OCTOBER 19
1812:French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte's starving and freezing troops begin their retreat from Moscow, bringing an end to Napoleon's failed invasion of Russia. The Grand Armée would lose the vast majority of its 500,000 troops who set out from France in May 1812.
1781: British commander Maj. Gen. Lord Cornwallis' representatives hand over his sword to Continental Army Gen. George Washington and French commander Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, in Yorktown, Va., effectively surrendering nearly 8,000 troops and bringing an end to the American Revolution.
1960: President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States will halt all exports to newly communist Cuba, except for emergency medical supplies. The economic embargo against Cuba is still in place.
1958:The first World's Fair held since World War II, in Brussels, officially closes.
1987:On what has become known as "Black Monday" - the stock market crashes 22.6% in one day - with the Dow Jones shedding 508 points.
1999:The stage version of "The Lion King" opens at the Lyceum Theater in London, England
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