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October 19
1765 - The Stamp Act Congress, meeting in New York, drew up a declaration of rights and liberties, which the British Parliament ignored.
1781 - British General Cornwallis surrendered to General George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia, bringing an end to the last major battle of the American Revolution.
1812 - French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte began their retreat from Moscow.
1944 - The U.S. Navy began accepting Black women into WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service).
1950 - United Nations forces entered the North Korean capital of Pyongyang during the Korean War.
1960 - The United States imposes a partial embargo on goods exported to Cuba.
1960 - The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested during a sit-down protest at a lunch counter in Atlanta. (Sent to prison for a parole violation over a traffic offense, King was released after three days following an appeal by Robert F. Kennedy.)
1969 - Vice President Spiro T. Agnew referred to anti-Vietnam War protesters "an effete corps of impudent snobs."
1977 - The supersonic Concorde made its first landing in New York City.
1983 - The U.S. Senate passed a bill, 78-22, making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal holiday.
1987 - The stock market crashed on what came to be known as "Black Monday." Stocks dropped a record 508 points, or 22.6%, topping the drops on October 28th and 29th in 1929 that ushered in the Great Depression.
2001 - Two Army Rangers were killed in a helicopter crash in Pakistan in the first combat-related American deaths of the military campaign in Afghanistan.
2003 - Pope John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa during a ceremony in St. Peter's Square.
2005 - A defiant Saddam Hussein pleaded innocent to charges of premeditated murder and torture at his trial in Baghdad.
2006 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 12,000 for the first time, finishing the day at 12,011.73.
2008 - Retired Gen. Colin Powell, a Republican who was President George W. Bush's first secretary of state, broke with the party and endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president.
2010 - The Pentagon directed the military to accept openly gay recruits for the first time in the nation’s history.
2011 - In Greece, hundreds of youths smashed and looted stores in central Athens and clashed with riot police during a massive anti-government rally against painful new austerity measures.
2015 - Canadians voted for a sharp change in their government as the Liberals led by Justin Trudeau, the son of a former prime minister, won a landslide victory to end Conservative Stephen Harper’s near decade in office.
Birthdays
22 - Katie Douglas (actress)
25 - Enca Haxhia (singer)
27 - Hunter King (actor)
30 - Ciara Renee (actress/singer)
37 - Rebecca Ferguson (actress)
38 - Gillian Jacobs (actress)
40 - Benjamin Salisbury (actor)
44 - Cyndi Thomson (country singer)
44 - Omar Gooding (actor)
50 - Chris Kattan (actor/comedian)
51 - Trey Parker (producer)
53 - Amy Carter (daughter of President Jimmy Carter)
54 - Jon Favreau (actor)
56 - Ty Pennington (TV host)
58 - Evander Holyfield (boxer)
60 - Jennifer Holliday (singer)
68 - Floyd Mayweather Sr. (boxer)
69 - Annie Golden (actress)
75 - John Lithgow (actor)
80 - Michael Gambon (actor)
84 - Tony Lo Bianco (actor)
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Today in Sports History - October 19
1933 - Basketball was introduced to the 1936 Olympic Games by the Berlin Organization Committee.
1957 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard of the Montreal Canadiens becomes the first player in NHL history to score 500 career goals.
1974 - The Detroit Pistons defeated the Portland Trail Blazers in Portland; the Pistons would not win in Portland again until 1990.
1998 - Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson got his boxing license back after he had lost it for biting Evander Holyfield's ear during a fight.
2014 - Peyton Manning of the Denver Broncos broke Brett Favre's NFL record of 508 career touchdown passes in a 42-17 win over the San Francisco 49ers. (The record would later be broken by both Drew Brees and Tom Brady.)
2014 - Running back DeMarco Murray of the Dallas Cowboys became the first player in NFL history to rush for 100 or more yards in each of the first seven games of a season.
1765 - The Stamp Act Congress, meeting in New York, drew up a declaration of rights and liberties, which the British Parliament ignored.
1781 - British General Cornwallis surrendered to General George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia, bringing an end to the last major battle of the American Revolution.
1812 - French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte began their retreat from Moscow.
1944 - The U.S. Navy began accepting Black women into WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service).
1950 - United Nations forces entered the North Korean capital of Pyongyang during the Korean War.
1960 - The United States imposes a partial embargo on goods exported to Cuba.
1960 - The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested during a sit-down protest at a lunch counter in Atlanta. (Sent to prison for a parole violation over a traffic offense, King was released after three days following an appeal by Robert F. Kennedy.)
1969 - Vice President Spiro T. Agnew referred to anti-Vietnam War protesters "an effete corps of impudent snobs."
1977 - The supersonic Concorde made its first landing in New York City.
1983 - The U.S. Senate passed a bill, 78-22, making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal holiday.
1987 - The stock market crashed on what came to be known as "Black Monday." Stocks dropped a record 508 points, or 22.6%, topping the drops on October 28th and 29th in 1929 that ushered in the Great Depression.
2001 - Two Army Rangers were killed in a helicopter crash in Pakistan in the first combat-related American deaths of the military campaign in Afghanistan.
2003 - Pope John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa during a ceremony in St. Peter's Square.
2005 - A defiant Saddam Hussein pleaded innocent to charges of premeditated murder and torture at his trial in Baghdad.
2006 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 12,000 for the first time, finishing the day at 12,011.73.
2008 - Retired Gen. Colin Powell, a Republican who was President George W. Bush's first secretary of state, broke with the party and endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president.
2010 - The Pentagon directed the military to accept openly gay recruits for the first time in the nation’s history.
2011 - In Greece, hundreds of youths smashed and looted stores in central Athens and clashed with riot police during a massive anti-government rally against painful new austerity measures.
2015 - Canadians voted for a sharp change in their government as the Liberals led by Justin Trudeau, the son of a former prime minister, won a landslide victory to end Conservative Stephen Harper’s near decade in office.
Birthdays
22 - Katie Douglas (actress)
25 - Enca Haxhia (singer)
27 - Hunter King (actor)
30 - Ciara Renee (actress/singer)
37 - Rebecca Ferguson (actress)
38 - Gillian Jacobs (actress)
40 - Benjamin Salisbury (actor)
44 - Cyndi Thomson (country singer)
44 - Omar Gooding (actor)
50 - Chris Kattan (actor/comedian)
51 - Trey Parker (producer)
53 - Amy Carter (daughter of President Jimmy Carter)
54 - Jon Favreau (actor)
56 - Ty Pennington (TV host)
58 - Evander Holyfield (boxer)
60 - Jennifer Holliday (singer)
68 - Floyd Mayweather Sr. (boxer)
69 - Annie Golden (actress)
75 - John Lithgow (actor)
80 - Michael Gambon (actor)
84 - Tony Lo Bianco (actor)
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Today in Sports History - October 19
1933 - Basketball was introduced to the 1936 Olympic Games by the Berlin Organization Committee.
1957 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard of the Montreal Canadiens becomes the first player in NHL history to score 500 career goals.
1974 - The Detroit Pistons defeated the Portland Trail Blazers in Portland; the Pistons would not win in Portland again until 1990.
1998 - Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson got his boxing license back after he had lost it for biting Evander Holyfield's ear during a fight.
2014 - Peyton Manning of the Denver Broncos broke Brett Favre's NFL record of 508 career touchdown passes in a 42-17 win over the San Francisco 49ers. (The record would later be broken by both Drew Brees and Tom Brady.)
2014 - Running back DeMarco Murray of the Dallas Cowboys became the first player in NFL history to rush for 100 or more yards in each of the first seven games of a season.