November 19: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

November 19th marks the 323rd day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 324th in case of leap years). There are 42 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Scorpio. Famous birthdays on this day include Ted Turner (1938), Jodie Foster (1962) and Meg Ryan (1961). Holidays and observances around the world include: World Toilet Day.
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2018 Former CEO of Nissan, Carlos Ghosn, was arrested in Japan on suspicion of violating Japan's financial trading laws. Nissan recommended that Ghosn and Greg Kelly resign for misconduct. Ghosn is also chairman and CEO at Renault.
2017 Syrian Civil War: 2017 Abu Kamal offensive by Syrian government troops and allied militia: Syrian government troops and allied military retake Abu Kamal (ISIL's last urban stronghold) in Syria.
2016 Iraqi Civil War: ISIL insurgents killed at least 12 tribal fighters. Shirqat was the scene of the attack.
2015 China vows to bring to justice those responsible for execution of a Chinese hostage after the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed it killed one of its citizens. China's Foreign Ministry confirms for the first time the identity of the hostage, naming him Fan Jinghui.
2014 Islamist insurgency: Boko Haram kills at least 45 people in a reprisal attack against a village in northeastern Nigeria.
2013 Syrian civil war spillover into Lebanon, Iranian Embassy bombings: Two suicide bombers attack the Iranian Embassy in Beirut killing at most 23 people. (Reuters via ABC News Australia). The attacks were claimed by the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, an Al Qaeda-linked group.
2012 Operation Pillar of Defense: Israeli air strikes kill at most 20 Palestinians in Gaza Strip, including Islamic Jihad members. Over 130 rockets are fired toward Israel, injuring many, amid ceasefire negotiations in Egypt. (BBC) (The Jerusalem Post)Rockets originating from the Egyptian-administrated Sinai Peninsula strike parts of southern Israel.
2011 2011 Syrian uprising: Security forces kill at least 19 protesters in Syria as demonstrations continue against President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
2010 In clashes between rival groups Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a and al-Shabaab, eleven people are killed.
2009 The US Mint has released the 2009 Zachary Taylor Presidential Dollar to circulation.
2008 The Dow Jones Industrial Average is below 8000.
2007 Protests against the government in Burma 2007:
2006 The Wii videogame system is released by Nintendo in North America and South America. The Wii Sports video game system includes a Nunchuk controller attachment and a wireless Wii remote control. The US price is US$249.99 Sales in the first 8 days totalled 600,000.
2005 Haditha murders are common.
2004 Research by the Medical Research Council has shown that co-trimoxazole, an antibiotic, can reduce the death rate of HIV-positive children living in Zambia.
2003 The Canada-U.S. Power System Outage Task Force releases an interim report, citing a loss of situational awareness in FirstEnergy Corporation's control room as the primary cause and ampquotimmatureampquot monitoring software used at the Midwest Independent System Operator as a secondary cause.
2002 Jose Bove, a member of the antiglobalization movement will spend 14 months in prison for the destruction of transgenic rice seedlings from France. Hunter Andrew Crossman born.
2001 It's now 50!
2000 Airdrieonians F. C. won the 2000 Scottish Challenge Cup Final
1999 Disney releases the Walt Disney Pictures animated feature film Toy Story 2 to theaters in the USA. North American theater gross receipts: US$245.9 million.
1998 Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for $71.5 million USD.
1997 Eugene Onegin, opens at Martin Beck Theater, New York City
1996 God Said, Ha!, opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 22 performances
1995 Beatle Anthology premieres on ABC-TV
1994 Aishwarya Rai, 21, of India, crowned 44th Miss World
1993 Algerian Moslem fundamentalists uprising, 27 killed
1992 3 From Brooklyn opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 45 performances
1991 Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken wins his 2nd AL MVP
1990 Greyhound files reorganization plan so they can be traded publicly.
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.
1986 Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt wins NL MVP
1985 President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for 1st time
1984 Liquid gas tank in Mexico City explodes; 334 die
1983 Edmonton Oilers beat New Jersey Devils, 13-4, Wayne Gretzky calls the Devils a Mickey Mouse organization
1979 Astros sign Nolan Ryan, to record 4 year, $4.5 million contract
1978 The first U.S. Take Back the Night march occurs in San Francisco.
1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
1976 George Harrison releases This Song
1975 Reds 2nd baseman Joe Morgan is named NL MVP
1972 Ambassador opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 9 performances
1971 Ft Wilderness opens
1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a California state historical landmark.
1969 WENY TV channel 36 in Elmira, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 Mali military coup, President Modibo Keita flees
1967 The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
1966 Mad Dog Vachon beats Dick The Bruiser in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1965 ABC radio begins weekly Vietnam Update report
1964 The United States Department of Defense announces the closing of 95 military bases and facilities, including the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Brooklyn Army Terminal, and Fort Jay, New York.
1963 Worst Canadian air disaster kills 118 in Montreal, Quebec.
1962 Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet weapons
1960 Mickey Vernon is hired as 1st manager of new Washington team
1959 Rocky & His Friends debuts on ABC
1957 Antonin Novotny appointed President of Czechoslovakia
1955 KXMB TV channel 12 in Bismarck, ND (CBS / ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 Tele Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
1953 US Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business
1952 North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 km/h
1951 Roy Campanella named National League Most Valuable Player on his 30th birthday.
1950 US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe
1949 Prince Rainier III coronation as 30th ruling Prince of Monaco
1947 200 mirror arrives at Mt Palomar
1946 Bradman scores 119 South Australia vs. Victoria, 183 mins, 8 fours
1944 World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1943 U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1942 Joseph Goebbels visits German Theatre in the Niederlanden
1941 World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.
1940 Belgian King Leopold III visits Adolf Hitler
1939 Don Lash wins 6th straight Amateur Athletic Union cross-country 10km championship.
1933 Women allowed to vote in Spain (helps right wing)
1932 Shaft and Thyssen demand Hitler become German chancellor
1930 Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow commit their first robbery, the first in a long series of robberies and other criminal acts.
1928 1st issue of Time magazine, Japanese Emperor Hirohito on cover
1926 British mine strikes after 28 weeks ends
1924 In Los Angeles, California, famous silent film director Thomas Ince (quotThe Father of the Westernquot) dies, reportedly of a heart attack, in his bed (rumors soon surface that he was shot dead by publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst).
1922 Demonstration for a French Language University in Ghent
1919 US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations.
1916 Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
1911 New York receives 1st Marconi wireless transmission from Italy
1909 Former Dutch Premier Abraham Kuyper denies corruption
1906 London selected to host 1908 Olympics.
1903 Carrie Nation attempts to address the Senate.
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