November 19 ....

In 1794 the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain signed Jay's Treaty, an attempt to clear up some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War. In 1831 20th president of the United States James Garfield was born in Orange, OH. In 1863 President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania. In 1905 bandleader Tommy Dorsey was born in Shenandoah, PA. In 1909 writer and renowned management consultant Professor Peter Drucker was born in Kaasgraben, Vienna, Austria. In 1919 the Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 55 in favor, 39 against, short of the two-thirds majority needed for ratification. In 1942 Russian forces launched their winter offensive against the Germans along the Don front. In 1969 Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean made man's second landing on the moon. In 1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel. In 1978 Jim Jones led members of his 'Peoples Temple' cult in mass murder-suicide. The bodies of 914 people, including 276 children, were found in Jonestown, Guyana. In 1985 President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev met for the first time as they began their summit in Geneva.