October 19

Tuesday 19, 2004:

Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the Thai government on charges of corruption.

Sunday 19, 2003:

Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.

Friday 19, 2001:

SIEV-X sinks en route to Christmas Island

Wednesday 19, 1994:

New Zealand's Goodnight Kiwi says good night for the last time.

Thursday 19, 1989:

they had spent 15 years in prison through a miscarriage of justice.

Monday 19, 1987:

(Black Monday) Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%.

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.

Saturday 19, 1985:

The first Blockbuster Video store opens in Dallas, Texas.

Wednesday 19, 1983:

Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and executed in a military coup d'état led by Bernard Coard.

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.

Tuesday 19, 1954:

First ascent of Cho Oyu

Thursday 19, 1944:

United States forces land in the Philippines.

Tuesday 19, 1943:

Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.

Thursday 19, 1933:

Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.

Friday 19, 1917:

Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.

Monday 19, 1914:

The First Battle of Ypres begins.

Saturday 19, 1912:

Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.

Sunday 19, 1873:

Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.

Wednesday 19, 1864:

Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.

Tuesday 19, 1813:

The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.

Monday 19, 1812:

Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow.

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.

Saturday 19, 1512:

Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology .

Friday 19, 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.

Wednesday 19, 1453:

The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.

Wednesday 19, 439:

The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.

Tuesday 19, -202:

The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal.

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