November 19: Day of the Week
November 19, 2021 is the 323rd 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 Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is viernes.
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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.
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November 19 Historical Event(s)
- 1816Warsaw University is established.
- 1847The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.
- 1881A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
- 1942World 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.
- 1955National Review publishes its first issue.
- 1988Serbian 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.
- 1990Pop 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.
- 1996Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.
- 1999Shenzhou 1: The People’s Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
- 2010The 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?
- 1722Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (d. 1810)
- 1834Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (d. 1924)
- 1843Richard Avenarius, German philosopher (d. 1896)
- 1936Dick Cavett, American talk show host
- 1943Fred Lipsius, American musician (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
- 1957Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (d. 2000)
- 1961Jim L. Mora, American football coach
- 1979John-Ford Griffin, American baseball player
- 1985Chris Eagles, English footballer
- 1997McCaughey septuplets, world’s first surviving set of septuplets
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