Notable Historical Events on November 19th
November 19th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
461 |
St Hilary begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
615 |
Pope Deusdedit/Adeodatus I elected to succeed Boniface IV |
1302 |
Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree "Unam sanctam" |
1367 |
League of Cologne goes against Danish king Waldemar IV |
1493 |
Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage |
1521 |
Battle at Milan: Emperor Karel V's/pontifical/Spanish/German troops beat France & occupy Milan |
1523 |
Giulio de' Medici chosen as Pope Clemens VII |
1530 |
Augsburg] Emperor Karel I enables Edict of Worms |
1544 |
Pope Paul III opens council of Trente |
1620 |
Mayflower reaches Cape Cod & explores the coast |
1621 |
Rabbi Isaiah b Abraham aha-Levi Horowitz arrives in Israel |
1644 |
First protestant ministry society in New England |
1700 |
Battle at Narva: Swedish King Karel XII defeats Russians |
1794 |
Jakobin Club forms in Paris |
1794 |
Jay Treaty, first US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain |
1805 |
Lewis & Clark reach Pacific Ocean, first European Americans to cross continent |
1816 |
Warsaw University is established. |
1824 |
Storm causes St Petersburg flood, killing 10,000 |
1835 |
A ship carrying 500 armed Maori from Ngati Tama and Ngati Mutunga arrives on the Chatham Islands; those Moriori (indigenous people of the Chatham Islands) that are not killed are enslaved |
1837 |
Floridsdorf-Deutsch Wagram railway in Austria opens |
1850 |
Alfred Tennyson becomes British Poet Laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth |
1861 |
Julia Ward Howe committed "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to paper |
1861 |
The first petroleum shipment (1,329 barrels) from the U.S. to Europe leaves Philadelphia, USA, for London, England on the Elizabeth Watts |
1863 |
US President Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; "Four score & seven years ago..." |
1872 |
E.D. Barbour of Boston is awarded the first U.S. patent for the first 'calculator', an adding machine capable of printing totals and subtotals |
1873 |
William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment |
1879 |
Natl Association of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter |
1881 |
A meteorite lands near the village of Großliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine. |
1887 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dying Detective" (BG) |
1893 |
1st newspaper color supplement (NY World) |
1894 |
1st mushroom on a stamp (China 1 & 5 Ap) |
1894 |
Dutch troops occupy & plunders palace of Tjakra Negara, Lombok |
1895 |
Frederick E Blaisdell patents the pencil |
1896 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Sussex Vampire" (BG) |
1903 |
Carrie Nation attempts to address Senate |
1906 |
London selected to host 1908 Olympics |
1909 |
Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper denies corruption |
1910 |
Ferenc Molnàr's "Tester" premieres in Budapest |
1911 |
NY receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy |
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 & League of Nations |
1922 |
Demonstration for a French Language University in Ghent |
1923 |
Béla Bartòk's "Tancsuite" premieres |
1926 |
British mine strikes after 28 weeks ends |
1932 |
Joe Kershalla scores 71 points in a college football game |
1932 |
Shaft & Thyssen demand Hitler become German chancellor |
1933 |
Women allowed to vote in Spain (helps right wing) |
1939 |
Don Lash wins 6th straight AAU cross-country 10K championship |
1940 |
Belgian King Leopold III visits Adolf Hitler |
1940 |
German air raid on Birmingham fails |
1942 |
Joseph Goebbels visits "German Theatre in the Niederlanden" |
1942 |
Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along Don front |
1943 |
U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean |
1944 |
World War II: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort. |
1946 |
Bradman scores 119 South Australia v Victoria, 183 mins, 8 fours |
1947 |
200" mirror arrives at Mt Palomar |
1948 |
Belgian government of Spaak, forms |
1949 |
Prince Rainier III coronation as 30th ruling Prince of Monaco |
1950 |
US General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe |
1951 |
Roy Campanella named NL MVP on his 30th birthday |
1951 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1952 |
North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 KPH |
1952 |
Spain joins UNESCO |
1953 |
US Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business |
1953 |
US VP Richard Nixon visits Hanoi |
1955 |
KXMB TV channel 12 in Bismarck, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
National Review publishes its first issue. |
1957 |
Antonin Novotny appointed president of Czechoslovakia |
1958 |
First 2 F-27 Fokker's Friendships delivered on Aer Lingus |
1959 |
"Rocky & His Friends" debuts on ABC |
1959 |
Ford cancels Edsel |
1960 |
Mickey Vernon is hired as 1st manager of new Washington team |
1961 |
Houston George Blanda passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Titans (49-13) |
1962 |
Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet weapons |
1962 |
KOET (now KULC) TV channel 9 in Ogden, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1962 |
SN Behrman's "Lord Pengo" premieres in NYC |
1962 |
Todor Zjivkov becomes premier of Bulgaria |
1965 |
ABC radio begins weekly "Vietnam Update" report |
1965 |
Kellogg's Pop Tarts pastries created |
1966 |
Mad Dog Vachon beats Dick The Bruiser in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
1967 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies' Golf Invitational |
1967 |
The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong. |
1968 |
