19th
November, on this day
461 St
Hilary begins his reign as Catholic Pope
496 St
Gelasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
498 Anastasius
II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1095 The Council
of Clermont, called by Pope
Urban II to discuss sending the First
Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.
1493 Christopher
Columbus, on his 2nd voyage, goes ashore on an island he first
saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto
Rico).
1620 Pilgrim Fathers' ship, The Mayflower
arrives off Cape Cod , Massachusetts
1644 1st Protestant ministry society in New England
1794 Jay
Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain
1850 Alfred
Tennyson is appointed Poet
Laureate
1863 US President Abraham Lincoln delivers his famous Gettysburg
address declaring Government of the people, by the people, for
the people, shall not perish the earth
1874 William
Marcy "Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted
of defrauding the city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment
1889 Table
tennis is invented by engineer James Gibb and his family when
hitting champagne corks across the table with the lids of cigar boxes
1903 Carrie
Nation attempts to address the Senate
1906 London selected to host 1908 Olympics
1916 Samuel
Goldwyn and Edgar
Selwyn establish Goldwyn
Pictures (the company later became one of the most successful
independent filmmakers).
1919 US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty
of Versailles and League of Nations
1946 Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
1947 In Britain, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, Prince Phillip is created
Duke
of Edinburgh
1947 200" mirror arrives at Mt Palomar
1949 Prince
Rainier III coronation in Monaco
1950 US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of
NATO-Europe
1955 National
Review publishes its first issue.
1959 Ford cancels the Edsel
1960 The world's first jet-enginned vertical take off and landing
aircraft (VTOL), made by the British
Hawker Siddeley Company, is flown for the first time
1968 Army coup seizes power in Mali
1969 Brazilian footballer Pele
scores 1000th goal in his 909th professional football match
1969 Apollo
12's Conrad and Bean become 3rd and 4th humans on the Moon
1969 American soldiers go on trial charged with murdering more than
50 Vietnamese in the village of Mi
Lai
1969 Mohawk
Airlines Flight 411, a scheduled domestic passenger service between
Albany and Glens Falls, New York crashed into Pilot Knob Mountain,
killing all 14 passengers and crew on board
1971 Fort
Wilderness opens
1977 Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel,
when he meets with Israeli prime minister Menachem
Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent
peace settlement
1977 TAP
Portugal Flight 425 Boeing 727 crashes in Madeira islands killing
130.
1979 Iranian leader Ayatollah
Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American
hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran
1979 Chuck
Berry released from prison on income tax evasion
1980 CBS TV bans Calvin
Klein's jeans ad featuring Brooke Shields
1984 More than 500 people are killed and 10,000 homes are destroyed
in an explosion at a PEMEX
chemicals factory in Mexico City
1985 Pennzoil
wins a $10.53 billion USD verdict 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 President
Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev meet for 1st time
1987 A 1931 Bugatti Royale car is sold at auction for £5.5million
1988 Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav
president Slobodan
Milosevic publicly declared that Serbia was under attack from
Albanian separatism in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within
Yugoslavia and foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
1988 LA Law's Corbin
Bernsen marries actress Amanda Pays
1989 US beats Trinidad, 1-0 qualifying for the 1990 world soccer cup
finals. It was US' 1st qualification since 1950
1990 Nato and Warsaw Pact members officially end the 'Cold
War' by signing a weapons limitation treaty in Paris
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.
1990 Greyhound
files reorganization plan so they can be traded publicly
1990 Iraq announces it will free all German hostages
1994 First National
Lottery draw in England
1995 16 people are killed in a bomb attack on the Egyptian Embassy
in Islamabad, Pakistan
1997 Police confiscate indecent videos and pictures of children in
a series of raids on the homes and offices of British pop star Gary
Glitter
1997 In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi
McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where
all seven babies were born alive. They would go on to become the first
set of septuplets to survive infancy, with all seven alive in 2008.
1998 Lewinsky
scandal : The United States House of Representatives Judiciary
Committee begins impeachment hearings against US 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.
