Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 19

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  Lord Charles Cornwallis
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  Surrender of Lord Cornwallis by John Trumbull
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  John Jay
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  Ferdinand II of Aragon
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  Isabella of Castile
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  Ferdinand and Isabella
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  Scipio Africanus of the Roman Republic
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  Streptomycin
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  Sidemen
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  Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky by Benjamin West (c. 1816)
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  Artist's impression of ʻOumuamua

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Blurb	Reason
Mother Teresa Day in Albania	date not cited
Constitution Day in Niue (1974);	stub, unreferenced
202 BC – Publius Cornelius Scipio, a consul of the Roman Republic, decisively defeated Hannibal and the Carthaginians at Zama, ending the Second Punic War.	refimprove section
1469 – Ferdinand II of Aragon married [[Isabella I of Castile|Template:Nowrap of Castile]], a marriage that paved the way for the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.	both: unreferenced section
1789 – John Jay was sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.	external links
1900 – German physicist Max Planck proposed his law of black body emission, a pioneer result of modern physics and quantum theory.	probably too technical for the Main Page
1943 – Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, was first isolated by a PhD student at Rutgers University.	Referencing issues
1950 – The Chinese Army captured the town of Qamdo as part of China's plan to take control of Tibet.	refimprove section
1985 – The first Blockbuster, at one time one of the world's largest video rental chains, opened in Dallas, Texas.	unreferenced section
1986 – President of Mozambique Samora Machel and 43 others were killed when his presidential aircraft crashed in the Lebombo Mountains just inside the border of South Africa.	refimprove
1998 – The eco-terrorist group Earth Liberation Front set fire to the Vail Ski Resort in Vail, Colorado, US, causing Template:Nowrap in damage.	refimprove section, date not in article
1989 – The Troubles: The Guildford Four had their convictions quashed after serving 15 years for their alleged involvement in the Guildford pub bombings.	unreferenced section, refimprove section
2001 – SIEV X, an Indonesian fishing boat en route to Christmas Island carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sank in international waters, killing 353 of them.	needs more footnotes
2004 – Irish aid worker Margaret Hassan was abducted in Baghdad by unidentified kidnappers, who murdered her about four weeks later.	refimprove
John Juvenal Ancina |b|1545|	too many unreferenced paragraphed, at least 8 {cn} tags
Jacobus Arminius |d|1609|	too manu Cns
Saki Fujita |b|1984|	refimprove

Eligible

• 1579 – A ceremony was held in Edinburgh marking the coming of age of James VI of Scotland as an adult ruler.
• 1752 – The Pennsylvania Gazette published a statement by Benjamin Franklin describing a kite experiment (depicted) to determine the electrical nature of lightning.
• 1914 – First World War: Allied forces began engaging German troops at the First Battle of Ypres.
• 1944 – The Guatemalan Revolution began with a small group of army officers led by Francisco Javier Arana and Jacobo Árbenz launching a coup against dictator Jorge Ubico.

• 1596 – The Spanish ship San Felipe was shipwrecked on the Japanese island of Shikoku, and its cargo confiscated by the local daimyo.
• 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British forces led by Lord Cornwallis officially surrendered to Franco-American forces under George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau, ending the Siege of Yorktown.
• 1965 – A group of ethnic Hutu military officers failed in their attempt to overthrow the Burundian government.
• 1987 – Iran–Iraq War: U.S. Navy forces destroyed two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf in response to an Iranian missile attack on a Kuwaiti oil tanker three days earlier.
• 1987 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 22.6 percent on Black Monday, the largest one-day percentage decline in the stock market index's history.
• 1988 – The British government restricted the broadcast of the voices of representatives from Sinn Féin and several Irish republican and loyalist paramilitary groups on television and radio.
• 2013 – British YouTube collective the Sidemen were formed as a Rockstar Games Social Club group in Grand Theft Auto Online.
• 2017 – Canadian astronomer Robert Weryk discovered ʻOumuamua (depicted), the first known interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System.
• Born/died this day: | Yusuf I of Granada |d|1354| John Rolph |d|1870| Salimuzzaman Siddiqui |b|1897| Peter Aduja |b|1920| John Lithgow |b|1945| Demetrios Christodoulou |b|1951| Sam Allardyce |b|1954| V. Gordon Childe |d|1957| Josef Hoop |d|1959| Yoko Shimomura |b|1967| Ali Treki |d|2015|

Notes

• Typhoon Tip appears on October 12, so Hurricane Wilma should not appear in the same year

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• 1864 – American Civil War: Despite incurring nearly twice as many casualties as the Confederates, the Union army emerged victorious at the Battle of Cedar Creek.
• 1943 – World War II: Allied aircraft sank the German cargo ship Sinfra, killing mostly Italian POWs.
• 1955 – At a meeting of its general assembly, the European Broadcasting Union approved the staging of the first Eurovision Song Contest.
• 1965 – Vietnam War: The Siege of Plei Me began with the first major confrontation between soldiers of the North Vietnamese Army and the U.S. Army.
• 2005 – Hurricane Wilma (pictured) became the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum atmospheric pressure of 882 mbar (26.05 inHg).