What happend on 19th November

18.11
20.11
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

Transportes Aereos Portugueses Boeing 727 crashes in Madeira islands killing 130

1977

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

1973

American football player Lance Rentzel is arrested for exposing himself to a ten-year-old girl; he is later sentenced to five years' probation.

1969

Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.

1967

The Establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.

1961

Michael Rockefeller, son of New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles near Atsj, Papua New Guinea.

1959

Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.

1954

Sammy Davis, Jr. loses his left eye in an automobile accident in San Bernardino, California.

1946

Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.