Historical Events  -  November 19

1946 : Afghanistan, Iceland, and Sweden joined the United Nations.

1969 : Footballer Pele scored his 1,000th goal.

1969 : Charles Conrad and Alan Bill landed on the moon from the American spacecraft Apollo 12.

1977 : Anwar Sadat, the then President of Egypt, made a historic visit to Israel.

1985, 19th November: Summit talks started in Switzerland between the two superpowers of the world – the former Soviet Union and the United States.

1998 : US President Bill Clinton was indicted.

2019 : Google launched its cloud gaming service Stadia.

 

Famous Birthdays   – November 19  

1600: Charles I, King of England.

1828: Rani Lakshmi Bai, Queen of Jhansi, India.

1831: James Garfield, the 20th President of the United States.

1838: Keshub Chandra Sen, a Hindu philosopher, and social reformer from India.

1845: Agnes Giberne, Indian-English astronomer, and author.

1877: Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman, and politician, founder of the Venice Film Festival.

1909: Peter Ferdinand Drucker, an Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author.

1917: Indira Gandhi, an Indian politician, and the first female Prime Minister of India.

1918: Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, an Indian Marxist philosopher.

1922: Salil Chaudhary, a composer of Hindi, and Bengali films.

1928: Dara Singh Randhawa, an Indian professional wrestler, actor, and politician.

1938: Ted Turner III, an American media proprietor, producer, and philanthropist.

1942: Calvin Klein, founder of Calvin Klein Inc.

1951: Zeenat Aman, an Indian actress, and model.

1959: Mallika Srinivasan, the Chairman & Managing Director of Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited.

1971: Kiren Rijiju, an Indian lawyer and politician from Arunachal Pradesh.

1975: Sushmita Sen, an Indian actress, and model. The first Indian who won the Miss Universe title.

1976: Jack Dorsey, an American technology entrepreneur, and the co-founder and CEO of Twitter.

1985: Badshah (Aditya Prateek Singh Sisodia), an Indian rapper.

 

 

Death Anniversaries   – November 19

1806: Shah Alam II, the sixteenth Mughal Emperor.

1850: Richard Mentor Johnson, a politician and the ninth vice president of the United States.

1883: Sir Carl Wilhelm Siemens, a German-British electrical engineer.

1976: Basil Spence, co-founder of Coventry Cathedral.

2004: Sir John Robert Vane, a British pharmacologist.

2013: Frederick Sanger, a British biochemist who twice won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.