Today In History - October 19

125BC Origin of the Era of Tyre
615 St. Deusdedit I begins his reign as the Catholic Pope
1298 140 Jews of Heilbron Germany are murdered
1765 The Stamp Act Congress met in New York
1781 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 PM - the Revolutionary War ends
1812 Napoleon begins his disastrous retreat from Moscow
1818 The US and Chicasaw Indians sign a treaty
1853 The first flour mill in Hawaii begins operations
1856 James Kelly & Jack Smith fight bare-knuckle for 6-hours and 15-minutes
1859 Wilhelm Tempel discovers a diffuse nebula
1864 Approx 25 Confederates make a surprise attack on St. Albans, Vermont
1864 the Battle of Cedar Creek
1870 The first blacks are elected to the House of Representatives
1872 World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) is found in New South Wales
1901 Santos-Dumont proves that an airship is maneuverable by circling the Eiffel Tower
1912 Tripoli passes from Turkish to Italian control
1919 First Distinguished Service Medal is awarded to a woman
1933 The Berlin Olympic Committee votes to introduce basketball in 1936
1941 The first woman jockey in North America: Anna Lee Wiley
1944 US forces land in the Philippines
1950 UN forces entered Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea
1951 President Harry S. Truman formally ends the state of war with Germany
1953 The first jet, transcontinental, nonstop scheduled service
1953 Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on TV by Arthur Godfrey
1959 Florence Henderson joins the Today Show panel
1960 Martin Luther King, Jr. is arrested during an Atlanta sit-in
1960 The US imposes an embargo on exports to Cuba
1963 The Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
1967 Mariner 5 makes a fly-by of Venus
1968 The Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls, but only for southbound cars
1977 The supersonic Concorde jet's first landing in New York City
1978 64-year old actor Gig Young kills his bride of only three weeks, and then commits suicide
1982 Automaker John DeLorean is arrested on cocaine charges: pleads not guilty
1986 The USSR expels five US diplomats
1987 "Black Monday" the Dow Jones goes down 508.32 points
1987 Billy Martin is hired as manager of New York Yankees – for fifth time
1987 US warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf
1988 Britain bans the broadcast of interviews with IRA members
1988 A car bomb kills 7 Israelis, wounds 11 more near the Lebanon border
1988 Senate passes a bill curbing ads during children's TV shows

Today In History - October 19

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