November 19

November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 42 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and Observances 5 See Also

Events

• 461 - St. Hilarius becomes Pope
• 1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico
• 1794 - United States and Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty.
• 1863 - Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address.
• 1941 - Australian war cruiser HMAS Sydney sunk off Western Australia. 645 lives lost.
• 1942 - Soviet Union counterattacks at Stalingrad
• 1946 - Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations
• 1969 - Apollo XII lands on the Moon.
• 1993 - Sonic CD is released for the Sega CD in North America.
• 2002 - The US Senate passes the Homeland Security Bill, 90-9

• 1600 - King Charles I of England († 1649)
• 1711 - Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian writer and polymath († 1765)
• 1831 - James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States
• 1833 - Wilhelm Dilthey, philosopher († 1911)
• 1865 - Otto Eckmann, painter, interior designer († 1902)
• 1875 - Mikhail I. Kalinin, Russian metal worker and head of state († 1946)
• 1884 - José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player († 1942).
• 1899 - Allen Tate, poet and critic († 1979)
• 1900 - Anna Seghers, writer († 1983)
• 1900 - Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian scientist
• 1905 - Tommy Dorsey, bandleader († 1956)
• 1907 - Jack Schaefer, author († 1991)
• 1908 - Luke Short, actor († 1975)
• 1917 - Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India († 1984)
• 1920 - Gene Tierney, actress († 1991)
• 1921 - Roy Campanella, American baseball player († 1993)
• 1925 - Richard Burton, British actor
• 1926 - Jeane Kirkpatrick, former United States ambassador to the United Nations
• 1929 - Slavko Avsenik, Slovene musician
• 1933 - Larry King, television interviewer
• 1935 - Bob Gibson, Baseball Hall of Famer
• 1936 - Dick Cavett, talk show host
• 1938 - Ted Turner, American businessman
• 1941 - Dan Haggerty, actor
• 1942 - Calvin Klein, clothing designer
• 1951 - Lord Falconer, British lawyer and politician
• 1960 - Allison Janney, actress
• 1961 - Meg Ryan, American actress
• 1962 - Jodie Foster, American actress
• 1966 - Gail Devers, American athlete
• 1966 - Jason Scott Lee, actor
• 1973 - Savion Glover, choreographer, actor, dancer

• 498 - Pope Anastasius II
• 1665 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter
• 1828 - Franz Schubert, Austrian composer
• 1850 - Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician
• 1924 - Thomas Ince, film director
• 1985 - Stepin Fetchit, actor, dancer
• 2002 - Otto Maychrzak, handball player

• Mali - Liberation Day
• Monaco - Monegasque National Day
• Oman - Birthday of Sultan Qaboos bin Said
• Puerto Rico - Discovery Day (1493)
• United States - Equal Opportunity Day
• United States - National Children's Book Week Begins
• United Arab Emirates - Pilgrimage

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