November 19
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November 19 is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 41 days remaining after November 19 until the end of the year.
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[change] Events
- 1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
- 1819 – The Museo del Prado in Madrid opens.
- 1863 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- 1869 – The Hudson's Bay Company sells Ruperts Land to Canada.
- 1946 – Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
- 1969 – Apollo 12 lands on the Moon. Charles Conrad and Alan LaVern Bean become the 3rd and 4th people respectively to walk on the Moon.
- 1969 – Brazilian footballer Pele scores the 1,000th goal of his career.
- 1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin seeking a permanent peace settlement.
- 1979 – Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
- 1985 – Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet.
- 1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because they did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It’s True album.
- 1995 – Aleksander Kwasniewski is elected President of Poland.
- 1996 – The case of the Port Arthur massacre comes to trial.
- 1998 – The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
- 2002 – The Prestige oil tanker breaks apart near the coast of Galicia, Spain, causing a large oil spill.
- 2010 – Twenty-nine miners are trapped after an explosion in the Pike River Mine near Greymouth in New Zealand. They are pronounced dead after a second explosion five days later.
[change] Births
- 1464 – Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d. 1526)
- 1600 – King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland (d. 1649)
- 1711 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian writer and polymath (d. 1765)
- 1722 – Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (d. 1809)
- 1770 – Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (d. 1844)
- 1805 – Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and businessman (d. 1894)
- 1831 – James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States (d. 1881)
- 1875 – Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet politician (d. 1946)
- 1887 – James B. Sumner, American chemist (d. 1955)
- 1889 – Clifton Webb, American actor (d. 1966)
- 1894 – Americo Tomas, 14th President of Portugal (d. 1987)
- 1898 – Arthur R. von Hippel, German physicist (d. 2003)
- 1900 – Anna Seghers, German writer (d. 1983)
- 1905 – Tommy Dorsey, American musician (d. 1956)
- 1912 – George Emil Palade, Romanian biologist (d. 2008)
- 1915 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist (d. 1974)
- 1917 – Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
- 1919 – Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (d. 2006)
- 1920 – Gene Tierney, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1924 – Knut Steen, Norwegian sculptor (d. 2011)
- 1930 – Kurt Nielsen, Danish tennis player (d. 2011)
- 1933 – Larry King, American television personality
- 1934 – Valentin Kozmich Ivanov, Russian footballer (d. 2011)
- 1934 – Kurt Hamrin, Swedish footballer
- 1936 – Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese chemist
- 1938 – Ted Turner, American businessman
- 1942 – Calvin Klein, American clothing designer
- 1944 – Klaus Fichtel, German footballer
- 1956 – Eileen Collins, American astronaut
- 1961 – Meg Ryan, American actress
- 1962 – Jodie Foster, American actress
- 1962 – Sean Parnell, Governor of Alaska
- 1965 – Laurent Blanc, French footballer
- 1966 – Jason Scott Lee, American actor
- 1975 – Sushmita Sen, Indian beauty queen and actress
- 1976 – Robin Dunne, Canadian actor
- 1977 – Kerri Strug, American gymnast
- 1980 – Vladimir Radmanovic, Serbian basketball player
- 1984 – Jorge Fucile, Uruguayan footballer
- 1985 – Chris Eagles, English footballer
- 1988 – Patrick Kane, American NHL ice hockey right winger for the Chicago Blackhawks
[change] Deaths
- 1481 – Anne Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (b. 1472)
- 1492 – Jami, Persian poet (b. 1414)
- 1581 – Ivan Ivanovich, son of Ivan IV of Russia (b. 1554)
- 1665 – Nicolas Poussin, French painter (b. 1594)
- 1703 – The Man in the Iron Mask, French prisoner whose identity is unknown
- 1828 – Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (b. 1797)
- 1863 – John O'Meally, Australian bushranger (b. 1841)
- 1887 – Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1849)
- 1918 – Joseph F. Smith, American Mormon leader (b. 1838)
- 1976 – Basil Spence, English architect (b. 1907)
- 1983 – Tom Evans, English musician (b. 1947)
- 1992 – Diane Varsi, American actress (b. 1938)
- 2004 – John Vane, English pharmacologist (b. 1927)
- 2005 – Erik Balling, Danish director (b. 1924)
