Here are some interesting history happenings for..............you guessed it October 19th.

Not in this order but my favorite's are

1. Of course this year Fallout New Vegas :fallout:
2. 1926 John C Garand patents semi-automatic rifle :gun:
3. 1781 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 PM; Revolutionary War ends :foodndrink:
4. 1879 Thomas Edison demonstrates electric light :shocking:
5. 1856 James Kelly and Jack Smith fight bareknuckle for 6h15m in Melbourne :slap:
6. 1966 Yardbird 1st U.S. tour (New York City) Jimmy Page=Awesome :mohawk:
7. 1987 U.S. warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf Reagan just did what he wanted

I only found info up to 2006 on a quick search, I'm sure we can pump this list up some with this great community we have here :goodjob:

2006 Dow closes above 12,000 for the first time

2005 Saddam Hussein's trial begins in Iraq

1997 "Annie," closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City

1997 700th World Series home run (Sandy Alomar, Cleveland Indians)

1997 David Duval wins Walt Disney World/Oldsmobile Golf Classic

1997 Hyatt Regency Maui Kaanapali Senior Golf Classic

1996 Braves beat New York Yankees by record tying 11 runs, 12-1 in a World Series

1995 "Hello Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 118 performances

1994 160 killed at battles in Tsjetsjenie

1994 Palestinian bomb attack on bus in Tel Aviv, kills 22

1993 U.N. authorizes arms, miltary and police supply embargo against Haiti

1991 Longest NCAA football game (3:52) as RI beats Maine 52-30 (6 OTs)

1991 Lonnie Glieberman purchased Ottawa Rough Riders from CFL

1990 HCA, Helsinki Citizens Assembly, forms in Prague

1989 "Dangerous Games" opens at Nederlander Theater New York City for 4 performances

1989 Astor Piazzolla and Wm Finn's musical "Dangerous Games" premieres in New York City

1989 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.

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 Roxette releases "Roxette Look Sharp!" album

1988 South Africa anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize

1988 Senate passes bill curbing ads during children's TV shows

1987 "Anything Goes" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 804 performances

1987 "Black Monday"-Dow Jones down 508.32, 4 times previous record

1987 Dow Jones Index drops 508.32 points (22%) (record)

1987 U.S. warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf

1987 Woody Woodward resigns as New York Yankee General Manager, Lou Piniella is named General Manager and Billy Martin is named New York Yankee manager for 5th and final time

1986 "Flamenco Puro" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 40 performances

1986 "Raggedy Ann" closes at Nederlander Theater New York City after 5 performances

1986 Allan Border scores the 10,000th run in Tests (v India, Bombay)

1986 U.S.S.R. expels 5 U.S. diplomats

1983 Columbia moves to Orbiter Processing Facility

1983 Grenada general Hudson Austin forms "revolutionary council"

1983 Philadelphia Flyers begin 13 NHL game win streak

1983 Senate establishes Martin Luther King, Jr. federal holiday

1982 Automaker John DeLorean arrested on cocaine charges (Not guilty)

1981 Los Angeles Dodgers beat Montreal Expos for NL pennant

1981 Nicolaas Bloembergen and Arthur Schawlow win Nobel for physics (laser)

1980 Steve McPeak rides 101'9" unicycle

1977 Corpse of kidnapped West German, H. M. Schleyer, found

1977 Supersonic Concorde jet's 1st landing in New York City

1975 "Chorus Line" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 6137 performances

1975 Cleveland Browns' Don Cockroft kicks club record 5 field goals

1975 Hamlisch and Klebans musical "Chorus Line" premieres in New York City

1975 Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Japan Golf Classic

1974 Detroit Red Wing Mickey Redmond scores 1st hat trick against Washington Caps

1974 Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers in Portland (next win 6-1-90)

1973 Ringo releases "Photograph"

1972 "Mother Earth" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 12 performances

1971 Last issue of "Look" magazine is published

1970 "Rothschilds" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 505 performances

1970 Amdahl Corp forms at Sunnyvale California

1970 John Frazier kills Ohta's declares WW 3 has begun

1969 J. Bock and S. Harnicks musical "Rothschilds," premieres in New York City

1969 Mary Mills wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic

1969 Oakland Darryle Lamonica passes for 6 touchdowns vs Buffalo (50-21)

1968 Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars

1967 Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of U.S.S.R., sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4"

1967 Mariner 5 makes fly-by of Venus

1966 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.

