On this day, October 19: A bus bomb attack in Tel Aviv, Israel, kills 22 people

In 1789, John Jay, one of the founding fathers and president of the Continental Congress, was sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

In 1812, Napoleon’s defeated French army began its long, disastrous retreat from Moscow.

In 1964, under the leadership of the new leader of the Communist Party, Leonid Brezhnev, the Kremlin began to resolve its grievances against Red China.

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In 1973, the Israeli army was deployed on two fronts against the Arab forces, in the south against Egypt and in the north against the armies of Syria, Iraq and Jordan. Saudi Arabia then threatened a total halt to oil shipments to the United States unless it stopped all military aid to Israel. This impasse would lead to the 1973 oil crisis.

In 1982, automaker John DeLorean was arrested in Los Angeles and charged in a $24 million cocaine scheme designed to bail out his bankrupt sports car company. He was tried and acquitted.

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In 1987, U.S. Navy ships bombed an Iranian oil platform in retaliation for a missile attack on a U.S.-flagged ship, and Iran threatened a “crushing response,” warning that the United States was “in a full-fledged war.”

In 1994, a terrorist bombing killed more than twenty people on a bus in Tel Aviv, Israel.

In 2003, Pope John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa before hundreds of thousands of pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City. This was the last formal step before her canonization in 2015.

In 2009, the U.S. government announced that it would no longer prosecute people who use or sell marijuana for medicinal purposes if they comply with state laws.

In 2013, a violin played by the Titanic’s musical conductor when the ship sank after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic Ocean in 1912 sold for more than $1.7 million at auction in London.

In 2019, Chilean President Sebastián Piñera declared a state of emergency after student protests over metro fare hikes escalated into riots over the rising cost of living.

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