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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