On this day 19th November

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Facts

1530 The Recess document resulting from the Diet of Augsburg signed by Charles V and catholic princes

1620 The Mayflower reaches Cape Cod & explores the coast

1805 Lewis & Clark expedition reaches the Pacific Ocean, first European Americans to cross the west

1863 US President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; "Four score & seven years ago..."

1942 Operation Uranus: Soviet offensive begins during Battle of Stalingrad, 1 million Soviet soldiers encircle the German Sixth Army

1969 Apollo 12's Charles Conrad & Alan Bean become 3rd & 4th humans on the Moon

1985 US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for first time

Deaths

1316 Jan I, king of France (Nov 15-19 1316), dies

1577 Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)

1828 Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (Die schöne Müllerin), dies at 31 from typhoid fever

1887 Emma Lazarus, US poet ("Give us your tired & poor"), dies in New York at 38

1938 Lev Shestov, Russian philosopher (b. 1866)

1971 Bill Stern, American sportscaster (Saturday Night Fights), dies at 64

1988 Christine Onassis, heiress, dies of heart failure at 37

2014 Mike Nichols [Mikhail Peschkowsky], German-American film director (Catch 22, The Graduate, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), dies from cardiac arrest at 83

Born on this day

1961 Meg Ryan, American actress (When Harry Met Sally, As the World Turns), born in Fairfield, Connecticut

1962 Jodie Foster, American actress (The Accused, The Silence of the Lambs), born in Los Angeles, California

Bill Stern

Mike Nichols