November 19 in history: • 1863 – American Civil War: U.S. president Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. → go there • 1942 – World War II: Soviet troops launched Operation Uranus at the Battle of Stalingrad with the goal of encircling Axis forces, turning the tide of the battle in their favour. → go there • 1985 – The first of five summits (pictured) between Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. president Ronald Reagan began in Geneva. → go there • 2005 – Iraq War: A group of United States Marines massacred 25 people in the town of Haditha. → go there • 2010 – The first of four explosions occurred at the Pike River Mine in the West Coast in New Zealand's worst mining disaster in nearly a century. → go there Died 1665: Nicolas Poussin → go there Born 1700: Jean-Antoine Nollet Wiki link Born 1875: Mikhail Kalinin Wiki link Died 2023: Rosalynn Carter Wiki link Pictured: Ronald Reagan (left) and Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva.