What happened on November 19? There are more than 280 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About November 19
November 19 is the 324th day of the year 2024. There are 42 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday. This day falls under the 47th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Tintah, Minnesota 56583 sunrise will occur at 07:31 AM and sunset will occur at 04:51 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Scorpio. The modern birthstone for this month is Topaz while the mystical birthstone is Pearl.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 71 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For November 19
- 1095The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.
- 1493Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
- 1794The 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.
- 1816Warsaw University is established.
- 1847The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.
- 1863American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the military cemetery ceremony at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- 1881A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
- 1885Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Kingdom of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
- 1911The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
- 1912First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
- 1916Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
- 1941World 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.
- 1942Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda.
- 1942World 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.
- 1943Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
- 1944World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.
- 1944World 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.
- 1946Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
- 1947George VI of the United Kingdom creates Philip Mountbatten the Duke of Edinburgh in preparation for his wedding to George’s elder daughter, Princess Elizabeth, the next day.
- 1950US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe
- 1952Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
- 1954Télé Monte Carlo, Europe’s oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
- 1955National Review publishes its first issue.
- 1959The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
- 1967The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
- 1969Apollo 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.
- 1969Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
- 1977TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 130.
- 1979Iran 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.
- 1984San 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.
- 1985Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
- 1985Pennzoil 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.
- 1985Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.
- 1988Serbian 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.
- 1990Pop 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.
- 1994In 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.
- 1996Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.
- 1998Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
- 1998Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million.
- 1999Shenzhou 1: The People’s Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
- 2002The 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.
- 2010The 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.
Who Were Born On November 19?
- 1464Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d. 1526)
- 1563Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (d. 1626)
- 1597Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1660)
- 1600Charles I of England (d. 1649)
- 1600Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (d. 1669)
- 1617Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (d. 1655)
- 1700Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (d. 1770)
- 1711Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian writer and polymath (d. 1765)
- 1722Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (d. 1810)
- 1722Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (d. 1809)
- 1752George Rogers Clark, American military leader (d. 1818)
- 1770Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (d. 1844)
- 1802Solomon Foot, American politician (d. 1866)
- 1805Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and Suez Canal engineer (d. 1894)
- 1808Janez Bleiweis, Slovenian politician (d. 1881)
- 1812Karl Schwarz, German theologian (d. 1885)
- 1831James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States (d. 1881)
- 1833Wilhelm Dilthey, German philosopher (d. 1911)
- 1834Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (d. 1924)
- 1835Rani Lakshmibai, Indian Queen (d. 1858)
- 1843Richard Avenarius, German philosopher (d. 1896)
- 1859Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (d. 1935)
- 1862Billy Sunday, American evangelist (d. 1935)
- 1875Mikhail I. Kalinin, President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (d. 1946)
- 1876Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian/Dutch mathematician (d. 1964)
- 1883Ned Sparks, Canadian actor (d. 1957)
- 1887James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1955)
- 1888José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (d. 1942)
- 1889Clifton Webb, American actor (d. 1966)
- 1892Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician (d. 1970)
- 1893René Voisin, French classical trumpet player (d. 1952)
- 1894Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (d. 1987)
- 1895Evert van Linge, Dutch footballer and architect (d. 1964)
- 1895Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (d. 1989)
- 1896Georgy Zhukov, Russian general (d. 1974)
- 1897Quentin Roosevelt, son of United States President Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1918)
- 1898Arthur R. von Hippel, German-born physicist (d. 2003)
- 1898Klement Jug, Slovenian philosopher and mountaineer (d. 1924)
- 1899Allen Tate, American poet and critic (d. 1979)
- 1899Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qassim Khoei, influential Shia Islamic scholar (d. 1992)
- 1900Anna Seghers, German writer (d. 1983)
- 1900Bunny Ahearne, Irish ice hockey promoter (d. 1985)