1966 Yardbird 1st U.S. tour (New York City)

1963 Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand"

1962 Stalin-monument removed in Prague

1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1960 France grants Mauritania independence

1960 KWCS (now KOOG) TV channel 30 in Ogden, UT (IND) begins broadcasting

1960 Martin Luther King, Jr. arrested in Atlanta sit-in

1960 U.S. imposes embargo on exports to Cuba

1959 Florence Henderson joins Today Show panel

1959 William Gibson's "Miracle Worker," premieres in New York City

1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1957 "Damn Yankees" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 1,022 performances

1957 Maurice "Rocket" Richard, Mont, became 1st NHLer to score 500 goals

1954 Egypt and Great Britain sign treaty; British troops departs

1954 KAKE TV channel 10 in Wichita, KS (ABC) begins broadcasting

1953 1st jet transcontinental nonstop scheduled service

1953 Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on TV by Arthur Godfrey

1952 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Betty Jameson Golf Tournament

1951 Babe Didrikson Zaharias wins LPGA Texas Women's Golf Open

1951 President Harry S Truman formally ends state of war with Germany

1950 Bird Building at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo is dedicated

1950 U.N. forces entered Pyongyang, capital of North Korea

1949 A's trade 2nd baseman Nellie Fox to White Sox for Joe Tipton

1949 Yankees trade Joe Gordon to Cleveland for Allie Reynolds

1948 "My Romance" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 95 performances

1947 De Gaulles RPF wins French municipal elections

1944 British premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Moscow

1944 Canadian troops liberate Aardensburg

1944 John Van Druten's "I Remember Mama," premieres in New York City

1944 Navy says black women can join WAVES

1944 U.S. forces land in Philippines

1943 Conference of foreign ministers in Moscow

1943 Theater Guild presentation of "Othello" opens at Shubert

1943 Yankee 2nd baseman Joe Gordon announces retirement (hates New York)

1941 1st woman jockey in North America, Anna Lee Wiley in Mexico

1939 Goering begins plunder through Nazi's occupied areas

1936 H. R. Ekins of "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters in a race around the world on commercial flights, by 18 days

1935 Mao Tse Tung's army reaches Shanxi

1933 Berlin Olympic Committee vote to introduce basketball in 1936

1932 Austria forbids demonstration by Nazi's and anti fascists

1932 British government signs trade agreement with Soviet Union

1932 Henry Ford gives his 1st radio speech

1932 Jimmie Foxx wins AL MVP and Chuck Klein wins NL MVP

1930 Jules Ladoumegue runs world record 1 km (2:23.6)

1926 John C Garand patents semi-automatic rifle

1926 Russian Politburo throws out Leo Trotsky and followers

1925 Italian army takes Somalia

1924 General Christian Worker's union demands 8 hour work day in Belgium

1923 Ban Johnson persuades AL owners to prohibit boxing in their parks

1923 Beierse government refuses to prohibit NSDAP newspaper Volkischer Beobachter

1919 1st Distinguished Service Medal awarded to a woman

1919 Reds beat White Sox, 5 games to 3 in 16th World Series. This series is known as black sox scandal as 8 White Sox throw series

1915 Russia/Italy declares war on Bulgaria

1914 U.S. Post Office 1st used an automobile to collect and deliver mail

1912 Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control

1911 Royal Mint in London sends dies for $1 coin to Ottawa Branch

1907 1st printing of Dutch Tribune (Wijnkoop/Van Ravesteyn/Ceton)

1906 Georges Chemenceau succeeds Sarien premier of France

1901 Edward Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance March," premieres in Liverpool

1901 Santos-Dumont proves airship maneuverable by circling Eiffel Tower

1900 Henry O. Tanner, painter, wins Medal of Honor at Paris Exposition

1900 South African President Paul Kruger departs for Europe

1888 Moshav Gederah is attacked by Arabs

1882 Pierre de Brazza meets Henry Morton Stanley

1879 Afghan's emir Mohammed Yakub forced to resign

1879 Thomas Edison demonstrates electric light

1874 Mary Walsh and Charles Colson are 1st couple to be married in a balloon

1872 World's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales

1870 1st (4) blacks elected to House of Reps

1870 British SS Cambria leaves for Noth sea coast, 196 killed

1864 Approx 25 Confederates make surprise attack on St. Albans, Vermont

1864 Battle of Cedar Creek, Virginia, Union beats back Confederate attackers

1864 U.S. Brigadier General Emory Upton (25) promoted to general-major

1863 Battle of Buckland Mills, VA

1859 Wilhelm Tempel discovers diffuse nebula around Pleid star Merope

1856 James Kelly and Jack Smith fight bareknuckle for 6h15m in Melbourne

1853 1st flour mill in Hawaii begins operations

1849 Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman in U.S. to receive medical degree

