Today In History - November 19

1600 Charles I, King of England
1600 Lieuwe van Aitzema
1607 Erasmus Quellinus II
1616 Eustache Le Sueur
1696 Louis Tocque
1709 Pierre Leclair
1711 Michail V. Lomonosov
1752 George Rogers Clark
1753 Stanislas Champein
1761 Joseph Supries
1770 Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen
1770 Bertel Thowwaldsen
1796 Johann Wilhelm Mangold
1799 Rene-Auguste Caillie
1805 Ferdinand de Lesseps
1810 August Willich
1811 John Ancrum Winslow
1827 Isaac Munroe St. John
1831 James A. Garfield
1833 Wilhelm Dilthey
1834 Georg H. Quincke
1835 Fitzhugh Lee
1846 Emile C. Wauters
1855 Billy Bates
1859 Mikhail Mikhayl Ippolitov-Ivanov
1862 Billy Sunday
1864 George Barbier
1870 Vicente Lleo
1874 Karl Adrian Wohlfart
1875 Michael I Kalinin
1879 Karel van den Oever
1885 Erskine Sanford
1886 Fernand Crommelynck
1888 Jose Raul Capablanca
1899 Allen Tate
1900 Anna Seghers
1900 Anton Walbrook
1902 Trevor Bardette
1903 Fritz Schmidt
1904 Jacob "Jaap" Nanninga
1904 Nancy Carroll
1905 Tommy Dorsey
1906 Henri Temianka
1906 Jacques Leguerney
1907 Christian J. H. English
1908 Alan Baxter
1908 Mikhail Ivanovich Chulaki
1909 Rose Isabel Williams
1912 Alois Blommaert
1912 George E. Palade
1917 Indira Gandhi
1918 Catherine Elizabeth Pennington
1919 Alan Young, England
1919 George Fenneman
1920 Ursula Heathcote Nicholls
1921 Roy Campanella
1922 Stanley K. Runcorn
1926 Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
1930 Bob Mathias
1931 Brook Benton
1933 Larry King
1934 Dave Guard
1934 David Lloyd-Jones
1935 Jack Welch
1936 Dick Cavett
1936 Emin Aristakesian
1936 Michel Decoust
1937 Ray Collins
1938 Frank Misson
1938 Hank Medress
1938 Richard Dumbrill
1938 Ted Turner
1939 Garrick Utley
1939 Pete Moore
1939 Thomas Harkin
1941 Dan Haggerty
1941 Ivanka Khristova
1942 Calvin Klein
1942 Gary L. Ackerman
1942 Lawrence Allen Gilbert
1943 Fred Lipsius
1943 Sharon Wilder
1944 Charlie Coe
1946 Joe Correro
1947 Bob Boone
1947 Julian Graham Theodore Hough
1947 Lamar Smith
1949 Ahmad Rashad
1949 Dennis Taylor
1949 Mickey Lee Davis, Jr.
1951 Timothy J. Penny
1954 Annette Guest
1954 Gail Stanton
1954 Kathleen Quinlan
1954 Tom Scheckel
1955 Bill Buttner
1955 Gloria Guida
1956 Eileen Marie Collins
1956 Glynnis O'Connor
1956 Scott Jacoby
1957 George Leary
1957 Kathy Sanborn
1957 Otis J. Anderson
1957 Robert Beltran
1957 Sharon Farrah
1959 Jean-Francois Clervoy
1960 Allison Janney
1961 Grant Ledyard
1961 Meg Ryan
1962 Jodie Foster
1962 Salim Jaffer
1963 Justine Greiner
1963 Terry Farrell
1964 Jeni Lidgett
1965 Erik Wilhelm
1966 Brian Wilsterman
1966 Gail Devers
1967 Gary Disarcina
1968 Gord Fraser
1968 Matt Darby
1968 Steven Penn
1969 Rod Mapstone
1969 Sarka Lukesova
1970 Berthil de Avest
1970 Bhupinder Singh, Jr.
1970 Jenni Meno
1970 Larry Tharpe
1970 Rickey Brady
1971 Adrian Griffith
1971 Andy Sheets
1971 Dimitri Yushkevich
1971 Michelle Andrews
1971 Rickey Brady
1972 David Palmer
1973 Daniel Meech
1973 Jamir Miller
1973 Savion Glover
1974 Orlando Fuentes
1977 Kerri Strug
1997 Alexis May McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets, 2
1997 Brandon James McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets, 5
1997 Joel Steven McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets, 7
1997 Kelsey Ann McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets, 4
1997 Kenneth Robert McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets, 1
1997 Natalie Sue McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets, 3
1997 Nathaniel Roy McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets, 6

461 St. Hilary begins his reign as the Catholic Pope
498 Anastasius II ends his reign as the Catholic Pope
615 Pope Deusdedit/Adeodatus I is elected to succeed Boniface IV
1302 Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree "Unam sanctam"
1367 League of Cologne goes against the Danish king Waldemar IV
1493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico
1521 Battle at Milan
