Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 19
October 19: Constitution Day in Niue (1974); Mother Teresa Day in Albania.
- 202 BC: Proconsul Scipio Africanus of the Roman Republic (pictured) defeated Hannibal and the Carthaginians in the Battle of Zama, concluding the Second Punic War.
- 1469: Ferdinand II of Aragon wedded Isabella of Castile, a marriage that paved the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.
- 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.
- 1987: The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 22% on Black Monday, the largest one-day decline in history.
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