1845 Richard Wagners opera "Tannhauser," premieres in Dresden

1818 U.S. and Chicasaw Indians sign a treaty

1812 Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow

1781 Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 PM; Revolutionary War ends

1765 Stamp Act Congress met in New York, wrote declaration of rights and liberties

1739 England declares war on Spain

1722 French C. Hopffer patents fire extinguisher

1682 English Lord Shaftesbury flees to Holland

1655 Swedish King Karel X Gustaaf occupies Krakow

1634 Beach Island in North sea destroyed by a heavy storm flood

1630 In Boston the 1st general court is held

1576 Dutch provinces begin consultation about Spanish existence

1492 Columbus sites "Isabela" (Fortune Island, Bahamas)

1466 2nd Peace of Thorn

1453 2nd Battle at Castillon: France beats English, end of hundred year war

1298 Rindfleish-140 Jews of Heilbron Germany are murdered

1031 Abbot Humbertus van Echternach opens grave of Saint Willibrord

615 St. Deusdedit I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

Wall of text hits you for 3000 points, you have fainted.

Sort of interesting though.

All of these events pale in comparison to the release of Fallout: New Vegas. A day that will be talked about for decades.

:dead: I can't wait any longer...must..play..noww

Yea sorry about that I added a space in between each to try to make it a bit easier on the eyes.

This.

Ernest Rutherford
Death: October 19, 1937, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England

Lord Rutherford pioneered the orbital theory of the atom with his famous gold foil experiment,
through which he discovered Rutherford scattering off the nucleus.
He is sometimes called the Father of Nuclear Physics.

Cool addition.......very on topic if there is one lol

Today in History October 19


1781

British General Cornwallis surrendered to General George Washington at Yorktown, Va., bringing an end to the last major battle of the American Revolution.
1812

French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte began their retreat from Moscow.
1960

The United States imposes a partial embargo on goods exported to Cuba.
1983

The Senate passed a bill (178–22) making Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, birthday a public 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 28 and 29 in 1929 that ushered in the Great Depression.

