November 19
is the 323rd day of the year (324th in
leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar. There are 42 days remaining.
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461 -
St. Hilarius becomes
Pope.
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1493 -
Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it
San Juan Bautista (later renamed
Puerto Rico).
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1794 - The
United States and the
Kingdom of Great Britain sign
Jay's Treaty, which attempts to clear up some of the lingering problems left over from the
American Revolutionary War.
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1816 -
Warsaw University is established.
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1847 - The second Canadian railway line, the
Montreal and
Lachine Railway, is opened.
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1850 -
Alfred Lord Tennyson becomes
Poet Laureate, a position he held until his death in
1892.
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1863 -
American Civil War:
Union President
Abraham Lincoln delivers the
Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
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1881 - A
meteorite lands near the village of Großliebenthal, southwest of
Odessa,
Ukraine.
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1916 - Samuel Goldfish (later renamed
Samuel Goldwyn) and
Edgar Selwyn establish
Goldwyn Company (the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers.)
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1924 - In
Los Angeles, California, famous
silent film director
Thomas Ince ("The Father of the
Western") dies of a
heart attack in his bed (rumors soon surface that he was shot dead by publishing tycoon
William Randolph Hearst.)
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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.
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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.
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1944 - World War II: US 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.
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1946 -
Afghanistan,
Iceland and
Sweden join the
United Nations.
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1954 -
Sammy Davis, Jr., loses his left eye in an automobile accident in
San Bernardino, California.
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1959 -
Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular
Edsel.
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1961 -
Michael Rockefeller, son of
New York governor
Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles near
Atsj,
Papua New Guinea.
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1967 - The Establishment of
TVB, the first wireless commercial
television station in
Hong Kong.
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1969 -
Apollo program:
Apollo 12 astronauts
Charles Conrad and
Alan Bean land at
Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth
humans to walk on the
Moon.
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1973 -
American football player
Lance Rentzel is arrested for exposing himself to a 10-year-old girl; he is later sentenced to five years' probation.
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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 -
Transportes Aereos Portugueses Boeing 727 crashes in
Madeira islands killing 130
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1978 -
Jim Jones leads members of his
Peoples Temple cult in mass murder-suicide. The bodies of 914 people, including 276 children, were found in
Jonestown,
Guyana in
South America.
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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.
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1984 - A series of explosions at the
PEMEX petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in
Mexico City ignites a major fire and kills about 500 people.
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1985 -
Cold War: In
Geneva, US President
Ronald Reagan and
Soviet Union leader
Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
* 1985 -
Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion verdict against
Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in U.S. history, stemming from Texaco's establishing a signed contract to buy
Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
* 1987 - Prince Edward III rescues 47 Africans from their abusive village in
Congo, and presents them to his kingdom as free workers for the villages.
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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.
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1994 - In Britain, the first
National Lottery draw was held. A £1 ticket gives a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
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1996 - Lt. Gen.
Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead the
multi national force in
Zaire.
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1997 - In
Des Moines, Iowa,
Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to
septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies were born alive.
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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.
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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.
* 1999 -
John Carpenter became the first contestant to win $1,000,000 U.S.D. on
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.
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2004 -
A brawl breaks out between
Detroit Pistons and
Indiana Pacers players during their game at
The Palace of Auburn Hills; the brawl turns into an even larger fight between Pacers players and Pistons fans.
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2005 -
US Marines allegedly commit a
massacre on 24 citizens in the town of
Haditha in
Iraq.
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1464 -
Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d.
1526)
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1563 -
Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (d.
1626)
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1600 - King
Charles I of England (d.
1649)
* 1600 -
Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (d.
1669)
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1617 -
Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (d.
1655)
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1700 -
Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (d.
1770)
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1711 -
Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian writer and polymath (d.
1765)
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1722 -
Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (d.
1809)
* 1722 -
Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (d.
1810)
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1752 -
George Rogers Clark, American military leader (d.
