Today is Sunday, Oct. 19, the 293rd day of 2008. There are 73 days left in the year. On this date in

Today is Sunday, Oct. 19, the 293rd day of 2008. There are 73 days left in the year. On this date in 1781, British troops under Gen. Lord Cornwallis surrender at Yorktown, Va., as the American Revolution nears its end.

In 1765, the Stamp Act Congress, meeting in New York, draws up a declaration of rights and liberties. In 1936, H.R. Ekins of the New York World-Telegram beats out Dorothy Kilgallen of the New York Journal and Leo Kieran of The New York Times in a round-the-world race on commercial flights that lasts 181‚Ñ2 days. In 1951, President Truman signs an act formally ending the state of war with Germany. In 1960, President Eisenhower imposes an embargo on exports to Cuba covering all commodities except medical supplies and certain food products. In 1977, the supersonic Concorde makes its first landing in New York City. In 1987, the stock market crashes as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges 508 points, or 22.6 percent in value.

October 19, 1983: State Auditor Thomas E. Ferguson declares a financial emergency in the city of Campbell, saying that five city funds carried a deficit of $490,000 as of Aug. 31.

Westminster College in New Wilmington establishes a chair of the Economics and Business Department in honor of Capt. William McKee, who served on the faculty from 1924 to 1958. An endowed fund in excess of $800,000 has been established for the chair.

October 19, 1968: Willie Davenport, of Southern University and Howland Township in Trumbull County, claims America’s seventh Olympic gold medal with a record tying victory in the 100-meters high hurdles in Mexico City.

Dr. Nevin S. Craver, 70, prominent Youngstown veterinarian for more than 45 years, dies of a heart attack at the emergency room of North Side Hospital. He sold the Craver Animal Hospital at 234 Fifth Ave., which had been established by his father in 1894, to his associate Dr. Robert J. Edwards in 1966.

October 19, 1958: Bobby Treharn, 14, of the Hillcrest Trailer Park, Girard, is lucky to be alive after falling 50 feet on a rock pile while playing at the old Brier Hill Quarry not far from his home. He is in fair condition in St. Elizabeth Hospital.

Youngstown firemen respond to Fifth Avenue to free a three-year-old neighborhood boy from a tree he had climbed at the Nathan Belinky home. Richard Shorr had climbed the tree, but became stuck when his knee wedged between two limbs.

October 19, 1933: The federal government announces an elaborate schedule of minimum oil prices that are expected to increase gasoline prices by one or two cents a gallon. A barrel of mid-continent crude oil from which most domestic production occurs, is set at $1.11, an increase of 11 cents over its going rate. Wholesale prices of gasoline are set at between 4 cents and 7 cents a gallon, with a minimum allowance of three cents for the retailer on top of that.

Dr. George E. Haynes, executive secretary of the department of race relations, Federal Council of Church of Christ in America, tells a crowd of 200 at Westminster Presbyterian Church that “a depression-born sense of responsibility,” has led to a breaking down of racial prejudice in cities such as Youngstown.

Miss Edith Kauffman, long-time president of the Youngstown Garden Club, dies at her home at 748 Bryson St., two days after Mill Creek Park commissioners name the park’s quarry garden at Old Furnace Road and Glenwood Avenue in her honor.