A bit of October 19th history...
202 BC - Battle of Zama: Hannibal Barca and the Carthaginian army are defeated by Roman legions under Scipio Africanus, ending 2nd Punic War
1781 - British forces under General Cornwallis sign terms of surrender to Washington and de Rochambeau at Yorktown, ending the US Revolutionary War (pictured)
1901 - Edward Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance March” premiers in Liverpool
1943 - Streptomycin, the 1st antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, is isolated
2005 - Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity
2014 - A working human intestine is generated in a lab from stem cells in the US
2019 - UK parliament votes for the Letwin Amendment in a special Saturday sitting, which forces Boris Johnson to ask the EU for an extension and delays vote on his Brexit deal
