WHAT HAPPENED ON 19. NOVEMBER
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Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The real power is in the hands of the magister militum Ricimer. (19. November 461)
The Rashidun Caliphate defeated the Sassanian Empire at the Battle of Qadisiya in Iraq. (19. November 636)
The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins. (19. November 1095)
Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico). (19. November 1493)
The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War. (19. November 1794)
Warsaw University is established. (19. November 1816)
The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened. (19. November 1847)
American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. (19. November 1863)
A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine. (19. November 1881)
Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Kingdom of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia. (19. November 1885)
The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain. (19. November 1911)
First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia. (19. November 1912)
Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures. (19. November 1916)
World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen. (19. November 1941)
World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor. (19. November 1942)
Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda. (19. November 1942)
Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt. (19. November 1943)
World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort. (19. November 1944)
World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden. (19. November 1944)
Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations. (19. November 1946)