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Events that Happened “A Day as Today”

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November 19 – A Day as Today

461: Libyan Severo (420-465) is declared Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The real power is in the hands of the magister militum Ricimero (405-472).
636: in Iraq, Caliphate Rashidún defeats the Sassanid Empire in the battle of al-Qadisiyya.
880 (10/14/4 of the year Gangyo): in Hagiwara (eastern part of Shimane prefecture, Japan) there is a magnitude 7 earthquake.
936: in Córdoba (Spain), Abd al-Rahman III begins the construction of the Medina Azahara.
1095: the Council of Clermont begins in France, summoned by Pope Urban II to discuss whether the First Crusade will be sent to the Holy Land (Palestine).
1177 (10/27 of Jisho’s first year): an earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter seismological scale is recorded in Nara Prefecture (Japan) at 2:00 a.m. (local time).
1404: the first flood on St. Elizabeth’s Day occurs in the Netherlands, especially catastrophic in Flanders, Holland and Zealand (regions that had been severely flooded 29 years earlier, on October 8, 1375).
1421: In the Netherlands, between the night of the 18th and the early morning of the 19th, a torrential storm breaks a dike in Wieldrecht. Some 72 villages are swallowed up by the waters and between 2,000 and 10,000 people die. All of Holland and Zealand are under water. (Second flood on the day of Saint Elizabeth).
1423: Alfonso V of Aragon returns to Catalonia after the revolt in Naples, sacking Marseille on the return trip.
1493: in the Caribbean Sea, Christopher Columbus – on his second voyage – disembarks on an island that he sighted the day before. He baptizes it San Juan Bautista, but later it will be called Puerto Rico.
1499: in Messina (Italy) an earthquake of magnitude 4.6 on the Richter seismological scale is recorded.
1523: in Transylvania (Romania) there is an earthquake of magnitude 5.3 on the Richter seismological scale and intensity X, with an epicenter almost on the surface.
1542: in Gansu (China) there is an earthquake of magnitude 5.5 on the Richter seismological scale, and intensity VII.
1564: Miguel López de Legazpi leaves Mexico in command of an expedition to conquer and colonize the Philippines.
1755: in Meknes (Fez, Morocco) an earthquake with an intensity of X is registered, which leaves a balance of 3000 dead.
1794: The United States and the British Empire sign the Jay Treaty, which attempts to solve some of the problems left by the American War of Independence.
1802: the first members of the Garífuna ethnic group arrive in British Honduras (now Belize).
1803: French rule ends in Haiti, when the Haitian troops of General Jacques Dessalines enter Cap Francais.
1809: in the battle of Ocaña the French defeat the Spanish.
1810: in Spain, the Cortes of Cádiz approve the alliance treaty with England of January 14, 1809.
1816: the University of Warsaw is founded in Poland.
1819: the Prado Museum is inaugurated in Madrid, under the direction of José Gabriel de Silva-Bazán y Waldstein, Marquis of Santa Cruz de Mudela.
1829: in Shandong and Yidu (China) at 2:00 (local time) an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 on the Richter seismological scale and intensity VIII is recorded, which leaves a balance of 117 dead.
1837: in Cuba the first railway in Latin America is inaugurated, between Havana and Bejucal.
1847: Canada’s second railway line is opened in Canada, between Montreal and Lachine.
1850: the Teatro Real is inaugurated in Madrid.
1854: in San Fernando (Cádiz) the blessing of the Church-Pantheon of Illustrious Marines takes place.
1859: the War of Africa between Spain and Morocco begins.
1863: in Gettysburg (Pennsylvania) ―in the framework of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg Address, at the inauguration ceremony of the cemetery in that city.
1875: in Catalonia, General Arsenio Martínez-Campos ends the last pockets of Carlist resistance.
1880: in Ecuador the province of Carchi is created.
1881: near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine, a meteorite falls.
1882: in Argentina, Dardo Rocha founds the city of La Plata.
1879: in Madrid, Alfonso XII contracts a second marriage with the Austrian aristocrat María Cristina de Habsburgo-Lorena.
