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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47372)11/19/2004 12:51:03 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 50167
 
Today in history -November 19:

1493 - Christopher Columbus became the first European to land on Puerto Rico, an island he named San Juan Bautista.

1794 - The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain concluded the Jay Treaty.

1863 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address.

1942 - Soviet forces under General Georgy Zhukov launched the Operation Uranus envelopment at the Battle of Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the Soviet Union's favor.

1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel; he met with Prime Minister Menachem Begin and spoke before the Knesset.