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>> Events, deaths, births, of 19 NOV [For Nov 19 Julian go to Gregorian date: 1582~1699: Nov 29 1700s: Nov 30 1800s: Dec 01 1900~2099: Dec 02] |
On a November 19:
4'000'002'002 (give or take a few hundred million years) The two massive black holes at the center of the merged (since some 100'000'000 years earlier) galaxies Milky Way and Andromeda merge shooting out intense radiation and gravitational waves across the universe. 2002 In primary elections, Israel's Labor Party rejects its leader Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, who was defense minister in the coalition government of Likud's Ariel Sharon, and chooses instead ex-general Amram Mitzna, to go into the 28 January 2003 general election. 2001 World Toilet Association conference starts in Singapore with some 200 delegates from all over the world. 2000 El presidente peruano Alberto Fujimori anuncia en Japón su decisión de dimitir. 1998 Temporary workers at Microsoft file a lawsuit claiming they are unfairly denied health benefits and stock options. In a similar case in 1993, a federal appeals court had decided that freelancers were entitled to discounted stock and other financial benefits from the company.
1995 In a close presidential runoff election in Poland, former communist party leader Aleksander Kwasniewski defeats incumbent Lech Walesa. Victoria del candidato socialdemócrata (ex comunista) Aleksander Kwasniewski en las elecciones presidenciales de Polonia, al conseguir el 51,72% de los votos, frente al presidente saliente, Lech Walesa, que obtuvo el 48,28%. 1995 CiU (Convergencia i Unio) gana las elecciones catalanas con el 41% de los votos, pero pierde la mayoría absoluta y diez escaños. 1994 Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano and his party claim victory in the country's first multiparty presidential and parliamentary elections. |
1991 Eduard Shevardnadze is reappointed Soviet foreign minister after resigning in December 1990 with a warning of an impending coup. 1991 The US House of Representatives sustained President Bush's veto of a bill that would have lifted his ban on federally financed abortion counseling. 1990 NATO and the Warsaw Pact nations signed a massive conventional arms treaty in Paris to end the 40-year Cold War. 1990 Greyhound files reorganization plan so they can be traded publicly 1990 Iraq announces it will free all German hostages 1988 Un millón de personas se manifiestan en Belgrado en apoyo del líder serbio criminal Slobodán Milosevicz y pidiendo que aumenten los controles sobre los albaneses de Kosovo. 1986 At the beginning of will become the Iran-Contra scandal, President Reagan says that the United States will send no more arms to Iran. His nose seems to grow longer. 1986 Entra en vigor la nueva Constitución nicaragüense, promulgada por la Asamblea Nacional, que define Nicaragua como un estado independiente, libre, soberano, unitario e indivisible, y garantiza la existencia del pluralismo político, la economía mixta y el no alineamiento. 1986 Un cuadro de Joan Miró es subastado en Nueva York por $2'350'000. |
1982 José Luis Castillo Puche recibe el Premio Nacional español de Novela. 1978 Se celebra una entrevista entre monseñor Marcel Lefêbvre y Juan Pablo II.
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1967 The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously passes a resolution to curb the commitment of US armed forces in Vietnam and a resolution urging the President Johnson to take the initiative to have the conflict brought before the United Nations Security Council. 1962 Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru reconoce que el ejército chino ha conseguido victorias sobre las tropas indias en el Nepal. 1961 The Third Assembly of the World Council of Churches convened at New Delhi, India, during which the International Missionary Council and its work was integrated into the larger ecumenical group. 1959 Ford Motor Co. announced it was halting production of the unpopular "Edsel."
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1949 Monaco held a coronation for its new ruler, Prince
Rainier III, six months after he succeeded his grandfather, Prince Louis
II.
1944 President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive with the goal of "immediately" raising $14 billion in war bonds for the war. |
1931 Adolf Windaus, investigador de Gottingen, hace pública la fabricación, mediante radiaciones, de la vitamina D1 en forma de cristales puros. 1919 The US Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles (and League of Nations) by a vote of 55 in favor, 39 against, short of the two-thirds majority needed for ratification. 1917 León Trotski crea en Rusia una comisión diplomática revolucionaria. 1896 Start of Sherlock Holmes' The Adventure of The Sussex Vampire 1887 Start of Sherlock Holmes' The Adventure of The Dying Detective 1875 El general Arsenio Martínez Campos somete los últimos focos de resistencia carlista en Cataluña. 1874 William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding the city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment 1863 Siege of Knoxville, Tennessee continues. |
1794 Jay's Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain. 1564 Miguel López de Legazpi parte de México al mando de una expedición para conquistar y colonizar las Filipinas, consideradas por Felipe II dentro del hemisferio español. 1493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage. 1493 Santa Margarita de Hungría, hija de Bela IV, rey de Hungría, es canonizada por Pío XII. 1423 Alfonso V de Aragón regresa a Cataluña después de escapar de una sublevación en Nápoles que ha puesto en peligro su propia vida. En el viaje de vuelta saquea Marsella. 0461 St Hilary begins his reign as Pope. -- 299'997'998 BC (give or take a few dozen million years) The two massive black holes at the center of galaxy N6240 merge shooting out intense radiation and gravitational waves across the universe, which reach the Solar system on 19 November 100'002'002 AD (give or take a few dozen million years). [see http://chandra.harvard.edu/press/02_releases/press_111902.html] |
2000 Abdel Rahman al-Dahashan, 14, shot in the chest
at a stone-throwing demonstration at the Karni crossing with Israel, according
to Palestinian doctors and witnesses. The Israeli army, however, said it
was not aware of clashes at Karni and did not shoot any live fire toward
protesters. Some 200 Palestinians and 30 Israelis have been killed since
the al-Aqsa intifada began after Ariel Sharon's 28 September visit to the
Temple Mount in Jerusalem. 2000 Pheasant, neck wrung by Britain's Queen Elizabeth after one of her dogs brought the bird wounded by a shotgun blast, during a shooting trip at her estate at Sandringham. The next day, a Sunday, the queen would wear to church pheasant feathers on her hat. 1996 Fourteen persons as a commuter plane collides with a private plane at an airport in Quincy, Illinois. 1978 Giorgio de Chirico, Italian Surrealist painter and sculptor born in Greece on 10 July 1888. MORE ON DE CHIRICO AT ART 4 NOVEMBER with links to images.
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