Today is Monday, October 19, the 292nd day of 2009. There are 73 days left in the year.
125 B.C. _ Origin of Era of Tyre
1812 _ Napoleon begins his retreat from Moscow
1845 _ Wagner's opera Tannhauser performed for first time
1856 _ James Kelly and Jack Smith fight bare knuckle for 6 hours and 15 minutes in Melbourne
1912 _ Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control
1950 _ U.N. forces entered Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea
1951 _ President Harry S. Truman formally ends state of war with Germany
1960 _ Martin Luther King Jr. arrested in Atlanta sit-in
1960 _ U.S. imposes an embargo on exports to Cuba
1963 _ Beatles record ``I Want to Hold Your Hand"