歷史上的October 19

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  October 19:Mother Teresa Day in Albania

  October 19 is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 73 days remaining until the end of the year.

  Events:

  202 BC – Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage.

  439 – The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa.

  1216 – King John of England dies at Newark-on-Trent and is succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.

  1386 – The Universität Heidelberg held its first lecture, making it the oldest German university.

  1466 – The Thirteen Years' War ends with the Second Treaty of Thorn.

  1469 – Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification ofAragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.

  1512 – Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).

  1649 – New Ross town, County Wexford, Ireland, surrenders to Oliver Cromwell.

  1781 – At Yorktown, Virginia, representatives of British commander Lord Cornwallis handed over Cornwallis' sword and formally surrendered to George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau.

  1789 – Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.