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Events from History on November 19

1302 : Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree "Unam sanctam"
1367 : League of Cologne goes against Danish king Waldemar IV
1493 : Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage
1521 : Battle at Milan: Emperor Karel V's/pontifical/Spanish/German troops
1521 : beat France & occupy Milan
1523 : Giulio de' Medici chosen as Pope Clemens VII
1530 : Augsburg] Emperor Karel I enables Edict of Worms
1544 : Pope Paul III opens council of Trente
1620 : Mayflower reaches Cape Cod & explores the coast
1621 : Rabbi Isaiah b Abraham aha-Levi Horowitz arrives in Israel
1644 : 1st protestant ministry society in New England
1700 : Battle at Narva: Swedish king Karel XII beats Russians
1794 : Jakob˜nen Club forms in Paris
1794 : Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain
1824 : Storm causes St Petersburg flood, killing 10,000
1837 : Floridsdorf-Deutsch Wagram railway in Austria opens
1850 : Lord Tennyson becomes British poet laureate
1861 : Julia Ward Howe committed "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to paper
1863 : Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg; "4 score & 7 years..."
1874 : William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of
1874 : defrauding city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment
1879 : Natl Assoc of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter
1887 : Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dying Detective" (BG)
1893 : 1st newspaper color supplement (NY World)
1894 : 1st mushroom on a stamp (China 1 & 5 Ap)
1894 : Dutch troops occupy & plunders palace of Tjakra Negara, Lombok
1895 : Frederick E Blaisdell patents the pencil
1896 : Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Sussex Vampire" (BG)
1903 : Carrie Nation attempts to address Senate
1906 : London selected to host 1908 Olympics
1909 : Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper denies corruption
1910 : Ferenc Moln…rs "Tester," premieres in Budapest
1911 : NY receives 1st Marconi wireless transmission from Italy
1919 : US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations
1922 : Demonstration for a French Language University in Ghent
1923 : B‚la Bart•k's "Tancsuite," premieres
1926 : British mine strikes after 28 weeks ends
1928 : 1st issue of Time magazine, Japanese Emperor Hirohito on cover
1932 : Joe Kershalla scores 71 points in a college football game
1932 : Shaft & Thyssen demand Hitler become German chancellor
1933 : Women allowed to vote in Spain (helps right wing)
1939 : Don Lash wins 6th straight AAU cross-country 10K championship
1940 : Belgian King Leopold III visits Adolf Hitler
1940 : German air raid on Birmingham fails
1942 : Joseph Goebbels visits "German Theatre in the Niederlanden"
1942 : Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along Don front
1943 : U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1946 : Bradman scores 119 South Australia v Victoria, 183 mins, 8 fours
1947 : 200" mirror arrives at Mt Palomar
1948 : Belgian govt of Spaak, forms
1949 : Prince Rainier III coronation as 30th ruling Prince of Monaco
1950 : US General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe
1951 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 : North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 KPH
1952 : Spain joins UNESCO
1953 : US Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business
1953 : US VP Richard Nixon visits Hanoi
1955 : KXMB TV channel 12 in Bismarck, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1957 : Antonin Novotny appointed president of Czechoslovakia
1958 : First 2 F-27 Fokker's Friendships delivered on Aer Lingus
1959 : "Rocky & His Friends" debuts on ABC
1959 : Ford cancels Edsel
1960 : Mickey Vernon is hired as 1st manager of new Washington team
1961 : Houston George Blanda passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Titans (49-13)
1962 : Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet weapons
1962 : KOET (now KULC) TV channel 9 in Ogden, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 : SN Behrman's "Lord Pengo," premieres in NYC
1962 : Todor Zjivkov becomes premier of Bulgaria
1963 : Worst Canadian air disaster kills 118 in Montreal
1965 : ABC radio begins weekly "Vietnam Update" report
1965 : Kellogg's Pop Tarts pastries created
1966 : Mad Dog Vachon beats Dick The Bruiser in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1968 : Mali military coup, president Modibo Keita flees
1968 : Yankees pitcher Stan Bahnsen wins AL Rookie of Year
1969 : Apollo 12's Conrad & Bean become 3rd & 4th humans on Moon
1969 : WENY TV channel 36 in Elmira, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1970 : Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a Cal state historical landmark
1970 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 : Ft Wilderness opens
1972 : "Ambassador" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 9 performances
1972 : "Dear Oscar" closes at Playhouse Theater NYC after 5 performances
1972 : Gershwin Theater (Uris) opens at 1633 Broadway NYC
1972 : KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac, WI suspends broadcasting
1972 : Willy Brandts SPD wins West German election
1973 : Elections in Suriname, premier Sedney's PNP doesn't win a chair
1975 : Reds 2nd baseman Joe Morgan is named NL MVP
1976 : George Harrison releases "This Song"
1976 : H-E Schuster discovers asteroid #2329 Orthos
1976 : Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail
1977 : -21] Egyptian president Sadat visits Israel
1977 : Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 3rd penalty shot against Islanders
1977 : Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel
1977 : Libya drops diplomatic relations with Egypt
1979 : Astros sign Nolan Ryan, to record 4 year, $4.5 million contract
1979 : Chuck Berry released from prison on income tax evasion
1979 : Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3171
1980 : CBS TV bans Calvin Klein's jean ad featuring Brooke Shields
1983 : Devils "a Mickey Mouse organization"
1983 : Edmonton Oilers beat NJ Devils, 13-4, Wayne Gretzky calls the
1984 : Liquid gas tank in Mexico City explodes; 334 die
1985 : Herb Gardner's "I'm Not Rappaport," premieres in NYC
1985 : Pres Reagan & Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for 1st time
1986 : Tina Howe's "Coastal Disturbances," premieres in NYC
1987 : France performs nuclear test
1988 : LA Law's Corbin Bernsen marries actress Amanda Pays
1989 : it was US' 1st qualification since 1950
1990 : Greyhound files reoganization plan so they can be traded publically
1990 : Iraq announces it will free all German hostages
1990 : Pittsburgh's Barry Bonds wins NL MVP
1991 : Balt Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken wins his 2nd AL MVP
1992 : "3 From Brooklyn" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 45 performances
1993 : Algerian Moslem fundamentalists uprising, 27 killed
1993 : Cura‡aose vote to remain part of Dutch Antilles
1994 : Aishwarya Rai, 21, of India, crowned 44th Miss World
1994 : Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson
1995 : "Beatle Anthology" premieres on ABC-TV
1995 : "Sacrilege" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 21 performances
1995 : "School for Scandal" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 23 performances
1995 : CNET lauches www.shareware.com
1995 : Keelin Curnuck, 23, Ms Venus Swimwear 1994, crowned Miss NY USA
1995 : Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, kills 16
1996 : "God Said, Ha!," opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 22 performances
1996 : "Sex & Longing" closes at Cort Theater NYC
1996 : Albert Belle, signs record five-year, $55 million with White Sox
1996 : Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), launches into space
1997 : "Eugene Onegin," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 : "Old Neighborhood," opens at Booth Theater NYC
1997 : STS 87 (Columbia 24) launches into orbit

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