What Happened On November 19th?

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1752 George Rogers Clark, American Revolutionary War hero, was born.

1770 Sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen was born.

1794 The United States and Great Britain signed the Jay Treaty, an attempt to settle issues left unresolved after the Revolutionary War.

1805 Ferdinand de Lesseps, French promoter of the Suez Canal, was born.

1831 James Abram Garfield, 20th President of the United States, was born.

1863 President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.

1899 Poet-critic Allen Tate was born.

1917 Indira Gandhi, the first woman Prime Minister of India, was born.

1921 Baseball player Roy Campanella was born.

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This page was last updated on 11/18/2009.