11-19-2006, 08:36 AM
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November 19th
1493 ~ Christopher Columbus became the first European to go ashore on what would become Puerto Rico.
1805 ~ Birthday of Ferdinand de Lesseps, Suez Canal engineer.
1828 ~ Death of Franz Schubert, Austrian Composer.
1863 ~ U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
1884 ~ Birthday of José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban Chess Grand Master.
1917 ~ Birthday of Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India.
1941 ~ World War II: The Royal Australian Navy cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran sank each other off the coast of Western Australia.
1969 ~ The second Apollo mission, Apollo 12, landed on the Moon – in “the Ocean of Storms”.
1977 ~ Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel and spoke before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
1998 ~ Lewinsky scandal: The U.S. House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee began impeachment hearings against US President Bill Clinton.
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