October 19
1765 - The Stamp Act Congress, meeting in New York, drew up a declaration of rights and liberties.
1781 - British General Cornwallis surrendered to General George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia, bringing an end to the last major battle of the American Revolution.
1789 - John Jay was sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
1812 - French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte began their retreat from Moscow.
1944 - The U.S. Navy began accepting Black women into WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service).
1950 - United Nations forces entered the North Korean capital of Pyongyang during the Korean War.
1960 - The United States imposed a partial embargo on goods exported to Cuba.
1960 - The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested during a sit-down protest at a lunch counter in Atlanta. (Sent to prison for a parole violation over a traffic offense, King was released after three days following an appeal by Robert F. Kennedy.)
1969 - Vice President Spiro T. Agnew referred to anti-Vietnam War protesters as "an effete corps of impudent snobs."
1977 - The supersonic Concorde made its first landing in New York City.
1983 - The U.S. Senate passed a bill (78-22) making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal 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 28th and 29th in 1929 that ushered in the Great
Depression.
2001 - U.S. special forces began operations on the ground in Afghanistan, opening a significant new phase of the assault against the Taliban and al-Qaida.; two Army Rangers were killed in a helicopter crash in Pakistan in the first combat-related American deaths of the military campaign in Afghanistan.
2003 - Pope John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa during a ceremony in St. Peter's Square.
2005 - A defiant Saddam Hussein pleaded innocent to charges of premeditated murder and torture at his trial in Baghdad.
2006 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 12,000 for the first time, finishing the day at 12,011.73.
2008 - Retired Gen. Colin Powell, a Republican who was President George W. Bush's first secretary of state, broke with the party and endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president.
2010 - The Pentagon directed the military to accept openly gay recruits for the first time in the nation’s history.
2011 - In Greece, hundreds of youths smashed and looted stores in central Athens and clashed with riot police during a massive anti-government rally against painful new austerity measures.
2011 - In Greece, hundreds of youths smashed and looted stores in central Athens and clashed with riot police during a massive anti-government rally against painful new austerity measures.
2011 - Authorities in the Zanesville, Ohio, area wound down their hunt for wild animals unleashed by a private farm owner who’d taken his own life; sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a total of 48 animals.
2015 - Canadians voted for a sharp change in their government as the Liberals led by Justin Trudeau, the son of a former prime minister, won a landslide victory to end Conservative Stephen Harper’s near decade in office.
2016 - In the third and final 2016 presidential debate, Republican Donald Trump stunned the forum in Las Vegas by refusing to say he would accept the results of the election if he were to lose; Democrat Hillary Clinton declared Trump’s resistance “horrifying.”
2020 - Floridians began early voting in much of the state with no serious problems reported as the Trump campaign tried to cut into an early advantage Democrats had posted in mail-in votes in the key swing state.
Birthdays
23 - Katie Douglas (actress)
28 - Hunter King (actress)
31 - Ciara Renee (actress/singer)
38 - Rebecca Ferguson (actress)
39 - Gillian Jacobs (actress)
41 - Benjamin Salisbury (actor)
44 - Jason Reitman (actor/director)
45 - Cyndi Thomson (country singer)
45 - Omar Gooding (actor)
51 - Chris Kattan (actor/comedian)
52 - Trey Parker (actor/writer)
54 - Amy Carter (daughter of President Jimmy Carter)
55 - Jon Favreau (actor/director)
56 - Todd Park Mohr (singer)
57 - Ty Pennington (TV host)
59 - Evander Holyfield (boxer)
61 - Jennifer Holliday (singer)
69 - Floyd Mayweather Sr. (boxer)
70 - Annie Golden (actress)
76 - John Lithgow (actor)
81 - Michael Gambon (actor)
85 - Tony Lo Bianco (actor)
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Today in Sports History - October 19
1895 - Nebraska defeats Denver Athletic Club 12-4.
1907 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 8-5.
1912 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 13-0.
1929 - Pittsburgh defeats Nebraska 12-7.
1933 - Basketball was introduced to the 1936 Olympic Games by the Berlin Organization Committee.
1935 - Nebraska and Kansas State play to a 0-0 tie.
1940 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 53-2.
1946 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 16-14.
1957 - Syracuse defeats Nebraska 26-9.
1957 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard of the Montreal Canadiens becomes the first player in NHL history to score 500 career goals.
1963 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 28-6.
1966 - Bobby Orr makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.
1968 - #20 Missouri upsets #13 Nebraska 16-14.
1974 - #12 Nebraska defeats #13 Kansas 56-0.
1985 - #7 Nebraska defeats Missouri 28-20.
1987 - Billy Martin is named manager of the New York Yankees for the fifth time.
1991 - #9 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 38-31.
1991 - In the longest NCAA football game to date, Rhode Island defeats Maine 52-50 in six overtimes, spanning 3 hours and 52 minutes.
1996 - #5 Nebraska defeats Texas Tech 24-10.
1998 - Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson got his boxing license back after he had lost it for biting Evander Holyfield's ear during a fight.
2002 - Oklahoma State defeats Nebraska 24-21.
2014 - DeMarco Murray of the Dallas Cowboys became the first player in NFL history to rush for more than 100 yards in each of the first seven games of a season.
