Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 19
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November 19: Liberation Day in Mali
- 1493 - Christopher Columbus became the first European to land on Puerto Rico, an island he named San Juan Bautista.
- 1816 - The Royal University of Warsaw, now known as Warsaw University, was established.
- 1863 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.
- 1942 - World War II: Soviet forces under General Georgy Zhukov launched the Operation Uranus envelopment at the Battle of Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the Soviet Union's favor.
- 1999 - Shenzhou 1, China's first unmanned test flight of the Shenzhou spacecraft (scale model pictured), was launched.
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