Shimla, Oct 19 Keekli Bureau

This Day in History

2003

Pope John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa, who had won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize for her charity work.

1987

The Dow Jones Industrial Average plummeted nearly 23 percent, the largest one-day percentage drop in the stock market’s history.

1914

During World War I, the First Battle of Ypres began in western Flanders; the Allies and Germans settled into the trench warfare that would characterize the remainder of the war on the Western Front.

1897

American industrialist George M. Pullman, inventor of the Pullman sleeping car used on railroads, died.

1864

Confederate soldiers based in Canada crossed into St. Albans, Vermont, and robbed three banks in order to agitate the Union during the American Civil War.

1812

Napoleon began his disastrous retreat from Russia.

1789

John Jay, a Founding Father of the United States, was sworn in as the first chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

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