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November 19

• Oman - Birthday of Sultan Qaboos bin Said
• Puerto Rico - Discovery of Puerto Rico (1493)
• United States - Equal Opportunity Day
• United States - National Children's Book Week Begins
• United Arab Emirates - Pilgrimage

• 1985 - Pennzoil wins a US$10.53 billion verdict from Texaco in the largest civil verdict in US history (Texaco established a signed contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty).
• 1997 - In Carlisle, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies were born alive.
• 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against US President Bill Clinton.
• 1998 - Vincent van Gogh's "Portrait of the Artist Without Beard" sells at auction for US$71.5 million.
• 1999 - In Istanbul, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) ends a two-day summit by calling for a political settlement in Chechnya and adopting a Charter for European Security.

• 1962 - Jodie Foster, American actress
• 1963 - Terry Farrell, American actress
• 1966 - Gail Devers, American athlete
• 1966 - Jason Scott Lee, actor
• 1973 - Savion Glover, choreographer, actor, dancer

• 1967 - Charles Watters, US Army chaplain
• 1974 - George Brunies, jazz musician (b. 1902)
• 1976 - Sir Basil Spence, architect
• 1985 - Stepin Fetchit, actor, dancer
• 2002 - Otto Maychrzak, handball player