TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: NOV 19
1530 The Recess document resulting from the Diet of Augsburg signed by Charles V and catholic princes
1620 The Pilgrims sight Cape Cod
1644 1st Protestant ministry society in New England
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.
1794 Signing of the Jay Treaty. It called for the British to surrender northwestern posts to the U.S. and for them to consider the United States as a most favored nation for trade between the two countries.
1861 Julia Ward Howe writes “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” while visiting Union troops near Washington.
1863 Lincoln delivers the “Gettysburg Address” at the dedication of the National Cemetery at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg
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
1897 The Great “City Fire” in London.
1903 Carrie Nation attempts to address the Senate
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.
1942 Operation Uranus: Soviet offensive begins during Battle of Stalingrad, 1 million Soviet soldiers encircle the German Sixth Army
1954 Two automatic toll collectors were placed in service on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey.
1959 Ford Motor Co. announced it was ending the production of the unpopular Edsel.
1969 Apollo 12’s Charles Conrad and Alan Bean become the 3rd and 4th humans on the Moon
1976 Patty Hearst is released from prison on $1.5 million bail.
1977 Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visits Israel. Sadat was the first Arab head of state to visit Israel and address the Israeli parliament, the Knesset
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.
1985 US President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, meet for the first time.
1998 US House of Representatives begins impeachment hearings against President Bill Clinton.
1999 In Istanbul, Turkey, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) concluded a two-day summit after adopting a new arms accord. During the conference, Russia was criticized for its military campaign against Chechnya’s separatist movement.
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.
2010 New Zealand suffers its worst mining disaster since 1914 when the first of four explosions occurs at the Pike River Mine; 29 people are killed.
REFERENCES: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeoplehistory.com, timeandate.com, factmonster.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
