Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 19, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Weather records (from the National Weather Service, Chicago )

High temperature: 84 degrees (1971)

Low temperature: 21 degrees (1992)

Precipitation: 2.22 inches (1885)

Snowfall: 3.8 inches (1989)

1970: Gene Lewis was fatally shot in the Criminal Courts Building after trying to escape using a handgun smuggled into a judge’s library inside a hollowed out book of poems by Edgar Allan Poe. Lewis had been sentenced to death in the slaying of security guard James Wilson, 26.

1983: University of Chicago astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar won the Nobel Prize in physics (shared with William Alfred Fowle

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