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 324th day of the year 2016 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 42 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 6, 2016 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,479,513,600 seconds 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 ‘trihectaicosatetragon’ 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 70 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 1,429 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.
- 1847 –The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.
- 1912 –First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
- 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.
- 1943 –Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
- 1955 –National Review publishes its first issue.
- 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.
- 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 –Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.
- 1988 –Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
Who were born on November 19?
- 1805 –Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and Suez Canal engineer (d. 1894)
- 1900 –Anna Seghers, German writer (d. 1983)
- 1909 –Peter Drucker, American management theorist (d. 2005)
- 1922 –Salil Chowdhury, Indian music composer, poet, writer, dramatist and filmmaker (d. 1995)
- 1929 –Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian musician
- 1934 –Valentin Kozmich Ivanov, Soviet-Russian footballer (d. 2011)
- 1939 –Richard Zare, American chemist
- 1976 –Benny Vansteelant, Belgian duathlete (d. 2007)
- 1977 –Kerri Strug, American gymnast
- 1988 –Patrick Kane, American ice-hockey player
Who died on November 19?
- 1581 –Ivan Ivanovich, son of Ivan IV of Russia (b. 1554)
- 1672 –John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (b. 1614)
- 1823 –Alvin Smith, Brother of Joseph Smith, Jr. (b. 1798)
- 1931 –Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet (b. 1897)
- 1942 –Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (b. 1892)
- 1954 –Walter Bartley Wilson, English artist (b. 1870)
- 1989 –Grant Adcox, NASCAR Driver (b. 1950)
- 2003 –Ian Geoghegan, Australian racing driver (b. 1940)
- 2004 –John Robert Vane, British pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1927)
- 2005 –Erik Balling, Danish TV and film director (b. 1924)
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