Today in History

From wikipedia.org:

Events
202 BC - Battle of Zama, resulting in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal
439 - The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in North Africa
1453 - The French recapture of Bordeaux brings the Hundred Years War to a close, with the English retaining only Calais on French soil
1781 - Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington and Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown, Virginia, ending the American Revolutionary War
1873 - Yale, Princeton, Columbia and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules
1917 - Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened
1943 - Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, was first isolated by researchers at Rutgers University
1954 - First ascent of Cho Oyu
2003 - Mother Teresa was beatified by Pope John Paul II

Births
1873 - Jaap Eden, Dutch skater and cyclist
1908 - Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer
1931 - John Le Carré, novelist
1945 - John Lithgow, actor

Deaths
1745 - Jonathan Swift, author
1889 - King Louis of Portugal
1950 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet
1988 - Son House, blues musician

Holidays
Niue - Constitution Day in honour of the country's independence (self-governing in free association with New Zealand) in 1974
Mother Teresa Day in Albania