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From: "Pamela-Jean Hoach" <>
Subject: Re: [FOLKLORE] Today in History - Oct. 19th.
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 08:58:57 -0700


Happy Happy Anniversary Wanda and Jim
Peege

> Today is Tuesday, October 19th, the 292nd day of 1999.
> There are 73 days left in the year.
>
> HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO WANDA & JIM IRBY!!!
>
> Today's Highlight in History:
> On October 19th, 1781, British troops under Lord Cornwallis surrendered at
> Yorktown, Virginia, as the American Revolution neared its end.
>
> On this date:
> In 1765, the Stamp Act Congress, meeting in New York, drew up a
declaration
> of rights and liberties.
>
> In 1812, French forces under Napoleon Bonaparte began their retreat from
> Moscow.
>
> In 1864, Confederate General Jubal A. Early attacked Union forces at Cedar
> Creek, Virginia; the Union troops were able to rally and defeat the
> Confederates.
>
> In 1944, the Navy announced that black women would be allowed into Women
> Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (the WAVES).
>
> In 1950, United Nations forces entered the North Korean capital of
> Pyongyang.
>
> In 1951, President Truman signed an act formally ending the state of war
> with Germany.
>
> In 1960, the United States imposed an embargo on exports to Cuba covering
> all commodities except medical supplies and certain food products.
>
> In 1977, the body of West German industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer, who
> had been kidnapped by left-wing extremists, was found in Mulhouse, France.
>
> In 1977, the supersonic Concorde made its first landing in New York City.
>
> In 1987, the stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average
> plunged 508 points, or 22.6 percent in value.
>
> Ten years ago: The Senate rejected a proposed constitutional amendment
> barring desecration of the American flag. Spanish author Camilo Jose Cela
> was named the recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature.
>
> Five years ago: Twenty-two people were killed as a terrorist bomb
shattered
> a bus in the heart of Tel Aviv's shopping district. Entertainer Martha
Raye
> died in Los Angeles at age 78.
>
> One year ago: Israel suspended negotiations with the Palestinians on
issues
> other than security after a bloody attack at an Israeli bus stop.
Government
> lawyers opened their antitrust case against Microsoft Corporation. In
Miami,
> the first class-action lawsuit brought by smokers against the tobacco
> industry went to trial. (Jurors later found the nation's largest cigarette
> makers and industry groups had produced a defective and deadly product.)
>
> Today's Birthdays:
> Former ambassador to Russia Robert S. Strauss is 81.
> Actress LaWanda Page is 79.
> Actor George Nader is 78.
> Columnist Jack Anderson is 77.
> Author John le Carre is 68.
> Artist Peter Max is 62.
> Actor Michael Gambon is 59.
> Actor John Lithgow is 54.
> National Organization for Women President Patricia Ireland is 54.
> Singer Jeannie C. Riley is 54.
> Talk show host Charlie Chase is 47.
> Rock singer-musician Karl Wallinger (World Party) is 42.
> Singer Jennifer Holliday is 39.
> Rock singer-musician Todd Park Mohr (Big Head Todd and the Monsters) is
34.
> Amy Carter is 32.
> Rock singer Pras Michel (The Fugees) is 27.
> Actor Omar Gooding is 23.
> Actor Benjamin Salisbury ("The Nanny") is 19.
>
> Thought for Today:
>
> "A good beginning makes a good ending."
>
> -- English proverb.
>
>
> (Copyright 1999 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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