What Happened On November 19 - On This Day

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  • 1530 Final decree of the Diet of Augsburg, "The Recess," is signed by Charles V and the Catholic princes, reaffirming Catholic rites and principles after the departure of the Protestant princes
  • The Mayflower at Sea, Copyrighted and Published by A. S. Burbank

    The Mayflower

    1620 The Mayflower reaches Cape Cod and explores the coast
  • 1805 Lewis and Clark Expedition, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, reaches the Pacific Ocean, the first European Americans to cross the West
  • Hatless in the center, Lincoln delivers his famous Gettysburg Address

    Words That Echoed Down The Decades

    1863 US President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg Address, starts with "Four score and seven years ago..."
  • 1942 Operation Uranus: Soviet offensive begins during the Battle of Stalingrad, 1 million Soviet soldiers encircle the German Sixth Army
  • 1969 Apollo 12's Charles Conrad and Alan Bean become the 3rd and 4th humans on the Moon
  • 1985 US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time
More November 19 Events
  • 1916 Samuel Goldfish, Edgar and Archibald Selwyn establish Hollywood's Goldwyn Pictures; Goldfish later changes his name to Goldwyn
  • 1990 Pop duo Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award after it is learned they did not sing on their award-winning "Girl You Know It's True" album
  • 1953 US Supreme Court rules (7-2) that baseball is a sport, not a business

American inventor Frederick E. Blaisdell of Philadelphia patents the "self-sharpening" paper-sheathed pencil, commonly known as a china marker

November 19, 1895

  • Charles I

    1600 - 1649
  • James Garfield

    1831 - 1881
  • Hiram Bingham

    1875 - 1956
  • Indira Gandhi

    1917 - 1984
  • Calvin Klein

    83 Years Old
  • Jack Dorsey

    49 Years Old
More Birthdays on November 19
  • Larry King

    1933 - 2021
  • Ted Turner

    87 Years Old
  • Allison Janney

    66 Years Old
  • Meg Ryan

    64 Years Old
  • Jodie Foster

    63 Years Old
  • Adam Driver

    42 Years Old
  • Tommy Dorsey

    1905 - 1956
  • José Raúl Capablanca

    1888 - 1942
  • Roy Campanella

    1921 - 1993
  • Kurt Nielsen

    1930 - 2011
  • Patrick Kane

    37 Years Old

McCaughey septuplets (all 7 of them!) are born to Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey in Des Moines, Iowa, as the first set of septuplets to survive infancy

November 19, 1997

  • 1834 US Congressman and future US President Franklin Pierce (29) weds Jane Appleton (28) at her grandparents' home in Amherst, New Hampshire
  • 1923 American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (56) weds second wife, American artist Maude Noel; divorce in 1927
  • 1939 American baseball legend Joe DiMaggio (24) weds American "Freshies" actress Dorothy Arnold (21) at St. Peter and Paul Church, with thousands of onlookers crowding the streets of in San Francisco, California; divorce in 1944
  • 2004 American singer Jermaine Jackson (49) divorces Alejandra Genevieve Oaziaza (35) after 9 years of marriage
More November 19 Weddings
  • Wolfe Tone

    1763 - 1798
  • Franz Schubert

    1797 - 1828
  • Emma Lazarus

    1849 - 1887
  • Mike Nichols

    1931 - 2014
  • Charles Manson

    1934 - 2017
  • Jana Novotna

    1968 - 2017
More November 19 Deaths
  • The First Book of Common Prayer

    Weekly Quiz for November 18 - 24

    Who printed the 1st English book this week in 1477? Who lead the 1st European expedition to the American west? Which President gave the Gettysburg address?
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  • Queen Mary put opponents to agonising death in her drive to restore Catholic faith in England

    Bloody Mary, England’s Most Hated Queen

    November 17, 1558
  • Paddy Hopkirk driving his Mini Cooper to victory in the gruelling 1964 Monte Carlo Rally

    Issigonis, The Mini Mastermind

    November 18, 1906
  • Hermann Göring, far left, front row, sits in the dock next to Rudolf Hess and other leading Nazis at the Nuremberg tribunal

    Nuremberg War Trials Bring Nazis to Justice

    November 20, 1945
  • A replica of the Piltdown skull.

    Bare Bones of the Great Ape-Man Hoax

    November 21, 1953
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