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 - JosŽ Raśl 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