October 19

October 19 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 74 days remaining.

Births

Deaths

• 1988 - Son House, blues musician

Events

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

• 1781 -- Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington and Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeure, Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown, Virginia, ending the American Revolutionary War.

• 1873 -- Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American_football rules.

• 1949 -- The Peoples Republic of China is formally proclaimed.

• 1973 -- President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes.

• 1987 -- In retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy disables three of Iran's offshore oil platforms.

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See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

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