November 19 in History

Historical Events on November 19

1847 The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.

1863 American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

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.

1944 World War II: U.S. 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.

1946 Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.

1950 US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.

1959 The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.

1985 Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.

1988 Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.

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Famous Birthdays on November 19

1831 James A. Garfield

1917 Indira Gandhi

1954 Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

1999 Evgenia Medvedeva

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Famous Deaths on November 19

1828 Franz Schubert

1850 Richard Mentor Johnson

1975 Francisco Franco

2014 Mike Nichols

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