November 19 - Dance

Dance

This Day In History

1493

Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).

1863

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

1881

A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.

1916

Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.

1954

Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.

1959

The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.

1969

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.

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.
1995
"Toy Story" premiere.

1998

Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5 million.

Famous Birthdays

1600

Charles I of England (d. 1649)

1711

Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian writer and polymath (d. 1765)

1752

George Rogers Clark, American military leader (d. 1818)

1805

Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and Suez Canal engineer (d. 1894)

1876

Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian/Dutch mathematician (d. 1964)

1905

Tommy Dorsey, American bandleader (d. 1956)

1920

Gene Tierney, American actress (d. 1991)

1936

Dick Cavett, American talk show host

1949

Ahmad Rashad, American football player and sportscaster

1959

Allison Janney, American actress

1961

Meg Ryan, American actress

1973

Billy Currington, American singer and songwriter
1976
Robin Dunne, Canadian actor