November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 42 days remaining 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 - Tl 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 Pel 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 m) 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 (d. 1947)
1879 - Mait Metsanurk, Estonian writer (d. 1957)
1883 - Ned Sparks, Canadian actor (d. 1957)
1887 - James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
1888 - Jos Ral Capablanca, Cuban chess player (d. 1942)
1889 - Clifton Webb, American actor (d. 1966)
1892 - Huw T. Edwards, Welsh politician (d. 1970)
1893 - Ren Voisin, French trumpet player (d. 1952)
1894 - Amrico Toms, 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 Schdle, 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)
1926 - Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright (d. 2011)
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 - Michael Till, English priest (d. 2012)
1935 - Jack Welch, American businessman and author
1936 - Dick Cavett, American talk show host
1936 - Ray Collins, American singer (The Mothers of Invention) (d. 2012)
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 (, 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 - Abdul Fatah al-Sisi, Egyptian general and politician
1954 - Rjean Lemelin, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
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 - Terrence C. Carson, American actor and singer
1958 - Annette Gordon-Reed, American historian and law professor
1958 - Michael Wilbon, American sportscaster and columnist
1959 - Allison Janney, American actress
1960 - Miss Elizabeth, American professional 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 Pealosa, Filipino boxer
1963 - Terry Farrell, American actress
1963 - Zsuzsanna Jnosi, Hungarian fencer
1963 - Jon Potter, English field hockey player
1964 - Petr Neas, Czech politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
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 Skora, 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 - Vra Pospilov-Cechlov, 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)
1981 - Juan Martn Fernndez Lobbe, Argentinian Rugby Union player
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 Smiljani, Serbian footballer
1988 - Timo Eichfuss, Estonian basketball player
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 - Marquise Goodwin, American football player
1990 - Benedikt Schmid, German footballer
1993 - Suso[disambiguation needed], Spanish footballer
1993 - Kerim Frei, Austrian footballer
1994 - Ibrahima Mbaye, Senegalese footballer
1997 - McCaughey septuplets, American septuplets
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