Re: Your Birthday: The History of
Some pretty interesting stuff happened on this day...
October 19th
* 202 BC Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the invading Carthaginian army.
* 1453 The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years' War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.
* 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.
* 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.
* 1873 Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
* 1933 Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
* 1944 United States forces land in the Philippines.
* 1959 The first discothθque opens.
* 1973 President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
* 1987 Black Monday - the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
*2005 Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
Births
1945 John Lithgow, American actor
1954 Joe Bryant, American basketball player and Kobe's daddy
1962 Evander Holyfield, American boxer
1965 Brad Daugherty, American basketball player
1970 Chris Kattan, American comedian and actor
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