1885: in the framework of the Serbo-Bulgarian War, the Bulgarians win the Battle of Slivnitsa, which strengthens the unification between the kingdom of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
1905: the first public bus service opens in Berlin.
1906: in Montevideo the maiden trip of the public electric tram service is made, starting the electric transport system in the Uruguayan capital (this would culminate in 1992 with the trolleys).
1909: in the military field of Châlons (France) the aviator Hubert Latham achieves the height record when flying at 410 meters.
1911: Two ships, the Island Maid and the Angele, sink in the Dunbar Sands (sandbanks off Cornwall). Entire crews die.
1912: in present-day North Macedonia – within the framework of the First Balkan War – the Serbian army captures the city of Bitola at the Battle of Monastir. Thus ends five centuries of reign of the Ottoman Empire in the country.
1916: Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish the Goldwyn Pictures film company.
1931: Adolf Windaus makes public that it has been possible to manufacture vitamin D1 in the form of pure crystals.
1933: in Spain universal suffrage is celebrated for the first time in the General Elections and Spanish women have the right to vote for the first time. Right-wing parties win the elections.
1936: in Spain, Buenaventura Durruti is seriously wounded by a bullet in the chest. He will die the next day.
1937: in Spain, the Government decrees the creation of the National Council of the Movement.
1942: at the Battle of Stalingrad – during the Second World War – the Soviet forces of General Georgui Zhukov begin the Russian offensive on the Volga.
1942: In present-day Uganda, Mutesa II is crowned 35th and last kabaka (king) of Buganda.
1943: in Lemberg (Lviv), in western Ukraine ―in the framework of the Nazi Holocaust―, the Nazis liquidate the Janowska concentration camp, killing at least 6,000 Jewish men, women and children, after a failed uprising and attempted mass escape.
1944: in the United States ―in the framework of World War II (1939-1945) – President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the sixth war loan, which managed to sell 14 billion U.S. dollars in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1945: in France, Charles De Gaulle is reelected President of the Republic.
1946: Afghanistan, Iceland, and Sweden join the United Nations.
1950: American General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.
1951: On the surface of the Nevada nuclear test site, the United States detonates the 1.2 kiloton Sugar atomic bomb. It is the penultimate of Operation Buster-Jangle, which for a month unwittingly exposed some 6,500 infantrymen to seven atomic blasts for training purposes.
1952: In Greece, Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
1954: Télé Monte Carlo, the oldest private television channel in Europe, is inaugurated in Monaco.
1955: the first issue of the National Review is published.
1959: In the United States, the automotive company Ford Motor Company announces that it will discontinue the unpopular Edsel.
1967: TVB, the first commercial wireless television channel, opens in Hong Kong.
1969: On the Moon, Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land in the Oceanus Procellarum (Ocean of Storms) and become the third and fourth human to walk on the Moon.
1969: at the Maracaná stadium in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Pelé scores his thousandth goal.
1976: in the city of San Nicolás de los Arroyos (Argentina) ―in the framework of the Argentine civic-military dictatorship (1976-1983) -, joint forces of the Army, the Federal Police and the Buenos Aires police assassinate in his house on the street Juan B. Justo No. 676 to Omar Darío Amestoy and María del Carmen Fettolini, together with their two children, Fernando (3) and María Eugenia Amestoy (5) and to Ana María del Carmen Granada (Massacre of San Nicolás).
1977: Flight 425 of the TAP Portugal company crashes in the Madeira Islands; 131 people die.
1979: In Iran, the Muslim leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 hostages African-American women held at the US embassy in Tehran.
1982: in New Delhi (India) the IX Asian Games begin.
1983: the Iranian armed forces launch an offensive against Iraqi Kurdistan.
1984: in the town of San Juan Ixhuatepec (State of Mexico), a series of explosions at the facilities of Petróleos Mexicanos leaves between 500 and 600 charred dead and several thousand injured, as well as the evacuation of some 200,000 people from the north from the valley of Mexico.
1984: in Fabero (León) the explosion of a firedamp pool kills 8 miners in the operation of Combustibles del Río.
1985: Mikhail Gorbachev (head of the Soviet Government) and Ronald Reagan (president of the United States) meet in Geneva (Switzerland) to restart negotiations on nuclear disarmament.
