November 19 in History
1938 | Death of Vietnamese poet Nguyen Nhuoc Phap, famed for his work Chua Huong (Perfume Pagoda). |
1942 | Soviet Red Army troops begin a massive counter-offensive against the Germans at Stalingrad. |
1946 | The first UNESCO conference opens in Paris at which the organisation attains full status as an agency. |
1958 | Signing of the first trade agreement between Viet Nam and the Kingdom of Cambodia. |
1969 | The US Apollo 12 lunar module lands on the moon, carrying astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean. |
1990 | Leaders of NATO and the Warsaw Pact declare the end of the Cold War by signing the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe, slashing their Cold War arsenals. |
1997 | Viet Nam is officially linked to the internet. |
2002 | An oil tanker carrying 20 million gallons of fuel oil breaks in two and sinks in the Atlantic Ocean, threatening a spill nearly twice as big as the Exxon Valdez's and an environmental catastrophe along the Spanish coastline. |
2004 | Sudanese government and rebel officials again pledge to end the 21-year civil war in southern Sudan – this time making the pledge before the UN Security Council. |
2006 | Russia and the United States sign a key trade agreement, removing the last major obstacle in Moscow's 13-year journey to join the World Trade Organisation. |
2007 | The UN-backed genocide tribunal in Cambodia arrests the former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan, 76, following his release from a hospital in the capital. |
2008 | The recent commitments on global warming by US President-elect Barack Obama mark a new beginning for world negotiations to replace the Kyoto Protocol, the head of the UN's climate change body Yvo de Boer says. — AP/REUTERS/VNS |
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