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19 October, 2007
Philippines. Amidst corruption controversies hounding the Arroyo administration, a bomb explosion rocked Glorietta 2, a shopping mall in Makati, which killed 9 and injured more than 100 people.
19 October, 2006
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 12,000 mark for the first time.
19 October, 2005
Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity. Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb. The last Major League Baseball game is played at Busch Memorial Stadium.
19 October, 2004
Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the Thai government on charges of corruption. Care International aid worker Margaret Hassan is kidnapped in Iraq.
19 October, 2003
Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
19 October, 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.
19 October, 1998
The Earth Liberation Front sets fire to the Vail Mountain ski resort in Vail, Colorado, causing $12 million in damage.
19 October, 1991
7.0 Richter Scale earthquake in Northern Italy - 2000 dead
19 October, 1989
Guildford Four convictions are quashed by the Court of Appeal - they had spent 15 years in prison through a miscarriage of justice.
19 October, 1987
In retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy disables three of Irans offshore oil platforms. (Black Monday) Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points. This is considered a Stock Market Crash.
19 October, 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.
19 October, 1983
Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and executed in a military coup détat led by Bernard Coard.
19 October, 1976
Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon. The same day, the Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) is placed on the List of Endangered Species.
19 October, 1974
Niue becomes self-govering colony of New Zealand
19 October, 1973
President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes.
19 October, 1969
The first Prime Minister of Tunisia in twelve years, Bahi Ladgham, is appointed by President Habib Bourguiba.
19 October, 1960
The United States government places an embargo on Communist Cuba.
19 October, 1954
First ascent of Cho Oyu
19 October, 1950
The military of the Peoples Republic of China takes control of the town of Chamdo in eastern Tibet.
19 October, 1944
United States forces land in the Philippines.
19 October, 1943
Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
19 October, 1935
The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
19 October, 1933
Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
19 October, 1921
Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.
19 October, 1917
Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
19 October, 1914
The First Battle of Ypres begins.
19 October, 1912
Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
19 October, 1904
Polytechnic University of the Philippines founded as Manila Business School through the superintendence of the American C.A. OReilley.
19 October, 1873
Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
19 October, 1864
Battle of Cedar Creek - Union Army under Philip Sheridan destroys Confederate Army under Jubal Early. Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.
19 October, 1822
In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí.
19 October, 1813
The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.
19 October, 1812
Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow.
19 October, 1789
Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
19 October, 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.
19 October, 1512
Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
19 October, 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.
19 October, 1466
The Thirteen Years War ends with the Second Treaty of Torun. Gdansk Pomerania and Prussia as a whole are incorporated into Poland; the Teutonic Knights are allowed to rule its eastern part as Polish vassals.
19 October, 1453
The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.
19 October, 1216
King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.
19 October, 439
The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.

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