1985: In the United States, the Pennzoil oil company wins a judgment of US $ 10.530 million against the Texaco company. It is the largest civil verdict in the history of that country.
1988: Communist representative and future Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack by Albanian separatists in Kosovo.
1990: NATO and the Warsaw Pact sign peace.
1991: The Mexican singer Luis Miguel, releases his eighth studio album and first album recorded in boleros entitled Romance.
1992: Russian President Boris Yeltsin announces in Seoul Russia’s decision to halt the manufacture of nuclear submarines.
1994: the V South American Games Valencia 1994 begins
1996: The Spanish singer Julio Iglesias, launches his new album, titled Tango.
1997: in Colombia the César Gaviria Trujillo Viaduct is inaugurated, which connects Pereira with Dosquebradas.
1998: Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait de l’artistae sans barbe (‘portrait of the artist without a beard’) sells at auction for US $ 71.5 million.
1999: China launches its first spacecraft, Shenzhou.
2002: off the coast of Galicia (Spain) sinking of the Prestige oil tanker that began on November 13.
2002: American alternative rock supergroup Audioslave releases their self-titled debut studio album, Audioslave.
2002: The Puerto Rican singer Olga Tañón, releases her eighth studio album entitled Sobrevivir.
2002: The Guatemalan singer-songwriter Ricardo Arjona, releases his ninth studio album entitled Santo Sin.
2004: Microsoft in association with Bungie releases the video game Halo 2.
2006: Nintendo launches the Wii console, the successor to the Nintendo GameCube, which competed against game consoles such as Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360.
2007: in Spain, the singer Amaia Montero announces her retirement from the Spanish pop group La Oreja de Van Gogh.
2012: The International Court of Justice in The Hague announces its ruling on the territorial dispute between Colombia and Nicaragua.
2013: in the city of Beirut (Lebanon), two Muslim suicide bombers set off bombs at the Iranian embassy; 23 people die and 160 others are injured.
2017: Presidential Elections are held in Chile.

Who was Born “A Day as Today”?

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November 19 – A Day as Today

1600: Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland (d. 1649).
1617: Eustache Le Sueur, French painter and educator (d. 1655).
1711: Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian physicist, chemist, astronomer, geographer and writer (d. 1765).
1722: Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (d. 1809).
1752: George Rogers Clark, American general (d. 1818).
1754: Pedro Romero, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1839).
1770: Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (d. 1844).
1775: Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger, German entomologist (d. 1813).
1780: José Cuero y Caicedo, a Colombian Franciscan religious (d. 1815).
1799: René Caillié, French explorer (d. 1838).
1805: Ferdinand de Lesseps, French engineer and diplomat, who had the Suez Canal built (c. 1894).
1809: Ramón Pellico, Spanish mining engineer (d. 1876).
1811: Ponciano Arriaga, Mexican politician (d. 1865).
1831 – James A. Garfield, American President (d. 1881).
1831: José Evaristo Uriburu, Argentine lawyer and politician, president between 1895 and 1898 (d. 1914).
1833: Wilhelm Dilthey, German philosopher, psychologist and historian (d. 1911).
1834: Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist and academic (d. 1924).
1843: Richard Avenarius, German-Swiss philosopher and academic (d. 1896).
1851: Gonzalo Bulnes, Chilean politician (d. 1936).
1859: Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer, conductor and educator (d. 1935).
1867: Ángel Gallardo, Argentine engineer and politician (d. 1934).
1875: Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet politician (d. 1946).
1875: Hiram Bingham III, American explorer and politician (d. 1956).
1887: James B. Sumner, American chemist, 1946 Nobel Prize Winner (d. 1955).
1888: José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player and theologian (d. 1942).
1889: Clifton Webb, American actor, singer and dancer (d. 1966).
1894: Américo Tomás, Portuguese politician and admiral, 14th president of his country (d. 1987).
1895: Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (d. 1989).
1900: Anna Seghers, German writer and politician (d. 1983).
1904 – Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr., American assassin (d. 1971).
