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What happened in history on this day: October 19?
On October 19 in ...
- 1831 - Assets of the Bank of the United States are liquidated at public auction.
- 1864 - Approx 25 Confederates make surprise attack on Saint Albans, Vermont.
- 1864 - Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, Union beats back Confederate attackers.
- 1943 - Researchers at Rutgers University isolate Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis.
- 1951 - President Harry S Truman formally ends state of war with Germany.
- 1953 - First jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled service.
- 1960 - Martin Luther King Jr arrested in Atlanta, Georgia sit-in.
- 1960 - The US imposes an embargo on exports to Cuba.
- 1973 - US President Richard Nixon asks Congress for US$2.2 billion aid to Israel.
- 1982 - American Automaker John De Lorean is arrested for selling cocaine to undercover FBI agents (he is later found not guilty due to entrapment).
- 1985 - The first Blockbuster Video store opens in Dallas, Texas.
- 1986 - USSR expels five American diplomats.
- 1987 - "Black Monday": stock markets around the world suffer an unexpected dramatic drop, with the American Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 22.6 percent (508 points), the largest one-day drop in recorded stock market history, and first financial crisis of the modern globalized era.
- 1987 - US warships destroy two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
- 1988 - Three Americans win Nobel Prize in physics; three West Germans win chemistry Nobel Prize.
- 1988 - US Senate passes bill curbing ads during children's TV shows.
- 1989 - The Wonders of Life pavilion opens at Walt Disney World's Epcot in Orlando, Florida.
- 1998 - Travelers Group changes its company name to Citigroup Incorporated.
- 2006 - On the 19th anniversary of the 1987 stock market crash, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 12,000 for the first time, at 12,011.73.
Births on October 19
- 1911 - Birth of George Cates in New York City, New York, USA; orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show).
- 1916 - Birth of David Lewis in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Edward Quartermaine - General Hospital).
- 1920 - Birth of LaWanda Page in Cleveland, Ohio, USA; actress (Aunt Esther - Sanford and Sons).
- 1921 - Birth of George Nader in Pasadena, California, USA; actor (Robot Monster, Away All Boats).
- 1932 - Birth of Lloyd Haynes in South Bend, Indiana, USA; actor (Pete Dixon - Room 222).
- 1932 - Birth of Robert Reed in Highland Park, Illinois, USA; actor (Mike - The Brady Bunch, Nurse).
- 1936 - Birth of Tony Lo Bianco in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Ann Jillian Story, Hizzoner!).
- 1937 - Birth of Sean Garrison in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Up Periscope, Splendor in the Grass).
- 1939 - Birth of Benita Valente in Delano, California, USA; soprano (Pamina - Die Zauberflöte).
- 1955 - Birth of Pat Klous in Hutchinson, Kansas, USA; actress (Marcy - Flying High, Judy - The Love Boat).
- 1965 - Birth of Maria Lee Ostapiej in La Mess, California, USA; Miss California-America (1991).
- 1966 - Birth of Amy Linker in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actress (Lewis and Clark, Lauren - Square Pegs).
- 1967 - Birth of Amy Carter, US President Jimmy Carter's daughter; peace activist.
- 1988 - Birth of Carly Janiga; American gymnast.
- 1991 - Birth of Christopher Gerse, American actor.
Deaths on October 19
- 1988 - Death of Son House, American musician (born 1902).
- 1994 - Death of Martha Raye, American actress (born 1916).
- 1997 - Death of Glen Buxton, American guitarist (born 1947).
- 1999 - Death of James C. Murray, American politician (born 1917).
- 2007 - Death of Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (born 1943).
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