November 19: International Men's Day; World Toilet Day; Liberation Day in Mali
Reagan and Gorbachev in Geneva
- 1493 – Christopher Columbus became the first European to land on Puerto Rico, naming it San Juan Bautista after John the Baptist.
- 1816 – The University of Warsaw, currently the largest university in Poland, was established as Congress Poland found itself a territory without a university.
- 1942 – World War II: Soviet troops launched Operation Uranus at the Battle of Stalingrad, with the goal of encircling Axis forces, turning the tide of the battle in the Soviet Union's favour.
- 1985 – Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan (both pictured) held the first of five summit meetings between them in Geneva.
- 2005 – Iraq War: A group of United States Marines allegedly massacred twenty-four people in the town of Haditha in Iraq.
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