Daily Calendar for Monday, October 19, 2026

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Jonathan Swift (author) – 1745
Leo Clarke (Victoria Cross recipient) – 1916
Edna St. Vincent Millay (poet) – 1950
Richard Blackwell (fashion designer & critic known simply as Mr. Blackwell”“) – 2008
Tom Bosley (actor) – 2010

Martha Jefferson (wife of Thomas Jefferson; died before presidency) – 1748
Cassius Marcellus Clay (abolitionist) – 1810
Alice McLellan Birney (child welfare worker; the work by her and others led to the formation of the PTA) – 1858
Eddie Bauer (merchant) – 1899
Jack Anderson (journalist) – 1922
John Le Carre (author) – 1931
Robert Reed (actor) – 1932
Peter Max (artist) – 1937
John Lithgow (actor) – 1945
Giorgio Cavazzano (comic strip artist & illustrator) – 1947
Jennifer Holliday (singer) – 1960
Evander Holyfield (boxer) – 1962
Ty Pennington (carpenter; host of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition) – 1965
Brad Daugherty (basketball player) – 1965
Jon Favreau (actor, writer, & director) – 1966
Chris Kattan (actor) – 1970
Keith Foulke (baseball player) – 1972
Jason Reitman (Canadian-Ameerican filmmaker; born in Montreal, Canada) – 1977

Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, Virginia, effectively ending the American Revolutionary War – 1781
President Abraham Lincoln wrote to an 11-year-old girl who requested that he grow a beard – 1860
First wedding to take place in balloon occurred, over Cincinnati, Ohio – 1874
Government autos were first used to deliver U.S. mail – 1914
Watertown Senior High School, in South Dakota, was the first school to fingerprint students – 1936
Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, was first isolated by researchers at Rutgers University – 1943
Queen Elizabeth II went to a U.S. football game – 1957
The Miracle Worker, a dramatization of Helen Keller’s early life, opens on Broadway – 1959
U.S. auto executive, John DeLorean, was charged with the crime of selling cocaine to undercover police – 1982
The first Blockbuster Video store opened in Dallas, Texas – 1985
Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 22% on what has become known as Black Monday”“ – 1987
Mother Teresa was beatified by Pope John Paul II – 2003
In Indiana, a family’s pet Amazon parrot saved their lives by mimicking the sound of a fire alarm to alert them their house was on fire – 2007
An earthquake measuring 2.5 hit Littleton, Massachusetts – 2007
The Tampa Bay Rays won the American League Championship Series for the first time in franchise history – 2008
First object (‘Oumuamua) from another solar system detected in ours – 2017

A hurricane that blew for five hours swept Great Lakes waters into Buffalo, drowning 200 people – 1844
Hurricane Wilma made history by dropping pressure to 882 millibars – 2005