Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 19

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 * 1596 – The Spanish ship San Felipe was shipwrecked on the Japanese island of Shikoku, and its cargo confiscated by the local daimyō.


 * 1781 – American Revolutionary War: British forces led by Lord Cornwallis officially surrendered to Franco-American forces under George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau, ending the Siege of Yorktown.
 * 1864 – American Civil War: Despite incurring nearly twice as many casualties as the Confederates, the Union Army emerged victorious at the Battle of Cedar Creek.
 * 1943 – World War II: Allied aircraft sank the German cargo ship Sinfra, killing mostly Italian POWs.
 * 1944 – The Guatemalan Revolution began with a small group of army officers led by Francisco Javier Arana and Jacobo Árbenz launching a coup against dictator Jorge Ubico.
 * 1955 – At a meeting of its general assembly, the European Broadcasting Union approved the staging of the first Eurovision Song Contest.
 * 1965 – Vietnam War: The Siege of Plei Me began with the first major confrontation between soldiers of the North Vietnamese Army and the U.S. Army.
 * 1965 – A group of ethnic Hutu military officers failed in their attempt to overthrow the Burundian government.
 * 1987 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 22.6 percent on Black Monday, the largest one-day percentage decline in the stock market index's history.
 * 1988 – The British government restricted the broadcast of the voices of representatives from Sinn Féin and several Irish republican and loyalist paramilitary groups on television and radio.
 * 2005 – Hurricane Wilma became the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum atmospheric pressure of 882 mbar (26.05 inHg).
 * 2017 – Canadian astronomer Robert Weryk discovered ʻOumuamua (depicted), the first known interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System.
 * Born/died this day: |Yusuf I of Granada |d|1354| Annie Smith Peck |b|1850| Salimuzzaman Siddiqui |b|1897| Peter Aduja |b|1920| Edna St. Vincent Millay |d|1950| V. Gordon Childe |d|1957| Yoko Shimomura |b|1967| Fred Keenor |d|1972 |