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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 ...