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What Happened on November 19th This Day in History

Year	Name
2022	A gunman kills five and injures 17 at Club Q, a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
2013	A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures 160 others.
2010	The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand. Twenty-nine people are killed in the nation's worst mining disaster since 1914.
2004	The worst brawl in NBA history results in several players being suspended. Several players and fans are charged with assault and battery.
2002	The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 76,000 m3 (20 million US gal) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.
1999	Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
1999	John Carpenter becomes the first person to win the top prize in the TV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
1998	Clinton–Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1996	A Beechcraft 1900 and a Beechcraft King Air collide at Quincy Regional Airport in Quincy, Illinois, killing 14.
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.
1988	Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević 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.
1985	Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary 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.
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.
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.
1977	TAP Air Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 131.
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.
1967	The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
1955	National Review publishes its first issue.
1954	Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
1952	Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
1950	US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.
1946	Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
1944	World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the sixth 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.
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.
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.
1942	Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda, prior to the restoration of the kingdom in 1993.
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.
1916	Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
1912	First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
1911	The Doom Bar in Cornwall claims two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
1885	Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
1881	A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
1863	American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
1847	The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railroad, is opened.
1816	Warsaw University is established.
1808	Finnish War: The Convention of Olkijoki in Raahe ends hostilities in Finland.[3]
1802	The Garinagu arrive at British Honduras (present-day Belize).
1794	The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.
1493	Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island called Borinquen he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed again Puerto Rico).
636	The Rashidun Caliphate defeats the Sasanian Empire at the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah in Iraq.
461	Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The real power is in the hands of the magister militum Ricimer.

Famous People Born on November 19

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Year	Name
1936	Ray Collins, American singer (d. 2012)
1828	Rani Lakshmibai, Indian queen (d. 1858)
1876	Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician and theorist (d. 1964)
1963	Jon Potter, English-American field hockey player
1922	Rajko Mitić, Serbian footballer and coach (d. 2008)
1934	Valentin Ivanov, Russian footballer and manager (d. 2011)
1939	Richard Zare, American chemist and academic
1976	Jack Dorsey, American businessman, co-founded Twitter
1906	Franz Schädle, German SS officer (d. 1945)
1894	Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (d. 1987)

Famous People Deaths On November 19

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on November 19. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1910	Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, German chemist (b. 1835)
1983	Tom Evans, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
2013	Babe Birrer, American baseball player (b. 1928)
1772	William Nelson, American politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1711)
1883	Carl Wilhelm Siemens, German-English engineer (b. 1823)
1350	Raoul II of Brienne, Count of Eu
1998	Ted Fujita, Japanese-American meteorologist and academic (b. 1920)
1630	Johann Hermann Schein, German singer and composer (b. 1586)
1918	Joseph F. Smith, American religious leader, 6th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1838)
1665	Nicolas Poussin, French-Italian painter (b. 1594)