Published on October 19, 2024
2024
Historic Tech Events
The stock market crash known as Black Monday occurred, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping by over 22% in one day.
Hopelessly trapped at Yorktown, Virginia, British General Lord Cornwallis surrenders 8,000 British soldiers and seamen to a larger Franco-American force on October 19, 1781, effectively bringing an end to the American Revolution.
One month after Napoleon Bonaparte’s massive invading force entered a burning and deserted Moscow, the starving French army is forced to begin a hasty retreat out of Russia.
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