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Nov 19 in Film & TV
- 1916 Samuel Goldfish, Edgar and Archibald Selwyn establish Hollywood's Goldwyn Pictures; Goldfish later changes his name to Goldwyn
Nov 19 in Music
- 1990 Pop duo Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award after it is learned they did not sing on their award-winning "Girl You Know Its True" album
Nov 19 in Sport
- 1953 US Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business
Did You Know?
American inventor Frederick E. Blaisdell of Philadelphia patents the "self-sharpening" paper sheathed pencil, commonly known as a china marker
Fun Fact About November 19
McCaughey septuplets (all 7 of them!) born to Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey in Des Moines, Iowa. First set of septuplets to survive infancy.
Famous Weddings
- 1834 US Congressman and future US President Franklin Pierce (29) weds Jane Appleton (28) at her grandparents' home in Amherst, New Hampshire
- 1923 Architect Frank Lloyd Wright (56) weds artist Maude Noel
- 1939 American baseball legend Joe DiMaggio (24) weds American "Freshies" actress Dorothy Arnold (21) at St. Peter and Paul Church, with thousands of onlookers crowding the streets of in San Francisco, California; divorce in 1944
Famous Divorces
- 2004 American singer Jermaine Jackson (49) divorces Alejandra Genevieve Oaziaza (35) after 9 years of marriage
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