10-18-2010, 08:01 PM
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October 19th
1745 ~ Death of Jonathan Swift, Author.
1781 ~ Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, effectively ending the American War of Independence.
1931 ~ Birthday of John Le Carré, Author.
1937 ~ Death of Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand physicist, father of nuclear physics.
1950 ~ Death of Edna St. Vincent Millay, Poet.
1954 ~ Metal fatigue was identified as the cause of Comet crashes.
1969 ~ U.S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew referred to anti-Vietnam War protesters “an effete corps of impudent snobs.”
1983 ~ Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, was overthrown and executed in a military coup d'état led by Bernard Coard. He had become Prime Minister of Grenada by staging a revolution and deposing Prime Minister Eric Gairy, who was out of the country addressing the United Nations at the time.
1987 ~ The DJI fell by 22% (Black Monday).
2005 ~ The trial of Saddam Hussein began.
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