About November 19
November 19, 2021 is the 323rd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 42 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 74 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 19
- 1095 –The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.
- 1816 –Warsaw University is established.
- 1863 –American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the military cemetery ceremony at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- 1885 –Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Kingdom 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.
- 1942 –Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda.
- 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.
- 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: 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.
- 1959 –The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
- 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 130.
- 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.
- 1988 –Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
- 1996 –Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.
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