Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 19
October 19: Constitution Day in Niue (1974), Mother Teresa Day in Albania.
- 202 BC - At the Battle of Zama, Carthaginian general Hannibal was defeated by Roman proconsul Scipio Africanus, ending the Second Punic War.
- 1781 - After losing the Battle of Yorktown, British forces led by Lord Charles Cornwallis officially surrendered, ending the American Revolutionary War.
- 1943 - Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, was first isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
- 1985 - The first Blockbuster Video store opened in Dallas, Texas.
- 1987 - Black Monday: The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 22%, the largest one-day decline in history. Stock markets around the world soon followed with similar collapses.
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