Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 19
This is a list of selected November 19 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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John Jay -
HMAS Sydney -
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Image of the "Hay Draft" of the Gettysburg Address -
Bucharest Metro train -
A scale model of the Shenzhou spacecraft -
Main gate of Warsaw University -
Pelé in 1960
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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. | 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 |
| 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 |
Eligible
- 1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- 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 the Soviet Union's favour.
- 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.
- 2002 – The Greek oil tanker Prestige split in half off the coast of Galicia, after spilling an estimated 17.8 million US gallons (420,000 bbl) in the worst environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.
- 2004 – During a NBA game between the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons, a fight between players spilled into the crowd when Ron Artest attacked a fan who threw a drink at him.
- 2005 – Iraq War: A group of United States Marines allegedly massacred twenty-four people in the town of Haditha in Iraq.
- 2010 – The first of four explosions occurred at the Pike River Mine in the West Coast region of New Zealand in the nation's worst mining disaster in nearly a century.
- Born/died: Nicolas Poussin (d. 1665) · Billy Sunday (b. 1862) · Mikhail Kalinin (b. 1875) · José Raúl Capablanca (b. 1888) · Sun Li-jen (d. 1990)
November 19: International Men's Day; World Toilet Day; Liberation Day in Mali (1968)
Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva
- 1794 – The United States and Great Britain signed the Jay Treaty, the basis for ten years of peaceful trade between the two nations.
- 1941 – World War II: The Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran destroyed each other in the Indian Ocean.
- 1969 – Playing for Santos against Vasco da Gama in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian footballer Pelé scored his thousandth goal.
- 1985 – The first of five summits (pictured) between Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. president Ronald Reagan began in Geneva.
- 2013 – A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killed 23 people and injured at least 160 others.
Jean-Antoine Nollet (b. 1700) · James Ensor (d. 1949) · Tove Styrke (b. 1992)