Today in History in 1863 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

The On This Day In History archives at “Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia” contains over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 42 days remaining until the end of the year.

EVENTS

461 - Libius Severus is declared Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

1404 - Severe flooding occurs in the Netherlands, as 3000 hectares of land are washed away, with the flood waters also completely wiping out the towns of Ijzendijke and Hugevliet.

1421 - A major flood in the Netherlands kills between 2,000 and 10,000 people.

1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).

1806 - French troops occupy Hamburg during the Napoleonic Wars.

1816 - In Poland, Warsaw University is founded.

1819 – The Museo del Prado in Madrid opens.

1847 - The second Canadian railway line is opened between Montreal and Lachine.

1850 - Alfred Tennyson is named Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom by Queen Victoria.

1863 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

1869 – The Hudson's Bay Company sells Ruperts Land to Canada.

1881 - A meteorite lands southwest of Odesa, present-day Ukraine.

1885 - Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa officially unifies the Kingdom of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.

1887 - In the English Channel, Dutch ocean steamer W. A. Scholten sinks after a collision with a British freighter, killing 132 people.

1911 - The Doom Bar in Cornwall claims two ships, Island Maid and Angele, in which the entire crew, except the captain, is killed.

1912 - The five hundred-year rule of the Ottoman Empire over Macedonia is ended.

1916 - Goldwyn Pictures is founded by Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn.

1941 - World War II: The warships HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran sink each other off Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and 77 Germans.

1942 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - Soviet Union forces under Georgy Zhukov launch Operation Uranus counter-attacks at Stalingrad, turning the battle in the USSR's favour.

1942 - Mutesa II is crowned as the last Kabala (King) of Buganda.

1946 – Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.

1950 - Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO Europe.

1952 - Alexander Papagos becomes Prime Minister of Greece.

1967 - TVB is founded, as the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong.

1969 – Apollo 12 lands on the Moon. Charles Conrad and Alan LaVern Bean become the 3rd and 4th people respectively to walk on the Moon.

1969 – Brazilian footballer Pelé scores the 1,000th goal of his career.

1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin seeking a permanent peace settlement.

1979 – Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.

1984 - Oil depot explosions in Mexico City cause a large fire, which kills around 500 people.

1985 – Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet.

1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because they did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It’s True album.

1994 - The United Kingdom's first National Lottery draw is held.

1995 – Aleksander Kwasniewski is elected President of Poland.

1996 – The case of the Port Arthur massacre comes to trial.

1998 – The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.

1998 - Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for $ 71.5 million.

1999 - The People's Republic of China launches the Shenzhou 1 spacecraft.

1999 - Russia withdraws its military from Georgia.

2002 – The Prestige oil tanker breaks apart near the coast of Galicia, Spain, causing a large oil spill.

2010 – Twenty-nine miners are trapped after an explosion in the Pike River Mine near Greymouth in New Zealand. They are pronounced dead after a second explosion five days later.

2013 - A storm affecting Sardinia causes heavy rain, flooding and kills 18 people.

2013 - Bomb attacks in Beirut, Lebanon, kill at least 22 people.

2014 - Nicola Sturgeon becomes the 5th, and first female, First Minister of Scotland, succeeding Alex Salmond.

2016 - The German Wikipedia publishes its two-millionth article.

2017 - Talks about forming a governing coalition fail in Germany, after September's election to the Bundestag.