HISTORY At A Glance

TODAY is Saturday, November 19, the 323rd day of 2022. There are 42 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date:

1942 World War II: Battle of Stalingrad Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR’s favor.

1969 Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the “Ocean of Storms”) and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon. 1979 Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader

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

1985 Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.

1985 Police in Baling, Malaysia, lay siege to houses occupied by an Islamic sect of about 400 people led by Ibrahim Mahmud. 1990 Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It’s True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.

1999 Shenzhou 1: The People’s Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.

2013 A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures 160 others.