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- 0202 BC - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal.
- 0439 The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
- 1216 King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.
- 1453 The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years' War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.
- 1466 The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Treaty of Toru. Gdansk Pomerania and Prussia as a whole are incorporated into Poland; the Teutonic Knights are allowed to rule its eastern part as Polish vassals.
- 1469 Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.
- 1512 Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
- 1781 At Yorktown, Virginia, British commander Lord Cornwallis surrendered to a Franco-American force led by George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau, paving the way for the end of the American Revolutionary War.
- 1781 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 PM; Revolutionary War ends
- 1789 Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
- 1812 Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow.
- 1812 Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow
- 1813 The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.
- 1818 US & Chicasaw Indians sign a treaty
- 1822 In Parnaba; Simplcio Dias da Silva, Joo Cndido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piau.
- 1853 First 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 Battle of Cedar Creek - Union Army under Philip Sheridan destroys Confederate Army under Jubal Early.
- 1864 Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.
- 1870 Four blacks elected to House of Representatives
- 1872 World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales
- 1873 Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
- 1889 Portugal's Luiz I dies at age 51 after a 28-year reign in which slavery has been abolished in every Portuguese colony
- 1901 Santos-Dumont proves airship maneuverable by circling Eiffel Tower
- 1904 Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. O'Reilley.
- 1912 Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1912 Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control
- 1914 The First Battle of Ypres begins.
- 1917 Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
- 1919 First Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman
- 1921 Portuguese Prime Minister Antnio Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.
- 1933 Berlin Olympic Committee vote to introduce basketball in 1936
- 1933 Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
- 1933 Visitor posting - Iona May Jackson was born in Carlton Saskatchewan
- 1943 Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
- 1943 Theater Guild presentation of "Othello" opens
- 1944 US forces land in Philipines
- 1944 United States forces land in the Philippines.
- 1945 Foundation of War Widow's Guild of Australia The guild's first president was Mrs Jessie Vasey, widow of Major-General GA Vasey, who had asked his wife to "look after the widows"
- 1948 Visitor posting - Patricia A. Washington (Childs) was born in Chicago - USA
- 1950 The military of the People's Republic of China takes control of the town of Chamdo in eastern Tibet.
- 1950 Visitor posting - Yvonne E was born, finally, ha!! - USA
- 1950 UN forces entered the capital of North Korea
- 1953 First jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled service
- 1954 First ascent of Cho Oyu
- 1960 France grants Mauritania independence
- 1960 The US imposes an embargo on exports to Cuba
- 1961 Number one hit on UK music charts - Helen Shapiro - Walkin' Back To Happiness
- 1963 Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand" released
- 1967 Mariner 5 makes fly-by of Venus
- 1968 Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars
- 1972 Visitor posting - Lisa Closson born to Martha Horton - USA
- 1974 Niue becomes self-govering colony of New Zealand
- 1974 Number one hit on UK music charts - Sweet Sensation - Sad Sweet Dreamer
- 1976 Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon. The same day, the Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) is placed on the List of Endangered Species.
- 1977 Supersonic Concorde jet's first landing in NYC
- 1977 Visitor posting - roy hinson born - USA
- 1978 Visitor posting - Laura Gail Maxwell is born in Tulia, TX - USA
- 1982 Automaker John DeLorean arrested on cocaine charges, found not guilty
- 1983 Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and executed in a military coup d'tat led by Bernard Coard.
- 1986 Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others died when their Tupolev 134 plane crashed into the Lebombo Mountains.
- 1986 USSR expells 5 US diplomats
- 1987 (Black Monday) Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points. 4 times previous record. This is considered a Stock Market Crash.
- 1987 In retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy disables three of Iran's offshore oil platforms.
- 1987 US warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf
- 1987 Visitor posting - Sara Anne Harvey was born - USA
- 1987 Visitor posting - Dana Marie Marks born in Mobile, Alabama. - USA
- 1988 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel
- 1988 Britain bans broadcast interviews with IRA members
- 1988 Car bomb kills 7 Israelis, wounds 11 near Lebanon border
- 1988 S Afr anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize
- 1988 Senate passes bill curbing ads during children`s TV shows
- 1988 Visitor posting - Jessica Reinstein born this date - USA
- 1989 Guildford Four convictions are quashed by the Court of Appeal - they had spent 15 years in prison through a miscarriage of justice.
- 1990 Visitor posting - Oct. 19 1990 Timothy Lee Rhodes was born in Del Rio , Texas. On Laughlin Air Force Base.
- 1991 7.0 Richter Scale earthquake in Northern Italy - 2000 dead
- 1991 Visitor posting - Kurtis Corbin is born
- 1992 Visitor posting - Juan Hernandez was born
- 1992 Visitor posting - Teresa E Rodriguez born - USA
- 1992 Visitor posting - Vanessa Montes (BLUE) was born sukkaz! 10.19.92 was tha dayy the world started to go round! - USA
- 1993 Visitor posting - Tyler Meeks was born - USA
- 1993 Visitor posting - Sydney Elizabeth Frank was born! - USA
- 1994 The Goodnight Kiwi airs in New Zealand for the last time as TV2 moves to 24-hour television 7 days a week.
- 1994 Visitor posting - Ashlee W. was born, sweet! - USA
- 1994 Visitor posting - Ashley was born!!! YEAAAA - USA
- 1994 Visitor posting - Lewis Mills Born
- 1995 Visitor posting - Deborahh Was born.
- 1995 Visitor posting - Savannah Rose was born!
- 1998 The Earth Liberation Front sets fire to the Vail Mountain ski resort in Vail, Colorado, causing $12 million in damage.
- 2001 SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing boat en-route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sank in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
- 2003 Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
- 2004 Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan is kidnapped in Iraq.
- 2004 Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the Thai government on charges of corruption.
- 2005 Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
- 2005 Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
- 2005 Visitor posting - Born - the most perfect girl ever...Madlyn (Maddy) Franqui! - USA [email protected]
- 2005 The last Major League Baseball game is played at Busch Memorial Stadium.
- 2007 Philippines. Amidst corruption controversies hounding the Arroyo administration, a bomb explosion rocked Glorietta 2, a shopping mall in Makati, which killed 11 and injured more than 100 people.
- 2007 Visitor posting - Rebecca & George brought together by the "WINK" life will never be the same :) - USA
- 2009 32 Extra Solar planets are discovered and announced, this making the record of most exoplanets discovered in one day and in one month.
- 2009 Abraham Lauhenaspessy ("Captain Bram"), a suspected kingpin people smuggler, is detained in Indonesia.
- 2009 Charles Wesley Mumbere is crowned king of the Bakonjo people in the Rwenzururu district of Uganda.
- 2009 Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico says that he will also demand an opt-out in the Treaty of Lisbon if the Czech Republic is granted one.
- 2009 The Opposition in the Australian Parliament demands details on the salary of high-profile Kerry O'Brien, presenter of The 7.30 Report for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
- 2009 United Nations–backed electoral fraud investigators throw out a third of President Hamid Karzai's votes leading to a runoff in the presidential election.
- 2009 Visitor posting - LARRY TURNED 45 YEARS OLD! - USA
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