Births

* 1276 – Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun (d. 1328)
* 1433 – Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher (d. 1499)
* 1562 – Archbishop George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1633)
* 1582 – Dmitry Ivanovich, Russian Tsarevich (d. 1591)
* 1605 – Thomas Browne, English writer (d. 1682)
* 1610 – James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, English statesman and soldier (d. 1688)
* 1658 – Adolf Friedrich II of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1704)
* 1680 – John Abernethy, Irish Protestant minister (d. 1740)
* 1688 – William Cheselden, English surgeon and anatomist (d. 1752)
* 1718 – Victor-Fran?ois, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (d. 1804)
* 1720 – John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (d. 1772)
* 1721 – Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist (d. 1800)
* 1784 – James Henry Leigh Hunt, English Romantic critic, essayist, and poet (d. 1859)
* 1784 – John McLoughlin, Canadian fur trader (d. 1857)
* 1810 – Cassius Clay, American abolitionist (d. 1903)
* 1826 – Ralph Tollemache, British clergyman (d. 1895)
* 1850 – Annie Smith Peck, American mountaineer (d. 1935)
* 1851 – Empress Myeongseong, Empress of Korea (d. 1895)
* 1858 – George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (d. 1937)
* 1862 – Auguste Lumière, French inventor (d. 1954)
* 1868 – Bertha Landes, first woman mayor of a major US city (d. 1943)
* 1873 – Jaap Eden, Dutch skater and cyclist (d. 1925)
* 1873 – John Barton King, American cricketer (d. 1965)
* 1876 – Mordecai Brown, American baseball player (d. 1945)
* 1882 – Umberto Boccioni, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1916)
* 1885 – Charles Merrill, American investment banker (d. 1956)
* 1895 – Lewis Mumford, American historian (d. 1990)
* 1895 – Frank Durbin, last American veteran of the Battle of Verdun (d. 1999)
* 1896 – Bob O'Farrell, American baseball player (d. 1988)
* 1897 – Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani scientist and scholar (d. 1994)
* 1899 – Miguel ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
* 1900 – Bill Ponsford, Australian cricketer (d. 1991)
* 1900 – Roy Worters, Canadian ice hockey goaltender (d. 1957)
* 1900 – Erna Berger, German soprano (d. 1990)
* 1901 – Arleigh Burke, American admiral (d. 1996)
* 1903 – Tor Johnson, Swedish wrestler and actor (d. 1971)
* 1907 – Roger Wolfe Kahn, American bandleader (d. 1962)
* 1908 – Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (d. 1981)
* 1909 – Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (d. 1981)
* 1909 – Marguerite Perey, French physicist (d. 1975)
* 1910 – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
* 1910 – Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (d. 1980)
* 1910 – Shunkichi Hamada, Japanese field hockey player (d. 2009)
* 1913 – Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian poet and songwriter (d. 1980)
* 1915 – Farid al-Atrash, Syrian composer, musician, and actor (d. 1974)
* 1916 – Jean Dausset, French immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 2009)
* 1916 – Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (d. 1985)
* 1918 – Charles Evans, British mountaineer, leader of the expedition that made the first ascent of Kangchenjunga in 1955 (d. 1995)
* 1920 – Pandurang Shastri Athavale, Indian philosopher (d. 2003)
* 1920 – Harry Alan Towers, English film producer and screenwriter (d. 2009)
* 1922 – Jack Anderson, American journalist (d. 2005)
* 1926 – Joel Feinberg, American moral philosopher (d. 2004)
* 1926 – Arne Bendiksen, Norwegian singer and songwriter (d. 2009)
* 1927 – Pierre Alechinsky, Belgian painter.
* 1928 – Lou Scheimer, American animation producer
* 1931 – John le Carré, English novelist
* 1932 – Robert Reed, American actor (d. 1992)
* 1936 – Tony Lo Bianco, American actor
* 1936 – James Bevel, American activist (d. 2008)
* 1937 – Peter Max, American artist
* 1937 – Marilyn Bell, Canadian swimmer
* 1940 – Michael Gambon, Irish-born British actor
* 1941 – Simon Ward, British actor
* 1942 – Andrew Vachss, American author and attorney
* 1943 – Robin Holloway, British composer
* 1943 – Takis Ikonomopoulos, Greek footballer
* 1944 – George McCrae, American soul singer
* 1944 – Peter Tosh, Jamaican reggae singer (Most famously with The Wailers (reggae band))
* 1945 – Divine, American actor (d. 1988)
* 1945 – Patricia Ireland, American attorney and feminist
* 1945 – John Lithgow, American actor
* 1945 – Jeannie C. Riley American country and gospel singer
* 1946 – Philip Pullman, English writer
* 1947 – Giorgio Cavazzano, Italian comic strip artist
* 1948 – Patrick Simmons, American musician
* 1948 – Dave Mallow, American voice actor
* 1949 – Lynn dikeey, American football player
* 1949 – Jamie McGrigor, British politician
* 1951 – Demetrios Christodoulou, Greek mathematical physicist, recipient of the B?cher Memorial Prize
* 1952 – Verónica Castro, Mexican actress and singer
* 1953 – Lionel Hollins, American basketball player and coach
* 1954 – Joe Bryant, American basketball player
* 1954 – Sam Allardyce, English football manager
* 1954 – Deborah Blum, American writer
* 1955 – Melpo Kosti, Greek actress
* 1956 – Grover Norquist, American political figure
* 1956 – Didier Theys, Belgian racing driver
* 1956 – Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (d. 1993)
* 1956 – Bruce Weber, American Basketball Coach
* 1957 – Ray Richmond, American columnist and critic
* 1957 – Karl Wallinger, Welsh musician
* 1957 – Doug Kirby, American author and travel guide
* 1957 – Dorinda Clark-Cole, American Gospel Singer
* 1958 – Tiriel Mora, Australian actor
* 1958 – Lou Briel, Puerto Rican singer and actor
* 1958 – Michael Steele, American political figure
* 1959 – Nir Barkat, Mayor of Jerusalem
* 1960 – Jennifer Holliday, American singer and actress
* 1961 – Sunny Deol, Indian actor
* 1962 – Tracy Chevalier, American author
* 1962 – Evander Holyfield, American boxer
* 1963 – Prince Laurent of Belgium
* 1964 – Jorge Luis Gonzales, Cuban-born American boxer
* 1965 – Brad Daugherty, American basketball player
* 1965 – Ty Pennington, American television carpenter
* 1966 – Roger R. Cross, Jamaican-born actor
* 1966 – Jon Favreau, American actor, writer and director
* 1966 – Dimitris Lyacos, Greek poet and playwright
* 1966 – Sinitta, American singer
* 1967 – Yoko Shimomura, Japanese composer
* 1967 – Amy Carter, daughter of US President Jimmy Carter
* 1969 – Trey Parker, American cartoonist and actor
* 1969 – Erwin Sánchez, Bolivian footballer
* 1969 – DJ Sammy, Spanish DJ
* 1969 – John Edward, American TV Psychic
* 1970 – Chris Kattan, American comedian and actor
* 1972 – Keith Foulke, American baseball pitcher
* 1972 – Pras, American musician
* 1973 – Hicham Arazi, Moroccan tennis player
* 1973 – Joaquin Gage, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1976 – Joy Bryant, American actress
* 1976 – Omar Gooding, American actor
* 1976 – Desmond Harrington, American actor
* 1976 – Dan Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1976 – Michael Young, baseball player
* 1977 – Louis-José Houde, Canadian stand-up comic
* 1977 – Jason Reitman, Canadian filmmaker
* 1977 – Raúl Tamudo, Spanish footballer
* 1977 – Habib Beye, Senegalese footballer
* 1978 – Enrique Bernoldi, Brazilian race car driver
* 1978 – James Roberts, British Ice Hockey Player
* 1978 – Zakhar Dubenskiy, Russian footballer
* 1978 – Henri Sorvali, Finnish musician
* 1979 – Marc Elliott, British actor
* 1979 – José Luis López, Mexican footballer
* 1979 – Brian Robertson, American trombonist (Suburban Legends)
* 1980 – Benjamin Salisbury, American actor
* 1980 – Rajai Davis, American baseball player
* 1981 – Heikki Kovalainen, Finnish race car driver
* 1981 – Christian Bautista, Philippine singer
* 1982 – Gonzalo Pineda, Mexican footballer
* 1982 – Louis Oosthuizen, South African golfer
* 1984 – Kaio de Almeida, Brazilian swimmer
* 1985 – Terry Etim, English mixed martial artist
* 1989 – Miroslav Stoch, Slovakian footballer
* 1990 – Janet Leon, Swedish singer and dancer (Play)
* 1993 – Abby Sunderland, American sailor

