Reuters historical calendar - October 19

London, Oct 18 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on October 19 since 1900: 1935 - The League of Nations imposed sanctions against Italy following its invasion of Ethiopia.

1960 - The U.S. State Department embargoed shipments to Cuba of all goods except medicine and food.

1978 - Rhodesian troops attacked suspected guerrilla camps in neighbouring Zambia, killing 300 people.

1983 - The prime minister of Grenada, Maurice Bishop, was among those killed during a left-wing coup. Six days later U.S. forces invaded the Caribbean island.

1986 - President Samora Machel of Mozambique and 30 of his staff were killed in a plane crash near the South African border.

1987 - Wall Street stocks plunged a record 508 points or 22.6 per cent on ''Black Monday''.

1987 - Jacqueline du Pre, one of Britain's finest cellists, died of multiple sclerosis aged 42.

1990 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev won parliamentary approval for a plan to switch from old-style communist central planning to a market economy.

2001 - At least 350 people were killed when an overcrowded boat, on its way to Australia from Lampung in Sumatra carrying mostly Iraqi asylum seekers, sank near Java.

2003 - Pope John Paul beatified Mother Teresa before a crowd of 300,000, calling her an ''icon'' of charity.

2004 - Khin Nyunt was sacked as prime minister of military-ruled Myanmar amid allegations of corruption and placed under house arrest.

2005 - Ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein went on trial on charges of crimes against humanity.

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