Today is Wednesday, Oct. 19, the 293rd day of 2016

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 19, the 293rd day of 2016. There are 73 days left in the year.

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On this date in:

1216: John, King of England, dies more than a year after affixing his royal seal to the Magna Carta (”The Great Charter”).

1765: The Stamp Act Congress, meeting in New York, adopts a declaration of rights and liberties that the British Parliament ignored.

1781: British troops under Gen. Lord Cornwallis surrender at Yorktown, Va., as the American Revolution nears its end.

1789: John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.

1914: The U.S. Post Office begins delivering mail with government-owned cars.

1944: The U.S. Navy begins accepting black women into WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service).

1987: The stock market crashes as the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunges 508 points, or 22.6 percent in value, to close at 1,738.74.

2011: Authorities in the Zanesville, Ohio, area start wrapping up their hunt for wild animals unleashed by a private farm owner who’d taken his own life; deputy sheriffs shot and killed 48 animals.

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1991: A Trumbull County jury takes eight hours to find Kenneth Biros, 33, guilty of aggravated murder in the death and dismemberment of Tami Engstrom, 22. The trial enters the penalty stage.

Salem Mayor Alvahn Mondell puts out a blunt call to city voters: “Please give me some new faces on council. Give me someone who can work with me.”

Rob Berk of Warren, who has a collection of 400 pinball machines that he began while in college, is an organizer of the annual Pinball Expo in Chicago.

1976: General Motors will close its Vega assembly plant in Lordstown for one week beginning Oct. 25 to balance production with field inventories.

Youngstown detectives say they have solved at least 23 robberies that have plagued Youngstown merchants since June and have arrested five men.

New Castle Mayor Francis J. Rogan says 15 city employees will be laid off as an economy measure.

1966: U.S. Rep. Frank T. Bow of Canton tells the Home Builders Association of the Mahoning Valley that citizen support of the Lake Erie to Ohio River Canal is essential to sell its benefits to the rest of Ohio.

More than 17,000 people throng to General Motors new Chevrolet-Fisher Body plant in Lords-town when the plant was opened to employees and their families.

James M. Oliver, former boys’ worker and athletic director at the Lexington Settlement in New York City, is selected for the $14,000-a-year job as executive director of the Youngstown Area Community Action Program.

1941: With many more obstacles still in the path of the Beaver-Mahoning Waterway, the $1 million omnibus rivers and harbors bill that contains funding for the project will go before Congress soon, says U.S. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan of Youngstown.

John Kaufman of Youngstown, a student at the University of Tampa who is listed in “Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities,” is president of Beta Chi Fraternity and on the varsity football team.

Some 300 employees will be hired to make tank parts at the American Welding & Manufacturing Co.’s huge addition.

The new $40,000 Fosterville Fire Station, under construction for nearly two years as a WPA project, will open while finishing touches are made, says Chief Michael Melillo.