Today is Friday, October 19, the 292nd day of 2007. There are 73 days left in the year.
125 B.C. -- The origin of Era of Tyre
1812 -- Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow
1944 -- U.S. forces land in the Philippines
1950 -- U.N. forces entered Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea
1960 -- Martin Luther King Jr.arrested in Atlanta sit-in
1960 -- The U.S. imposes an embargo on exports to Cuba
1977 -- Supersonic Concorde jet’s first landing in NYC
1987 -- U.S. warships destroy 2 Iranian oil platforms in Persian Gulf
1988 -- South African antiapartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize