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Today in History ~ October 19
Events0439 - Ancient city of Carthage was captured and destroyed by Genseric the Vandal. Guess you could say the city was vandalized.
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, ending hundred year war
1492 - Columbus sites "Isabela" (Fortune Island, Bahamas)
1630 - In Boston the 1st general court is held
1722 - French C Hopffer patents fire extinguisher
1765 - The Stamp Act Congress, meeting in New York, drew up a declaration of rights and liberties.
1781 - Britain's Lord Cornwallis surrendered with more than 7,000 troops to Gen. George Washington at Yorktown, Va., effectively ending the American War of Independence. But two years would elapse before the Treaty of Paris is signed and the last British redcoats boarded ship for home from New York. [H]
1812 - Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow. Napoleon was forced to contend with a Russian army in perpetual retreat, harsh weather, and the Russians scorched earth. The French army left Russia with less than 10,000, suffering a loss of over 400,000 men during the invasion of Russia. [H]
1818 - US & Chicasaw Indians sign a treaty
1845 - Richard Wagner's opera "Tannhauser," premieres in Dresden
1864 - Approx 25 Confederate escaped POWs raid St Alban's, Vermont -- northernmost battle of the Civil War
1864 - Confederate Gen. Jubal A. Early attacked Union forces at Cedar Creek, Va.; the Union troops were able to rally and defeat the Confederates.
1870 - 1st (4) blacks elected to House of Reps
1870 - British SS Cambria leaves for North Sea coast, 196 killed
1872 - World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales
1879 - Thomas Edison demonstrates electric light
1901 - Edward Elgar's "Pomp & Circumstance" March premieres in Liverpool
1901 - Santos-Dumont proves airship maneuverable by circling Eiffel Tower
1915 - Russia/Italy declares war on Bulgaria
1915 - US recognizes General Venustiano Carranza (opposing Pancho Villa) as the president of Mexico, and imposes an embargo on the shipment of arms to all Mexican territories except those controlled by Carranza.
1919 - 1st Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman
1926 - John C Garand patents semi-automatic rifle
1926 - Russian Politburo throws out Leo Trotsky & followers
1931 - Al Capone convicted
1932 - Austria forbids demonstration by Nazis & antifascists
1935 - Mao Tse Tung's army reaches Shanxi
1939 - Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering begins plundering art treasures through Nazi occupied areas
1943 - Delegates from the U.S.S.R. meet with representatives from the Allied nations of Great Britain, the U.S., and China, in an attempt to hammer out a greater consensus on war aims, and to improve the rapidly cooling relations between the Soviet Union and its allies.
1944 - John Van Druten's "I Remember Mama," premieres in NYC
1944 - Navy announced that black women would be allowed into Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (the WAVES).
1944 - US forces land in Philippines
1944 - Actor Marlon Brando made his stage debut.
1950 - United Nations forces entered the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
1951 - President Truman signed an act formally ending the state of war with Germany.
1953 - 1st jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled service
1953 - Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on TV by Arthur Godfrey (for "lack of humility")
1954 - Egypt & Great Britain sign treaty; British troops departs
1957 - "Damn Yankees" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 1,022 performances
1959 - William Gibson's "Miracle Worker," premieres in NYC
1960 - Martin Luther King Jr arrested in Atlanta sit-in
1960 - The United States imposed an embargo on exports to Cuba covering all commodities except medical supplies and certain food products.
1962 - Stalin monument removed in Prague
1963 - Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
1969 - J Bock's & S Harnick's musical "Rothschilds," premieres in NYC, runs 505 performances
1970 - Amdahl Corp forms at Sunnyvale Calif
1971 - Last issue of "Look" magazine is published
1975 - "Chorus Line" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 6137 performances
1977 - Supersonic Concorde jet's 1st landing in New York City.
1977 - The body of West German industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer, who had been kidnapped by left-wing extremists, was found in Mulhouse, France.
1982 - Carmaker John DeLorean was arrested in Los Angeles and charged in a 24-million-dollar cocaine scheme aimed at salvaging his bankrupt sports car company. He was tried and acquitted.
1983 - Senate establishes Martin Luther King Jr federal holiday
1987 - "Black Monday"-Dow Jones down 508.32, (22% record)
1987 - US warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf
1987 - Woody Woodward resigns as NY Yankee GM, Lou Piniella is named GM and Billy Martin is named NY Yankee manager for 5th and final time
1987 - The New York stock market suffered its biggest ever setback, with the bellwether Dow Jones Industrial Average nose-diving 508 points in one session.
1988 - Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members
1988 - Car bomb kills 7 Israelis, wounds 11 near Lebanon border
1989 - The Guildford Four cleared from earlier conviction for the 1975 IRA bombings of public houses in Guildford and Woolwich, England, are cleared of all charges after 14 years in prison
1990 - The Soviet Parliament approved a compromise plan for a cautious move toward market economy.
1991 - In Louisiana, former Gov. Edwin Edwards and former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke won runoff slots in the state's gubernatorial primary.
1993 - UN authorizes arms, milt & police supply embargo against Haiti
1994 - Palestinian bomb attack on bus in Tel Aviv, kills 22
1996 - President Clinton said in his radio address that states would lose a percentage of federal highway aid if they did not bar young people from drinking and driving.
1996 - In the Republican radio address, Bob Dole claimed credit for putting Democrats on the defensive over their acceptance of foreign political contributions.
2000 - A government advisory panel of scientists declared that PPA (phenylpropanolamine), an ingredient used in dozens of popular over-the-counter medicines, could not be classified as safe, saying it could be the cause of several hundred hemorrhagic strokes suffered annually by people under 50.
