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2007-03-05 19:28:14 · 8 answers · asked by fartman 1 in News & Events Media & Journalism

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Stock market nearly collapsed in 1987s. Black Monday Dow fell 22%

2007-03-05 19:37:21 · answer #1 · answered by Paytair 2 · 2 0

202 BC - The Battle of Zama
439 AD - The Vandals take Carthage
1512 AD - Martin Luther becomes a Doctor of Theology
1781 AD - Lord Cornwallia surrenders to Ggeneral George Wahington
1943 AD - Streptomycin is isolated
1987 - Black Monday - Dow Jones falls 22 %
2003 - Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II

2007-03-05 19:44:52 · answer #2 · answered by play_unit 2 · 0 0

The following events, are a FEW of those, that have occurred on 19 October:

1977: German industrial tycoon, HANS MARTIN SCHLEYER, - kidnapped, earlier, - was found DEAD, - his BODY, locked inside the BOOT of his OWN car!

1989: Release, from prison, of "GUILDFORD FOUR"

2000: Aid worker, MARGARET HASSAN, was kidnapped, - and, later MURDERED, - in Iraq! As far as I am AWARE, her BODY has NEVER been FOUND!

2007-03-05 22:38:47 · answer #3 · answered by Spike 6 · 0 0

I went into labour and my daughter was born on the 20th October 1985

2007-03-05 19:33:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

I got married to first husband. Didnt last. Met new man. Split with him but reconciled on 19th October 2005 and now we married. very happy.

2007-03-05 19:33:34 · answer #5 · answered by Sugarlump 3 · 1 0

My mates birthday.

2007-03-05 20:16:58 · answer #6 · answered by SkUnKmOnKeY 3 · 1 0

my son was born

2007-03-05 19:30:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

* 202 BC - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal.
* 439 - The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.
* 1216 - King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.
* 1453 - The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years' War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.
* 1466 - The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Treaty of Toruń. Gdansk Pomerania and Prussia as a whole are incorporated into Poland; the Teutonic Knights are allowed to rule its eastern part as Polish vassals.
* 1469 - Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.
* 1512 - Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
* 1781 - At Yorktown, Virginia, British commander Lord Cornwallis surrendered to a Franco-American force led by George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau, paving the way for the end of the American Revolutionary War.
* 1789 - Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
* 1812 - Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow.
* 1813 - The Battle of Leipzig concludes, giving Napoleon Bonaparte one of his worst defeats.
* 1822 - In Parnaíba; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí.
* 1864 - Battle of Cedar Creek - Union Army under Philip Sheridan destroys Confederate Army under Jubal Early.
* 1864 - Confederate raiders launch an attack on Saint Albans, Vermont from Canada.
* 1873 - Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
* 1912 - Italy takes possession of Tripoli, Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
* 1914 - The First Battle of Ypres begins.
* 1917 - Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
* 1921 - Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.
* 1933 - Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
* 1935 - The League of Nations places economic sanctions on fascist Italy for its invasion of Ethiopia.
* 1943 - Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
* 1944 - United States forces land in the Philippines.
* 1950 - The military of the People's Republic of China takes control of the town of Chamdo in eastern Tibet.
* 1952 - John Bamford, aged 15, rescues victims of a house fire and becomes the youngest person to have been awarded the George Cross.
* 1953 - Arthur Godfrey fires Julius LaRosa live on American national TV.
* 1954 - First ascent of Cho Oyu
* 1960 - The United States government decides to place an embargo on Communist Cuba.
* 1964 - Simon and Garfunkel release their first album commonly known as Wednesday Morning 3 A.M.
* 1969 - The first Prime Minister of Tunisia in twelve years, Bahi Ladgham, is appointed by President Habib Bourguiba.
* 1973 - President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes.
* 1974 - Niue becomes independent from New Zealand
* 1976 - Battle of Aishiya in Lebanon.
* 1976 - Chimpanzee placed in list of endangered species.
* 1982 - John De Lorean is arrested for trafficking in cocaine (later acquitted).
* 1983 - Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, is overthrown and executed in a military coup d'état led by Bernard Coard.
* 1985 - The first Blockbuster Video store opens in Dallas, Texas.
* 1986 - Samora Machel, President of Mozambique and a prominent leader of FRELIMO, and 33 others died when their Tupolev 134 plane crashed into the Lebombo Mountains.
* 1987 - In retaliation for Iranian attacks on ships in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. Navy disables three of Iran's offshore oil platforms.
* 1987 - (Black Monday) Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%.
* 1989 - Guildford Four convictions are quashed by the Court of Appeal - they had spent 15 years in prison through a miscarriage of justice.
* 1991 - 7.0 Richter Scale earthquake in Northern Italy - 2000 dead
* 1994 - New Zealand's Goodnight Kiwi says good night for the last time.
* 1994 - a suicide bomber exploded on the Line 5 bus killing himself and 25 civilians in Tel Aviv.
* 1998 - The Earth Liberation Front sets fire to the Vail Mountain ski resort in Vail, Colorado, causing $12 million in damage.
* 2001 - SIEV-X, an Indonesian fishing boat en-route to Christmas Island, carrying over 400 asylum seekers, sank in international waters with the loss of 353 people.
* 2003 - Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
* 2003 - David Blaine finally ended his 44-day endurance stunt of being sealed inside a transparent case suspended 30 feet in the air over Potters Fields Park, located in London.
* 2004 - Myanmar prime minister Khin Nyunt is ousted and placed under house arrest by the Thai government on charges of corruption.
* 2004 - Alain Robert dons a Spider-Man costume and climbs a building.
* 2005 - Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
* 2005 - Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
* 2005 - The last Major League Baseball game is played at Busch Memorial Stadium.
* 2006 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 12,000 mark for the first time.

2007-03-05 19:35:30 · answer #8 · answered by Kevin 5 · 4 0

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