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Here are some interesting facts ih history happened on 19 October.

1. Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 p.m.; the fighting is over.
2. Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow.
3. Wagner's opera Tannh„user performed for 1st time.
4. 1st flour mill in Hawaii begins operations
5. Wilhelm Tempel discovers diffuse nebula around Pleid star Merope.
6. world's largest gold nugget (215 kg) found in New South Wales.
7. Thomas A. Edison successfully demenstrates the electric light
8. H.R. Ekins of the "NY World-Telegram" beats 2 other reporters in a race around the world on commercial flights by 18 1/2 days.
9. Yanks trade Joe Gordon to Cleveland for Allie Reynolds
10. 1st jet transcontinental non-stop scheduled service
11. Singer Julius LaRosa is fired on television by Arthur Godfrey.
12. The US imposes an embargo on exports to Cuba.
13. Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
14. Mariner 5 flew by Venus
15. Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars
16. Billy Martin hired as manager of N.Y. Yankees for 5th time.
17. Dow-Jones loses 508.32 points more than 4« times previous record.
18. Black Monday - Dow Jones down 508.32 points worst day on Wall St

These famous people were born on 19 October.

1. 1632 - Christopher Wren, English astronomer & architect
2. 1862 - Auguste Lumire, made 1st movie (Workers Leaving Lumire FActory)
3. 1882 - Vincas Kreve-Mickievicius, Lithuanian poet, philologist, playwright
4. 1895 - Louis Mumford, cultural historian, city planner
5. 1899 - Miguel Asturias, Guatemalan poet, novelist, diplomat (Nobel 1967)
6. 1909 - Robert Beatty, Actor
7. 1910 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Indian physicist (Nobel 1983)
8. 1920 - LaWanda Page, in Cleve (Aunt Esther-Sanford & Sons)
9. 1922 - Jack Anderson, columnist
10. 1931 - John Le Carre, English spy novelist (Little Drummer Girl)
11. 1932 - Robert Reed, Actor
12. 1945 - John Lithgow, Actor
13. 1967 - Amy Carter, daughter of Pres Carter