The Ultimate October 19 Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference

October 19 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 73 days remaining.

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1 Events

Events

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.

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.

2003 - Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
2004 - Myanmar Prime Minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the Thai government on charges of corruption.
2004 - The Boston Red Sox defeat the New York Yankees 10-3 in Game Seven of the American League Championship Series, to advance to the World Series. The Red Sox became the first team in baseball history to win a series after being down three game to none.

2003 - Faith Fancher, television journalist and breast cancer awareness activist
2003 - Michael Hegstrand, "Road Warrior Hawk"
2003 - Alija Izetbegovic, Bosnian politician and president
2003 - Margaret Murie, "Mother of the modern conservationist movement"

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.
Mother Teresa Day in Albania.