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Historical Events - October 19
2004:
Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the Thai government on charges of corruption.
2003:
Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
1987:
(Black Monday) Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%.
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.
1985:
The first Blockbuster Video store opens in Dallas, Texas.
1983:
Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and executed in a military coup d'état led by Bernard Coard.
1973:
President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes.
1960:
Mauretania gains independence from France.
1944:
United States forces land in the Philippines.
1943:
Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
1933:
Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
1912:
Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
1873:
Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
1864:
Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.
1813:
The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.
1812:
Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow.
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.
1512:
Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology .
1466:
The Thirteen Years' War ended with the Second Treaty of Toru. Gdansk Pomerania and Prussia as a whole was incorporated into Poland; the Teutonic Knights were allowed to rule its eastern part as Polish vassals.
1453:
The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.
439:
The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
-202:
The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal.
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