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
- 1493 –Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
- 1885 –Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Kingdom of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
- 1942 –Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1946 –Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
- 1950 –US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe
- 1985 –Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
- 1990 –Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It’s True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
- 1998 –Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
Who were born on November 19?
- 1600 –Charles I of England (d. 1649)
- 1834 –Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (d. 1924)
- 1922 –Yuri Knorozov, Russian epigrapher (d. 1999)
- 1949 –Amand Theis, German footballer
- 1953 –Robert Beltran, American actor
- 1973 –Billy Currington, American singer and songwriter
- 1975 –Sushmita Sen, Indian beauty queen and actress
- 1976 –Benny Vansteelant, Belgian duathlete (d. 2007)
- 1976 –Jack Dorsey, Founder of Twitter
- 1984 –Dawid Kucharski, Polish football player
Who died on November 19?
- 1649 –Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (b. 1576)
- 1665 –Nicolas Poussin, French painter (b. 1594)
- 1798 –Wolfe Tone, Irish republican (b. 1763)
- 1822 –Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)
- 1850 –Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician (b. 1780)
- 1938 –Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (b. 1866)
- 1983 –Tom Evans, English bass guitarist (Badfinger) (b. 1947)
- 1998 –Ted Fujita, Japanese-born American meteorologist (b. 1920)
- 2004 –Helmut Griem, German actor (b. 1932)
- 2008 –Gregory Bryant-Bey, American convicted murderer (b. 1955)
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