19 November
Notable Births
Evgenia Medvedeva
b. 1999
Russian retired figure skater (born 1999)
Nahuel Ferraresi
b. 1998
Venezuelan footballer (born 1998)
Zach Collins
b. 1997
American basketball player (born 1997)
Kotozakura Masakatsu II
b. 1997
Japanese sumo wrestler
RiceGum
b. 1996
American YouTube personality and rapper (born 1996)
FaZe Rug
b. 1996
American YouTube personality (born 1996)
Fred Warner (American football)
b. 1996
American football player (born 1996)
Vanessa Axente
b. 1995
Hungarian fashion model (born 1995)
Ibrahima Mbaye
b. 1994
Senegalese footballer
Justin Anderson (basketball)
b. 1993
American basketball player (born 1993)
Joey Gallo
b. 1993
American baseball player (born 1993)
Suso (footballer)
b. 1993
Spanish footballer (born 1993)
Cameron Bancroft
b. 1992
Australian cricketer (born 1992)
James Tarkowski
b. 1992
English footballer (born 1992)
Fabien Antunes
b. 1991
French footballer (born 1991)
Marquise Goodwin
b. 1990
American football player (born 1990)
Josh Lambo
b. 1990
American football player (born 1990)
John Moore (ice hockey)
b. 1990
American ice hockey player (born 1990)
Kenneth Faried
b. 1989
American basketball player (born 1989)
John McCarthy (Australian rules footballer, born 1989)
b. 1989
Australian rules footballer
Notable Deaths
Tony Campolo
d. 2024
American sociologist and pastor (1935–2024)
Rosalynn Carter
d. 2023
First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981
Eddie Linden
d. 2023
Scottish poet and editor (1935–2023)
Jason David Frank
d. 2022
American actor (1973–2022)
Charles Manson
d. 2017
American criminal and cult leader (1934–2017)
Warren "Pete" Moore
d. 2017
American singer-songwriter and record producer
Jana Novotná
d. 2017
Czech tennis player (1968–2017)
Della Reese
d. 2017
American singer and actress (1931–2017)
Mel Tillis
d. 2017
American country music singer-songwriter (1932–2017)
Armand (singer)
d. 2015
Dutch singer-songwriter (1946–2015)
Allen E. Ertel
d. 2015
American politician
Ron Hynes
d. 2015
Canadian singer-songwriter (1950–2015)
Korrie Layun Rampan
d. 2015
Indonesian writer (1953–2015)
Mal Whitfield
d. 2015
Tuskegee Airman and US Olympic athlete 1924–2015)
Richard A. Jensen
d. 2014
American Lutheran theologian (1934–2014)
Gholamhossein Mazloumi
d. 2014
Iranian footballer and coach (1950–2014)
Mike Nichols
d. 2014
American film and theatre director (1931–2014)
Babe Birrer
d. 2013
American baseball player (1929–2013)
Dora Dougherty Strother
d. 2013
American aviator
Emma Lazarus
d. 1887
American poet (1849–1887)
On This Day in History
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2023
The 2023 Cricket World Cup final takes place at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, India, played between host nation India and Australia.
2023 Cricket World Cup final
2022
A gunman kills five and injures 17 at Club Q, a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
2022 Colorado Springs nightclub shooting
2013
A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures 160 others.
2013 Iranian embassy bombing in Beirut
2010
The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand. Twenty-nine people are killed in the nation's worst mining disaster since 1914.
Pike River Mine disaster
2004
The worst brawl in NBA history results in several players being suspended. Several players and fans are charged with assault and battery.
Malice at the Palace
2002
The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 76,000 m3 (20 million US gal) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.
Oil tanker
2001
The Aviation and Transportation Security Act is enacted by the 107th United States Congress in the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The Act created the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
Aviation and Transportation Security Act
1999
Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
Shenzhou 1
1999
John Carpenter becomes the first person to win the top prize in the TV game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
John Carpenter (game show contestant)
1998
Clinton–Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings into U.S. President Bill Clinton.
Clinton–Lewinsky scandal
1997
Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-87.
STS-87
1996
Space Shuttle program: Columbia is launched on STS-80, which would become the longest mission in the program at 17 days. On this mission, astronaut Story Musgrave becomes the only astronaut to fly on all five space shuttles.
Space Shuttle program
1996
A Beechcraft 1900 and a Beechcraft King Air collide at Quincy Regional Airport in Quincy, Illinois, killing 14.
Beechcraft 1900
1994
In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
National Lottery (United Kingdom)
1993
A factory fire killed 87 and injured 51 in Shenzhen, China.
1993 Zhili toy factory fire
1988
Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević 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.
Serbia
1985
Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
Cold War
1985
Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
Pennzoil
1985
Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud.
Baling District
1984
San Juanico disaster: A series of explosions at the Pemex petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.
San Juanico disaster