Deaths

* 727 – Saint Frideswide
* 1187 – Pope Urban III
* 1216 – King John of England (b. 1167)
* 1432 – John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, English politician (b. 1392)
* 1587 – Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1541)
* 1608 – Martin Delrio, Flemish theologian and occultist (b. 1551)
* 1636 – Marcin Kazanowski, Polish politician
* 1682 – Thomas Browne, English writer (b. 1605)
* 1723 – Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (b. 1646)
* 1745 – Jonathan Swift, Irish author (b. 1667)
* 1790 – Lyman Hall, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1724)
* 1796 – Michel de Beaupuy, French general of the Revolution (b. 1755)
* 1813 – Józef Antoni Poniatowski, Polish prince and Marshal of France (friendly fire) (b. 1763)
* 1815 – Paolo Mascagni, Anatomist (b. 1755)
* 1842 – Aleksey Koltsov, Russian poet (b. 1808)
* 1851 – Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlette (b. 1778)
* 1856 – William Sprague III, American politician from Rhode Island (b. 1799)
* 1889 – King Louis of Portugal (b. 1838)
* 1893 – Lucy Stone, American suffragist and women's rights activist (b. 1818)
* 1897 – George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (b. 1831)
* 1901 – Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (b. 1829)
* 1918 – Harold Lockwood, American actor (b. 1887)
* 1936 – Lu Xun, Chinese writer (b. 1881)
* 1937 – Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, New Zealand physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1871)
* 1943 – Camille Claudel, French sculptor (b. 1864)
* 1945 – Plutarco Elías Calles, President of Mexico (b. 1877)
* 1950 – Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet (b. 1892)
* 1956 – Isham Jones, American musician (b. 1894)
* 1960 – George Wallace, Australian vaudevillian and film comedian (b. 1895)
* 1964 – Nettie Palmer, Australian poet and essayist (b. 1885)
* 1970 – Lázaro Cárdenas, President of Mexico (b. 1895)
* 1978 – Gig Young, American actor (b. 1913)
* 1983 – Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1944)
* 1984 – Jerzy Popie?uszko, Polish priest, associated with the Solidarity union, murdered by the agents of internal intelligence agency (b. 1947)
* 1985 – Alfred Rouleau, French Canadian businessman (b. 1915)
* 1986 – Dele Giwa, Nigerian journalist
* 1986 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique (b. 1933)
* 1987 – Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist (b. 1945)
* 1987 – Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909)
* 1988 – Son House, American musician (b. 1902)
* 1994 – Martha Raye, American comedian and actress (b. 1916)
* 1995 – Don Cherry, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1936)
* 1997 – Glen Buxton, American guitarist (b. 1947)
* 1999 – Nathalie Sarraute, Russian-born French writer (b. 1900)
* 1999 – James C. Murray, American politician (b. 1917)
* 2000 – Hortense Ellis, Jamaican reggae singer (b. 1941)
* 2003 – Alija Izetbegovi?, President of Bosnia-Herzegovina (b. 1925)
* 2003 – Margaret Murie, American conservationist (b. 1902)
* 2003 – Road Warrior Hawk, American professional wrestler (b. 1960)
* 2005 – Dallas Cook, American musician (Suburban Legends) (b. 1982)
* 2005 – Corinne Lévesque, wife of Quebec premier René Lévesque (b. 1943)
* 2006 – James Glennon, American cinematographer (b. 1942)
* 2007 – Randall Forsberg, American nuclear freeze advocate (b. 1943)
* 2007 – Michael Maidens, English footballer with Hartlepool United (b. 1987)
* 2007 – Jan Wolkers, Dutch writer (b. 1925)
* 2008 – Mr. Blackwell, American fashion critic (b. 1922)
* 2008 – Rudy Ray Moore, American comedian and actor (Dolemite) (b. 1937)
* 2009 – Howard Unruh, American spree killer (b. 1921)
* 2009 – Joseph Wiseman, Canadian actor (b. 1918)