1818)
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1805 -
Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and Suez Canal engineer (d.
1894)
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1831 -
James A. Garfield, 20th
President of the United States (d.
1881)
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1833 -
Wilhelm Dilthey, German philosopher (d.
1911)
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1835 -
Rani Lakshmi Bai, Indian Queen (d.
1858)
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1843 -
Richard Avenarius, German philosopher (d.
1896)
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1859 -
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (d.
1935)
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1862 -
Billy Sunday, American evangelist (d.
1935)
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1875 -
Mikhail I. Kalinin, President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (d.
1946)
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1883 -
Ned Sparks, Canadian actor (d.
1957)
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1887 -
James B. Sumner, American chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1955)
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1888 -
José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (d.
1942)
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1889 -
Clifton Webb, American actor (d.
1966)
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1893 -
René Voisin, French classical trumpet player (d.
1952)
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1895 -
Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (d.
1989)
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1896 -
Georgy Zhukov, Russian general (d.
1974)
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1897 -
Quentin Roosevelt, son of
United States President Theodore Roosevelt (d.
1918)
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1898 -
Arthur R. von Hippel, German-born physicist (d.
2003)
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1899 -
Allen Tate, American poet and critic (d.
1979)
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1900 -
Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian scientist (d.
1980)
* 1900 -
Anna Seghers, German writer (d.
1983)
* 1900 -
Bunny Ahearne, Irish ice hockey promoter (d.
1985)
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1905 -
Tommy Dorsey, American bandleader (d.
1956)
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1907 -
Jack Schaefer, American author (d.
1991)
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1909 -
Peter Drucker, American management theorist (d.
2005)
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1912 -
George Emil Palade, Romanian cell biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine*
1915 -
Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1974)
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1917 -
Indira Gandhi,
Prime Minister of India (d.
1984)
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1919 -
Alan Young, British-born American actor (
Mister Ed)
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1920 -
Gene Tierney, American actress (d.
1991)
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1921 -
Roy Campanella, baseball player (d.
1993)
* 1921 -
Peter Ruckman, American Baptist minister
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1922 -
Yuri Knorosov, Russian epigrapher (d.
1999)
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1924 -
William Russell, British actor
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1926 -
Jeane Kirkpatrick, U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations
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1929 -
Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian musician
* 1929 -
Norman Cantor, Canadian medieval scholar (d.
2004)
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1933 -
Larry King, American television interviewer
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1935 -
Bob Gibson, baseball player
* 1935 -
Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian imam (d.
1990)
* 1935 -
Jack Welch, American businessman
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1936 -
Dick Cavett, American talk show host
* 1936 -
Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-born chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
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1938 -
Ted Turner, American businessman
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1939 -
Tom Harkin, U.S. Senator
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1941 -
Dan Haggerty, American actor
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1942 -
Calvin Klein, American clothing designer
* 1942 -
Sharon Olds, American poet
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1943 -
Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban-born
Major League Baseball player (d.
1990)
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1947 -
Bob Boone, baseball player and manager
* 1947 -
Lamar S. Smith, American politician
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1949 -
Ahmad Rashad, American football player and sportscaster
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1951 -
Zeenat Aman, Miss Asia Pacific in 1970 & Famous Muslim Indian Actress
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1951 -
Lord Falconer of Thoroton, British lawyer and politician
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1953 -
Robert Beltran, American actor
* 1953 -
Tom Villard, American actor (d.
1994)
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1955 -
Ludwig Trossaert, Gallery owner - Belgian Modern & Contemporary Art
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1956 -
Ann Curry, American journalist
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1957 -
Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (d.
2000)
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1958 -
Michael Wilbon, Sports Analyst
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1959 -
Allison Janney, American actress
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1960 -
Elizabeth Hulette, American professional wrestler (d.
