October 19

Sunday 19, 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.

Tuesday 19, 1982:

John De Lorean is arrested for trafficking in cocaine.

Friday 19, 1973:

President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes.

Wednesday 19, 1960:

Mauretania gains independence from France.

Friday 19, 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.