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Events on November 19

• 1367 At a meeting in the Long Hall (today the Hansasaal) in Cologne City Hall, the Hanseatic League decides to form a confederation against the Danish king Valdemar IV, which eventually leads to a war with Denmark.
• 1493 The seafarer Christopher Columbus lands on San Juan Bautista, later Puerto Rico.
• 1863 On the battlefield of Gettysburg, a military cemetery is dedicated in the midst of the still-ongoing Civil War. The speech delivered there by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, the Gettysburg Address, is later engraved into the south wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
• 1942 In the Battle of Stalingrad during the Second World War, the Red Army launches Operation Uranus, which leads to the encirclement and subsequently the defeat of the German 6th Army.
• 1962 During the Spiegel affair, the five FDP federal ministers resign in protest against Defence Minister Franz Josef Strauss.
• 1969 Pete Conrad, commander of Apollo 12, becomes the third person to walk on the Moon, shortly followed by Alan LaVern Bean.
• 1972 In snap parliamentary elections in the Federal Republic of Germany, the SPD under Willy Brandt becomes the largest parliamentary group in the Bundestag for the first time.
• 1973 In response to the ongoing oil crisis, the Bundestag imposes the first Sunday driving ban for 25 November.
• 1984 The Hamburg Chaos Computer Club becomes known to the public. Its hackers succeed in transferring around 135,000 DM to its account at the expense of Hamburger Sparkasse, because the screen-text system is vulnerable to manipulation.
• 1985 For the first time in six years, representatives of the two Cold War superpowers—Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev—meet for a summit.
• 2002 The world's first mathematics museum opens in Giessen.
• 2020 The PlayStation 5 video game console is released on the European market.

Born on November 19

• 1875 Hiram Bingham, American archaeologist and explorer
• 1900 Anna Seghers, German writer
• 1901 Berta Drews, German actress
• 1920 Gene Tierney, American actress
• 1930 Christian Schwarz-Schilling, German politician, member of the Bundestag, federal minister, entrepreneur
• 1933 Larry King, American presenter
• 1934 Kurt Hamrin, Swedish football player
• 1960 Matt Sorum, American musician
• 1981 André Lotterer, German racing driver
• 1991 Johannes Kühn, German biathlete and cross-country skier

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „19. November“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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