Birthdays Today
1581 - Dimitri Ivanovitch, Russian son of Ivan IV "the Terrible"
1605 - Thomas Browne, British writer (Garden of Cyrus)
1748 - Martha Jefferson (Wayles) (Wife of 3rd U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, she died 18 years before he became president)
1784 - John McLoughlin, Hudson's Bay Co pioneer in Oregon Country
1784 - Leigh Hunt, British writer (friend and advisor to Shelley and Lord Byron)
1810 - Cassius Marcellus Clay, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
1859 - Georg Knorr, German engineer (brake system trains)
1862 - Auguste Lumiere, made 1st movie (Workers Leaving Lumiere Factory)
1885 - Charles Merrill (stock company mogul: founded Merrill-Lynch)
1895 - Louis Mumford, cultural historian/city planner/writer
1901 - Arleigh A Burke, Colo, admiral (WW II, Solomon Islands, Navy Cross)
1903 - Vittorio Giannini, composer
1909 - Robert Beatty (actor: Where Eagles Dare, Postmark for Danger, Captain Horatio Hornblower, Against the Wind)
1911 - George Cates (musician: Moonglow/Theme from Picnic, Autumn Leaves [w/Steve Allen]; musical director of Lawrence Welk Show for 25 years)
1916 - Emil Gilels, Odessa Russia, pianist (Brussels Competition-1938)
1916 - Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Sweden, opera composer (Herr von Hancken)
1920 - LaWanda Page (actress: Sanford and Son, Detective School)
1922 - Jack Anderson (columnist: Washington Merry-Go-Round, commentator: Mutual, USA Radio Network; author: Stormin' Norman, Japan Conspiracy)
1927 - Marjorie Tallchief, US ballerina (Harkness Ballet)
1931 - John LeCarre (David Cornwell) (author: The Russia House, A Small Town in Germany, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Night Manager)
1931 - John LeCarre [Cornwell], England, spy novelist (Smiley's People)
1932 - Robert Reed (actor: The Brady Bunch, The Brady Bunch Hour, The Bradys, The Defenders, Mannix, Nurse, Rich Man, Poor Man-Book I, Roots, The Runaways)
1937 - Peter Max (Finkelstein) (pop artist: psychedelic best-selling poster; designer: postage stamp: Expo '74; 1982 World's Fair official artist) (Dynamite Chicken)
1939 - Benita Valente, Delano Calif, soprano (Pamina-Die Zauberflote)
1941 - Simon Ward, London England, actor (4 Musketeers, 4 Feathers)
1943 - Sandy Alomar (baseball: Cleveland Indians catcher: Rookie of the Year [1990])
1944 - Peter Tosh (Winston McIntosh) (singer: baritone, musician: homemade instruments: reggae with Bob Marley)
1945 - Divine, [Harris Glenn Milstead], Balt MD, cross-dressing actor/actress (Pink Flamingo)
1945 - Jeannie C. Riley (Stephenson) (Grammy Award-winning singer: Harper Valley P.T.A. [1968]; Country Girl, The Girl Most Likely, There Never was a Time, Oh Singer, Good Enough to be Your Wife)
1945 - John Lithgow (Emmy Award-winning actor: 3rd Rock from the Sun [1995-96]; Tony Award-winning actor: The Changing Room [1973]; Twilight Zone-The Movie, I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can, The World According to Garp, Terms of Endearment, Raising Cain, The Pelican Brief, Cliffhanger)
1949 - Lynn Dickey (football: Green Bay Packers quarterback)
1950 - Luke Witte (basketball)
1950 - Mike Barr (basketball)
1950 - Morris Bradshaw (football: Oakland Raiders wide receiver: Super Bowl XI, XV)
1951 - Patricia Ireland (social activist: president of NOW)
1956 - Nino DeFranco (singer: group: The DeFranco Family: Heartbeat - It's a Lovebeat)
1958 - John Bloom, [Joe Bob Briggs], drive-in movie critic
1960 - Jennifer Holliday (actress: Dream Girls)
1962 - Evander Holyfield (boxing: World Heavyweight Champion [1990-1992]; Junior Heavyweight Champion [1986, 1988]) Tyson snack
1967 - Amy Carter (First Daughter: daughter of 39th U.S. President Jimmy and Roselyn Carter) peace activist
Famous deaths
1216 - England's King John (1199-1216, signer of Magna Carta) died. His fate thereafter is in dispute because he was excommunicated several years earlier in 1209.
1268 - Konradin von Hohenstaufen, duke of Zwaben, beheaded
1547 - Pierino del Vaga, Italian painter, dies at 46
1553 - Bonifazio Veronese/Veneziano, [de' Pitati], Italian painter,
1745 - Jonathan Swift, English writer (Gulliver's Travels), dies
1851 - Marie-Therese-Charlotte, daughter of Louis XVI & Marie-Antoinette, dies at 72
1921 - Antonio Granjo, premier (Portugal), murdered
1966 - Elizabeth Arden, US cosmetic manufacturer, dies
1978 - Gig Young, known to be depressed, kills his bride of 3 weeks and then commits suicide at 64
1984 - Jerzy Popieluszko, Polish priest/dissident, kidnapped and murdered
1984 - Jon-Erik Hexum, accidentally shoots himself on set of "Cover Up" at 27
1987 - Jacqueline du Pre, British cellist, dies of multiple sclerosis at 42
1992 - Cleavon Little, actor (Blazing Saddles), dies at 53
1992 - Maurice le Roux, French conductor/composer (Contes immoraux),
1992 - Petra Kelly, founder (German Green Party), found dead at 44
1994 - Martha Raye, actress (Pin Up Girl), dies after illness at 78
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