NOVEMBER 19 IN HISTORY

EVENTS ON 19th NOVEMBER IN HISTORY

• 1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage
• 1620 - Mayflower reaches Cape Cod & explores the coast
• 1794 - Jay Treaty, first US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain
• 1805 - Lewis & Clark reach Pacific Ocean, first European Americans to cross continent
• 1850 - Alfred Tennyson becomes British Poet Laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth
• 1863 - US President Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; "Four score & seven years ago..."
• 1893 - 1st newspaper color supplement (NY World)
• 1911 - NY receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy
• 1919 - US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations
• 1932 - Shaft & Thyssen demand Hitler become German chancellor
• 1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1952 - Spain joins UNESCO
• 1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.
• 1957 - Antonin Novotny appointed president of Czechoslovakia
• 1962 - Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet weapons
• 1969 – Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
• 1983 - Jari Kurri becomes the first (and only) Finnish player to score five goals in a game
• 1985 - US President Reagan & Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for first time
• 1998 - Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for $71.5 million USD.
• 1999 – Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
• 2013 - 23 people are killed by a suicide bombing attack on the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon