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19 November, 2005

US Marines allegedly commit a massacre on 24 citizens in the town of Haditha in Iraq.

19 November, 1999

Shenzhou 1: The Peoples Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.

19 November, 1999

In Istanbul, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ends a two-day summit by calling for a political settlement in Chechnya and adopting a Charter for European Security.

19 November, 1998

Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against US President Bill Clinton.

19 November, 1998

Vincent van Goghs Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million.

19 November, 1997

In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies were born alive. They would go on to become the first set of septuplets to survive infancy, with all seven alive in 2007.

19 November, 1996

The case of the Port Arthur massacre comes to trial.

19 November, 1996

Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.

19 November, 1994

In Britain, the first National Lottery draw was held. A £1 ticket gives a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.

19 November, 1990

Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It’s True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.

19 November, 1985

Cold War: In Geneva, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.

19 November, 1985

Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion verdict against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in U.S. history, stemming from Texacos establishing a signed contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.

19 November, 1984

A series of explosions at the PEMEX petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City ignites a major fire and kills about 500 people.

19 November, 1979

Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.

19 November, 1977

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

19 November, 1977

Transportes Aereos Portugueses Boeing 727 crashes in Madeira islands killing 130

19 November, 1976

Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal.

19 November, 1973

American football player Lance Rentzel is arrested for exposing himself to a 10-year-old girl; he is later sentenced to five years probation.

19 November, 1970

The IBM 1620 is withdrawn from the market.

19 November, 1969

Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.

19 November, 1969

Pelé scores his 1000th goal on a football match between Santos and Vasco. Pelé played for Santos. The result was 2x1 to Santos.

19 November, 1969

Mohawk Airlines Flight 411 crashes into Pilot Knob Mountain, killing all 14 on-board.

19 November, 1967

The Establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.

19 November, 1961

Michael Rockefeller, son of New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles near Atsj, Papua New Guinea.

19 November, 1959

Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.

19 November, 1955

National Review publishes its first issue.

19 November, 1954

Sammy Davis, Jr., loses his left eye in an automobile accident in San Bernardino, California.

19 November, 1946

Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.

19 November, 1944

World War II: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.

19 November, 1942

World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSRs favor.

19 November, 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.

19 November, 1924

In Los Angeles, California, famous silent film director Thomas Ince ("The Father of the Western") dies of a heart attack in his bed (beliefs still persist that he was murdered).

19 November, 1916

Samuel Goldfish (later renamed Samuel Goldwyn) and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures (the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers).

19 November, 1881

A meteorite lands near the village of Großliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.

19 November, 1863

American Civil War: Union President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

19 November, 1850

Alfred Lord Tennyson becomes Poet Laureate, a position he held until his death in 1892.

19 November, 1847

The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.

19 November, 1816

Warsaw University is established.

19 November, 1794

The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jays Treaty, which attempts to clear up some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.

19 November, 1493

Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).

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