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 2023 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, 2023 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,339,200 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 83 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 3,985 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.
- 1493 –Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
- 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.
- 1916 –Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
- 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.
- 1954 –Télé Monte Carlo, Europe’s oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
- 1955 –National Review publishes its first issue.
- 1977 –TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 130.
- 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?
- 1752 –George Rogers Clark, American military leader (d. 1818)
- 1925 –Zygmunt Bauman, Polish sociologist
- 1929 –Norman Cantor, Canadian medieval scholar (d. 2004)
- 1941 –Dan Haggerty, American actor
- 1959 –Allison Janney, American actress
- 1976 –Jack Dorsey, Founder of Twitter
- 1976 –Stylianos Venetidis, Greek football player
- 1979 –Leam Richardson, English football player
- 1979 –Ryan Howard, American baseball player
- 1985 –Alex Mack, American football player
Who died on November 19?
- 1492 –Jami, Persian poet (b. 1414)
- 1581 –Ivan Ivanovich, son of Ivan IV of Russia (b. 1554)
- 1672 –John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (b. 1614)
- 1850 –Richard Mentor Johnson, American politician (b. 1780)
- 1998 –Ted Fujita, Japanese-born American meteorologist (b. 1920)
- 2003 –Ian Geoghegan, Australian racing driver (b. 1940)
- 2004 –George Canseco, Filipino composer (b. 1934)
- 2004 –Terry Melcher, American record producer; son of Doris Day (b. 1942)
- 2008 –Gregory Bryant-Bey, American convicted murderer (b. 1955)
- 2010 –Pat Burns, Canadian ice hockey coach (b. 1952)
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