Major Events
- 1530 "The Recess", the final decree of the Diet of Augsburg signed by Charles V and Catholic princes reaffirming Catholic rites and principles (after departure of Protestant Princes)
- 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, first European Americans to cross the west
- 1863 US President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; "Four score and seven years ago..."
- 1942 Operation Uranus: Soviet offensive begins during 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
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Nov 19 in Film & TV
- 1916 Samuel Goldfish, Edgar and Archibald Selwyn establish Hollywood's Goldwyn Pictures; Goldfish later changes his name to Goldwyn
Nov 19 in Music
- 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 Its True" album
Nov 19 in Sport
- 1953 US Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business
Did You Know?
American inventor Frederick E. Blaisdell of Philadelphia patents the "self-sharpening" paper sheathed pencil, commonly known as a china marker
Charles I
James Garfield
Hiram Bingham
Indira Gandhi
Calvin Klein
Jack Dorsey
Gene Tierney
Larry King
Ted Turner
Meg Ryan
Jodie Foster
Adam Driver
Tommy Dorsey
José Raúl Capablanca
Roy Campanella
Kurt Nielsen
Patrick Kane
Fun Fact About November 19
McCaughey septuplets (all 7 of them!) born to Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey in Des Moines, Iowa. First set of septuplets to survive infancy.
Famous Weddings
- 1834 US Congressman and future US President Franklin Pierce (29) weds Jane Appleton (28) at her grandparents' home in Amherst, New Hampshire
- 1923 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (56) weds artist Maude Noel
- 1939 Baseball legend Joe DiMaggio (24) weds "Freshies" actress Dorothy Arnold at St. Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco
Famous Divorces
- 2004 American singer Jermaine Jackson (49) divorces Alejandra Genevieve Oaziaza (35) after 9 years of marriage
More November 19 Weddings
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Franz Schubert
Emma Lazarus
Mike Nichols
Charles Manson
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