November 19

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on November 19. From 1900 until now. November 19 is under the sign of Scorpio. Famous birthdays on this day include Jodie Foster (1962), Meg Ryan (1961) and Indira Gandhi (1917). Several movies were released around November 19 over the years, such as Toy Story in 1995 directed by John Lasseter and Brief Encounter in 1945 directed by David Lean.
But much more happened on November 19 over the years: find out below

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2018 Nissan chairman and former CEO Carlos Ghosn is arrested in Japan for breaching the country's financial trading laws, prompting Nissan to recommend that he and director Greg Kelly step down for misconduct. Ghosn is also the chairman and CEO of Renault. (The Irish Times)
2017 Syrian Civil War: 2017 Abu Kamal offensive: Syrian government troops and allied militia retake Abu Kamal, ISIL's last urban stronghold in Syria. (Daily Mail)
2016 Iraqi Civil War: At least 12 tribal fighters were killed by ISIL insurgents. The attack occurred in Shirqat. (Reuters)
2015 Killing of captives by ISIL: China vows to "bring to justice" those responsible for executing one of its citizens after the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant said it had killed a Chinese hostage. China's Foreign Ministry also confirms the hostage's identity for the first time, naming him as Fan Jinghui. (Channel News Asia)
2014 Islamist insurgency in Nigeria:: Boko Haram kill at least 45 in a reprisal attack on a village in northeastern Nigeria. (Reuters)
2013 Syrian civil war spillover in Lebanon, Iranian embassy bombings:: Two suicide bombers target the Iranian embassy in the Lebanese capital Beirut killing at least 23 people. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)An Al Qaeda-linked group known as the Abdullah Azzam Brigades claims responsibility for the attacks. (Daily News Egypt) (France 24)
2012 Operation Pillar of Defense:: Israeli air strikes kill at least 20 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip including Islamic Jihad members, while over 130 rockets are fired towards Israel injuring several, amid ceasefire talks in Egypt. (BBC) (The Jerusalem Post)Rockets originating from the Egyptian-administrated Sinai Peninsula strike parts of southern Israel. (Weekly Standard)
2011 2011 Syrian uprising: At least 19 people are killed across Syria by security forces as protests continue against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. (CNN)
2010 Eleven people are killed in clashes between the rival al-Shabaab and Ahlu Sunna Waljama'a groups in central Somalia. (Press TV)
2009 The US Mint releases the 2009 Zachary Taylor Presidential dollar to circulation.
2008 The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls below 8000.
2007 2007 Burmese anti-government protests:
2006 Nintendo releases the Wii video game system in North and South America. It includes a wireless Wii remote controller, a Nunchuk controller attachment, and video game Wii Sports. Price is US$249.99 in the USA. Total sales in first 8 days: 600,000.
2005 Haditha killings occur.
2004 Research by the Medical Research Council shows that the antibiotic co-trimoxazole can halve the death rate in HIV-positive children in Zambia. (BBC)
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 José Bové, member of the anti-globalization movement, will have to carry out a fourteen months time in prison for destruction of the transgenic rice seedlings in France. Hunter Andrew Crossman born.
2001 Now 50 That's What I Call Music is released!
2000 The 2000 Scottish Challenge Cup Final is won by Airdrieonians F. C.
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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