October 19: Yorktown, DeLorean, Blockbuster

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History's headlines from today, October 19th, before.

1781: General Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown, ending Revolutionary War

1789: John Jay named first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

1982: John DeLorean arrested for conspiring to obtain up to 220 lbs of cocaine

1985: First Blockbuster opens

1987: Black Monday

Birthdays:

1876: Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown (Hall of Fame pitcher)

1899: Hal B. Wallis (film producer)

1945: John Lithgow (actor)

Deaths:

1216: King John (King of England)

1745: Jonathan Swift (writer, "Gulliver's Travels")

1937: Ernest Rutherford (father of nuclear physics)

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