Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 19

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 * 1620 – The Mayflower (depicted), which brought the Pilgrims from England to the New World, sighted Cape Cod.
 * 1794 – The United States and Great Britain signed the Jay Treaty, the basis for ten years of peaceful trade between the two nations.
 * 1824 – The Temenggung of Johor and Sultan Hussein Shah of Johor ceded the governance of Singapore to the British East India Company.
 * 1941 – World War II: The Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney (D48) and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran destroyed each other in the Indian Ocean.
 * 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 their favour.
 * 1969 – Playing for Santos against Vasco da Gama in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian footballer Pelé scored his thousandth goal.
 * 1991 – Mexican singer Luis Miguel released the album Romance, which led to a revival of interest in bolero music.
 * 2002 – The Greek oil tanker Prestige split in two and sank off the coast of Galicia after spilling 420 thousand barrels (17.8 million US gallons) of oil in the worst environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.
 * 2004 – During an NBA game between the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons, a brawl between players spilled into the crowd when Ron Artest attacked a fan.
 * 2005 – Iraq War: A group of United States Marines allegedly massacred twenty-four people in the town of Haditha.
 * 2010 – The first of four explosions occurred at the Pike River Mine in the West Coast in New Zealand's worst mining disaster in nearly a century.


 * Born/died: |  Jean-Antoine Nollet |b|1700|  Billy Sunday |b|1862| Mikhail Kalinin |b|1875| Xu Zhimo |d|1931| James Ensor |d|1949|  Tove Styrke |b|1992 | Ted Fujita |d|1998