1905 – Tommy Dorsey, American jazz trombonist, big band conductor, and composer (d. 1956).
1906: Franz Schädle, German Nazi SS officer (d. 1945).
1908: Jean Yves Daniel-Lesur, French composer and organist (f. 2002).
1908: Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco, Ecuadorian writer and historian (f. 1993).
1909: Peter Drucker, Austrian theorist and writer (d. 2005).
1909: Carlos López Moctezuma, Mexican actor (d. 1980).
1912: George Palade, Romanian-American biologist, 1974 Nobel Prize winner for physiology and medicine (d. 2008).
1913: Ataúlfo Argenta, Spanish conductor and pianist (d. 1958).
1915: Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American pharmacologist, biochemist, and researcher, 1971 Nobel Prize winner for physiology and medicine (d. 1974).
1916: George Hall, Canadian actor (f. 2002).
1917: Indira Gandhi, Indian politician and prime minister (d. 1984).
1918: Margarita Landi, Spanish journalist (d. 2004).
1919: Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian filmmaker and screenwriter (d. 2006).
1919: Alan Young, British-Canadian actor, singer and filmmaker (d. 2016).
1920: Gene Tierney, American actress and singer (d. 1991).
1921: Roy Campanella, American baseball player and coach (d. 1993).
1922: Yuri Knorozov, Ukrainian-Soviet linguist and ethnographer (d. 1999).
1924: William Russell, British actor.
1925: Zygmunt Bauman, Polish-British sociologist, historian and academic.
1926: Jeane Kirkpatrick, American diplomat (d. 2006).
1926: Pino Rauti, Italian journalist and politician (d. 2012).
1929: Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian musician.
1930: Kurt Nielsen, Danish tennis player (d. 2011).
1932: Eleanor F. Helin, American astronomer (d. 2009).
1933: Larry King, American journalist.
1934: Kurt Hamrin, Swedish footballer.
1934: Valentin Kozmich Ivanov, Russian footballer (d. 2011).
1934: Joanne Kyger, American Buddhist poet, of the Beat Generation.
1935: Jack Welch, American businessman.
1936: Ray Collins, American singer (d. 2012).
1936: Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese chemist, 1986 Nobel Prize Winner.
1936: Tania (Tamara Bunke), revolutionary activist and Argentine guerrilla (f. 1967).
1938: Ted Turner, American businessman.
1938: Moisés Fontela, Argentine engineer.
1938: Cees Haast, Dutch cyclist (d. 2019).
1939: Emil Constantinescu, Romanian academic and politician, 3rd president of his country.
1939: Tom Harkin, soldier, lawyer and American politician.
1939: Brenda Vaccaro, American actress.
1939: Richard Zare, American chemist and academic.
1941 – Tommy Thompson, American military and politician, Secretary of Health and Human Services.
1942: Calvin Klein, American fashion designer.
1942: Moris, Argentine singer, musician and composer.
1942: Sharon Olds, American poet and academic.
1942: Norberto Suárez, Argentine actor (f. 2012).
1943: Margalida Castro, Colombian actress.
1943: Fred Lipsius, American saxophonist and educator, of the band Blood, Sweat & Tears.
1943: Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban baseball player (d. 1990).
1944: Agnes Baltsa, mezzo-soprano and Greek actress.
1944: Fernando Pérez Valdés, Cuban filmmaker.
1945: Miguel Planas, Spanish footballer.
1947: Anfinn Kallsberg, Faroese politician, 10th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.
1947: Lamar S. Smith, American lawyer and politician.
1951: Zeenat Aman, Indian model and actress.
1951: José María Fraguas, Spanish television producer.
1951: Mihai Ghimpu, Moldovan lawyer.
1952: Urruti (Francisco Javier González Urruticoechea), Spanish goalkeeper (f. 2001).
1953: Robert Beltran, American actor.
1953: Alexander O’Neal, American singer-songwriter for R & B-songwriter.
1954: Kathleen Quinlan, American actress.
1954: Abdelfatah Al-Sisi, Egyptian president.
1955: Sam Hamm, American screenwriter and producer.
1955: Gloria Guida, Italian actress.
1956: Eileen Collins, American woman astronaut, colonel and pilot.
