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- 1466
- Under the Second Peace of Thorn, the State of the Teutonic Order renounced its claim to Royal Prussia.
- 1825
- A new Eden Chapel opens in Cambridge, England.
- 1904
- El Cayo is declared a town in British Honduras.
- 1911
- The Andrew D. Gwynee Institute opens in Fort Myers, Florida.
- 1929
- In the Tajik Autonomous SSR, Dyushambe is renamed Stalinabad after Joseph Stalin.
- 1938
- In the Philippines, Bacolod is inaugurated as a charter city.
- 1958
- The Rochambeau Bridge opens, carrying U.S. Route 1 over the Potomac River between Washington, D.C., and Arlington, Virginia.
- 2017
- La Place opens in Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on October 19, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on October 19 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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