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 323^rd 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.

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.

November 19 Historical Events

• 1916 –
  Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
• 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: 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1977 –
  TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 130.
• 1985 –
  Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
• 1985 –
  Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.
• 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 –
  Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million.

Who were born on November 19?

• 1600 –
  Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (d. 1669)
• 1834 –
  Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (d. 1924)
• 1843 –
  Richard Avenarius, German philosopher (d. 1896)
• 1876 –
  Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian/Dutch mathematician (d. 1964)
• 1904 –
  Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr., American murderer (d. 1971)
• 1925 –
  Zygmunt Bauman, Polish sociologist
• 1945 –
  Bobby Tolan, American baseball player
• 1949 –
  Nigel Bennett, English actor
• 1956 –
  Ann Curry, American journalist and television anchor
• 1973 –
  Ryukishi07, Japanese mystery writer

Who died on November 19?

• 1649 –
  Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (b. 1576)
• 1772 –
  William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1711)
• 1823 –
  Alvin Smith, Brother of Joseph Smith, Jr. (b. 1798)
• 1897 –
  William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (b. 1810).
• 1938 –
  Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (b. 1866)
• 1954 –
  Walter Bartley Wilson, English artist (b. 1870)
• 1975 –
  Roger D. Branigin, American politician (b. 1902)
• 1985 –
  Stepin Fetchit, American actor and dancer (b. 1907)
• 2004 –
  George Canseco, Filipino composer (b. 1934)
• 2010 –
  Pat Burns, Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1952)