Year 1946
Afghanistan, Iceland, and Sweden joined the United Nations.
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19 November: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 19 November.
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Women's Entrepreneurship Day
World Toilet Day
Year 1969
Footballer Pele scored his 1,000th goal.
Year 1969
Charles Conrad and Alan Bill landed on the moon from the American spacecraft Apollo 12.
Year 1977
Anwar Sadat, the then President of Egypt, made a historic visit to Israel.
Year 1985
Summit talks started in Switzerland between the two superpowers of the world – the former Soviet Union and the United States.
Year 1998
US President Bill Clinton was indicted.
Year 2019
Google launched its cloud gaming service Stadia.
Born 1600
Charles I, King of England.
Born 1828
Rani Lakshmi Bai, Queen of Jhansi, India.
Born 1831
James Garfield, the 20th President of the United States.
Born 1838
Keshub Chandra Sen, a Hindu philosopher, and social reformer from India.
Born 1845
Agnes Giberne, Indian-English astronomer, and author.
Born 1877
Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman, and politician, founder of the Venice Film Festival.
Born 1909
Peter Ferdinand Drucker, an Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author.
Born 1917
Indira Gandhi, an Indian politician, and the first female Prime Minister of India.
Born 1918
Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya, an Indian Marxist philosopher.
Born 1922
Salil Chaudhary, a composer of Hindi, and Bengali films.
Born 1928
Dara Singh Randhawa, an Indian professional wrestler, actor, and politician.
Born 1938
Ted Turner III, an American media proprietor, producer, and philanthropist.
Born 1942
Calvin Klein, founder of Calvin Klein Inc.
Born 1951
Zeenat Aman, an Indian actress, and model.
Born 1959
Mallika Srinivasan, the Chairman & Managing Director of Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited.
Born 1971
Kiren Rijiju, an Indian lawyer and politician from Arunachal Pradesh.
Born 1975
Sushmita Sen, an Indian actress, and model. The first Indian who won the Miss Universe title.
Born 1976
Jack Dorsey, an American technology entrepreneur, and the co-founder and CEO of Twitter.
Born 1985
Badshah (Aditya Prateek Singh Sisodia), an Indian rapper.
Born 1845
Agnes Giberne, Indian-English astronomer and author (d. 1939)
Born 1922
Salil Chowdhury, Indian director, playwright, and composer (d. 1995)
Born 1975
Sushmita Sen, Indian actress, model and Miss Universe 1994
Born 1977
Arun Vijay, Indian-Tamil film actor
Died 1806
Shah Alam II, the sixteenth Mughal Emperor.
Died 1850
Richard Mentor Johnson, a politician and the ninth vice president of the United States.
Died 1883
Sir Carl Wilhelm Siemens, a German-British electrical engineer.
Died 1975
Roger D. Branigin, American colonel, lawyer, and politician, 42nd Governor of Indiana (b. 1902)
Died 1976
Basil Spence, co-founder of Coventry Cathedral.
Died 2004
Sir John Robert Vane, a British pharmacologist.
Died 2013
Frederick Sanger, a British biochemist who twice won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.