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• ...that the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership has won £1,000,000 of grants to improve and promote six rural railway lines (Looe Valley Line pictured) in south-west England?
• ...that among the founding members of Philomathes - a clandestine Polish student organization in Imperial University of Vilnius in partitioned Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth - was Adam Mickiewicz, one of the three national poets of Poland?
• ...that the establishment of Mahendra Pratap's Provisional Government of India was one of the reasons that the Rowlatt Commission was set up to investigate German and Bolshevik links to nationalist terrorism in British India?
• ...that the author of Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography stated he had to go into hiding after receiving threats related to his yet unpublished book?
• ...that during Operation Deep Freeze II in 1956, US Navy Rear Admiral George J. Dufek commanded the first aircraft to land at the South Pole, the C-47 Skytrain “Que Sera Sera”?
• ...Niek Loohuis is now a Dutch First Division football (soccer) player, despite having been declared unfit and removed from FC Twente's youth academy at age 18?
• ...that Nicaragua has the lowest electricity generation, the lowest percentage of population with access to electricity, and the highest dependence on oil for electricity generation in Central America?
• ...that the collision between aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne and destroyer HMAS Voyager is the only event in Australian history to be subject to two Royal Commissions?
• ...that the gardens of the Petit Trianon were once thought to be haunted?
• ...that in 1846 Albert Wilson became the first American merchant to open a store in Astoria, Oregon?
  

• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases its fourth report on climate change, indicating that Earth and humanity are now in permanent danger due to global warming.
• Russia's deputy finance minister Sergei Storchak, one of Russia's top officials on international financial relations and head of the stabilization fund, is detained as part of a criminal investigation.
• Opposition leader Hashim Thaci's Democratic Party of Kosovo declares victory in the parliamentary election, promising to declare Kosovo's independence if mediation efforts fail.
• Over 3,000 are killed as Cyclone Sidr (pictured) makes landfall in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh with wind speeds up to 250 km/h (155 mph).
• Barry Bonds, the all-time home run record holder in Major League Baseball, is indicted on U.S. federal charges of perjury and obstruction of justice related to a steroid investigation.

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 after John the Baptist.
• 1816 – The University of Warsaw, currently the largest university in Poland, was established as The Royal University of Warsaw after Warsaw was separated from Kraków, the oldest and most influential Polish academic centre.
• 1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address (Lincoln's "Hay Draft" pictured) at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It is one of the most quoted speeches in United States history.
• 1941 – World War II: The Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser HSK Kormoran destroyed each other off the coast of Western Australia in the Indian Ocean.
• 1969 – Playing for Santos against Vasco da Gama at Estádio do Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian football player Pelé scored his 1000th goal on a penalty kick.
• 1999 – Shenzhou 1, China's first unmanned test flight of the Shenzhou spacecraft, was launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia.

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