November 19<\/p>\n
636 \u2013 The moslem Rashidun Caliphate defeats the Sasanian Empire, the last non-moslem empire of Persia, at the Battle of al-Q\u0101disiyyah in modern day Iraq.<\/p>\n
1493 \u2013 Christopher Columbus lands and claims the island he names San Juan Bautista – modern Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n
1794 \u2013 The United States delegation headed by John Jay, and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign a 10 year treaty which attempts to resolve some of the economic, trade and territory occupation problems left over from the Paris Treaty of 1783 which ended the Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n
1863 \u2013 President Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n
1912 \u2013 During the First Balkan War, the Serbian Army defeats in detail the Ottoman Army in Monastir Vilayet near the modern town of Bitola, causing a collapse of the 5 century long rule of Macedonia by the Ottoman Empire<\/p>\n
1916 \u2013 Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.<\/em><\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch Operation Uranus, <\/em>a counterattack on Nazi forces at Stalingrad.<\/p>\n 1950 \u2013 US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe.<\/p>\n 1955 \u2013 National Review<\/em> publishes its first issue.<\/p>\n 1969 \u2013 The Apollo 12 Lunar Excursion Module Intrepid<\/em> lands on the moon at Oceanus Procellarum<\/em> – Ocean of Storms – and astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.<\/p>\n 1979 \u2013\u00a0 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.<\/p>\n 1985 \u2013 President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time at a summit in Geneva.<\/p>\n 1996 \u2013 United Express Flight 5925, a Beechcraft 1900, and a private Beechcraft King Air collide on the runway at Quincy Regional Airport in Quincy, Illinois, killing all 14 passengers and crew aboard both craft.<\/p>\n 1998 \u2013 The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against President Clinton.<\/p>\n 2017 \u2013 Charles Manson dies in prison, completing his life sentence for multiple murders.<\/p>\n 2022 \u2013 A man shoots and kills 5 people and wounds 19 more at a nightclub in Colorado Springs before being physically subdued, and later sentenced to 5 consecutive terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole, plus 2,211 years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November 19 636 \u2013 The moslem Rashidun Caliphate defeats the Sasanian Empire, the last non-moslem empire of Persia, at the Battle of al-Q\u0101disiyyah in modern day Iraq. 1493 \u2013 Christopher Columbus lands and claims the island he names San Juan Bautista – modern Puerto Rico. 1794 \u2013 The United States delegation headed by John Jay, … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61946"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97862,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61946\/revisions\/97862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}