1956: Ann Curry, journalist and writer from Guam.
1956: Paul Keane, Australian actor.
1957: Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (d. 2000).
1958: Algirdas Butkevičius, Lithuanian sergeant and politician, Prime Minister of his country.
1958: Terrence Carson, African-American actor.
1958: Charlie Kaufman, American director, producer and screenwriter.
1959: Allison Janney, American actress.
1960: Miss Elizabeth, American professional wrestler (d. 2003).
1960: Matt Sorum, American drummer, of the band Guns N ‘Roses.
1961: Juan José Moreno Cuenca, Spanish criminal.
1961: Germán Coppini, Spanish singer (f. 2013)
1961: Meg Ryan, American actress.
1962: Amado Boudou, Argentine politician and vice president.
1962: Jodie Foster, American actress, filmmaker and producer.
1962: Sean Parnell, American lawyer and politician, 12th Governor of Alaska.
1964: Jung Jin-young, South Korean actor.
1964: Eric Musselman, American basketball player and coach.
1964: Petr Nečas, Czech Prime Minister.
1964: Crystal Waters, American singer and songwriter.
1964: Alfredo Zaiat, Argentine economist and journalist.
1964: Viktor Skrypnyk, Ukrainian footballer and coach.
1965: Laurent Blanc, French footballer and coach.
1965: Luis Rubio, Argentine actor, humorist and screenwriter.
1965: Paul Weitz, American actor, filmmaker, producer, screenwriter and playwright.
1965: Nílson Esidio, Brazilian soccer player.
1966: Gail Devers, American athlete.
1966: Jason Scott Lee, actor and American martial artist.
1967: Daniel Gómez Rinaldi, Argentine journalist.
1967: Olaf Hense, German athlete.1968: Karina, Peruvian-Venezuelan actress and singer.
1969: Philippe Adams, Belgian racing driver.
1969: Erika Alexander, American actress and screenwriter.
1969: Ana Álvarez, Spanish actress and model.
1969: Richard Virenque, Moroccan cyclist.
1970: Juanita Parra, Chilean drummer and composer, of the band Los Jaivas.
1970: José Serrano Salgado, Ecuadorian politician.
1971: Justin Chancellor, British bassist, of the bands Tool and Peach.
1971: Jeremy McGrath, American motorcycle racer.
1971: Naoko Mori, Japanese-British actress and singer.
1971: Tony Rich, singer, songwriter and American R&B musician.
1971: Toshihiro Yamaguchi, Japanese footballer.
1972: Sandrine Holt, British-American model and actress.
1972: Nicole Forester, American actress.
1973: Billy Currington, singer, songwriter and American guitarist.
1973: Abraham Gragera, Spanish poet.
1973: Ryukishi07, Japanese writer and illustrator.
1973: Prince Amoako, Ghanaian footballer.
1973: Pekka Himanen, Finnish philosopher.
1975: Toby Bailey, American basketball player.
1975: Bastian Reinhardt, German footballer.
1976: Jack Dorsey, American businessman, co-founder of the social network Twitter.
1976: Diego Gentile, Argentine actor.
1976: Benny Vansteelant, Belgian athlete (f. 2007).
1976: Stylianos Venetidis, Greek footballer.
1978: Dries Buytaert, Belgian programmer and computer scientist.
1979: Mahé Drysdale, New Zealand rower.
1979: Ryan Howard, American baseball player.
1979: Michelle Vieth, Mexican actress.
1979: Jordi Vilches, Spanish actor.
1979: Peter Wisgerhof, Dutch footballer.
1980: Vladimir Radmanović, Serbian basketball player.
1980: Adele Silva, British actress.
1980: Arivaldo Alves dos Santos, Brazilian soccer player.
1981: Carlos Araujo, Argentine soccer player.
1981: Marcus Banks, American basketball player.
1981: Juan Martín Fernández Lobbe, Argentine rugby player.
1981: Juliet Lima, Venezuelan actress.
1981: André Lotterer, German motorsport driver.
1981: Yfke Sturm, Dutch model.
1983: Adam Driver, American actor.
