TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: NOVEMBER 19
1493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage
1620 The Pilgrims sight Cape Cod.
1703 A masked man held prisoner in the Bastille in Paris died. His true identity was the cause of much intrigue, and his story became the basis of literary works by François Voltaire and Alexandre Dumas.
1805 Lewis and Clark Expedition, led by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, reaches the Pacific Ocean, first European Americans to cross the west
1863 U.S. President Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
1873 James Reed and two accomplices rob the Watt Grayson family of $30,000 in the Choctaw Nation.
1874 William Marcy “Boss” Tweed, of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding the city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment
1903 Carrie Nation attempts to address the Senate
1915 The Allies ask China to join the entente against the Central Powers.
1919 US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations
1923 The Oklahoma State Senate ousts Governor Walton for anti-Ku Klux Klan measures.
1953 US Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business
1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to set foot in Israel on an official visit.
1980 CBS TV bans Calvin Klein’s jeans ad featuring Brooke Shields
1981 U.S. Steel agrees to pay $6.3 million for Marathon Oil.
1985 In the largest civil verdict in US history, Pennzoil wins $10.53 billion judgement against Texaco.
1996 Canada’s Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril arrives in Africa to lead a multinational force policing Zaire.
2001 U.S. President George W. Bush signed the most comprehensive air security bill in U.S. history.
2002 The oil tanker Prestige broke into two pieces and sank off northwest Spain. The tanker lost about 2 million gallons of fuel oil when it ruptured November 13th and was towed about 150 miles out to sea.
2002 The U.S. government completed its takeover of security at 424 airports nationwide.
2007 Global stocks have slumped amid fears of a fallout from the credit crisis, when Goldman Sachs downgraded Citibank and forecast $15bn (£7.3bn) in losses. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 217.86 points
2013 The Iranian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon was hit by two suicide bomb attacks. Over twenty people were killed in the attack and nearly 150 people were injured as a result.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
