Today in History
19 November
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19 November |
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| 1302 Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree "Unam sanctam" | ||
| 1367 League of Cologne goes against Danish king Waldemar IV | ||
| 1493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage | ||
| 1521 Battle at Milan: Emperor Karel V's/pontifical/Spanish/German troops beat France & occupy Milan | ||
| 1523 Giulio de' Medici chosen as Pope Clemens VII | ||
| 1530 Augsburg] Emperor Karel I enables Edict of Worms | ||
| 1544 Pope Paul III opens council of Trente | ||
| 1600 Charles I, the King of Scotland and England was born; his authoritarian rule led to civil war and his eventual execution. | ||
| 1607 Erasmus Quellinus II, [Quellien], Flemish painter/etcher was born | ||
| 1620 Mayflower reaches Cape Cod & explores the coast | ||
| 1621 Rabbi Isaiah b Abraham aha-Levi Horowitz arrives in Israel | ||
| 1644 1st protestant ministry society in New England | ||
| 1700 Battle at Narva: Swedish king Karel XII beats Russians | ||
| 1703 The "Man in the Iron Mask," a prisoner in the Bastille prison in Paris, died. His true identity was the cause of much intrigue and is celebrated in the literary works of Francois Voltaire and Alexandre Dumas. | ||
| 1711 Michail V Lomonosov, Russian scholar/poet was born | ||
| 1794 Jakobinen Club forms in Paris | ||
| 1794 Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain | ||
| 1805 Ferdinand de Lesseps, France, diplomat (built Suez Canal) was born | ||
| 1824 Storm causes St Petersburg flood, killing 10,000 | ||
| 1837 Floridsdorf-Deutsch Wagram railway in Austria opens | ||
| 1850 Lord Tennyson becomes British poet laureate | ||
| 1863 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, citing the need to preserve "government of the people, by the people and for the people." | ||
| 1893 The first newspaper color supplement was published in the Sunday paper "New York World". | ||
| 1894 Dutch troops occupy & plunders palace of Tjakra Negara, Lombok | ||
| 1895 Frederick E Blaisdell patents the pencil | ||
| 1911 NY receives 1st Marconi wireless transmission from Italy | ||
| 1917 Indian prime minister and stateswoman Indira Gandhi was born; she was prime minister from 1966-1975 and again from 1980-1984, when she was assassinated. | ||
| 1919 US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations | ||
| 1922 Demonstration for a French Language University in Ghent | ||
| 1926 British mine strikes after 28 weeks ends | ||
| 1928 1st issue of Time magazine, Japanese Emperor Hirohito on cover | ||
| 1932 Shaft & Thyssen demand Hitler become German chancellor | ||
| 1933 Women allowed to vote in Spain (helps right wing) | ||
| 1940 Belgian King Leopold III visits Adolf Hitler | ||
| 1940 German air raid on Birmingham fails | ||
| 1942 The Soviet Red Army troops began a massive counter-offensive against the Germans at Stalingrad. | ||
| 1943 U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean | ||
| 1946 The first UNESCO conference opened in Paris at which the organization attained full status as an agency. | ||
| 1948 Belgian govt of Spaak, forms | ||
| 1949 Prince Rainier III coronation as 30th ruling Prince of Monaco | ||
| 1950 US General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe | ||
| 1952 North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 KPH | ||
| 1952 Spain joins UNESCO | ||
| 1953 US VP Richard Nixon visits Hanoi | ||
| 1957 Antonin Novotny appointed president of Czechoslovakia | ||
| 1958 First 2 F-27 Fokker's Friendships delivered on Aer Lingus | ||
| 1962 Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet weapons | ||
| 1962 Todor Zjivkov becomes premier of Bulgaria | ||
| 1963 Worst Canadian air disaster kills 118 in Montreal | ||
| 1965 Kellogg's Pop Tarts pastries created | ||
| 1968 Mali military coup, president Modibo Keita flees | ||
| 1969 The U.S. Apollo 12 lunar module landed on the moon, carrying astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean. | ||
| 1972 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt won a second term with an increased majority. | ||
| 1976 Algeria voted for a new constitution with a national assembly and increased powers for an elected president. | ||
| 1977 Libya drops diplomatic relations with Egypt | ||
| 1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel. | ||
| 1978 Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for 2nd time | ||
| 1984 Liquid gas tank in Mexico City explodes; 334 die | ||
| 1985 Pres Reagan & Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for 1st time | ||
| 1990 Iraq announces it will free all German hostages | ||
| 1990 Leaders of NATO and the Warsaw Pact marked the end of the Cold War when they signed the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe, slashing their Cold War arsenals. | ||
| 1993 Algerian Moslem fundamentalists uprising, 27 killed | ||
| 1994 The U.N. Security Council authorized NATO warplanes to strike targets in Croatia used by Serbs to launch air attacks against U.N. designated safe areas in neighboring Bosnia. | ||
| 1995 CNET lauches www.shareware.com | ||
| 1995 A suicide bomber blasted his way into the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, setting off a powerful explosion that killed 16 people and wounded more than 60,including diplomats. | ||
| 1996 A historic first meeting in the Vatican took place between the Pope and veteran revolutionary Cuban leader Fidel Castro. | ||
| 1996 Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), launches into space | ||
| 1997 STS 87 (Columbia 24) launches into orbit |