On this day 19th October
Some notable facts about this date, for more, visit http://www.onthisday.com
Facts
202 BC Battle of Zama: Hannibal Barca and the Carthaginian army are defeated by Roman legions under Scipio Africanus, ending 2nd Punic War
1781 British General Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 pm; US Revolutionary War ends
1926 Russian Politburo throws out Leon Trotsky and his followers
1943 Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University
1987 Black Monday: Dow Jones stock index falls 508.32 points (22%), 4½ times the previous daily record
2015 US scientists from University of California find evidence life on earth may have begun 4.1 billion years ago, 300 million earlier than previously thought
Deaths
1216 King John of England (1199-1216), agreed to the Magna Carta, dies at 49
1745 Jonathan Swift, English writer (Gulliver's Travels), dies at 77
1937 Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand physicist (Nobel Prize 1908), dies at 66
1959 Stanley Bate, composer, dies at 45
1984 Jon-Erik Hexum, accidentally shoots himself on set of "Cover Up" at 27
1995 Don E Cherry, jazz Musician, dies at 58
2010 Tom Bosley, American actor (b. 1927)
2014 Lynda Bellingham, Canadian-born English actress, dies from colon cancer at 66
Born on this day
1981 Heikki Kovalainen, Finnish race car driver
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