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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