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The following events took place on November 19. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 45 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 461

  Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The real power is in the hands of the magister militum Ricimer.
• 636

  The Rashidun Caliphate defeated the Sasanian Empire at the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah in Iraq.
• 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.
• 1847

  The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.
• 1863

  American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
• 1881

  A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
• 1885

  Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
• 1911

  The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
• 1912

  First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
• 1916

  Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
• 1941

  World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.
• 1942

  World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR’s favor.
• 1942

  Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda, prior to the restoration of the kingdom in 1993.
• 1943

  Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
• 1944

  World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
• 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.
• 1946

  Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
• 1950

  US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.
• 1952

  Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
• 1954

  Télé Monte Carlo, Europe’s oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
• 1955

  National Review publishes its first issue.
• 1959

  The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
• 1967

  The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
• 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 131.
• 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.

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