November 19 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for November 19
In the headlines today:

2006	The Nintendo Wii game console is introduced in the US.
2005	Pop singer Christina Aguilera marries music executive Jordan Bratman at a ceremony in California's Napa valley.
2002	Capitol posthumously releases Brainwashed, an album recorded by former Beatle George Harrison.
1996	The NASA space shuttle Columbia (flight STS 80) blasts off, beginning a 19-day mission -- the longest scheduled shuttle flight to date.
1990	Pop duo Milli Vanilli have their Grammy® Award taken away because they did not do the singing on their Girl You Know It's True album.
1988	Greek shipping heiress Chrstine Onassis (daughter of Aristottle Onassis), dies of heart failure in Buenos Aires, Argentina, at age 37.
1978	Peoples Temple cult leader Jim Jones, his mistress, and nearly 900 followers, commit suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid in Jonestown, Guyana.
1977	Egyptian President Anwar Sadat visits Israel, becoming the first Arab leader to do so.
1969	Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean make mankind's second lunar landing.
1966	LA Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax, age 30, announces his retirement from baseball, due to arthritis. Did you know? In his 12 seasons of professional baseball, Koufax struck out 2,396 batters and had a 165-87 win-loss record.
1959	The last Edsel automobile is produced by Ford, ending a two-year production of 110,847 cars.
1954	The first automatic toll collectors in the US are installed on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey.
1946	Afghanistan, Iceland, and Sweden are admitted to the United Nations.
1863	During the dedication of a new national cemetary at the site of a bloody Civil War battle, US president Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg Address speech.
1828	Composer Franz Schubert dies of typhus in Vienna at age 31.