What happened this day in history November 19

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 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 42 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 6, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,731,974,400 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.

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 71 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 4,351 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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November 19 Historical Events

  • 1095
    The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.
  • 1863
    American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the military cemetery ceremony at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
  • 1912
    First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
  • 1954
    Télé Monte Carlo, Europe’s oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
  • 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.
  • 1969
    Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
  • 1977
    TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 130.
  • 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
    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.
  • 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.

Who were born on November 19?

  • 1893
    René Voisin, French classical trumpet player (d. 1952)
  • 1895
    Evert van Linge, Dutch footballer and architect (d. 1964)
  • 1898
    Klement Jug, Slovenian philosopher and mountaineer (d. 1924)
  • 1905
    Tommy Dorsey, American bandleader (d. 1956)
  • 1936
    Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1956
    Ann Curry, American journalist and television anchor
  • 1971
    Justin Chancellor, Bassist for the band Tool
  • 1973
    Ryukishi07, Japanese mystery writer
  • 1976
    Petr Sýkora, Czech ice hockey player
  • 1997
    McCaughey septuplets, world’s first surviving set of septuplets

Who died on November 19?

  • 1492
    Jami, Persian poet (b. 1414)
  • 1822
    Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)
  • 1990
    Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (b. 1900)
  • 1998
    Alan J. Pakula, American film director (b. 1928)
  • 1998
    Ted Fujita, Japanese-born American meteorologist (b. 1920)
  • 2004
    George Canseco, Filipino composer (b. 1934)
  • 2004
    Helmut Griem, German actor (b. 1932)
  • 2005
    Erik Balling, Danish TV and film director (b. 1924)
  • 2007
    Dick Wilson, American actor (b. 1916)
  • 2010
    Pat Burns, Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1952)

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