What Day of the Week

November 19, 2021 is the 323^rd day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 42 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Friday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is vendredi.

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Here’s the November calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

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.

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• 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 USSR’s favor.
• 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.
• 1952

  Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
• 1969

  Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the “Ocean of Storms”) and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
• 1977

  TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 130.
• 1984

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

• 1700

  Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (d. 1770)
• 1835

  Rani Lakshmibai, Indian Queen (d. 1858)
• 1895

  Evert van Linge, Dutch footballer and architect (d. 1964)
• 1898

  Klement Jug, Slovenian philosopher and mountaineer (d. 1924)
• 1899

  Allen Tate, American poet and critic (d. 1979)
• 1899

  Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qassim Khoei, influential Shia Islamic scholar (d. 1992)
• 1969

  Richard Virenque, French cyclist
• 1971

  Jeremy McGrath, American motorcycle racer
• 1976

  Robin Dunne, Canadian actor
• 1988

  Patrick Kane, American ice-hockey player

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