October 19<\/p>\n
202 BC \u2013 At the Battle of Zama, in modern northern Tunisia, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus inflict an overwhelming defeat of the forces under Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage.<\/p>\n
439 \u2013 The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, defeat the roman garrison and occupy Carthage in North Africa. (bad date for Carthaginians)<\/p>\n
1386 \u2013 The Universit\u00e4t Heidelberg holds its first lecture, making it the oldest German university.<\/p>\n
1469 \u2013 Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country; Spain. (and 23 years later at the completion of the Reconquista, provide the financial capability to permit the Spanish crown to fund the first voyage of Columbus)<\/p>\n
1512 \u2013 Martin Luther receives his doctorate of theology at the University of Wittenberg<\/p>\n
1789 \u2013 John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.<\/p>\n
1864 \u2013 While Confederate forces under Lt. Gen. Jubal Early are preliminarily successful in a surprise attack against Union forces under Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan at Cedar Creek near Strasburg, Virginia, they are ultimately defeated near Middletown, ending the campaign through the Shenandoah valley against Washington D.C.<\/p>\n
1900 \u2013 Max Planck formulates his scientific\u00a0law of black body radiation<\/p>\n
1935 \u2013 The League of Nations places economic sanctions on Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia and deposing Ras T\u00e4f\u00e4ri M\u00e4konn\u00e4n\u00a0Emperor Haile Selassie into exile.<\/p>\n
1943 \u2013 Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.<\/p>\n
1944 \u2013 U.S. forces land on Leyte island to begin the liberation of the Philippines from Japanese occupation<\/p>\n
1950 \u2013 Chinese People’s Liberation Army forces defeat the Tibetan Army at Chambo, resulting in China annexing and occupying Tibet.<\/p>\n
1956 \u2013 The Soviet Union and Japan sign a Joint Declaration, officially ending the state of war between the countries that had existed since August 1945.<\/p>\n
1987 \u2013 The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points, the highest one day percentage drop at that time. 2004 \u2013\u00a0 Corporate Airlines Flight 5966, a British Aerospace Jetstream 32, crashes on approach to Kirksville Regional Airport, in Adair County, Missouri, killing both pilots and 11 of the 13 passengers aboard.<\/p>\n 2005 \u2013 Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 19 202 BC \u2013 At the Battle of Zama, in modern northern Tunisia, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus inflict an overwhelming defeat of the forces under Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage. 439 \u2013 The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, defeat the roman garrison and occupy Carthage in North Africa. (bad date … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60854"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96930,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60854\/revisions\/96930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe U.S. Navy conducts Operation Nimble Archer<\/em>, attacking 2 Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf in response to Iran’s missile attack 3 days earlier on Kuwaiti flagged MV Sea Isle City.<\/em><\/p>\n