President Reagan meeting with Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev for the first time November 19, 1985 in Geneva, Switzerland Image via Wikimedia Commons, public domain
Born November 19, 1862 Billy Sunday played major league baseball for eight years before hitting the “sawdust trail” in 1887 as a traveling evangelist. Sunday toured the country enthusiastically preaching to large crowds. Here he strikes a typical pose while on a White House visit to President Coolidge in 1922. Image via LOC via Wikimedia Commons, no known copyright, public domain in the US.
On November 19, 1834 Congressman (before becoming U.S. President) Franklin Pierce married Jane Appleton. It was a small ceremony at the home of Jane’s grandmother in Amherst, New Hampshire. Images via Wikimedia Commons, no known copyright, public domain in the US.
Procession of Troops and Civilians on Way to Dedication of Soldiers’ National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. November 19, 1863 Image via Wikimedia Commons, public domain
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” – Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863 Image via Wikimedia Commons, public domain
Union Army Veteran and 20th President of The United States James Garfield was born on November 19, 1831 in Moreland Hills, Ohio. Quote: “The lesson of History is rarely learned by the actors themselves.” – 1871 Image: Portrait of a young James Garfield via Wikimedia Commons, public domain
American actress Gene Tierney was born on November 19, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York. In the late 1950s, after receiving treatment at a clinic for a nervous condition, Gene worked as a sales associate at a women’s clothing store in Topeka, Kansas before returning to acting. Image of Gene from the 1940s via Wikimedia Commons, public domain
“One of the most interesting episodes in the history of our country, is that which relates to the conquest of the region long known as the Northwestern Territory from the motley masters of the soil — English, French, and Indians. The chief actor in those events, was George Rogers Clark, a hardy Virginia borderer, whose youth was spent in those physical pursuits which give vigor to the frame and activity to the mind. He was born in Albemarle county, Virginia, on the 19th of November, 1752, and first appeared in history as an adventurer beyond the Alleghenies in 1772. He had been engaged in the business of land-surveyor, for some time and that year he went down the Ohio, in a canoe, as far as the mouth of the Great Kanawha, in company with Rev. David Jones, then on his way to preach the gospel to the western tribes. He was captain of a company in Dunmore’s army, which marched against the Indians on the Ohio and its tributaries, in 1774.” From: Eminent Americans by Benson John Lossing, published in 1886. https://archive.org/details/eminentamericans00lossiala/page/138/mode/1up?view=theater Image: George Rogers Clark statue at Vincennes, Indiana from CC BY SA 3.0 Danieljackson via Wikimedia Commons
