On this day...

1493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his second voyage
1644 First protestant ministry society in New England
1794 Jay Treaty, First US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain
1863 Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg 
1874 William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding the city of $6 million, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment
1879 National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter
1903 Carrie Nation attempts to address the Senate
1906 London selected to host 1908 Olympics
1919 US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations
1932 Joe Kershalla scores 71 points in a college football game
1939 Don Lash wins 6th straight AAU cross-country 10K championship
1942 Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along the Don front
1949 Prince Rainier III coronation in Monaco
1951 Roy Campanella named NL MVP on his 30th birthday
1959 Ford cancels the Edsel
1961 Houston's George Blanda passes for 7 touchdowns vs. NY Titans (49-13)
1963 Worst Canadian air disaster kills 118 in Montreal
1968 Army coup seizes power in Mali
1969 Apollo 12's Conrad & Bean become 3rd & 4th humans on the Moon
1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a California state historical landmark
1971 Fort Wilderness opens
1979 Chuck Berry released from prison on income tax evasion
1980 CBS TV bans Calvin Klein's jean ad featuring Brooke Shields
1985 President Reagan & Soviet leader Gorbachev meet for first time
1988 LA Law's Corbin Bernsen marries actress Amanda Pays
1990 Greyhound files reorganization plan so they can be traded publicly
1990 Iraq announces it will free all German hostages
1994 First National Lottery draw in England

Birthdays which occurred on November 19th:

1600 Charles I, King of England (1625-49)
1752 George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary War
1770 Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen, Copenhagen Denmark, sculptor (Dying Lion)
1805 Ferdinand de Lesseps, France, diplomat (built Suez Canal)
1831 James A. Garfield, 20th US President 
1859 Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russia, musician (Armenian Rhapsody)
1899 Allen Tate, US, poet 
1904 Nancy Carroll, New York, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family)
1905 Tommy Dorsey, Mahanoy Plane Pennsylvania, orchestra leader (Stage Show, Mahogany)
1917 Indira Gandhi, Allahabad India, Indian PM (1966-77, 1980-84)
1919 Alan Young, England, actor (Time Machine, Wilbur Post-Mr. Ed)
1919 George Fenneman, Peking China, TV announcer (You Bet Your Life)
1921 Roy Campanella, Brooklyn Dodger catcher (NL MVP 1951/53/55)
1926 Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, US ambassador to UN
1933 Larry King, radio talk show host (Larry King Show)
1935 John F. Welch, Jr., Salem Massachusetts, CEO (GE)
1936 Dick Cavett, Kearney Nebraska, talk show host (Dick Cavett Show)
1938 Ted Turner, broadcasting mogul
1939 Garrick Utley, Chicago, newscaster (First Tuesday, NBC Weekend)
1941 Dan Haggerty, Hollywood, actor (Grizzly Adams)
1942 Calvin Klein, fashion designer (Calvin Klein Jeans)
1947 Bob Boone, San Diego, baseball catcher (Phillies, Angels)
1949 Ahmad Rashad (Bobby Moore), NFL receiver (Minnesota Vikings)/sportscaster
1949 Mickey Lee Davis, Jr., Tennessee, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1954 Kathleen Quinlan, Mill Valley CA, actress (Rose Garden, Twilight Zone)
1956 Glynis O'Connor, New York, actress (California Dreaming, Ode to Billy Joe)
1956 Scott Jacoby, Chicago, actor (Bad Ronald, Return to Horror High)
1957 Otis J Anderson, NFL running back (NY Giants, 1990 Superbowl MVP)
1961 Meg Ryan, Bethel Connecticut, actress (When Harry Met Sally)
1962 Jodie Foster, Bronx New York, actress (Bad News Bears)
1963 Terry Farrell, Cedar Rapids Iowa, actress (Laurie-Paper Dolls)

Deaths which occurred on November 19th:

1828 Franz Schubert, Austrian composer
1887 Emma Lazarus, US poet ("Give us your tired & poor"), dies in NY at 38
1915 Joe Hill, Labor leader, executed for murder
1971 Bill Stern, sportscaster (Saturday Night Fights), dies at 64
1988 Christine Onassis, heiress, dies of heart failure at 37