November 19
1703 - A masked man held prisoner in the Bastille in Paris died. His true identity was the cause of much intrigue, and his story became the basis of literary works by Francois Voltaire and Alexandre Dumas.
1794 - John Jay and Lord Grenville signed Jay's Treaty, which resolved some issues between the United States and Britain left over from the Revolutionary War.
1831 - James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, was born in Orange, Ohio.
1863 - President Abraham Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address at the national cemetery on the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
1919 - The Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, with 55 in favor and 39 against (needed 2/3 majority for ratification).
1942 - Russian forces launched a winter offensive against the Germans along the Don front during World War II.
1959 - Ford Motor Co. announced it was halting production of the unpopular Edsel.
1969 - Apollo 12 astronauts Charles "Pete" Conrad and Alan Bean made man's second landing on the moon.
1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel.
1985 - President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met for the first time, at Geneva, Switzerland.
1990 - Milli Vanilli's Grammy award was rescinded after it was discovered the duo did not do their own singing.
1997 - Cockeye seamstress Bobbi McCaughey gave birth to the world's first set of surviving septuplets, four boys and three girls.
1998 - Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr laid out his evidence against President Bill Clinton during a daylong appearance before the House Judiciary Committee.
2001 - President George W. Bush signed legislation to put airport baggage screeners on the federal payroll.
2006 - Nintendo's Wii gaming console went on sale.
2007 - Amazon introduced the Kindle, an electronic book-reading device.
2010 - President Barack Obama, attending a NATO summit in Lisbon, Portugal, won an agreement to build a missile shield over Europe, a victory that risked further aggravating Russia.
2011 - Moammar Gadhafi’s son and former heir apparent Seif al-Islam was captured by revolutionary fighters in the southern desert just over a month after Gadhafi was killed, setting off joyous celebrations across Libya. (He was released from detention in 2017 and has announced his candidacy for Libya’s presidential election in December 2021.)
2017 - Charles Manson, the hippie cult leader behind the gruesome murders of actor Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles in 1969, died in a California hospital at the age of 83 after nearly a half-century in prison.
2020 - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo became the first top American diplomat to visit an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank.
Birthdays
26 - Tara Sutaria (actress)
28 - Cleo Massey (actress)
32 - Tyga (rapper)
33 - Patrick Kane (hockey player)
34 - Samantha Futerman (actress)
38 - Adam Driver (actor)
42 - Katherine Kelly (actress)
43 - Lil' Mo (singer)
44 - Reid Scott (actor)
44 - Kerri Strug (gymnast)
46 - Tamika Scott (singer)
48 - Billy Currington (country singer)
49 - Sandrine Holt (actress)
50 - Tony Rich (singer)
52 - Erika Alexander (actress)
55 - Gail Devers (track & field athlete)
55 - Jason Scott Lee (actor)
58 - Terry Farrell (actor)
59 - Jodie Foster (actress)
60 - Meg Ryan (actress)
62 - Allison Janney (actress)
65 - Ann Curry (broadcast journalist)
66 - Glynnis O'Connor (actress)
67 - Kathleen Quinlan (actress)
68 - Robert Beltran (actor)
72 - Ahmad Rashad (sportscaster)
79 - Calvin Klein (fashion designer)
83 - Ted Turner (media mogul/entrepreneur)
85 - Dick Cavett (TV host)
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Today in Sports History - November 19
1894 - Nebraska defeats Ottawa 6-0.
1895 - Nebraska defeats Doane 24-0.
1896 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 12-4.
1898 - Nebraska defeats Denver Athletic Club 11-10.
1904 - Nebraska defeats Bellevue 51-0.
1921 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 35-3.
1927 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 33-0.
1932 - Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 5-0.
1938 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye 14-0.
1949 - Nebraska defeats Colorado 25-14 to end the season at 4-5 (3-3 Big 7, 3rd place).
1953 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that major league is a sport and not a business, and thus not subject to antitrust laws.
1955 - #1 Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 41-0. NU ends the season at 5-5 (5-1 Big 7, 2nd place).
1960 - Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 17-14 to end the year at 4-6 (2-5 Big 8, 6th place).
1979 - Nolan Ryan (Houston Astros) signed a four-year contract for $4.5 million. At the time, Ryan was the highest paid player in major league baseball.
1984 - Dwight Gooden (New York Mets), at 20 years old, became the youngest major league pitcher to be named Rookie of the Year in the National League.
1988 - #7 Nebraska defeats #9 Oklahoma 7-3 to win the Big 8 title (7-0).
1989 - The United States men's soccer team defeats Trinidad 1-0 to qualify for the World Cup tournament for the first time since 1950.
1995 - Patrick Ewing (New York Knicks) became the 23rd NBA player to pass the 20,000 point mark.
1996 - Albert Belle signed a contract with the White Sox for a record $55 million. He was the first player to surpass the $10 million per year mark.
2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants became the first baseball player to win four Most Valuable Player awards.
2004 - In one of the worst brawls in U.S. sports history, Ron Artest and Stephen Jackson of the Indiana Pacers charged into the stands and fought with Detroit Pistons fans, forcing officials to end the Pacers’ 97-82 win with 45.9 seconds left.
2011 - #20 Michigan defeats #17 Nebraska 45-17.
2016 - #19 Nebraska defeats Maryland 28-7.
2018 - The Los Angeles Rams defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 54-51 in what was the third-highest scoring game in NFL history and the first time in league history that two teams each exceeded 50 points scored; Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes set a Monday Night Football record with six touchdown passes.
2019 - LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers recorded 25 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists in a game against the Oklahoma City Thunder to become the first player in NBA history to record a triple-double against all 30 NBA franchises.
