Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 19
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John Jay -
HMAS Sydney -
Abraham Lincoln -
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Bucharest Metro train -
A scale model of the Shenzhou spacecraft -
Main gate of Warsaw University -
Pelé in 1960 -
Mayflower -
Ronald Reagan (left) and Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1095 – Council of Clermont | Moved to November 27 |
| 1493 – Christopher Columbus became the first European to land on Puerto Rico, naming it San Juan Bautista after John the Baptist. | too long, refimprove section |
| 1816 – The University of Warsaw, the largest university in Poland, was established as Congress Poland found itself a territory without a university. | unreferenced section |
| 1863 – American Civil War: U.S. president Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. | Too much uncited |
| 1943 – The Holocaust: Inmates at the Janowska concentration camp near what is now Lviv, Ukraine, staged a failed uprising, after which the SS liquidated the camp, resulting in at least 6,000 deaths. | Citation needed section |
| 1955 – The National Review, one of the most widely read and influential American conservative magazines, was first published. | refimprove section |
| 1977 – TAP Air Portugal Flight 425 crashed while attempting to land at Madeira Airport in Funchal, Madeira, killing more than 130 people on board. | multiple issues |
| 1979 – The first line of the Bucharest Metro, the M1 Line, opened from Timpuri Noi to Semănătoarea in Bucharest, Romania. | unreferenced sections |
| 1994 – The first National Lottery draw in the United Kingdom was held, with seven winners sharing a prize of £5,874,778. | refimprove |
| 1999 – Shenzhou 1, China's first unmanned test flight of the Shenzhou spacecraft, was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia. | stubby, no footnotes |
| 2004 – Malice at the Palace, A fight that broke out between fans and players at basketball game that saw the Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons play eachother. | Too much uncited, actively undergoing a good article reassessment. |
| Eustache Le Sueur |b|1617| | Birthday not cited |
| Leopold Auenbrugger |b|1722| | Too much uncited |
| Sun Li-jen |d|1990| | Deathday not cited |
Eligible
- 1620 – The Mayflower (depicted), which brought the Pilgrims from England to the New World, sighted Cape Cod.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate forces began the Siege of Knoxville against Union fortifications, surrounding most of the city.
- 1921 – Rioting broke out in Bombay, India, during the visit of Edward, Prince of Wales, leading to at least 58 deaths.
- 1933 – The Union of the Right, a coalition of right-wing parties, won the majority of seats in the 1933 Spanish general election, the first election in the country with suffrage extended to women.
- 1941 – World War II: The Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran destroyed each other in the Indian Ocean.
- 1942 – World War II: Soviet troops launched Operation Uranus at the Battle of Stalingrad with the goal of encircling Axis forces, turning the tide of the battle in their favour.
- 1985 – The first of five summits (pictured) between Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. president Ronald Reagan began in Geneva.
- 2005 – Iraq War: A group of United States Marines allegedly massacred twenty-four people in the town of Haditha.
- 2010 – The first of four explosions occurred at the Pike River Mine in the West Coast in New Zealand's worst mining disaster in nearly a century.
- 2013 – A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killed 23 people and injured at least 160 others.
- Born/died: | Nicolas Poussin |d|1665| Jean-Antoine Nollet |b|1700| C. X. Larrabee |b|1843| John O'Reily |b|1846| Billy Sunday |b|1862| Mikhail Kalinin |b|1875| Lydia Brown |d|1865| Xu Zhimo |d|1931| Larry King |b|1933| Adam Driver |b|1983| Tove Styrke |b|1992 | Ted Fujita |d|1998|
Notes
- Mayflower Compact appears on November 21, so Mayflower should not appear in the same year.
November 19: International Men's Day; World Toilet Day; Liberation Day in Mali (1968)
Pelé in 1960
- 1794 – The United States and Great Britain signed the Jay Treaty, the basis for ten years of peaceful trade between the two nations.
- 1824 – Temenggong Abdul Rahman of Johor and Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor ceded the governance of Singapore to the British East India Company.
- 1969 – Playing for Santos against Vasco da Gama in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian footballer Pelé (pictured) scored his thousandth goal.
- 1991 – Mexican singer Luis Miguel released the album Romance, which led to a revival of interest in bolero music.
- 2002 – The Greek oil tanker Prestige split in two and sank off the coast of Galicia after spilling 420 thousand barrels (17.8 million US gallons) of oil, in the worst environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.
- Jane Freilicher (b. 1924)
- Margaret Turner-Warwick (b. 1924)
- James Ensor (d. 1949)
- Erika Alexander (b. 1969)
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