mars
Niue - Constitution Day in honour of the country's independence (self-governing in free association with New Zealand) in 1974.

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