October 19: Yorktown, DeLorean, Blockbuster
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October 19: Yorktown, DeLorean, Blockbuster
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History's headlines from today, October 19th, before.
1781: General Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, ending Revolutionary War
1789: John Jay named first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
1982: John DeLorean arrested for conspiring to obtain up to 220 lbs of cocaine
1985: First Blockbuster opens
1987: Black Monday
Birthdays:
1876: Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown (Hall of Fame pitcher)
1899: Hal B. Wallis (film producer)
1945: John Lithgow (actor)
Deaths:
1216: King John (King of England)
1745: Jonathan Swift (writer, "Gulliver's Travels")
1937: Ernest Rutherford (father of nuclear physics)
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