November 19

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November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 42 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 461 – Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The real power is in the hands of the magister militum Ricimer.
• 1095 – The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.
• 1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
• 1794 – The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.
• 1816 – Warsaw University is established.
• 1847 – The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.
• 1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the military cemetery ceremony at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
• 1881 – A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
• 1885 – Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Kingdom of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
• 1911 – The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
• 1912 – First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
• 1916 – Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
• 1941 – World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.
• 1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
• 1942 – Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda.
• 1943 – Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
• 1944 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
• 1944 – World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.
• 1946 – Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
• 1950 – US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe
• 1952 – Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
• 1954 – Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
• 1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.
• 1959 – The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
• 1967 – The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
• 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
• 1969 – Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
• 1977 – TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 130.
• 1979 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
• 1984 – San Juanico Disaster: A series of explosions at the PEMEX petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.
• 1985 – Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
• 1985 – Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
• 1985 – Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.
• 1988 – Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
• 1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
• 1994 – In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
• 1996 – Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.
• 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
• 1998 – Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million.
• 1999 – Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
• 2002 – The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 20 million US gallons (76,000 m³) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.
• 2010 – The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand; 29 people are killed in the nation's worst mining disaster since 1914.

Births

• 1464 – Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d. 1526)
• 1563 – Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician (d. 1626)
• 1597 – Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate (d. 1660)
• 1600 – Charles I of England (d. 1649)
• 1600 – Lieuwe van Aitzema, Dutch historian and diplomat (d. 1669)
• 1617 – Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (d. 1655)
• 1700 – Jean-Antoine Nollet, French priest and physicist (d. 1770)
• 1711 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian scientist and polymath (d. 1765)
• 1722 – Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (d. 1809)
• 1722 – Benjamin Chew, American lawyer and judge (d. 1810)
• 1752 – George Rogers Clark, American military officer (d. 1818)
• 1770 – Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (d. 1844)
• 1802 – Solomon Foot, American lawyer and politician (d. 1866)
• 1805 – Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and engineer, developed the Suez Canal (d. 1894)
• 1808 – Janez Bleiweis, Slovenian journalist and politician (d. 1881)
• 1812 – Karl Schwarz, German theologian (d. 1885)
• 1828 – Rani Lakshmibai, Indian queen (d. 1858)
• 1831 – James A. Garfield, American politician, 20th President of the United States (d. 1881)
• 1833 – Wilhelm Dilthey, German philosopher (d. 1911)
• 1834 – Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (d. 1924)
• 1843 – Richard Avenarius, German philosopher (d. 1896)
• 1859 – Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (d. 1935)
• 1862 – Billy Sunday, American baseball player and evangelist (d. 1935)
• 1875 – Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet politician (d. 1946)
