131371 | November 18 | Death | 2013 – Bennett Reimer, American author and academic (b. 1932) |
131372 | November 18 | Death | 2013 – S. R. D. Vaidyanathan, Indian nadaswaram player and composer (b. 1929) |
131373 | November 18 | Death | 2013 – Ljubomir Vračarević, Serbian martial artist, founded Real Aikido (b. 1947) |
131374 | November 18 | Death | 2013 – Peter Wintonick, Canadian director and producer (b. 1953) |
131375 | November 18 | Death | 2014 – Dave Appell, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1922) |
131376 | November 18 | Death | 2014 – Pepe Eliaschev, Argentinian journalist and author (b. 1945) |
131377 | November 18 | Death | 2014 – Ahmad Lozi, Jordanian educator and politician, 48th Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1925) |
131378 | November 18 | Death | 2014 – C. Rudhraiya, Indian director and producer (b. 1947) |
131379 | November 18 | Holiday and observance | Christian feast day:Abhai of Hach (Syriac Orthodox Church)Dedication of the Basilicas of Saints Peter and PaulJuthwaraMabyn (Roman Catholic Church and Anglicanism)Rose Philippine DuchesneNovember 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) |
131380 | November 18 | Holiday and observance | Day of Army and Victory (Haiti) |
131381 | November 18 | Holiday and observance | Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Latvia from Russia in 1918. |
131382 | November 18 | Holiday and observance | Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Morocco from France and Spain in 1956. |
131383 | November 18 | Holiday and observance | National Day (Oman) |
131384 | November 18 | Holiday and observance | The main day of the Feast of the Virgen de Chiquinquirá or Chinita's Fair (Maracaibo, Venezuela) |
131385 | November 19 | Event | 461 – Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The real power is in the hands of the magister militum Ricimer. |
131386 | November 19 | Event | 636 – The Rashidun Caliphate defeated the Sasanian Empire at the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah in Iraq. |
131387 | November 19 | Event | 1095 – The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins. |
131388 | November 19 | Event | 1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico). |
131389 | November 19 | Event | 1794 – The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War. |
131390 | November 19 | Event | 1816 – Warsaw University is established. |
131391 | November 19 | Event | 1847 – The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened. |
131392 | November 19 | Event | 1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. |
131393 | November 19 | Event | 1881 – A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine. |
131394 | November 19 | Event | 1885 – Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia. |
131395 | November 19 | Event | 1911 – The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain. |
131396 | November 19 | Event | 1912 – First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia. |
131397 | November 19 | Event | 1916 – Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures. |
131398 | November 19 | Event | 1941 – World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen. |
131399 | November 19 | Event | 1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor. |
131400 | November 19 | Event | 1942 – Mutesa II is crowned the 35th and last Kabaka (king) of Buganda, prior to the restoration of the kingdom in 1993. |