This day in History - November 19

360 Historic Events for November 19
1887 Event Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dying Detective" (BG)
1888 Birth Jos‚ Ra£l Capablanca, Cuba, world chess champion (1921-27)
1893 Event 1st newspaper color supplement (NY World)
1894 Event 1st mushroom on a stamp (China 1 and 5 Ap)
1894 Event Dutch troops occupy and plunders palace of Tjakra Negara, Lombok
1895 Event Frederick E Blaisdell patents the pencil
1896 Event Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Sussex Vampire" (BG)
1899 Birth Allen Tate, US, poet (Mr Pope and Other Poems)
1899 Death [Maria] Catharina Beersmans, Belgian actress (Medea), dies at 55
1900 Birth Anna Seghers, [Netty Radvanyi-Reiling], German author (7th Cross)
1900 Birth Anton Walbrook, [Adolf Wohlbrook], Vienna Austria, actor (Laura)
1902 Birth Trevor Bardette, Nashville AR, actor (Refugee, None Shall Escape)
1903 Birth Fritz Schmidt, German street photographer
1903 Event Carrie Nation attempts to address Senate
1904 Birth Jacob "Jaap" Nanninga, Dutch painter
1904 Birth Nancy Carroll, [Ann V LaHiff], NYC, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family)
1905 Birth Tommy Dorsey, Mahanoy Plane Pa, orch leader (Stage Show, Mahogany)
1906 Event London selected to host 1908 Olympics
1906 Birth Jacques Leguerney, composer
1906 Birth Henri Temianka, composer
1907 Birth Christian J H English, [Luc Tournier], Neth/Cura‡aos painter/composer
1908 Birth Mikhail Ivanovich Chulaki, composer
1908 Birth Alan Baxter, East Cleveland OH, actor (Big Town Girl, Rags to Riches)
1908 Death Albert Dietrich, composer, dies at 79
1909 Event Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper denies corruption