1999 In Istanbul, the Organization
for Security and Cooperation in Europe ends a two-day summit by
calling for a political settlement in Chechnya and adopting a Charter
for European Security.
2005 US
Marines allegedly commit a massacre on 24 citizens in the town
of Haditha in Iraq.
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Birthdates which
occurred on November 19th:
1600 Charles I
king of England (1625-49); executed by Parliament
1752 George Rogers Clark frontier military leader in Revolutionary
War
1770 Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen Copenhagen Denmark, sculptor (Dying
Lion)
1805 Ferdinand de Lesseps France, diplomat (built Suez Canal)
1831 James A Garfield 20th President (March 4-Sept 19, 1881)
1859 Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov Russia, musician (Armenian Rhapsody)
1888 Jose Raul Capablanca Cuba, world chess champion (1921-27)
1899 Allen Tate US, poet (Mr Pope & Other Poems)
1899 Howard Thurman famous African
19-- Matt Sorum rock drummer (Guns 'n' Roses-Sweet Child of Mine)
1904 Nancy Carroll NYC, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family)
1905 Tommy Dorsey Mahanoy Plane PA, orchestra leader (Stage Show,
Mahogany)
1917 Indira Gandhi Allahabad India, Indian PM (1966-77, 1980-84)
1919 Alan Young England, actor (Time Machine, Wilbur Post-Mr Ed)
1919 George Fenneman Peking China, TV announcer (You Bet Your Life)
1921 Roy Campanella Brooklyn Dodger catcher (NL MVP 1951/53/55)
1926 Jeane J Kirkpatrick US ambassador to UN (R)
1933 Larry King radio talk show host "143 Arivadechi" (Larry
King Show)
1935 John F Welch Jr Salem MA, CEO (GE)
1936 Dick Cavett Kearney NB, talk show host (Dick Cavett Show)
1938 Ted Turner broadcasting mogul/owns (Atlanta Braves)/won America's
Cup
1939 Garrick Utley Chicago IL, newscaster (1st Tuesday, NBC Weekend)
1941 Dan Haggerty Hollywood CA, actor (Grizzly Adams)
1942 Calvin Klein fashion designer (Calvin Klein Jeans)
1947 Bob Boone San Diego, catcher (Phillies, Angels)
1949 Ahmad Rashad (Bobby Moore) NFL receiver (Minnesota Vikings)/sportscaster
1949 Mickey Lee Davis Jr Tennessee, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1954 Kathleen Quinlan Mill Valley Cal, actress (Rose Garden, Twilight
Zone)
1956 Glynis O'Connor NYC, actress (California Dreaming, Ode to Billy
Joe)
1956 Scott Jacoby Chicago IL, actor (Bad Ronald, Return to Horror
High)
1957 Kathy Sanborn WBL guard (NY Stars)
1957 Otis J Anderson NFL running back (NY Giants, 1990 Superbowl MVP)
1957 Sharon Farrah WBL guard (NY Stars)
1960 "Lovely" Elizabeth Frankfurt KY, WWF's 1st lady of
wrestling
1961 Meg Ryan Bethel CT, actress (When Harry Met Sally, As the World
Turns)
1962 Jodie Foster Bronx NYC, actress (Taxi Driver, Accused)
1963 Justine Greiner Boston MA, playmate (February, 1984)
1963 Terry Farrell Cedar Rapids Iowa, actress (Laurie-Paper Dolls)
1969 Sarka Lukesov 1st playmate in Czechoslovkian Playboy (May, 1991)
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Deaths which occurred
on November 19th:
1828 Franz Schubert Austrian composer, died
1887 Emma Lazarus US poet ("Give us your tired & poor"),
dies in NY at 38
1915 Joe Hill Labor leader, executed for murder
1971 Bill Stern sportscaster (Saturday Night Fights), dies at 64
1983 Peter Coffield Illinois, actor (Kevin-W.E.B.), dies at 37
1985 Stepin Fetchit 1st black star, dies of pneumonia at 83
1988 Christine Onassis heiress, dies of heart failure at 37
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