• 1876 – Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician (d. 1964)
• 1876 – James Steen, American water polo player (d. 1949)
• 1877 – Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman and politician, founded the Venice Film Festival (d. 1947)
• 1883 – Ned Sparks, Canadian actor (d. 1957)
• 1887 – James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
• 1888 – José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (d. 1942)
• 1889 – Clifton Webb, American actor (d. 1966)
• 1892 – Huw T. Edwards, Welsh politician (d. 1970)
• 1893 – René Voisin, French trumpet player (d. 1952)
• 1894 – Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (d. 1987)
• 1895 – Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (d. 1989)
• 1895 – Evert van Linge, Dutch footballer and architect (d. 1964)
• 1897 – Quentin Roosevelt, American pilot (d. 1918)
• 1898 – Klement Jug, Slovenian philosopher and mountaineer (d. 1924)
• 1898 – Arthur R. von Hippel, German-American physicist (d. 2003)
• 1899 – Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian scholar (d. 1992)
• 1899 – Allen Tate, American poet and critic (d. 1979)
• 1900 – Bunny Ahearne, Irish ice hockey manager (d. 1985)
• 1900 – Mikhail Lavrentyev, Soviet mathematician and hydrodynamicist (d. 1980)
• 1900 – Anna Seghers, German author (d. 1983)
• 1904 – Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr., American murderer (d. 1971)
• 1905 – Tommy Dorsey, American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (The California Ramblers) (d. 1956)
• 1906 – Franz Schädle, German SS officer (d. 1945)
• 1907 – Jack Schaefer, American author (d. 1991)
• 1909 – Peter Drucker, American theorist (d. 2005)
• 1910 – Adrian Conan Doyle, English race car driver and author (d. 1970)
• 1912 – George Emil Palade, Romanian biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
• 1915 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
• 1917 – Indira Gandhi, Indian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
• 1919 – Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian director (d. 2006)
• 1919 – Alan Young, English-Canadian actor
• 1920 – Gene Tierney, American actress (d. 1991)
• 1921 – Roy Campanella, American baseball player (d. 1993)
• 1921 – Peter Ruckman, American pastor and educator
• 1922 – Salil Chowdhury, Indian composer, poet, playwright, and director (d. 1995)
• 1922 – Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist (d. 1999)
• 1922 – Rajko Mitic, Serbian footballer and coach (d. 2008)
• 1924 – William Russell, English actor
• 1924 – Knut Steen, Norwegian sculptor (d. 2011)
• 1925 – Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-English sociologist
• 1926 – Jeane Kirkpatrick, American diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2006)
• 1926 – Pino Rauti, Italian journalist and politician (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian singer-songwriter
• 1929 – Norman Cantor, Canadian scholar (d. 2004)
• 1930 – Kurt Nielsen, Danish tennis player (d. 2011)
• 1933 – Larry King, American journalist and talk show host
• 1933 – Jerry Sheindlin, American judge and author
• 1934 – Kurt Hamrin, Swedish footballer
• 1934 – Valentin Kozmich Ivanov, Soviet-Russian footballer (d. 2011)
• 1935 – Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-American biochemist (d. 1990)
• 1935 – Jack Welch, American businessman and author
• 1936 – Dick Cavett, American talk show host
• 1936 – Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1938 – Ted Turner, American businessman, founded Turner Broadcasting System
• 1939 – Emil Constantinescu, Romanian politician, 3rd President of Romania
• 1939 – Tom Harkin, American politician
• 1939 – Richard Zare, American chemist
• 1941 – Dan Haggerty, American actor
• 1941 – Tommy Thompson, American politician, 42nd Governor of Wisconsin
• 1942 – Calvin Klein, American fashion designer, founded Calvin Klein Inc.
• 1942 – Sharon Olds, American poet
• 1943 – Fred Lipsius, American saxophonist (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
• 1943 – Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban-American baseball player (d. 1990)
• 1944 – Agnes Baltsa, Greek soprano
• 1944 – Dennis Hull, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1945 – Hans Monderman, Dutch engineer (d. 2008)
• 1945 – Bobby Tolan, American baseball player
• 1947 – Bob Boone, American baseball player and manager
• 1947 – Anfinn Kallsberg, Faroese politician, 10th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
• 1947 – Lamar S. Smith, American politician
• 1949 – Nigel Bennett, English actor
• 1949 – Ahmad Rashad, American football player and sportscaster
• 1949 – Amand Theis, German footballer
• 1950 – Peter Biyiasas, Greek-Canadian chess player
• 1951 – Zeenat Aman, Indian actress
• 1951 – Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, English politician