1983: Daria Werbowy, Canadian-Polish model.
1983: Adrián Cortés, Mexican soccer player.
1983: Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, Italian count.
1984: Jorge Fucile, Uruguayan soccer player.
1984: Dawid Kucharski, Polish footballer.
1984: Lindsay Ellingson, American model.
1984: Brittany Maynard, American activist (f. 2014).
1985: Chris Eagles, British footballer.
1985: Alex Mack, American football player.
1985: Claudia Molina, Spanish actress and singer.
1985: Jiří Kladrubský, Czech footballer.
1986: Pablo González, Chilean soccer player.
1986: Ezequiel Luna, Argentine soccer player.
1986: Dayron Robles, Cuban athlete.
1986: Milan Smiljanić, Serbian footballer.
1986: Willian Gomes de Siqueira, Brazilian soccer player.
1986: Ricardo Batista, Portuguese soccer player.
1987: Tarra White, Czech pornographic actress.
1988: Víctor Cuesta, Argentine soccer player.
1988: Roberto Rosales, Venezuelan soccer player.
1988: Patrick Kane, American ice hockey player.
1988: Júlio Tavares, Cape Verdean footballer.
1989: Tyga, American rapper and producer.
1989: Benedikt Röcker, German footballer.
1989: Darwin Bermúdez, Honduran soccer player.
1991: Genki Yamamoto, Japanese professional cyclist.
1991: Wu Lei, Chinese footballer.
1993: Cleo Massey, Australian actress and singer.
1993: Suso Fernández, Spanish soccer player.
1993: Yutaro Chinen, Japanese soccer player.
1994: Ibrahima Mbaye, Senegalese footballer.
1994: Javi Galán, Spanish footballer.
1995: Vanessa Axente, Hungarian model.
1997: Yaroslav Kotlyarov, Ukrainian footballer.
1999: Yevguéniya Medvedeva, Russian skater.
1999: Denisse Peña, Spanish actress.
2000: Olek Balcerowski, Polish basketball player.

Who Left Us “A Day as Today”?

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November 19 – A Day as Today

235: Pontian, Roman pope between 230 and 235, martyr and Catholic saint.
1299: Matilda de Hackeborn, Germanic Cistercian mystic nun (b. 1241).
1316: John I the Posthumous (5 days old), French and Navarrese king (b.1316).
1557: Bona Sforza of Milan, Italian aristocrat, wife of the Polish King Sigismund I the Elder (b. 1494).
1630: Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (b. 1586).
1659: Guillén de Lampart, Irish immigrant, precursor of Mexican independence (b. 1611).
1665: Nicolás Poussin, French-Italian painter (b. 1594).
1672: John Wilkins, British bishop and philosopher (b.1614).
1692: Thomas Shadwell, British poet and playwright (b. 1642).
1703: the Man in the Iron Mask, French prisoner.
1723: Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and military man (b.1632).
1798: Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish politician and revolutionary (b. 1763).
1804: Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, Italian composer (b. 1728).
1822: Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763).
1828: Franz Schubert, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1797).
1850: Richard Mentor Johnson, politician, lawyer and American military man, 9º vice-president of his country (b. 1780).
1855: Mihály Vörösmarty, Hungarian writer and poet (b. 1800).
1883: Carl Wilhelm Siemens, German-British engineer (b.1823).
1887: Emma Lazarus, American poet (b. 1849).
1897 – William Seymour Tyler, American historian and academic (b.1810).
1909: Luis Belíritutegui, Argentine politician (b. 1842).
1911: Ramón Cáceres, Dominican military and politician, president between 1905 and 1911 (b. 1866).
1915: Joe Hill, Swedish trade unionist and activist (b.1879).
1918 – Joseph F. Smith, American religious leader 6th President of the Mormon Church (b. 1838).
1919: Florencio Constantino, Spanish tenor (b. 1869).
1923: Jacinto Octavio Picón, Spanish writer, painter, art critic and journalist (b. 1852).
1924: Thomas H. Ince, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1882).
1931: Xu Zhimo, Chinese poet and translator (b. 1897).
1935: Silverio Izaguirre, Spanish footballer (b. 1897).