1703 - A masked man held prisoner in the Bastille in Paris died. His true identity was the cause of much intrigue, and his story became the basis of literary works by Francois Voltaire and Alexandre Dumas.
1794 - John Jay and Lord Grenville signed Jay's Treaty, which resolved some issues between the United States and Britain left over from the Revolutionary War.
1831 - James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, was born in Orange, Ohio.
1863 - President Abraham Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address at the national cemetery on the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
1919 - The Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles, with 55 in favor and 39 against (needed 2/3 majority for ratification).
1942 - Russian forces launched a winter offensive against the Germans along the Don front during World War II.
1959 - Ford Motor Co. announced it was halting production of the unpopular Edsel.
1969 - Apollo 12 astronauts Charles "Pete" Conrad and Alan Bean made man's second landing on the moon.
1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel.
1985 - President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met for the first time, at Geneva, Switzerland.
1990 - Milli Vanilli's Grammy award was rescinded after it was discovered the duo did not do their own singing.
1997 - Cockeye seamstress Bobbi McCaughey gave birth to the world's first set of surviving septuplets, four boys and three girls.
1998 - Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr laid out his evidence against President Bill Clinton during a daylong appearance before the House Judiciary Committee.
2001 - President George W. Bush signed legislation to put airport baggage screeners on the federal payroll.
2006 - Nintendo's Wii gaming console went on sale.
2007 - Amazon introduced the Kindle, an electronic book-reading device.
2010 - President Barack Obama, attending a NATO summit in Lisbon, Portugal, won an agreement to build a missile shield over Europe, a victory that risked further aggravating Russia.
2011 - Moammar Gadhafi’s son and former heir apparent Seif al-Islam was captured by revolutionary fighters in the southern desert just over a month after Gadhafi was killed, setting off joyous celebrations across Libya. (He was released from detention in 2017 and has announced his candidacy for Libya’s presidential election in December 2021.)
2017 - Charles Manson, the hippie cult leader behind the gruesome murders of actor Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles in 1969, died in a California hospital at the age of 83 after nearly a half-century in prison.
2020 - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo became the first top American diplomat to visit an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank.
Birthdays
26 - Tara Sutaria (actress)
28 - Cleo Massey (actress)
32 - Tyga (rapper)
33 - Patrick Kane (hockey player)
34 - Samantha Futerman (actress)
38 - Adam Driver (actor)
42 - Katherine Kelly (actress)
43 - Lil' Mo (singer)
44 - Reid Scott (actor)
44 - Kerri Strug (gymnast)
46 - Tamika Scott (singer)
48 - Billy Currington (country singer)
49 - Sandrine Holt (actress)
50 - Tony Rich (singer)
52 - Erika Alexander (actress)
55 - Gail Devers (track & field athlete)
55 - Jason Scott Lee (actor)
58 - Terry Farrell (actor)
59 - Jodie Foster (actress)
60 - Meg Ryan (actress)
62 - Allison Janney (actress)
65 - Ann Curry (broadcast journalist)
66 - Glynnis O'Connor (actress)
67 - Kathleen Quinlan (actress)
68 - Robert Beltran (actor)
72 - Ahmad Rashad (sportscaster)
79 - Calvin Klein (fashion designer)
83 - Ted Turner (media mogul/entrepreneur)
85 - Dick Cavett (TV host)
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Today in Sports History - November 19
1894 - Nebraska defeats Ottawa 6-0.
1895 - Nebraska defeats Doane 24-0.
1896 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 12-4.
1898 - Nebraska defeats Denver Athletic Club 11-10.
1904 - Nebraska defeats Bellevue 51-0.
1921 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 35-3.
1927 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 33-0.
1932 - Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 5-0.
1938 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye 14-0.
1949 - Nebraska defeats Colorado 25-14 to end the season at 4-5 (3-3 Big 7, 3rd place).
1953 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that major league is a sport and not a business, and thus not subject to antitrust laws.
1955 - #1 Oklahoma defeats Nebraska 41-0. NU ends the season at 5-5 (5-1 Big 7, 2nd place).
1960 - Nebraska defeats Oklahoma 17-14 to end the year at 4-6 (2-5 Big 8, 6th place).
1979 - Nolan Ryan (Houston Astros) signed a four-year contract for $4.5 million. At the time, Ryan was the highest paid player in major league baseball.
1984 - Dwight Gooden (New York Mets), at 20 years old, became the youngest major league pitcher to be named Rookie of the Year in the National League.
1988 - #7 Nebraska defeats #9 Oklahoma 7-3 to win the Big 8 title (7-0).
1989 - The United States men's soccer team defeats Trinidad 1-0 to qualify for the World Cup tournament for the first time since 1950.
1995 - Patrick Ewing (New York Knicks) became the 23rd NBA player to pass the 20,000 point mark.
1996 - Albert Belle signed a contract with the White Sox for a record $55 million. He was the first player to surpass the $10 million per year mark.
2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants became the first baseball player to win four Most Valuable Player awards.
2004 - In one of the worst brawls in U.S. sports history, Ron Artest and Stephen Jackson of the Indiana Pacers charged into the stands and fought with Detroit Pistons fans, forcing officials to end the Pacers’ 97-82 win with 45.9 seconds left.
2011 - #20 Michigan defeats #17 Nebraska 45-17.
2016 - #19 Nebraska defeats Maryland 28-7.
2018 - The Los Angeles Rams defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 54-51 in what was the third-highest scoring game in NFL history and the first time in league history that two teams each exceeded 50 points scored; Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes set a Monday Night Football record with six touchdown passes.
2019 - LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers recorded 25 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists in a game against the Oklahoma City Thunder to become the first player in NBA history to record a triple-double against all 30 NBA franchises.
