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The 19t o November is the 323t day o the year (324t in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 42 days bidin.

Events

1421 - A major floodin disaster in the Netherlands kills 2,000 tae 10,000 fowk.
1493 - Christopher Columbus lands on Puerto Rico.
1806 - French troops occupy Hamburg.
1816 - The Varsity o Warsaw opens.
1819 - The Museo del Prado in Madrid opens.
1863 - US Preses Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address.
1869 - The Hudson's Bay Company sells Ruperts Land tae Canadae.
1887 - Dutch ocean steamer "W. A. Scholten" sinks efter a collision wi a Breetish freighter in the Inglis Channel, killin 132 fowk.
1912 - The Ottoman Empire's rule ower Macedonie ends.
1946 - Afghanistan, Iceland an Swaden jyn the Unitit Naitions.
1969 - Brazilian fitbawer Pelé scores the 1,000t goal o his career.
1977 - Egyptian Preses Anwar Sadat maks a state visit tae Israel.
1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev an Ronald Reagan meet for talks in Geneva, Swisserland.
1999 - The Fowkrepublic o Cheenae launches the Shenzhou 1 spacecraft.
2010 - The Pike River Mine disaster kills 29 miners near Greymouth, New Zealand.
2013 - A storm kills 18 fowk on the isle o Sardinie.
2013 - Bomb attacks in Beirut kill 22 fowk.
2014 - Nicola Sturgeon becomes the 5t First Meenister o Scotland, as successor tae Alex Salmond.
2016 - The German leid Wikipaedia reaches the milestone o 2 million airticles.
2017 - Coaleetion talks fail in Germany, efter September's election tae the Bundestag.

1665 - Nicolas Poussin, French penter (b. 1594)
1828 - Franz Schubert, Austrick componer (b. 1797)
1850 - Richard Mentor Johnson, Vice Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1780)
1897 - Henry Calderwood, Scots meenister an philosopher (b. 1830)
1976 - Basil Spence, Scots airchitect (b. 1907)
2013 - Frederick Sanger, Inglis biochemist (b. 1918)
2014 - Mike Nichols, German-American theatre an film director, producer an actor (b. 1931)
2017 - Charles Manson, American mass murtherer an cult leader (b. 1934)