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October 19 is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 73 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 202 BC ...
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October 19 Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky by Benjamin West 1596 – The Spanish ship San Felipe was shipwrecked on the Japanese island of Shikoku , and its cargo confiscated by the local daimyō .
October 19 Surrender of Lord Cornwallis by John Trumbull 1781 – American Revolutionary War : British forces led by Lord Cornwallis officially surrendered (pictured) to Franco-American forces under George Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau , ending the Siege of Yorktown .
October 19 Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky by Benjamin West (c. 1816) 1579 – A ceremony was held in Edinburgh marking the coming of age of James VI of Scotland as an adult ruler.
October 18 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - October 20. All fixed commemorations below celebrated on November 1 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar. [note 1] For October 19th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on October 6.
Red maple (Acer rubrum) leaf in October (Northern hemisphere).October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.Its length is 31 days. The eighth month in the old calendar of Romulus c. 750 BC, October retained its name (from Latin and Greek ôctō meaning "eight") after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been created by the Romans.
Fred Keenor (1894–1972) was a Welsh professional footballer.He began his career at Cardiff City after impressing the club's coaching staff in a trial match in 1912. A hard-tackling defender, he appeared sporadically for the team in the Southern Football League before his spell at the club was interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War.