• 1952 – Stephen Soldz, American psychoanalyst and activist
• 1953 – Robert Beltran, American actor
• 1953 – Tom Villard, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1954 – Rejean Lemelin, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1954 – Kathleen Quinlan, American actress
• 1955 – Sam Hamm, American screenwriter
• 1956 – Eileen Collins, American astronaut
• 1956 – Ann Curry, American journalist
• 1956 – Glynnis O'Connor, American actress
• 1957 – Ofra Haza, Israeli singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2000)
• 1957 – Tom Virtue, American actor
• 1958 – Michael Wilbon, American sportscaster and columnist
• 1958 – Terrence C. Carson, American actor and singer
• 1959 – Allison Janney, American actress
• 1960 – Miss Elizabeth, American wrestling manager (d. 2003)
• 1960 – Matt Sorum, American drummer (The Cult, Guns 'N Roses, Velvet Revolver, Slash's Snakepit, Camp Freddy, and Neurotic Outsiders)
• 1961 – Jim L. Mora, American football player and coach
• 1961 – Meg Ryan, American actress and producer
• 1962 – Jodie Foster, American actress, director, and producer
• 1962 – George Leventhal, American politician
• 1962 – Sean Parnell, American politician, 12th Governor of Alaska
• 1962 – Dodie Boy Peñalosa, Filipino boxer
• 1963 – Terry Farrell, American actress
• 1963 – Zsuzsanna Jánosi, Hungarian fencer
• 1963 – Jon Potter, English field hockey player
• 1965 – Laurent Blanc, French footballer
• 1965 – Douglas Henshall, Scottish actor
• 1966 – Shmuley Boteach, American rabbi and author
• 1966 – Gail Devers, American runner
• 1966 – Rocco DiSpirito, American chef
• 1966 – Kakhaber Kacharava, Georgian footballer
• 1966 – Jason Scott Lee, American actor and martial artist
• 1969 – Philippe Adams, Belgian race car driver
• 1969 – Erika Alexander, American actress
• 1969 – Richard Virenque, French cyclist
• 1971 – Alice Peacock, American singer
• 1971 – Jeremy McGrath, American motorcycle racer
• 1971 – Justin Chancellor, English bass player (Tool and Peach)
• 1971 – Naoko Mori, Japanese-English actress and singer
• 1972 – Sandrine Holt, Canadian actress
• 1973 – Ryukishi07, Japanese author
• 1973 – Billy Currington, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1973 – Savion Glover, American dancer and choreographer
• 1973 – Django Haskins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Old Ceremony)
• 1974 – Arun Vijay, Indian actor
• 1975 – Toby Bailey, American basketball player
• 1975 – Sushmita Sen, Indian model and actress, Miss Universe 1994
• 1976 – Jack Dorsey, American businessman, co-founded Twitter
• 1976 – Robin Dunne, Canadian actor
• 1976 – Jun Shibata, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1976 – Petr Sýkora, Czech ice hockey player
• 1976 – Benny Vansteelant, Belgian duathlete (d. 2007)
• 1976 – Stylianos Venetidis, Greek football player
• 1977 – Kerri Strug, American gymnast
• 1978 – Matt Dusk, Canadian singer
• 1978 – Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová, Czech discus thrower
• 1979 – Keith Buckley, American singer-songwriter (Every Time I Die and The Damned Things)
• 1979 – John-Ford Griffin, American baseball player
• 1979 – Ryan Howard, American baseball player
• 1979 – Larry Johnson, American football player
• 1979 – Leam Richardson, English footballer
• 1980 – Courtney Anderson, American football player
• 1980 – Otis Grigsby, American football player
• 1980 – Vladimir Radmanovic, Serbian basketball player
• 1980 – Adele Silva, English actress
• 1981 – Marcus Banks, American basketball player
• 1981 – DJ Tukutz, South Korean DJ, producer, and songwriter (Epik High)
• 1983 – Chandra Crawford, Canadian skier
• 1983 – Daria Werbowy, Ukrainian-Canadian model
• 1984 – Dawid Kucharski, Polish footballer
• 1985 – Chris Eagles, English footballer
• 1985 – Alex Mack, American football player
• 1986 – Jeannie Ortega, American singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer
• 1986 – Jessicah Schipper, Australian swimmer
• 1986 – Veronica Scott, American fashion designer
• 1986 – Milan Smiljanić, Serbian footballer
• 1988 – Patrick Kane, American ice hockey player
• 1989 – Tyga, American rapper
• 1989 – John McCarthy, Australian footballer (d. 2012)
• 1989 – Roman Sergeevich Trofimov, Russian ski jumper
• 1990 – Benedikt Schmid, German footballer
• 1993 – Suso, Spanish footballer
• 1993 – Kerim Frei, Austrian footballer
• 1997 – McCaughey septuplets, American septuplets

Deaths

• 1557 – Bona Sforza, Polish wife of Sigismund I the Old (b. 1494)
• 1577 – Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
• 1581 – Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia (b. 1554)
• 1630 – Johann Schein, German composer (b. 1586)
• 1649 – Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (b. 1576)
• 1665 – Nicolas Poussin, French painter (b. 1594)
• 1672 – John Wilkins, English bishop (b. 1614)