1765 - The Stamp Act Congress, meeting in New York, drew up a declaration of rights and liberties.
1781 - British General Cornwallis surrendered to General George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia, bringing an end to the last major battle of the American Revolution.
1789 - John Jay was sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
1812 - French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte began their retreat from Moscow.
1944 - The U.S. Navy began accepting Black women into WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service).
1950 - United Nations forces entered the North Korean capital of Pyongyang during the Korean War.
1960 - The United States imposed a partial embargo on goods exported to Cuba.
1960 - The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested during a sit-down protest at a lunch counter in Atlanta. (Sent to prison for a parole violation over a traffic offense, King was released after three days following an appeal by Robert F. Kennedy.)
1969 - Vice President Spiro T. Agnew referred to anti-Vietnam War protesters as "an effete corps of impudent snobs."
1977 - The supersonic Concorde made its first landing in New York City.
1983 - The U.S. Senate passed a bill (78-22) making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal 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 28th and 29th in 1929 that ushered in the Great
Depression.
2001 - U.S. special forces began operations on the ground in Afghanistan, opening a significant new phase of the assault against the Taliban and al-Qaida.; two Army Rangers were killed in a helicopter crash in Pakistan in the first combat-related American deaths of the military campaign in Afghanistan.
2003 - Pope John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa during a ceremony in St. Peter's Square.
2005 - A defiant Saddam Hussein pleaded innocent to charges of premeditated murder and torture at his trial in Baghdad.
2006 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 12,000 for the first time, finishing the day at 12,011.73.
2008 - Retired Gen. Colin Powell, a Republican who was President George W. Bush's first secretary of state, broke with the party and endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president.
2010 - The Pentagon directed the military to accept openly gay recruits for the first time in the nation’s history.
2011 - In Greece, hundreds of youths smashed and looted stores in central Athens and clashed with riot police during a massive anti-government rally against painful new austerity measures.
2011 - In Greece, hundreds of youths smashed and looted stores in central Athens and clashed with riot police during a massive anti-government rally against painful new austerity measures.
2011 - Authorities in the Zanesville, Ohio, area wound down their hunt for wild animals unleashed by a private farm owner who’d taken his own life; sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a total of 48 animals.
2015 - Canadians voted for a sharp change in their government as the Liberals led by Justin Trudeau, the son of a former prime minister, won a landslide victory to end Conservative Stephen Harper’s near decade in office.
2016 - In the third and final 2016 presidential debate, Republican Donald Trump stunned the forum in Las Vegas by refusing to say he would accept the results of the election if he were to lose; Democrat Hillary Clinton declared Trump’s resistance “horrifying.”
2020 - Floridians began early voting in much of the state with no serious problems reported as the Trump campaign tried to cut into an early advantage Democrats had posted in mail-in votes in the key swing state.
Birthdays
23 - Katie Douglas (actress)
28 - Hunter King (actress)
31 - Ciara Renee (actress/singer)
38 - Rebecca Ferguson (actress)
39 - Gillian Jacobs (actress)
41 - Benjamin Salisbury (actor)
44 - Jason Reitman (actor/director)
45 - Cyndi Thomson (country singer)
45 - Omar Gooding (actor)
51 - Chris Kattan (actor/comedian)
52 - Trey Parker (actor/writer)
54 - Amy Carter (daughter of President Jimmy Carter)
55 - Jon Favreau (actor/director)
56 - Todd Park Mohr (singer)
57 - Ty Pennington (TV host)
59 - Evander Holyfield (boxer)
61 - Jennifer Holliday (singer)
69 - Floyd Mayweather Sr. (boxer)
70 - Annie Golden (actress)
76 - John Lithgow (actor)
81 - Michael Gambon (actor)
85 - Tony Lo Bianco (actor)
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Today in Sports History - October 19
1895 - Nebraska defeats Denver Athletic Club 12-4.
1907 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 8-5.
1912 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 13-0.
1929 - Pittsburgh defeats Nebraska 12-7.
1933 - Basketball was introduced to the 1936 Olympic Games by the Berlin Organization Committee.
1935 - Nebraska and Kansas State play to a 0-0 tie.
1940 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 53-2.
1946 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 16-14.
1957 - Syracuse defeats Nebraska 26-9.
1957 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard of the Montreal Canadiens becomes the first player in NHL history to score 500 career goals.
1963 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 28-6.
1966 - Bobby Orr makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.
1968 - #20 Missouri upsets #13 Nebraska 16-14.
1974 - #12 Nebraska defeats #13 Kansas 56-0.
1985 - #7 Nebraska defeats Missouri 28-20.
1987 - Billy Martin is named manager of the New York Yankees for the fifth time.
1991 - #9 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 38-31.
1991 - In the longest NCAA football game to date, Rhode Island defeats Maine 52-50 in six overtimes, spanning 3 hours and 52 minutes.
1996 - #5 Nebraska defeats Texas Tech 24-10.
1998 - Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson got his boxing license back after he had lost it for biting Evander Holyfield's ear during a fight.
2002 - Oklahoma State defeats Nebraska 24-21.
2014 - DeMarco Murray of the Dallas Cowboys became the first player in NFL history to rush for more than 100 yards in each of the first seven games of a season.
