So you want to have a drink but you aren't sure why? Here are some GREAT reasons to call your friends over and have a party.

November 19th


- Christian Feast Day:
- Discovery of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
- Flag Day (Brazil)
- International Men's Day (Australia, Canada, Ghana, Hungary, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Malta, Singapore, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States)
- World Toilet Day (World Toilet Organization)

November 19th


- 1999 - Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
- 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
- 1998 - Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for $71.5 million USD.
- 1996 - Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.
- 1994 - In Great Britain, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers.
- 1990 - Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
- 1988 - Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
- 1985 - Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
- 1985 - Pennzoil wins a $10.53 billion USD judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.
- 1984 - San Juanico Disaster: A series of explosions at the PEMEX petroleum storage facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec in Mexico City starts a major fire and kills about 500 people.
- 1979 - Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
- 1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
- 1977 - Transportes Aéreos Portugueses Boeing 727 crashes in Madeira Islands, killing 130.
- 1976 - Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal.
- 1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
- 1969 - Football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
- 1967 - The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.
- 1959 - The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
- 1955 - National Review publishes its first issue.
- 1954 - Télé Monte Carlo, Europe's oldest private television channel, is launched by Prince Rainier III.
- 1950 - US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe
- 1946 - Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
- 1944 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
- 1943 - Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
- 1942 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad – Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor.
- 1941 - World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.
- 1930 - Notorious Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow commit first robbery, the first of a large series of robberies and other criminal acts.
- 1916 - Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
- 1881 - A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
- 1863 - American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the military cemetery ceremony at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- 1847 - The second Canadian railway line, the Montreal and Lachine Railway, is opened.
- 1816 - Warsaw University is established.
- 1794 - The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.
- 1493 - Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).
- 1095 - The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.

