Shimla, Oct 19 Keekli Bureau
2003
Pope John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa, who had won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize for her charity work.
1987
The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted nearly 23 percent, the largest one-day percentage drop in the stock market’s history.
1914
During World War I, the First Battle of Ypres began in western Flanders; the Allies and Germans settled into the trench warfare that would characterize the remainder of the war on the Western Front.
1897
American industrialist George M. Pullman, inventor of the Pullman sleeping car used on railroads, died.
1864
Confederate soldiers based in Canada crossed into St. Albans, Vermont, and robbed three banks in order to agitate the Union during the American Civil War.
1812
Napoleon began his disastrous retreat from Russia.
1789
John Jay, a Founding Father of the United States, was sworn in as the first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