Holidays and observances

* Armilustrium in honor of Mars (Roman Empire)
* Christian Feast Day
o Aaron (Coptic Church)
o Frideswide
o Isaac Jogues, Jean de Brébeuf, and Companions
o October 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
* Constitution Day, in honor of the country's independence (self-governing in free association with New Zealand) in 1974. (Niue)
* Independence Day of State of Piauí (Brazil)
* Mother Teresa Day (Albania)




Events

* 202 BC – Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the invading Carthaginian army.
* 439 – 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 Thorn.
* 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).
* 1649 – New Ross town, Co. Wexford, Ireland, surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.
* 1781 – At Yorktown, Virginia, representatives of British commander Lord Cornwallis handed over Cornwallis' sword and formally surrendered to George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau.
* 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.
* 1813 – The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.
* 1822 – In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, Jo?o Candido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí.
* 1864 – Battle of Cedar Creek – Union Army under Philip Sheridan destroy the Confederate Army under Jubal Early.
* 1864 – St. Albans Raid – Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.
* 1873 – Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
* 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.
* 1914 – The First Battle of Ypres begins.
* 1917 – The Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
* 1921 – Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.
* 1933 – Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
* 1935 – The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
* 1943 – Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
* 1944 – United States forces land in the Philippines.
* 1950 – The People's Liberation Army takes control of the town of Qamdo; this is sometimes called the "Invasion of Tibet".
* 1950 – Korean War: After the Chinese leadership finally settled the issue of armed intervention on October 18, the People's Republic of China joins the Korean War by sending thousands of troops across the Yalu river to fight United Nations forces.
* 1954 – First ascent of Cho Oyu
* 1959 – The first discothèque opens.
* 1969 – The first Prime Minister of Tunisia in twelve years, Bahi Ladgham, is appointed by President Habib Bourguiba.
* 1973 – President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
* 1974 – Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand.
* 1976 – Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon.
* 1983 – Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and executed in a military coup d'état led by Bernard Coard.
* 1986 – Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others die when their Tupolev 134 plane crashes into the Lebombo Mountains.
* 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 – Black Monday - the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
* 1989 – The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.
* 2001 – SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing boat en-route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sinks in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
* 2003 – Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
* 2004 – Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the State Peace and Development Council on charges of corruption.
* 2004 – Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan is kidnapped in Iraq.
* 2005 – Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
* 2005 – Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
* 2007 – Philippines. Amidst corruption controversies hounding the Arroyo administration, a bomb explosion rocked Glorietta 2, a shopping mall in Makati. The blast killed 11 and injured more than 100 people.

sorry for any dupes

This has so little to do with Fallout:NV it's silly. We have a "waiting for" thread around here somewhere. Feel free to find it and put that you are researching historical events from the date of release.

Otherwise, this is pretty off topic and mostly spam.