On October 19:
1453 The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years’ War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil.
1469 Ferdinand II of Aragon married Isabella I of Castile which paved the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.
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| A detail of the painting Our Lady of the Fly, attributed to Gerard David and/or someone of the circle of Jan Mabuse |
1512 Martin Luther became a doctor of theology
Luther in 1533 by Lucas Cranach
1850 – Annie Smith Peck, US mountaineer, was born.
1882 Italian artist Umberto Boccioni was born.
1899 Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate, was born.
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1931 English writer John le Carré was born.
1943 Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, was isolated by researchers at Rutgers University
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Streptomycin
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1946 Englsih writer Philip Pullman was born.
1966 US President Lyndon Johnson & his wife, Lady Bird, arrived at Ohakea for a 24 visit to New Zealand.
1974 Niue beccame a self-governing colony of New Zealand.
Sourced from NZ History Online & Wikipedia.
