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October 19

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

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays

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 De Lorean 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%.

Births

• 1784 - John McLoughlin, Hudson's Bay Company Factor
• 1885 - Charles Merrill, investment banker (d. 1956)
• 1899 - Miguel Angel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1974)
• 1907 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, band leader (d. 1962)
• 1910 - Jean Genet, author (d. 1986)
• 1918 - Louis Althusser, French Marxist philosopher
• 1922 - Jack Anderson, political columnist
• 1931 - John Le Carré, novelist
• 1932 - Robert Reed, actor, The Brady Bunch (d. 1992)
• 1935 - Tony Lo Bianco, actor
• 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
• 1947 - Giorgio Cavazzano, comics artist and illustrator
• 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
• 1973 - Jeremy Jordan, actor, singer
• 1974 - Apalaghie Dan, Romanian musician, composer
• 1976 - Michael Young, baseball player

Deaths

• 1187 - Pope Urban III
• 1745 - Jonathan Swift, author
• 1889 - King Louis of Portugal
• 1943 - Camille Claudel, French sculptor
• 1950 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet
• 1956 - Isham Jones, jazz musician (b. 1894)
• 1973 - Walt Kelly, cartoonist
• 1987 - Jacqueline Du Pre, cellist
• 1988 - Son House, blues musician
• 1992 - Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner
• 1994 - Martha Raye, comedienne, actress
• 2003 - Faith Fancher, television journalist and breast cancer awareness activist

Holidays

• 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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