2003)
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1961 -
Meg Ryan, American actress
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1962 -
Jodie Foster, American actress
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1963 -
Terry Farrell, American actress
* 1963 -
Jon Potter, British field hockey player
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1965 -
Laurent Blanc, French footballer
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1966 -
Gail Devers, American athlete
* 1966 -
Rocco DiSpirito, American chef
* 1966 -
Jason Scott Lee, American actor
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1969 -
Terrence Carson, American actor
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1970 -
Justin Chancellor, English bassist (
Tool)
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1972 -
Sandrine Holt, Canadian actress
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1973 -
Savion Glover, American choreographer, actor, and dancer
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1975 -
Sushmita Sen, Indian beauty queen and actress
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1976 -
Jun Shibata, Japanese singer and songwriter
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1978 -
Věra Pospíšilová-Cechlová, Czech athlete
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1979 -
Ryan Howard, American baseball player
* 1979 -
Larry Johnson, American football player
* 1979 -
Leam Richardson, English footballer
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1985 -
Chris Eagles, British footballer
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498 -
Pope Anastasius II*
1478 - Emperor
Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia (b.
1448)
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1492 -
Jami, Persian poet (b.
1414)
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1557 -
Bona Sforza, Queen of
Sigismund I of Poland (b.
1494)
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1577 -
Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (b.
1510)
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1630 -
Johann Schein, German composer (b.
1586)
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1649 -
Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (b.
1576)
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1665 -
Nicolas Poussin, French painter (b.
1594)
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1672 -
John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (b.
1614)
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1682 -
Prince Rupert of the Rhine, Royalist commander in the English Civil War (b.
1619)
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1692 -
Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright
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1723 -
Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and soldier (b.
1632)
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1772 -
William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia (b.
1711)
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1773 -
James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster, Irish politician (b.
1722)
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1785 -
Bernard de Bury, French composer (b.
1720)
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1798 -
Wolfe Tone, Irish republican (b.
1763)
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1804 -
Pietro Guglielmi, Italian composer (b.
1728)
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1810 -
Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer and ballet master (b.
1725)
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1822 -
Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b.
1763)
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1828 -
Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (b.
1797)
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1850 -
Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician (b.
1780)
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1868 -
Ivane Andronikashvili, Georgian general (b.
1798)
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1883 -
William Siemens, German engineer (b. 1823)
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1887 -
Emma Lazarus, American poet (b.
1859)
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1897 -
William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (b.
1810).
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1915 -
Joe Hill, American labor activist (executed) (b.
1879)
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1924 -
Thomas Ince, American film director (b.
1882)
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1938 -
Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (b.
1866)
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1942 -
Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (shot) (b.
1892)
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1960 -
Phyllis Haver, American actress (b.
1899)
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1967 -
Charles J. Watters, US Army chaplain, Medal of Honor recipient (b.
1927)
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1974 -
George Brunies, American musician (b.
1902)
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1975 -
Roger D. Branigin, American politician (b.
1902)
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1976 - Sir
Basil Spence, British architect (b.
1907)
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1985 -
Stepin Fetchit, American actor and dancer (b.
1907)
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1988 -
Christina Onassis, daughter of billionaire
Aristotle Onassis (b.
1950)
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1998 -
Alan J. Pakula, American film director (b.
1928)
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2004 -
Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor (b.
1914)
* 2004 -
John Robert Vane, British pharmacologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1927)
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2005 -
Erik Balling,
Danish TV and
film director (b.
1924)
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November 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)*
Brazil -
Flag Day*
Mali -
Liberation Day*
Oman - Birthday of Sultan
Qaboos bin Said*
Puerto Rico -
Discovery of Puerto Rico (1493)
*
United States -
Equal Opportunity Day *
United Arab Emirates -
Pilgrimage*
Trinidad and Tobago -
International Men's Day*
World Toilet Day*
BBC: On This Day*
The New York Times: On This DayNovember 18 -
November 20 -
October 19 -
December 19 --
listing of all days
