On This Day November 19th

 OTD

November 19th is the three hundredth twenty-third day of the year, and there are 42 days remaining until the end of the year.

 

Events

1794 – The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain signed Jay's Treaty, which attempted to resolve lingering problems from the American Revolutionary War.

1802 – The Garinagu arrive in British Honduras (present-day Belize).

1847 – The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railroad, is opened.

1911 – The Doom Bar in Cornwall claims two ships, Island Maid and Angele, killing the entire crew except the captain of the Angele.

1916 – Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.

1942 – World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launched the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.

1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.

1969 – Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.

1994—The first National Lottery draw was held in the United Kingdom. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.

2004 – The worst brawl in NBA history results in several players being suspended. Several players and fans are charged with assault and battery.

 

 Birthdays

 1711 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian physicist, chemist, astronomer, and geographer (d. 1765)

1831 – James A. Garfield, American general, lawyer, and politician, 20th President of the United States (d. 1881)

1877 – Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman and politician, founded the Venice Film Festival (d. 1947)

1899 – Allen Tate, American poet and critic (d. 1979)

1905 – Tommy Dorsey, American trombonist, composer and bandleader (d. 1956)

1915 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)

1929 – Norman Cantor, Canadian-American historian and scholar (d. 2004)

1936 – Dick Cavett, American actor and talk show host

1938 – Ted Turner, an American businessman and philanthropist, founded the Turner Broadcasting System.

1941 – Dan Haggerty, American actor and producer (d. 2016)

1975 – Sushmita Sen, Indian actress, model and Miss Universe 1994

1983 – Adam Driver, American actor

 

Holiday Highlight

 Women Entrepreneurship Day

Women have been involved in entrepreneurial ventures for centuries, although they were often unrecognized as entrepreneurs due to the male-centric definition of the term. In the 18th and 19th centuries, many women-owned businesses through inheritance or to supplement their income.

Eliza Lucas Pinckney of South Carolina became the first recorded female business owner in the U.S. at 16 when she took over her family’s plantations. During this period, women also owned brothels, taverns, and retail shops, but societal norms considered such businesses shameful.

The early 20th century saw a shift toward progressive views, coinciding with the rise of feminism. Black women became prominent entrepreneurs, excelling in dressmaking, hair care, and midwifery, with figures like Madam C. J. Walker emerging as successful leaders.

Organizations like the Women’s Business Development Center and Count Me In were founded in the late 1980s and 1990s to support female entrepreneurs, although gender inequality in business persisted. Since 2000, support and access to financing for women-owned businesses have increased significantly.

In 2013, Wendy Diamond founded the Women’s Entrepreneurship Day Organization (WEDO) after volunteering in Honduras. WEDO celebrated the first Women’s Entrepreneurship Day on November 19, 2014, and it is now recognized by cities such as New York and Los Angeles, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the United Nations.

 

Holidays And Observance

Equal Opportunity Day

Have a Bad Day Day

International Men's Day

National Blow Bagpipes Day

National Camp Day

National Entrepreneurship Day  

Parents Day  

Play Monopoly Day

Rocky and Bullwinkle Day

Women's Entrepreneurship Day

World Toilet Day      

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