- 1900Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian scientist (d. 1980)
- 1904Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr., American murderer (d. 1971)
- 1905Tommy Dorsey, American bandleader (d. 1956)
- 1907Jack Schaefer, American author (d. 1991)
- 1909Peter Drucker, American management theorist (d. 2005)
- 1910Adrian Conan Doyle, son of Arthur Conan Doyle (d. 1970)
- 1912George Emil Palade, Romanian cell biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
- 1915Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
- 1917Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
- 1919Alan Young, British-born American actor (Mister Ed)
- 1919Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (d. 2006)
- 1920Gene Tierney, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1921Peter Ruckman, American Baptist minister
- 1921Roy Campanella, American baseball player (d. 1993)
- 1922Rajko Mitic, Serbian footballer and coach (d. 2008)
- 1922Salil Chowdhury, Indian music composer, poet, writer, dramatist and filmmaker (d. 1995)
- 1922Yuri Knorozov, Russian epigrapher (d. 1999)
- 1924Knut Steen, Norwegian sculptor (d. 2011)
- 1924William Russell, British actor
- 1925Zygmunt Bauman, Polish sociologist
- 1926Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2006)
- 1929Norman Cantor, Canadian medieval scholar (d. 2004)
- 1929Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian musician
- 1930Kurt Nielsen, Danish tennis player (d. 2011)
- 1933Jerry Sheindlin, American jurist; husband of Judith Sheindlin
- 1933Larry King, American TV personality
- 1934Valentin Kozmich Ivanov, Soviet-Russian footballer (d. 2011)
- 1935Jack Welch, American businessman
- 1935Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian imam (d. 1990)
- 1936Dick Cavett, American talk show host
- 1936Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1938Ted Turner, American businessman
- 1939Richard Zare, American chemist
- 1939Tom Harkin, American politician
- 1941Dan Haggerty, American actor
- 1941Tommy Thompson, 42nd U.S. Governor of Wisconsin and 19th Secretary of Health and Human Services
- 1942Calvin Klein, American clothing designer
- 1942Sharon Olds, American poet
- 1943Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban-born Major League Baseball player (d. 1990)
- 1943Fred Lipsius, American musician (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
- 1944Agnes Baltsa, Greek mezzo-soprano
- 1944Dennis Hull, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1945Bobby Tolan, American baseball player
- 1945Hans Monderman, Dutch road traffic engineer and innovator (d. 2008)
- 1947Bob Boone, American baseball player and manager
- 1947Lamar S. Smith, American politician
- 1949Ahmad Rashad, American football player and sportscaster
- 1949Amand Theis, German footballer
- 1949Nigel Bennett, English actor
- 1950Peter Biyiasas, Greek-Canadian-American chess grandmaster
- 1951Charles Falconer, Baron Falconer of Thoroton, British politician and former Lord Chancellor and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England and Great Britain
- 1951Zeenat Aman, Indian actress
- 1952Stephen Soldz, American psychoanalyst and anti-war activist
- 1953Robert Beltran, American actor
- 1953Tom Villard, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1954Kathleen Quinlan, American actress
- 1954Rejean Lemelin, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1955Sam Hamm, American screenwriter
- 1956Ann Curry, American journalist and television anchor
- 1956Eileen Collins, American astronaut
- 1956Glynnis O'Connor, American actress
- 1957Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (d. 2000)
- 1957Tom Virtue, American actor
- 1958Michael Wilbon, sports analyst
- 1958Terrence “T.C.” Carson, American actor
- 1959Allison Janney, American actress
- 1960Elizabeth Hulette, American professional wrestling manager (d. 2003)
- 1960Matt Sorum, American musician (The Cult, Guns 'N Roses, Velvet Revolver)
- 1961Jim L. Mora, American football coach
- 1961Meg Ryan, American actress
- 1962Dodie Boy Peñalosa, Philippine boxer
- 1962Jodie Foster, American actress
- 1962Sean Parnell, 12th Governor of Alaska
- 1963Jon Potter, British field hockey player
- 1963Terry Farrell, American actress
- 1963Zsuzsanna Jánosi, Hungarian fencer
- 1965Douglas Henshall, Scottish actor
- 1965Laurent Blanc, French footballer
- 1966Gail Devers, American athlete
- 1966Jason Scott Lee, American actor
- 1966Rocco DiSpirito, American chef
- 1966Shmuley Boteach, American rabbi
- 1969Erika Alexander, American actress
- 1969Philippe Adams, Belgian racing driver
- 1969Richard Virenque, French cyclist
- 1971Alice Peacock, American folk singer
- 1971Jeremy McGrath, American motorcycle racer
- 1971Justin Chancellor, Bassist for the band Tool
- 1972Sandrine Holt, Canadian actress
- 1973Billy Currington, American singer and songwriter
- 1973Django Haskins, American singer, guitarist, and songwriter
- 1973Ryukishi07, Japanese mystery writer
- 1973Savion Glover, American dancer and choreographer
- 1975Sushmita Sen, Indian beauty queen and actress
- 1975Toby Bailey, American basketball player
- 1976Benny Vansteelant, Belgian duathlete (d. 2007)
- 1976Jack Dorsey, Founder of Twitter
- 1976Jun Shibata, Japanese singer and songwriter
- 1976Petr Sýkora, Czech ice hockey player
- 1976Robin Dunne, Canadian actor
- 1976Stylianos Venetidis, Greek football player
- 1977Kerri Strug, American gymnast
- 1978Matt Dusk, Canadian jazz musician / vocalist
- 1978Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová, Czech athlete
- 1979John-Ford Griffin, American baseball player
- 1979Keith Buckley, American singer (Every Time I Die)
- 1979Larry Johnson, American football player
- 1979Leam Richardson, English football player
- 1979Ryan Howard, American baseball player
- 1980Adele Silva, English actress
- 1980Courtney Anderson, American football player
- 1980Otis Grigsby, American football player
- 1980Vladimir Radmanovic, Serbian basketball player
- 1981DJ Tukutz, South Korean DJ, producer, songwriter (Epik High)
- 1981Marcus Banks, American basketball player
- 1983Chandra Crawford, Canadian cross-country skier
- 1983Daria Werbowy, Ukrainian-Canadian model
- 1984Dawid Kucharski, Polish football player
- 1985Alex Mack, American football player
- 1985Chris Eagles, English footballer
- 1986Jeannie Ortega, American actress, dancer, and songwriter.
