SomeFacts | November 19

On this day - November 19

461 — Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire. ...

636 — The Rashidun Caliphate defeats the Sasanian Empire at the ...

1646 — The current Saint Peter's Basilica is consecrated in ...

1794 — The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign ...

1802 — The Garinagu arrive at British Honduras (present-day Belize).

1808 — Finnish War: The Convention of Olkijoki in Raahe ends ...

1816 — Warsaw University is established.

1847 — The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine ...

1863 — American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers ...

1881 — A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, ...

1885 — Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of ...

1911 — The Doom Bar in Cornwall claims two ships, Island Maid and ...

1912 — First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the ...

1916 — Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.

1941 — World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The ...

1942 — Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of ...

1942 — World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under ...

1943 — The Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in ...

1944 — The founding congress of the Communist Party of ...

1944 — World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance ...

1944 — World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces ...

1946 — Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.

1950 — US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of ...

1952 — Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime ...

1954 — Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television ...

1955 — National Review publishes its first issue.

1967 — The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial ...

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

1969 — Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean ...

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

1979 — Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah ...

1984 — San Juanico disaster: A series of explosions at the Pemex ...

1985 — Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an ...

1985 — Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in ...

1985 — Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet ...

1988 — Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and ...

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

1994 — In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is ...

1996 — A Beechcraft 1900 and a Beechcraft King Air collide at Quincy ...

1996 — Space Shuttle program: Columbia is launched on STS-80, which ...

1997 — Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-87.

1998 — Clinton–Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of ...

1999 — John Carpenter becomes the first person to win the top prize ...

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

2001 — The Aviation and Transportation Security Act is enacted by the ...

2002 — The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the ...

2004 — The worst brawl in NBA history results in several players ...

2010 — The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River ...

2013 — A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut ...

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

2023 — The 2023 Cricket World Cup final takes place at the Narendra ...