What happened this day in history November 19

What are the important events that happened on November 19? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

November 19: Facts & Myths About This Day

November 19 is the 323rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 42 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 6, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,391,840 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectaicosatrigon’ day.

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Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 90 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,716 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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November 19 Historical Events

  • 1493
    Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
  • 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.
  • 1816
    Warsaw University is established.
  • 1885
    Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Kingdom of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
  • 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.
  • 1947
    George VI of the United Kingdom creates Philip Mountbatten the Duke of Edinburgh in preparation for his wedding to George’s elder daughter, Princess Elizabeth, the next day.
  • 1967
    The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Who were born on November 19?

  • 1883
    Ned Sparks, Canadian actor (d. 1957)
  • 1900
    Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian scientist (d. 1980)
  • 1915
    Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
  • 1919
    Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (d. 2006)
  • 1955
    Sam Hamm, American screenwriter
  • 1956
    Eileen Collins, American astronaut
  • 1957
    Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (d. 2000)
  • 1966
    Jason Scott Lee, American actor
  • 1976
    Jack Dorsey, Founder of Twitter
  • 1981
    Marcus Banks, American basketball player

Who died on November 19?

  • 1577
    Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
  • 1630
    Johann Schein, German composer (b. 1586)
  • 1692
    Thomas Shadwell, English poet and playwright
  • 1772
    William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1711)
  • 1897
    William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (b. 1810).
  • 1915
    Joe Hill, American labor activist (b. 1879)
  • 1989
    Grant Adcox, NASCAR Driver (b. 1950)
  • 1990
    Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (b. 1900)
  • 2001
    Marcelle Ferron, Quebec painter and stained glass artist (b. 1924)
  • 2004
    Terry Melcher, American record producer; son of Doris Day (b. 1942)

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