November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 42 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Tuesday or Wednesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Friday or Sunday (56).
NATIONAL CARBONATED BEVERAGE WITH CAFFEINE DAY
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NATIONAL CARBONATED BEVERAGE WITH CAFFEINE DAY
1493 — Italian explorer Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his second voyage for Spain.
1544 — Pope Paul III opens the Council of Trente.
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.
1805 — The Lewis and Clark Expedition reaches the Pacific Ocean, the first European Americans to cross the continent.
1873 — William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment.
1883 — At exactly noon, American and Canadian railroads begin using four continental time zones to end the confusion of dealing with thousands of local times. The bold move was emblematic of the power shared by the railroad companies.
1886 — President Chester Alan Arthur succumbs to complications from a debilitating and fatal kidney ailment known as Bright's Disease.
1911 — New York City receives the first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy.
1916 — Douglas Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force in World War I, calls off the Battle of the Somme in France after nearly five months of mass slaughter.
1919 — U.S. Senate rejects (55-39) the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations, whereas the Senate was not even permitted to vote on the Iran nuclear treaty by President Barack Obama.
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 Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1959 — After being a spectacular failure, he Ford Motor Company cancels production of the Edsel.
1969 — Apollo 12's Charles "Pete" Conrad and Alan L. Bean become third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
1978 — The Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones leads hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their agricultural commune in a remote part of the South American nation of Guyana. Many of Jones’ followers willingly ingested a poison-laced punch while others were forced to do so at gunpoint. The final death toll at Jonestown that day was 909; a third of those who perished were children.
1987 — A fire in a London subway station kills 30 commuters and injures scores of others. It is the worst fire in the history of the city's underground rail system.
1998 — The Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1752 – George Rogers Clark, American general (d. 1818)
1911 — New York City receives the first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy.
1916 — Douglas Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force in World War I, calls off the Battle of the Somme in France after nearly five months of mass slaughter.
1919 — U.S. Senate rejects (55-39) the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations, whereas the Senate was not even permitted to vote on the Iran nuclear treaty by President Barack Obama.
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 Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1959 — After being a spectacular failure, he Ford Motor Company cancels production of the Edsel.
1969 — Apollo 12's Charles "Pete" Conrad and Alan L. Bean become third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
1978 — The Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones leads hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their agricultural commune in a remote part of the South American nation of Guyana. Many of Jones’ followers willingly ingested a poison-laced punch while others were forced to do so at gunpoint. The final death toll at Jonestown that day was 909; a third of those who perished were children.
1987 — A fire in a London subway station kills 30 commuters and injures scores of others. It is the worst fire in the history of the city's underground rail system.
1998 — The Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1752 – George Rogers Clark, American general (d. 1818)
1905 – Tommy Dorsey, American trombonist, composer and bandleader (d. 1956)
1887 – James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
1895 – Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (d. 1989)
1936 – Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.
From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.
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