19 November

The **19t o November** is the 323t day o the year (324t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 42 days bidin.

## Events

* 1421 - A major floodin disaster in the Netherlands kills 2,000 tae 10,000 fowk.
* 1493 - Christopher Columbus lands on Puerto Rico.
* 1806 - French troops occupy Hamburg.
* 1816 - The Varsity o Warsaw opens.
* 1819 - The Museo del Prado in Madrid opens.
* 1863 - US Preses Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address.
* 1869 - The Hudson's Bay Company sells Ruperts Land tae Canadae.
* 1887 - Dutch ocean steamer "W. A. Scholten" sinks efter a collision wi a Breetish freighter in the Inglis Channel, killin 132 fowk.
* 1912 - The Ottoman Empire's rule ower Macedonie ends.
* 1946 - Afghanistan, Iceland an Swaden jyn the Unitit Naitions.
* 1969 - Brazilian fitbawer Pelé scores the 1,000t goal o his career.
* 1977 - Egyptian Preses Anwar Sadat maks a state visit tae Israel.
* 1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev an Ronald Reagan meet for talks in Geneva, Swisserland.
* 1999 - The Fowkrepublic o Cheenae launches the Shenzhou 1 spacecraft.
* 2010 - The Pike River Mine disaster kills 29 miners near Greymouth, New Zealand.
* 2013 - A storm kills 18 fowk on the isle o Sardinie.
* 2013 - Bomb attacks in Beirut kill 22 fowk.
* 2014 - Nicola Sturgeon becomes the 5t First Meenister o Scotland, as successor tae Alex Salmond.
* 2016 - The German leid Wikipaedia reaches the milestone o 2 million airticles.
* 2017 - Coaleetion talks fail in Germany, efter September's election tae the Bundestag.

## Births

* 1600 - Charles I, Keeng o Scots (d. 1649)
* 1711 - Mikhail Lomonosov, Roushie polymath an writer (d. 1765)
* 1771 - Bertel Thorvaldsen, Dens sculptor (d. 1844)
* 1805 - Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat an businessman (d. 1894)
* 1831 - James A. Garfield, 20t Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1881)
* 1875 - Mikhail Kalinin, Roushie politeecian (d. 1946)
* 1887 - James Batcheller Sumner, American chemist (d. 1955)
* 1917 - Indira Gandhi, Prime meenister o Indie (d. 1984)
* 1924 - William Russell, Inglis actor
* 1936 - Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese chemist
* 1937 - John Hagart, Scots fitbawer (d. 2010)
* 1938 - Ted Turner, American businessman
* 1939 - Garrick Utley, American braidcaster (d. 2014)
* 1954 - Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Preses o Egyp
* 1959 - Allison Janney, American actress
* 1961 - Meg Ryan, American actress
* 1962 - Jodie Foster, American actress
* 1965 - Laurent Blanc, French fitbawer
* 1965 - Douglas Henshall, Scots actor
* 1976 - Jack Dorsey, American computer programmer (Twitter)
* 1977 - Mette Frederiksen, Dens politeecian, Prime meenister o Denmark
* 1989 - Tyga, American rapper
* 1992 - Tove Styrke, Swadish sangster-sangwriter
* 1999 - Evgenia Medvedeva, Roushie feegur skeitcher

## Daiths
* 1665 - Nicolas Poussin, French penter (b. 1594)
* 1828 - Franz Schubert, Austrick componer (b. 1797)
* 1850 - Richard Mentor Johnson, Vice Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1780)
* 1897 - Henry Calderwood, Scots meenister an philosopher (b. 1830)
* 1976 - Basil Spence, Scots airchitect (b. 1907)
* 2013 - Frederick Sanger, Inglis biochemist (b. 1918)
* 2014 - Mike Nichols, German-American theatre an film director, producer an actor (b. 1931)
* 2017 - Charles Manson, American mass murtherer an cult leader (b. 1934)

## Halidays

* Internaitional Men's Day
* Naitional Day o Monaco
* Internaitional Toilet Day

## Ootside airtins
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