November 19th


- 2009 - Prince Gaston d'Orléans
- 1997 - McCaughey septuplets, world's first surviving set of septuplets
- 1989 - Roman Sergeevich Trofimov, Russian ski jumper.
- 1989 - Tyga, American rapper
- 1988 - Patrick Kane, American ice-hockey player
- 1986 - Veronica Scott, American fashion designer
- 1986 - Milan Smiljani?, Serbian footballer
- 1986 - Jeannie Ortega, American actress, dancer, and songwriter.
- 1986 - Jessicah Schipper, Australian swimmer
- 1985 - Chris Eagles, English footballer
- 1985 - Alex Mack, American football player
- 1984 - Dawid Kucharski, Polish football player
- 1983 - Chandra Crawford, Canadian cross-country skier
- 1983 - Daria Werbowy, Ukrainian-Canadian model
- 1981 - Marcus Banks, American basketball player
- 1981 - DJ Tukutz, South Korean DJ, producer, songwriter (Epik High)
- 1980 - Courtney Anderson, American football player
- 1980 - Otis Grigsby, American football player
- 1980 - Vladimir Radmanovic, Serbian basketball player
- 1980 - Adele Silva, English actress
- 1979 - Ryan Howard, American baseball player
- 1979 - Larry Johnson, American football player
- 1979 - Leam Richardson, English football player
- 1979 - John-Ford Griffin, American baseball player
- 1979 - Keith Buckley – American singer (Every Time I Die)
- 1978 - V?ra Pospíšilová-Cechlová, Czech athlete
- 1978 - Matt Dusk, Canadian jazz musician / vocalist
- 1977 - Kerri Strug, American gymnast
- 1976 - Jun Shibata, Japanese singer and songwriter
- 1976 - Petr Sýkora, Czech ice hockey player
- 1976 - Benny Vansteelant, Belgian duathlete (d. 2007)
- 1976 - Stylianos Venetidis, Greek football player
- 1975 - Sushmita Sen, Indian beauty queen and actress
- 1973 - Ryukishi07, Japanese mystery writer
- 1973 - Savion Glover, American dancer and choreographer
- 1973 - Billy Currington, American singer and songwriter
- 1973 - Django Haskins, American singer, guitarist, and songwriter
- 1972 - Sandrine Holt, Canadian actress
- 1971 - Alice Peacock, American folk singer
- 1971 - Jeremy McGrath, American motorcycle racer
- 1969 - Erika Alexander, American actress
- 1969 - Philippe Adams, Belgian racing driver
- 1969 - Richard Virenque, French cyclist
- 1966 - Gail Devers, American athlete
- 1966 - Jason Scott Lee, American actor
- 1966 - Rocco DiSpirito, American chef
- 1966 - Shmuley Boteach, American rabbi
- 1965 - Laurent Blanc, French footballer
- 1965 - Sean Hughes, Irish comedian
- 1965 - Douglas Henshall, Scottish actor
- 1963 - Terry Farrell, American actress
- 1963 - Jon Potter, British field hockey player
- 1963 - Zsuzsanna Jánosi, Hungarian fencer
- 1962 - Jodie Foster, American actress
- 1962 - Dodie Boy Peñalosa, Philippine boxer
- 1962 - Sean Parnell, 12th Governor of Alaska
- 1961 - Jim L. Mora, American football coach
- 1961 - Meg Ryan, American actress
- 1960 - Elizabeth Hulette, American professional wrestling manager (d. 2003)
- 1960 - Matt Sorum, American musician (The Cult, Guns 'N Roses, Velvet Revolver)
- 1959 - Allison Janney, American actress
- 1958 - Michael Wilbon, sports analyst
- 1958 - Terrence "T.C." Carson, American actor
- 1957 - Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (d. 2000)
- 1957 - Tom Virtue, American actor
- 1956 - Ann Curry, American journalist and television anchor
- 1956 - Glynnis O'Connor, American actress
- 1955 - Sam Hamm, American screenwriter
- 1954 - Kathleen Quinlan, American actress
- 1953 - Robert Beltran, American actor
- 1953 - Tom Villard, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1952 - Stephen Soldz, American psychoanalyst and anti-war activist
- 1951 - Zeenat Aman, Indian actress
- 1951 - Lord Falconer of Thoroton, British lawyer and politician
- 1950 - Peter Biyiasas, Greek-Canadian-American chess grandmaster
- 1949 - Nigel Bennett, English actor
- 1949 - Ahmad Rashad, American football player and sportscaster
- 1949 - Amand Theis, German footballer
- 1947 - Bob Boone, American baseball player and manager
- 1947 - Lamar S. Smith, American politician
- 1945 - Bobby Tolan, American baseball player
- 1944 - Agnes Baltsa, Greek mezzo-soprano
- 1944 - Dennis Hull, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1943 - Aurelio Monteagudo, Cuban-born Major League Baseball player (d. 1990)
- 1943 - Fred Lipsius, American musician (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
- 1942 - Calvin Klein, American clothing designer
- 1942 - Sharon Olds, American poet
- 1941 - Dan Haggerty, American actor
- 1941 - Tommy Thompson, former U.S. Governor of Wisconsin
- 1939 - Tom Harkin, American politician
- 1939 - Richard Zare, American chemist
- 1938 - Ted Turner, American businessman
- 1936 - Dick Cavett, American talk show host
- 1936 - Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1935 - Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian imam (d. 1990)
- 1935 - Jack Welch, American businessman
- 1933 - Jerry Sheindlin, American jurist; husband of Judith Sheindlin
- 1933 - Larry King, American TV personality
- 1929 - Slavko Avsenik, Slovenian musician
- 1929 - Norman Cantor, Canadian medieval scholar (d. 2004)
- 1926 - Jeane Kirkpatrick, U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2006)
- 1925 - Zygmunt Bauman, Polish Sociologist
- 1924 - William Russell, British actor
- 1922 - Yuri Knorozov, Russian epigrapher (d. 1999)
- 1922 - Rajko Mitic, Serbian footballer and coach
- 1922 - Salil Chowdhury, Indian music composer, poet, writer, dramatist and filmmaker (d. 1995)
- 1921 - Roy Campanella, American baseball player (d. 1993)
- 1921 - Peter Ruckman, American Baptist minister
- 1920 - Gene Tierney, American actress (d. 1991)
- 1919 - Alan Young, British-born American actor (Mister Ed)
- 1919 - Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian film director (d. 2006)
- 1917 - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
- 1915 - Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
- 1912 - George Emil Palade, Romanian cell biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2008)
- 1910 - Adrian Conan Doyle, son of Arthur Conan Doyle (d. 1970)
- 1909 - Peter Drucker, American management theorist (d. 2005)
- 1907 - Jack Schaefer, American author (d. 1991)
- 1905 - Tommy Dorsey, American bandleader (d. 1956)
- 1904 - Nathan Freudenthal Leopold, Jr., American murderer (d. 1971)
- 1900 - Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian scientist (d. 1980)
- 1900 - Anna Seghers, German writer (d. 1983)
- 1900 - Bunny Ahearne, Irish ice hockey promoter (d. 1985)
- 1899 - Allen Tate, American poet and critic (d. 1979)
- 1899 - Grand Ayatollah Abul-Qassim Khoei, influential Shia Islamic scholar (d. 1992)
- 1898 - Arthur R. von Hippel, German-born physicist (d. 2003)
- 1898 - Klement Jug, Slovenian philosopher and mountaineer (d. 1924)
- 1897 - Quentin Roosevelt, son of United States President Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1918)
- 1896 - Georgy Zhukov, Russian general (d. 1974)
- 1895 - Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (d. 1989)
- 1894 - Américo Tomás, Portuguese admiral and politician, 14th President of Portugal (d. 1987)
- 1893 - René Voisin, French classical trumpet player (d. 1952)
- 1892 - Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician (d. 1970)
- 1889 - Clifton Webb, American actor (d. 1966)
- 1888 - José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (d. 1942)
- 1887 - James B. Sumner, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1955)
- 1883 - Ned Sparks, Canadian actor (d. 1957)
- 1876 - Tatyana Alexeyevna Afanasyeva, Russian/Dutch mathematician (d. 1964)
- 1875 - Mikhail I. Kalinin, President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (d. 1946)
- 1862 - Billy Sunday, American evangelist (d. 1935)
- 1859 - Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer (d. 1935)
- 1843 - Richard Avenarius, German philosopher (d. 1896)
- 1835 - Rani Lakshmi Bai, Indian Queen (d. 1858)
- 1834 - Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist (d. 1924)
- 1833 - Wilhelm Dilthey, German philosopher (d. 1911)
- 1831 - James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States (d. 1881)
- 1812 - Karl Schwarz, German theologian (d. 1885)
- 1808 - Janez Bleiweis, Slovenian politician (d. 1881)
- 1805 - Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and Suez Canal engineer (d. 1894)
- 1802 - Solomon Foot, American politician (d. 1866)
- 1752 - George Rogers Clark, American military leader (d. 1818)
- 1722 - Leopold Auenbrugger, Austrian physician (d. 1809)
- 1722 - Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of colonial Pennsylvania (d. 1810)
- 1711 - Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian writer and polymath (d. 1765)
- 1700 - Jean-Antoine Nollet, French abbot and physicist (d. 1770)
- 1617 - Eustache Le Sueur, French painter (d. 1655)
- 1600 - King Charles I of England (d. 1649)
- 1600 - Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (d. 1669)
- 1597 - Elizabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1660)
- 1563 - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (d. 1626)
- 1464 - Emperor Go-Kashiwabara of Japan (d. 1526)