| 131401 | November 19 | Event | 1943 – Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt. |
| 131402 | November 19 | Event | 1944 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort. |
| 131403 | November 19 | Event | 1944 – World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden. |
| 131404 | November 19 | Event | 1946 – Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations. |
| 131405 | November 19 | Event | 1950 – US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO-Europe. |
| 131406 | November 19 | Event | 1952 – Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece. |
| 131407 | November 19 | Event | 1954 – Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III. |
| 131408 | November 19 | Event | 1955 – National Review publishes its first issue. |
| 131409 | November 19 | Event | 1959 – The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel. |
| 131410 | November 19 | Event | 1967 – The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong. |
| 131411 | November 19 | Event | 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon. |
| 131412 | November 19 | Event | 1969 – Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal. |
| 131413 | November 19 | Event | 1977 – TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes in the Madeira Islands, killing 131. |
| 131414 | November 19 | Event | 1979 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran. |
| 131415 | November 19 | Event | 1984 – San Juanico disaster: A series of explosions at the Pemex petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people. |
| 131416 | November 19 | Event | 1985 – Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time. |
| 131417 | November 19 | Event | 1985 – Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, b |
| 131418 | November 19 | Event | 1985 – Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud. |
| 131419 | November 19 | Event | 1988 – Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy |
| 131420 | November 19 | Event | 1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals. |
| 131421 | November 19 | Event | 1994 – In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers. |
| 131422 | November 19 | Event | 1996 – Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire. |
| 131423 | November 19 | Event | 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton. |
| 131424 | November 19 | Event | 1998 – Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million. |
| 131425 | November 19 | Event | 1999 – Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft. |
| 131426 | November 19 | Event | 2002 – The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 20 million US gallons (76,000 m³) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history. |
| 131427 | November 19 | Event | 2004 – The Malice at the Palace: The worst brawl in NBA history, Ron Artest suspended 86 games (rest of season), Stephen Jackson suspended 30 games |
| 131428 | November 19 | Event | 2010 – The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand 29 people are killed in the nation's worst mining disaster since 1914. |
| 131429 | November 19 | Event | 2013 – A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures 160 others. |
| 131430 | November 19 | Birth | 1464 – Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d. 1526) |