- 1873] Football rules: Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules. Rule number one: outscore your opponent...
- 1960] Cuba banned: The United States imposes an embargo on exports to Cuba. All that stuff is about to go by the wayside - a good thing especially if it means getting Cuban cigars...
- 1969] Effete feat: VP Spiro T. Agnew calls anti-Vietnam protesters "an effete corps of impudent snobs" which is better than a "nattering nabobs of negativism" I think...
- 1973] Tapes, what tapes?: President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes...
- 1977] Psst, it's the SST: The supersonic Concorde makes its first landing in New York City, shattering windows at Archie Bunker's house...
- 1987] Stock market crash: The Dow Jones plunges 508 points or 22.6 percent, its second biggest percentage drop...
- 2002] Washington sniper strikes again: A 37-year old man is seriously wounded outside a steakhouse in Ashland (VA) in the latest attack by the Washington-area sniper...
- 2004] The bloody sock: Curt Schilling, bloody sock and all, pitches the Red Sox to a 4-2 win over the Yankees, setting up a winner-take-all game 7 for the ALCS showdown. The Sox win the World Series that year...
- 2004] Baghdad bullies strike: Insurgents in Iraq abduct Margaret Hassan, the local director of CARE Internationsl from her car in Baghdad. Hassan is later murdered by her captors...
- 2005] Defiant till the end: Saddam Hussein pleads innocent to charges of premeditated murder and torture at his trial in Baghdad...For more on October 19:
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