What Day of the Week

November 19, 2023 is the 323^rd day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 42 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Nichiyōbi.

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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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• 1493

  Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
• 1816

  Warsaw University is established.
• 1911

  The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
• 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.
• 1959

  The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
• 1985

  Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
• 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.
• 2002

  The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 20 million US gallons (76,000 m³) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.
• 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.

• 1899

  Allen Tate, American poet and critic (d. 1979)
• 1900

  Anna Seghers, German writer (d. 1983)
• 1915

  Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
• 1917

  Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
• 1936

  Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1947

  Bob Boone, American baseball player and manager
• 1949

  Nigel Bennett, English actor
• 1958

  Michael Wilbon, sports analyst
• 1965

  Douglas Henshall, Scottish actor
• 1969

  Richard Virenque, French cyclist

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