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. 636 – The Rashidun Caliphate defeated the Sassanian Empire at the Battle of Qadisiya in Iraq. 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 Jays 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 USSRs 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, Europes 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 Its 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 Goghs Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million. 1999 – Shenzhou 1: The Peoples 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 nations 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) 1786 – Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (d. 1826) 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 – 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) 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 (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 – Abdul Fatah al-Sisi, Egyptian general and politician 1954 – Réjean 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 OConnor, 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, Slashs 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 1964 – Petr Nečas, 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 – Justin Chancellor, English bass player (Tool and Peach) 1971 – Jeremy McGrath, American motorcycle racer 1971 – Naoko Mori, Japanese-English actress and singer 1971 – Alice Peacock, American 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) 1981 – Juan Martín Fernández 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 Smiljanić, 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, Spanish footballer 1993 – Kerim Frei, Austrian footballer 1994 – Ibrahima Mbaye, Senegalese 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) 1955 – Marquis James, American journalist and author (b. 1891) 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) 1974 – Louise Fitzhugh, American childrens author (b. 1928) 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) 1988 – Peggy Parish, American childrens author (b. 1927) 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 – Trina Schart Hyman, American childrens book illustrator (b. 1939) 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) 2011 – Ruth Stone, American poet and author (b. 1915) 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 Elizabeth of Hungary (Episcopal Church (USA), Lutheran Church Missouri Synod) Hilda of Whitby (Church of England) November 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Day of Missile Forces and Artillery (Russia, Belarus) Discovery of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico) Flag Day (Brazil) Garifuna Settlement Day (Belize) International Mens Day (Australia, Canada, Ghana, Hungary, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Malta, Singapore, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States) Liberation Day (Mali) Monaco National Day (Monaco) World Toilet Day (World Toilet Organization) External links: Wikimedia Commons has media related to November 19. 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