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This day in history: 19 November

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435 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 19 November.
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2023: The 2023 Cricket World Cup final takes place at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, India, played between host nation India and Australia.

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day: Blessed Giacomo Benefatti

Christian feast day: Mechthild of Hackeborn

Christian feast day: November 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Christian feast day: Obadiah (Eastern Catholic Church)

Christian feast day: Raphael Kalinowski

Christian feast day: Severinus, Exuperius, and Felician

Day of Discovery of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)

Day of Missile Forces and Artillery (Russia, Belarus)

Flag Day (Brazil)

Garifuna Settlement Day (Belize)

International Men's Day

Liberation Day (Mali)

Events

2023The 2023 Cricket World Cup final takes place at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, India, played between host nation India and Australia.

2022A gunman kills five and injures 17 at Club Q, a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

2013A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures 160 others.

2010The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand. Twenty-nine people are killed in the nation's worst mining disaster since 1914.

2004The worst brawl in NBA history results in several players being suspended. Several players and fans are charged with assault and battery.

2002The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 76,000 m3 (20 million US gal) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.

2001The Aviation and Transportation Security Act is enacted by the 107th United States Congress in the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The Act created the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

1999John Carpenter becomes the first person to win the top prize in the TV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

1999Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.

1998Clinton–Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings into U.S. President Bill Clinton.

1997Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-87.

1996A Beechcraft 1900 and a Beechcraft King Air collide at Quincy Regional Airport in Quincy, Illinois, killing 14.

1996Space Shuttle program: Columbia is launched on STS-80, which would become the longest mission in the program at 17 days. On this mission, astronaut Story Musgrave becomes the only astronaut to fly on all five space shuttles.

1994In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.

1993A factory fire killed 87 and injured 51 in Shenzhen, China.

1988Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign co

1985Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.

1985Pennzoil 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 bi

1985Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.

1984San Juanico disaster: A series of explosions at the Pemex petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.

1979Iran 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.

1977TAP Air Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 131.

1969Apollo 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.

1969Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.

1967The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.

1955National Review publishes its first issue.

1954Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.

1952Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.

1950US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.

1946Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.

1944The founding congress of the Communist Party of Transcarpathian Ukraine is held in Mukachevo.

1944World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.

1944World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the sixth War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.

1943The 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.

1942Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda, prior to the restoration of the kingdom in 1993.

1942World 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.

1941World 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.

1916Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.

1912First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.

1911The Doom Bar in Cornwall claims two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.

Born on this day

1999Evgenia Medvedeva, Russian figure skater

1998Nahuel Ferraresi, Venezuelan footballer

1997Kotonowaka Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler

1997Zach Collins, American basketball player

1996FaZe Rug, American YouTuber

1996Fred Warner, American football player

1996RiceGum, American YouTuber

1995Vanessa Axente, Hungarian model

1994Ibrahima Mbaye, Senegalese footballer

1993Joey Gallo, American baseball player

1993Justin Anderson, American basketball player

1993Suso, Spanish footballer

1992Cameron Bancroft, Australian cricketer

1992James Tarkowski, English footballer

1992Roland Baumann, Austrian politician

1991Fabien Antunes, French footballer

1991Marina Marković, Serbian basketball player

1990Benedikt Schmid, German footballer

1990John Moore, American ice hockey player

1990Josh Lambo, American football and soccer player

1990Marquise Goodwin, American football player

1989John McCarthy, Australian footballer (died 2012)

1989Kenneth Faried, American basketball player

1989Roman Sergeevich Trofimov, Russian ski jumper

1989Tyga, American rapper

1988Patrick Kane, American ice hockey player

1988Timo Eichfuss, Estonian basketball player

1988Víctor Cuesta, Argentine footballer

1987Sílvia Soler Espinosa, Spanish tennis player

1986Jeannie Ortega, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress

1986Jessicah Schipper, Australian swimmer

1986Michael Saunders, Canadian baseball player

1986Milan Smiljanić, Serbian footballer

1986Sam Betty, English rugby player

1985Alex Mack, American football player

1985Chris Eagles, English footballer

1984Brittany Maynard, American activist (died 2014)

1984Dawid Kucharski, Polish footballer

1984Jorge Fucile, Uruguayan footballer

1983Adam Driver, American actor

Died on this day

2024Tony Campolo, American sociologist and pastor (born 1935)

2023Eddie Linden, Scottish poet and publisher (born 1935)

2023Rosalynn Carter, American mental health activist, First Lady of the United States (1977–1981), and of Georgia (1971–1975) (born 1927)

2022Jason David Frank, American actor and mixed martial artist (born 1973)

2017Charles Manson, American cult leader and mass murderer (born 1934)

2017Della Reese, American singer and actress (born 1931)

2017Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player (born 1968)

2017Mel Tillis, American singer and songwriter (born 1932)

2017Warren "Pete" Moore, American singer-songwriter and record producer (born 1938)

2015Allen E. Ertel, American lawyer and politician (born 1937)

2015Armand, Dutch singer-songwriter (born 1946)

2015Korrie Layun Rampan, Indonesian author, poet, and critic (born 1953)

2015Mal Whitfield, American runner and diplomat (born 1924)

2015Ron Hynes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1950)

2014Gholam Hossein Mazloumi, Iranian footballer and manager (born 1950)

2014Jeremiah Coffey, Irish-Australian bishop (born 1933)

2014Mike Nichols, German-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1931)

2014Pete Harman, American businessman (born 1919)

2014Richard A. Jensen, American theologian, author, and academic (born 1934)

2014Roy Bhaskar, English philosopher and academic (born 1944)

2013Babe Birrer, American baseball player (born 1928)

2013Charlotte Zolotow, American author and poet (born 1915)

2013Dora Dougherty Strother, American pilot and academic (born 1921)

2013Frederick Sanger, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)

2013Ray Gosling, English journalist, author, and activist (born 1939)

2012Boris Strugatskiy, Russian author (born 1933)

2012John Hefin, Welsh director and producer (born 1941)

2012Shiro Miya, Japanese singer-songwriter (born 1943)

2012Warren Rudman, American lawyer and politician (born 1930)

2011John Neville, English actor (born 1925)

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