Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on November 19th!
| 1620 | The Pilgrims sight Cape Cod. |
| 1828 | In Vienna, Composer Franz Schubert dies of syphilis at age 31. |
| 1861 | Julia Ward Howe writes “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” while visiting Union troops near Washington. |
| 1863 | Lincoln delivers the “Gettysburg Address |
| 1873 | James Reed and two accomplices rob the Watt Grayson family of $30,000 in the Choctaw Nation. |
| 1885 | Bulgarians, led by Stefan Stambolov, repulse a larger Serbian invasion force at Slivinitza. |
| 1897 | The Great “City Fire” in London. |
| 1905 | 100 people drown in the English Channel as the steamer Hilda sinks. |
| 1911 | New York receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy. |
| 1915 | The Allies ask China to join the entente against the Central Powers. |
| 1917 | Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was born in Allahabad. |
| 1919 | The Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles. |
| 1923 | The Oklahoma State Senate ousts Governor Walton for anti-Ku Klux Klan measures. |
| 1926 | Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Politburo in the Soviet Union. |
| 1942 | Soviet forces take the offensive at Stalingrad. |
| 1949 | Prince Ranier III is crowned 30th Monarch of Monaco. |
| 1952 | Scandinavian Airlines opens a commercial route from Canada to Europe. |
| 1959 | Ford Motor Co. announced it was halting production of the unpopular Edsel. |
| 1969 | Apollo 12 touches down on the moon. |
| 1976 | Patty Hearst is released from prison on $1.5 million bail. |
| 1977 | Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel. |
| 1981 | U.S. Steel agrees to pay $6.3 million for Marathon Oil. |
| 1985 | President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev met for the first time as they began a summit in Geneva. |
| 1990 | The pop duo Milli Vanilli was stripped of its Grammy Award after it was revealed that neither performer sang on the group’s records. |
| 1998 | Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr laid out his evidence against President Bill Clinton during a daylong appearance before the House Judiciary Committee. |
| 2006 | The Wii, the Nintendo Co.’s game console, first went on sale. |
| 2007 | Amazon.com Inc. introduced the Kindle, an electronic book-reading device. |
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