- 1986Jessicah Schipper, Australian swimmer
- 1986Milan Smiljanić, Serbian footballer
- 1986Veronica Scott, American fashion designer
- 1988Patrick Kane, American ice-hockey player
- 1989Roman Sergeevich Trofimov, Russian ski jumper.
- 1989Tyga, American rapper
- 1990Benedikt Schmid, German footballer
- 1993Kerim Frei, Austrian footballer
- 1997McCaughey septuplets, world’s first surviving set of septuplets
Who Died On November 19?
- 498Pope Anastasius II
- 1478Emperor Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia (b. 1448)
- 1492Jami, Persian poet (b. 1414)
- 1557Bona Sforza, Queen of Sigismund I of Poland (b. 1494)
- 1577Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
- 1581Ivan Ivanovich, son of Ivan IV of Russia (b. 1554)
- 1630Johann Schein, German composer (b. 1586)
- 1649Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (b. 1576)
- 1665Nicolas Poussin, French painter (b. 1594)
- 1672John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (b. 1614)
- 1682Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (b. 1619)
- 1692Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright
- 1703The Man in the Iron Mask, French prisoner (Eustache Dauger)
- 1723Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and soldier (b. 1632)
- 1772William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1711)
- 1773James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (b. 1722)
- 1785Bernard de Bury, French composer (b. 1720)
- 1798Wolfe Tone, Irish republican (b. 1763)
- 1804Pietro Guglielmi, Italian composer (b. 1728)
- 1810Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and ballet master (b. 1725)
- 1822Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)
- 1823Alvin Smith, Brother of Joseph Smith, Jr. (b. 1798)
- 1828Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (b. 1797)
- 1850Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician (b. 1780)
- 1868Ivane Andronikashvili, Georgian general (b. 1798)
- 1883William Siemens, German engineer (b. 1823)
- 1887Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1849)
- 1897William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (b. 1810).
- 1915Joe Hill, American labor activist (b. 1879)
- 1918Joseph F. Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1838)
- 1924Thomas Ince, American film director (b. 1882)
- 1931Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (b. 1897)
- 1938Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (b. 1866)
- 1942Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (b. 1892)
- 1943Miyagiyama Fukumatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 29th Yokozuna (b. 1895)
- 1949James Ensor, Belgian painter and printmaker (b.1860)
- 1954Walter Bartley Wilson, English artist (b. 1870)
- 1959Joseph Charbonneau, archbishop of Montreal (b. 1892)
- 1960Phyllis Haver, American actress (b. 1899)
- 1962Grigol Robakidze, Georgian writer (b. 1882)
- 1967Charles J. Watters, American Army chaplain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927)
- 1974George Brunies, American musician (b. 1902)
- 1975Roger D. Branigin, American politician (b. 1902)
- 1976Sir Basil Spence, British architect (b. 1907)
- 1983Tom Evans, English bass guitarist (Badfinger) (b. 1947)
- 1985Stepin Fetchit, American actor and dancer (b. 1907)
- 1988Christina Onassis, American-born Greek heiress and socialite (b. 1950)
- 1989Grant Adcox, NASCAR Driver (b. 1950)
- 1990Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (b. 1900)
- 1992Bobby Russell, American songwriter (b. 1941)
- 1992Diane Varsi, American actress (b. 1938)
- 1998Alan J. Pakula, American film director (b. 1928)
- 1998Ted Fujita, Japanese-born American meteorologist (b. 1920)
- 2001Marcelle Ferron, Quebec painter and stained glass artist (b. 1924)
- 2003Ian Geoghegan, Australian racing driver (b. 1940)
- 2004George Canseco, Filipino composer (b. 1934)
- 2004Helmut Griem, German actor (b. 1932)
- 2004John Robert Vane, British pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1927)
- 2004Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (b. 1914)
- 2004Terry Melcher, American record producer; son of Doris Day (b. 1942)
- 2005Erik Balling, Danish TV and film director (b. 1924)
- 2007Dick Wilson, American actor (b. 1916)
- 2007Mike Gregory, English rugby league footballer (b. 1964)
- 2008Gregory Bryant-Bey, American convicted murderer (b. 1955)
- 2009Daul Kim, South Korean fashion model (b. 1989)
- 2010Pat Burns, Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1952)
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