November 19

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

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 joins the United Nations
• 1969 - Apollo XII lands on the Moon.
• 2002 - The US Senate passes the Homeland Security Bill[?], 90-9

Births:

• 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

Deaths:

• 498 - Pope Anastasius II
• 1665 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter
• 1828 - Franz Schubert, Austrian composer
• 1850 - Richard Johnson, American politician
• 1924 - Thomas Ince[?], film director
• 1985 - Stepin Fetchit, actor, dancer

Holidays and Observances:

• 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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See Also:

November 18 - November 20 - October 19 - December 19 -- listing of all days

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December