Military coup in Mali, president Modibo Keita flees |
1968 |
Yankees pitcher Stan Bahnsen wins AL Rookie of Year |
1969 |
Apollo 12's Conrad & Bean become 3rd & 4th humans on Moon |
1969 |
WENY TV channel 36 in Elmira, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1970 |
Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a Cal state historical landmark |
1970 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1971 |
Disney's Fort Wilderness opens |
1972 |
"Ambassador" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 9 performances |
1972 |
"Dear Oscar" closes at Playhouse Theater NYC after 5 performances |
1972 |
Gershwin Theater (Uris) opens at 1633 Broadway NYC |
1972 |
KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac, WI suspends broadcasting |
1972 |
Willy Brandts SPD wins West German election |
1972 |
Leader of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) Seán MacStiofáin is arrested in Dublin |
1973 |
Elections in Suriname, premier Sedney's PNP doesn't win a chair |
1975 |
Reds 2nd baseman Joe Morgan is named NL MVP |
1975 |
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher is released |
1976 |
George Harrison releases "This Song" |
1976 |
Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail |
1976 |
Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal. |
1977 |
-21] Egyptian president Sadat visits Israel |
1977 |
Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 3rd penalty shot against Islanders |
1977 |
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel |
1977 |
Libya drops diplomatic relations with Egypt |
1978 |
Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for 2nd time |
1978 |
"The Miracle at the Meadowlands", Eagles Herman Edwards returns a fumble for a touchdown with 31 seconds left to give Philadelphia a 19-17 victory over the rival New York Giants |
1979 |
Astros sign Nolan Ryan, to record 4 year, $4.5 million contract |
1979 |
Chuck Berry released from prison on income tax evasion |
1980 |
CBS TV bans Calvin Klein's jean ad featuring Brooke Shields |
1983 |
Edmonton Oilers beat NJ Devils, 13-4, Wayne Gretzky calls the Devils "a Mickey Mouse organization" |
1983 |
Jari Kurri becomes the first (and only) Finnish player to score five goals in a game |
1984 |
Liquid gas tank in Mexico City explodes; 334 die |
1984 |
NY Met Dwight Gooden, 20, is youngest to be named NL Rookie of Year |
1985 |
Herb Gardner's "I'm Not Rappaport" premieres in NYC |
1985 |
US President Reagan & Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for first time |
1986 |
Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt wins NL MVP |
1986 |
Tina Howe's "Coastal Disturbances" premieres in NYC |
1987 |
France performs nuclear test |
1989 |
US beats Trinidad, 1-0 qualifing for 1990 world soccer cup finals it was US' 1st qualification since 1950 |
1990 |
Greyhound files reoganization plan so they can be traded publically |
1990 |
Pittsburgh's Barry Bonds wins NL MVP |
1991 |
Balt Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken wins his 2nd AL MVP |
1992 |
"3 From Brooklyn" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 45 performances |
1993 |
Algerian Moslem fundamentalists uprising, 27 killed |
1993 |
Curacaose vote to remain part of Dutch Antilles |
1994 |
Aishwarya Rai, 21, of India, crowned 44th Miss World |
1994 |
Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson |
1995 |
"Beatle Anthology" premieres on ABC-TV |
1995 |
"Sacrilege" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 21 performances |
1995 |
"School for Scandal" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 23 performances |
1995 |
83rd CFL Grey Cup: Balt Stallions defeats Calgary Stampeders, 37-20 |
1995 |
CNET lauches www.shareware.com |
1995 |
Keelin Curnuck, 23, Ms Venus Swimwear 1994, crowned Miss NY USA |
1995 |
Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, kills 16 |
1996 |
"God Said, Ha!," opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 22 performances |
1996 |
"Sex & Longing" closes at Cort Theater NYC |
1996 |
Albert Belle, signs record five-year, $55 million with White Sox |
1996 |
Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), launches into space |
1996 |
The case of the Port Arthur massacre comes to trial. |
1996 |
Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire. |
1996 |
The 12.9 km Confederation Bridge, joining Borden-Carleton, Prince Edward Island and Cape Jourimain, New-Brunswick is completed and becomes the longest bridge over ice covered waters in the world |
1997 |
"Eugene Onegin" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC |
1997 |
"Old Neighborhood" opens at Booth Theater NYC |
1997 |
STS 87 (Columbia 24) launches into orbit |
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 2007. |
1998 |
Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for $71.5 million USD. |
1998 |
Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton. |
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. |
2006 |
94th CFL Grey Cup: BC Lions defeats Montreal Alouettes, 25-14 |
2013 |
23 people are killed by a suicide bombing attack on the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon |
2015 |
Beijing vows justice as ISIS kills Chinese, Norwegian hostages |
2015 |
ISIS video threatens New York City |
2015 |
Beijing vows justice as ISIS kills Chinese, Norwegian hostages |
2015 |
Richie McCaw: All Blacks great retires after record 148 caps |
2016 |
Ex-General and Critic of Islam to Help Guide Trump in White House |
2016 |
Donald Trump Agrees to Pay $25 Million in Trump University Settlement |
2016 |
WHO declares end of Zika emergency but says virus remains a threat |
2016 |
Soul singer Sharon Jones, the 'female James Brown,' dead at 60 |
2016 |
Volkswagen will axe 30000 jobs. |
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