Today in History
19 October
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19 October |
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| 1031 Abbot Humbertus van Echternach opens grave of Saint Willibrord | ||
| 1298 Rindfleish-140 Jews of Heilbron Germany are murdered | ||
| 1453 2nd Battle at Castillon: France beats English, end of hundred year war | ||
| 1466 2nd Peace of Thorn | ||
| 1492 Columbus sites "Isabela" (Fortune Island, Bahamas) | ||
| 1576 Dutch provinces begin consultation about Spanish existence | ||
| 1630 In Boston the 1st general court is held | ||
| 1634 Beach Island in North sea destroyed by a heavy storm flood | ||
| 1655 Swedish King Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow | ||
| 1682 English Lord Shaftesbury flees to Holland | ||
| 1739 England declares war on Spain | ||
| 1765 Stamp Act Congress met in NY, wrote decl of rights & liberties | ||
| 1781 Lord Cornwallis surrendered to American Gen. George Washington at Yorktown in Virginia, signaling the end of the American Revolution | ||
| 1812 Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow | ||
| 1813 Napoleon was defeated by the Allies at the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig | ||
| 1818 US & Chicasaw Indians sign a treaty | ||
| 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman in US to receive medical degree | ||
| 1853 1st flour mill in Hawaii begins operations | ||
| 1856 James Kelly & Jack Smith fight bareknuckle for 6h15m in Melbourne | ||
| 1859 Wilhelm Tempel discovers diffuse nebula around Pleid star Merope | ||
| 1864 US brig-gen Emory Upton (25) promoted to general-major | ||
| 1870 British SS Cambria leaves for Noth sea coast, 196 killed | ||
| 1874 Mary Walsh & Charles Colson are 1st couple to be married in a balloon | ||
| 1879 Thomas Edison demonstrates electric light | ||
| 1888 Moshav Gederah is attacked by Arabs | ||
| 1900 Henry O Tanner, painter, wins Medal of Honor at Paris Exposition | ||
| 1901 Edward Elgar's "Pomp & Circumstance March," premieres in Liverpool | ||
| 1906 Georges Chemenceau succeeds Sarien premier of France | ||
| 1907 1st printing of Dutch Tribune (Wijnkoop/Van Ravesteyn/Ceton) | ||
| 1911 Royal Mint in London sends dies for $1 coin to Ottawa Branch | ||
| 1912 Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control | ||
| 1915 Russia and Italy declares war on Bulgaria | ||
| 1924 General Christian Worker's union demands 8 hr work day in Belgium | ||
| 1925 Italian army takes Somalia | ||
| 1926 Russian Politburo throws out Leo Trotsky & followers | ||
| 1932 Austria forbids demonstration by nazi's & anti fascists | ||
| 1932 British govt signs trade agreement with Soviet Union | ||
| 1933 Berlin Olympic Committee vote to introduce basketball in 1936 | ||
| 1935 The League of Nations imposed sanctions against Italy following its invasion of Ethiopia | ||
| 1935 Mao Tse Tung's army reaches Shanxi | ||
| 1943 The Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers began, aimed at improving allied relations with the Soviet Union. | ||
| 1944 Canadian troops liberate Aardensburg | ||
| 1944 US forces land in Philippines | ||
| 1953 Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on TV by Arthur Godfrey | ||
| 1954 Britain and Egypt signed a new Suez Canal pact, calling for withdrawal of British troops from the canal zone within 20 months. | ||
| 1960 France grants Mauritania independence | ||
| 1960 Martin Luther King Jr arrested in Atlanta sit-in | ||
| 1960 The U.S. State Department embargoed the shipment to Cuba of all goods except medicine and food. | ||
| 1962 Stalin-monument removed in Prague | ||
| 1970 Amdahl Corporation forms at Sunnyvale California | ||
| 1970 John Frazier kills Ohta's declares WW 3 has begun | ||
| 1970 British Petroleum made the first major oil find in the British sector of the North Sea. | ||
| 1978 Rhodesian troops attacked suspected guerrilla camps in neighboring Zambia, killing 300 people. | ||
| 1981 Nicolaas Bloembergen & Arthur Schawlow win Nobel for physics (laser) | ||
| 1983 The U.S. Senate passed a bill making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a public holiday. | ||
| 1986 USSR expels 5 US diplomats | ||
| 1988 Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members | ||
| 1988 Car bomb kills 7 Israelis, wounds 11 near Lebanon border | ||
| 1989 The murder convictions against Britain's "Guildford Four," jailed since 1975 for IRA attacks on public houses at Guildford and Woolwich in 1974, were quashed | ||
| 1990 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev won parliamentary approval for a plan to switch from old-style Communist central planning to a market economy. | ||
| 1993 UN authorizes arms, milt & police supply embargo against Haiti | ||
| 1994 A suspected Muslim suicide bomber blew up a bus in the heart of Tel Aviv, killing 22 people and wounding more than 40. | ||