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Day in History November 19
Events
Events: 1493: Christopher Columbus discovered Puerto Rico on his second
voyage to the New World.
Events: 1620: The Mayflower arrived off the coast of Cape Cod. Peregrine
White was born aboard the Mayflower.
Events: 1794: United States and Britain signed the Jay Treaty.
Events: 1861: Julia Ward Howe wrote 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic' while
visiting Union troops near Washington.
Events: 1863: President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address and
dedicated a Civil War battlefield cemetery in Pennsylvania.
Events: 1874: The Women's Christian Temperance Union was organized in
Cleveland, Ohio.
Events: 1919: Utah's Mukuntuweap National Monument, later called Zion
National Monument, was established as a national park.
Events: 1939: The first presidential library, that of Franklin D. Roosevelt,
had its cornerstone laid at Hyde Park, New York.
Events: 1942: The Soviet Union Red Army launched Operation Uranus, the great
counter-offensive that turned the tide of the Battle of Stalingrad.
Events: 1949: Monaco held a coronation for its new ruler, Prince Rainier
III, the 30th monarch of Monaco.
Events: 1954: The first automatic toll collection machine went into effect
at the Union Toll Plaza on New Jersey's Garden State Parkway.
Events: 1969: Ford Motor Company announced it was halting production of the
unpopular Edsel.
Events: 1969: Pele scored his 1000th soccer goal in his 909th first-class
match.
Events: 1969: U.S. astronauts Charles Conrad, Jr. and Alan Bean became the
third and fourth humans to walk on the surface of the Moon after their
landing module, Intrepid, touched down as part of the Apollo 12 mission.
Events: 1976: Patty Hearst was released from prison on $1.5 million bail.
Events: 1977: Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat became the first Arab leader
to visit Israel.
Events: 1985: At a summit in Geneva, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet
leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev met for the first time.
Events: 1990: The pop duo Milli Vanilli was stripped of its Grammy Award
because other singers sung the songs on their 'Girl You Know It's True'
album.
Events: 1993: The U.S. Senate voted in favor of the North American Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Events: 1996: A fire broke out in the Channel Tunnel, injuring 34 people and
interrupting rail service.
Events: 1998: Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr presented evidence against
President Bill Clinton while testifying before the House Judiciary Committee
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