• 1692 – Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright (b. 1642)
• 1703 – Man in the Iron Mask, French prisoner
• 1723 – Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and soldier (b. 1632)
• 1772 – William Nelson, American politician (b. 1711)
• 1773 – James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish soldier and politician (b. 1722)
• 1785 – Bernard de Bury, French composer (b. 1720)
• 1798 – Wolfe Tone, Irish general (b. 1763)
• 1804 – Pietro Guglielmi, Italian composer (b. 1728)
• 1810 – Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer (b. 1725)
• 1822 – Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)
• 1823 – Alvin Smith, American brother of Joseph Smith (b. 1798)
• 1828 – Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (b. 1797)
• 1850 – Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician, 9th Vice President of the United States (b. 1780)
• 1868 – Ivane Andronikashvili, Georgian general (b. 1798)
• 1883 – Carl Wilhelm Siemens, German-English engineer (b. 1823)
• 1887 – Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1849)
• 1897 – William Seymour Tyler, American historian (b. 1810)
• 1915 – Joe Hill, American activist (b. 1879)
• 1918 – Joseph F. Smith, American religious leader, 6th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1838)
• 1924 – Thomas H. Ince, American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1882)
• 1931 – Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (b. 1897)
• 1938 – Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (b. 1866)
• 1942 – Bruno Schulz, Polish painter and critic (b. 1892)
• 1943 – Miyagiyama Fukumatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 29th Yokozuna (b. 1895)
• 1949 – James Ensor, Belgian painter (b. 1860)
• 1954 – Walter Bartley Wilson, English football manager (b. 1870)
• 1956 – Francis L. Sullivan, English actor (b. 1903)
• 1959 – Joseph Charbonneau, Canadian archbishop (b. 1892)
• 1960 – Phyllis Haver, American actress (b. 1899)
• 1962 – Grigol Robakidze, Georgian author (b. 1882)
• 1963 – Henry B. Richardson, American archer (b. 1889)
• 1967 – Charles J. Watters, American army officer, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927)
• 1974 – George Brunies, American trombone player (b. 1902)
• 1975 – Roger D. Branigin, American politician, 42nd Governor of Indiana (b. 1902)
• 1976 – Basil Spence, Scottish architect, designed the Coventry Cathedral (b. 1907)
• 1983 – Tom Evans, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Badfinger) (b. 1947)
• 1985 – Stepin Fetchit, American actor and dancer (b. 1907)
• 1988 – Christina Onassis, American businesswoman (b. 1950)
• 1989 – Grant Adcox, American race car driver (b. 1950)
• 1990 – Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (b. 1900)
• 1992 – Bobby Russell, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• 1992 – Diane Varsi, American actress (b. 1938)
• 1998 – Ted Fujita, Japanese-American meteorologist (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Alan J. Pakula, American director (b. 1928)
• 2001 – Marcelle Ferron, Canadian painter (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Ian Geoghegan, Australian race car driver (b. 1940)
• 2004 – George Canseco, Filipino composer (b. 1934)
• 2004 – Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (b. 1914)
• 2004 – Helmut Griem, German actor (b. 1932)
• 2004 – Terry Melcher, American singer-songwriter and producer (Bruce & Terry) (b. 1942)
• 2004 – John Vane, English pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
• 2005 – Erik Balling, Danish director (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Mike Gregory, English rugby player (b. 1964)
• 2007 – Dick Wilson, American actor (b. 1916)
• 2008 – Gregory Bryant-Bey, American murderer (b. 1955)
• 2009 – Daul Kim, South Korean model (b. 1989)
• 2010 – Pat Burns, Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1952)
• 2012 – John Hefin, Welsh director and producer (b. 1941)
• 2012 – Pete La Roca, American drummer (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Warren Rudman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1930)
• 2012 – Boris Strugatskiy, Russian author (b. 1933)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Obadiah (Eastern Catholic Church)
  • Raphael Kalinowski
  • Severinus, Exuperius, and Felician
  • November 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Day of Missile Forces and Artillery (Russia, Belorussia)
• Garifuna Settlement Day (Belize)
• Discovery of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
• Flag Day (Brazil)
• International Men's Day (Australia, Canada, Ghana, Hungary, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Malta, Singapore, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States)
• Liberation Day (Mali)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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