1938: Lev Shestov, Ukrainian philosopher and theologian (b. 1866).
1942: Bruno Schulz, Polish painter and critic (b. 1892).
1943: Froylán Turcios, Honduran writer and politician (b. 1875).
1949: James Ensor, Belgian painter (b. 1860).
1952: Pedro Dulanto, Peruvian lawyer and politician (b. 1889).
1956 – Francis L. Sullivan, British-American actor (b.1903).
1962: Francisco Tudela y Varela, politician, lawyer and Peruvian (b. 1876).
1963: Carmen Amaya, Spanish bailaora (b.1918).
1967: João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian writer (b.1908).
1970: Mariya Yúdina, Soviet pianist (b. 1899).
1973: Cèsar Martinell, Spanish architect (b. 1888).
1976: Basil Spence, Indo-British architect (b.1907).
1976: Elisa Bachofen, Argentine engineer (b. 1891).
1984: Martín Marculeta, Spanish footballer (b.1907).
1985: Stepin Fetchit, American actor, singer and dancer (b.1907).
1985: Juan Arvizu, lyrical tenor from Mexico (b.1900).
1986: Kosta Nađ, Yugoslav military (b.1911).
1988: Christina Onassis, Greek magnate (b.1950).
1989: Félix Orte, Argentine soccer player (b. 1956).
1990: Sun Li-jen, Chinese general and politician (b.1900).
1991: Reggie Nalder, Austrian-American actor (b.1907).
1992: Diane Varsi, American actress (b. 1938).
1993: Dorothy Revier, American actress (b.1904).
1995: José Martín Colmenarejo, Spanish cyclist (b. 1936).
1998: Alan J. Pakula, American filmmaker, producer and screenwriter (b. 1928).
1998: Tetsuya Fujita, Japanese meteorologist, severe storm researcher (b.1920)
1999: Alexander Liberman, Russian-American artist (b.1912).
1999: Yvette Cauchois, French physicist (b.1908)
2000: Robert Escarpit, French journalist and writer (b.1918).
2001: Julio Fuentes Serrano, Spanish journalist (b. 1954).
2004: George Canseco, Filipino journalist and composer (b.1934).
2004: Piet Esser, Dutch sculptor and academic (b. 1914).
2004: Terry Melcher, American singer, songwriter and producer (b. 1942).
2004: John Vane, British pharmacologist, noble prize of physiology or medicine (b. 1927).
2004: Manuel Zapata Olivella, Afro-Colombian writer (b.1920).
2006: Francis Girod, French filmmaker (b.1944).
2007: Kevin DuBrow, American singer-songwriter (b. 1955).
2007: Soledad Ortega Spottorno, Spanish intellectual (b.1917).
2008: Anabel Ochoa, Spanish sexologist, writer and broadcaster (b. 1955).
2009: Daul Kim, South Korean model and blogger (b.1989).
2010: “75 Cents” (Ladislav Demeterffy), Croatian singer (b. 1933).
2012: Jorge Rossi, Argentine television presenter (b. 1954).
2013: Frederick Sanger, British biochemist and academic, noble prize for physiology or medicine (b.1918).
2014: Raúl A. Sichero Bouret, Uruguayan architect (b.1916).
2014: René Abeliuk, Chilean lawyer and politician (b.1931).
2014: Ramón Hoyos, Colombian cyclist (b.1932).
2014: Gholam Hossein Mazloumi, Iranian footballer and manager (b.1950).2014: Mike Nichols, German-American filmmaker, actor, producer and screenwriter (b.1931).
2015: Gerardo Cruz, Costa Rican baker and activist (b.1992).
2017: Fernando Matthei, Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Air Force (b.1925).
2017: Charles Manson, American criminal (b.1934)

What is Celebrated “A Day as Today”?

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November 19 – A Day as Today

International Men’s Day.
World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse
World Toilet Day
Argentina: National Day for the Prevention of Abuse against Children and Adolescents.
Argentina: anniversary of the founding of La Plata, capital of the first Argentine State.
Puerto Rico: celebration of the arrival of the Spanish on the island (“Discovery” of Puerto Rico).