1523 Giulio de' Medici is chosen as Pope Clemens VII
1544 Pope Paul III opens The Council of Trente
1620 The Mayflower reaches Cape Cod and explores the coast
1621 Rabbi Isaiah b Abraham aha-Levi Horowitz arrives in Israel
1644 The first protestant ministry society in New England
1700 Battle at Narva
1794 Jay Treaty, the first U.S. extradition treaty, is signed with Great Britain
1824 A storm causes the St. Petersburg flood and kills 10,000 people
1837 The Floridsdorf-Deutsch Wagram railway in Austria opens
1850 Lord Tennyson becomes British poet laureate
1861 Julia Ward Howe committed the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to paper
1863 Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg
1893 The first newspaper color supplement: the New York World
1894 Dutch troops occupy and plunder the palace of Tjakra Negara, Lombok
1895 Frederick E. Blaisdell patents the pencil
1903 Carrie Nation attempts to address the Senate
1906 London is selected to host the 1908 Olympics
1909 Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper denies corruption
1911 New York receives the first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy
1919 U.S. Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations
1922 Demonstration for a French Language University in Ghent
1926 British mine strikes end after 28 weeks
1928 The first issue of Time magazine: Japanese Emperor Hirohito is on the cover
1932 Shaft and Thyssen demand that Hitler become the German chancellor
1933 Women are allowed to vote in Spain
1940 Belgian King Leopold III visits Adolf Hitler
1940 The German air raid on Birmingham fails
1942 Russia launches its winter offensive against the Germans
1943 U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1947 The 200" mirror arrives at Mt. Palomar Observatory
1948 The Belgian government of Spaak forms
1949 Prince Rainier III coronation: 30th ruling Prince of Monaco
1950 U.S. General Eisenhower becomes The Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe
1951 Roy Campanella is named the NL MVP on his 30th birthday
1951 The U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record: 1124 KPH
1952 Spain joins UNESCO
1953 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that baseball is a sport not a business
1953 U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon visits Hanoi
1959 Ford cancels production of the Edsel
1962 Fidel Castro accepts the removal of Soviet weapons
1962 Todor Zjivkov becomes the Premier of Bulgaria
1963 The worst Canadian air disaster kills 118 people in Montreal
1967 Mickey Wright wins the LPGA Pensacola Ladies' Golf Invitational
1968 Mali military coup: president Modibo Keita flees
1968 Yankees pitcher Stan Bahnsen wins the AL Rookie of Year
1969 Apollo 12's Conrad and Bean become the 3rd and 4th humans on Moon
1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a California state Historical Landmark
1970 The U.S. performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 The Gershwin Theater opens at 1633 Broadway in New York City
1976 Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail
1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel
1977 Libya drops diplomatic relations with Egypt
1980 CBS TV bans Calvin Klein's jean ads featuring Brooke Shields
1984 Liquid gas tank in Mexico City explodes and 334 people die
1985 President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for first time
1987 France performs a nuclear test
1988 Actor Corbin Bernsen marries actress Amanda Pays
1990 Iraq announces it will free all German hostages
1990 Pittsburgh's Barry Bonds wins the NL MVP
1993 During an Algerian Moslem fundamentalists uprising 27 people are killed
1994 Aishwarya Rai of India is crowned the 44th Miss World
1994 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson
1995 A suicide bomber blasts into the Egyptian embassy in Islamabad and kills 16 people
1996 Albert Belle signs a record five-year $55 million contract with White Sox
1997 Columbia 24 launches into orbit