What Day of the Week

November 19, 2020 is the 324^th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 42 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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

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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).
• 1863

  American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the military cemetery ceremony at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
• 1885

  Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Kingdom of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
• 1943

  Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
• 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.
• 1969

  Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
• 1996

  Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.
• 1998

  Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
• 1998

  Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million.
• 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.

• 1700

  Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (d. 1770)
• 1898

  Arthur R. von Hippel, German-born physicist (d. 2003)
• 1930

  Kurt Nielsen, Danish tennis player (d. 2011)
• 1943

  Fred Lipsius, American musician (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
• 1947

  Lamar S. Smith, American politician
• 1960

  Matt Sorum, American musician (The Cult, Guns 'N Roses, Velvet Revolver)
• 1962

  Jodie Foster, American actress
• 1963

  Jon Potter, British field hockey player
• 1965

  Laurent Blanc, French footballer
• 1980

  Courtney Anderson, American football player

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