November 19

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1493	Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamedPuerto Rico).	The Telescopes	To the Shore	The Telescopes
2.	1863	American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the military cemetery ceremony at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.	Major Organ & the Adding Machine	Powedered Abe Lincoln	Major Organ & the Adding Machine
3.	1930	Notorious Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow commit first robbery, the first of a large series of robberies and other criminal acts.	Serge Gainsbourg	Bonnie and Clyde	Initials BB
4.	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.	Cex	Eleven Million Dollars Worth of Bearer Bonds	Oops, I Did it Again!
5.	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.	Modern Life Is War	Fakes Like You (Make Me Sick)	Modern Life is War
6.	1998	Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for $71.5 million USD.	Devendra Banhart	This Beard's for Siobhan	Rejoicing in the Hands
7.	N/A	International Men's Day	Broadcast	Man is not a Bird	Haha Sound
8.	N/A	World Toilet Day (World Toilet Organization)	Of Montreal	Dustin Hoffman's Tongue Taken to a Police Lab where it is Used as Toilet Paper and Reading Material while on the Toilet	The Early Four Track Recordings

(Historical facts about November 19 are from Wikipedia.)