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 2017 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 42 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 6, 2017 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 419,736 hours 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 92 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 1,794 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 19 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1881 –A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
- 1942 –Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
- 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.
- 1985 –Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
- 2010 –The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand; 29 people are killed in the nation’s worst mining disaster since 1914.
Who were born on November 19?
- 1722 –Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (d. 1809)
- 1859 –Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (d. 1935)
- 1876 –Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian/Dutch mathematician (d. 1964)
- 1936 –Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1939 –Richard Zare, American chemist
- 1942 –Calvin Klein, American clothing designer
- 1944 –Dennis Hull, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1956 –Glynnis O'Connor, American actress
- 1963 –Terry Farrell, American actress
- 1983 –Daria Werbowy, Ukrainian-Canadian model
Who died on November 19?
- 1478 –Emperor Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia (b. 1448)
- 1630 –Johann Schein, German composer (b. 1586)
- 1672 –John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (b. 1614)
- 1785 –Bernard de Bury, French composer (b. 1720)
- 1883 –William Siemens, German engineer (b. 1823)
- 1897 –William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (b. 1810).
- 1959 –Joseph Charbonneau, archbishop of Montreal (b. 1892)
- 1976 –Sir Basil Spence, British architect (b. 1907)
- 1992 –Diane Varsi, American actress (b. 1938)
- 2004 –Helmut Griem, German actor (b. 1932)
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