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November 19: Day of the Week
November 19, 2024 is the 324th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 42 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is martes.
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Here’s the November calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
November 19 Historical Event(s)
1493
Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
1944
World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.
1952
Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
1967
The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
1969
Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
1988
Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic 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.
1994
In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
1996
Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.
1998
Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million.
2010
The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand; 29 people are killed in the nation’s worst mining disaster since 1914.
Who were born on November 19?
1563
Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (d. 1626)
1812
Karl Schwarz, German theologian (d. 1885)
1834
Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (d. 1924)
1893
René Voisin, French classical trumpet player (d. 1952)
1920
Gene Tierney, American actress (d. 1991)
1952
Stephen Soldz, American psychoanalyst and anti-war activist
1966
Rocco DiSpirito, American chef
1973
Billy Currington, American singer and songwriter
1976
Robin Dunne, Canadian actor
1979
John-Ford Griffin, American baseball player
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