October 19

[[pl:19 pa%BCdziernika]] October 19 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 74 days remaining.

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.
1812 - Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow
1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell becomes first female physician in the United States
1864 - Battle of Cedar Creek - Union Army under Philip Sheridan destroys Confederate Army under Jubal Early
1864 - Confederate raiders launch an attack on St. Alban's, Vermont from Canada
1873 -- Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
1912 - Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire
1933 - Germany withdraws from the League of Nations
1944 - United States forces land in the Phillipines
1949 -- The Peoples Republic of China is formally proclaimed.
1960 - Mauretania gains independence from France
1973 -- President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes.
1982 - John DeLorean arrested for trafficking in cocaine
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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