Today in History
| November 19 | ||
| 1620 | The Pilgrims sight Cape Cod. | |
| 1828 | In Vienna, Composer Franz Schubert dies of syphilis at age 31. | |
| 1861 | Julia Ward Howe writes "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" while visiting Union troops near Washington. | |
| 1863 | Lincoln delivers the "Gettysburg Address" at the dedication of the National Cemetery at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg. | |
| 1885 | Bulgarians, led by Stefan Stambolov, repulse a larger Serbian invasion force at Slivinitza. | |
| 1873 | James Reed and two accomplices rob the Watt Grayson family of $30,000 in the Choctaw Nation. | |
| 1897 | The Great "City Fire" in London. | |
| 1905 | 100 people drown in the English Channel as the steamer Hilda sinks. | |
| 1911 | New York receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy. | |
| 1915 | The Allies ask China to join the entente against the Central Powers. | |
| 1923 | The Oklahoma State Senate ousts Governor Walton for anti-Ku Klux Klan measures. | |
| 1926 | Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Politburo in the Soviet Union. | |
| 1942 | Soviet forces take the offensive at Stalingrad. | |
| 1949 | Prince Ranier III is crowned 30th Monarch of Monaco. | |
| 1952 | Scandinavian Airlines opens a commercial route from Canada to Europe. | |
| 1969 | Apollo 12 touches down on the moon. | |
| 1973 | New York stock market takes sharpest drop in 19 years. | |
| 1976 | Patty Hearst is released from prison on $1.5 million bail. | |
| 1981 | U.S. Steel agrees to pay $6.3 million for Marathon Oil. | |
| 1985 | US President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, meet for the first time. | |
| 1985 | In the largest civil verdict in US history, Pennzoil wins $10.53 billion judgement against Texaco. | |
| 1990 | Pop duo Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award after it is learned they did not sing on their award-winning Girl You Know Its True album. | |
| 1996 | Canada’s Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril arrives in Africa to lead a multinational force policing Zaire. | |
| 1998 | US House of Representatives begins impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton. | |
| 2010 | New Zealand suffers its worst mining disaster since 1914 when the first of four explosions occurs at the Pike River Mine; 29 people are killed. | |
| Born on November 19 | ||
| 1600 | Charles I, King of England and Ireland. | |
| 1797 | Sojourner Truth, abolitionist and women’s rights advocate. | |
| 1831 | James Garfield, 20th president of the United States. | |
| 1899 | Allen Tate, Southern novelist, poet and critic. | |
| 1915 | Billy Strayhorn, composer, arranger and pianist who wrote "Take the A Train." | |
| 1917 | Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India from 1967 to 1977 and 1978 to 1984 who was assassinated by her own guards. | |
| 1921 | Roy Campanella, Hall of Fame baseball star. | |
| 1933 | Larry King, journalist and long-time talk show host. | |
| 1936 | Dick Cavett, host of TV talk shows The Tonight Show and The Dick Cavett Show. | |
| 1938 | Ted Turner, businessman; founder of Turner Broadcasting System. | |
| 1942 | Calvin Klein, fashion designer; founder of Calvin Klein, Inc.. | |
| 1942 | Sharon Olds, poet (The Dead and The Living, The Gold Cell). | |
| 1954 | General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, commander in chief of Egypt’s armed forces and minister of defense (2012– ); played leading role in July 2013 coup ousting President Mohamed Morsi. | |
| 1956 | Ann Curry, journalist; co-anchor of Today, June 9, 2011–June 28, 2012; anchor of Dateline NBC 2005–2011. | |
| 1962 | Jodie Foster, actress, director, producer; came to fame at age 13 in the 1976 film Taxi Driver; won Academy Award for Best Actress (1989) for The Accused. | |
| 1966 | Gail Devers, three-time Olympic champion in track and field (US team); won gold in 1992 (100 m) and two gold medals in 1996 (100 m, 4x100m relay). | |
| 1976 | Jack Dorsey, businessman; co-founder of Twitter. | |
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