About the day » Wednesday November 19, 1997Calender converter

• Lucas Joosse, Nijmegen, Gelderland, NL († 1997)
• Max Geurts, Uden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Stan van Maaren, Gouda

• Alberta Smits (87), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Edwine Adriance (71), Polk (Florida)
• Aaltje Bloemsma (52)
• Elisa Goubert (90), Liedekerke
• Elisabeth Clasina Kramer (85), Reusel
• Arie van Bennekum (85), Apeldoorn
• Andries Walda (81), -
• alida arnoldus (101), leiderdorp
• Anna Heeres (72)
• Elisabeth Johanna Maria de Wijs (87), Tilburg

• 1990 » John Moore, American ice hockey player
• 1990 » Marquise Goodwin, American football player
• 1991 » Fabien Antunes, French footballer
• 1991 » Marina Marković, Serbian basketball player
• 1992 » Cameron Bancroft, Australian cricketer
• 1993 » Kerim Frei, Austrian footballer
• 1993 » Suso, Spanish footballer
• 1994 » Ibrahima Mbaye, Senegalese footballer
• 1995 » Vanessa Axente, Hungarian model
• 1999 » Evgenia Medvedeva, Russian figure skater

• 1990 » Sun Li-jen, Chinese general and politician (b. 1900)
• 1991 » Reggie Nalder, Austrian-American actor (b. 1907)
• 1992 » Bobby Russell, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
• 1992 » Diane Varsi, American actress (b. 1938)
• 1998 » Alan J. Pakula, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
• 1998 » Bernard Thompson, English director and producer (b. 1926)
• 1998 » Ted Fujita, Japanese-American meteorologist and academic (b. 1920)
• 1999 » Alexander Liberman, Russian-American artist and publisher (b. 1912)
• 2001 » Marcelle Ferron, Canadian painter and stained glass artist (b. 1924)
• 2003 » Ian Geoghegan, Australian racing driver (b. 1940)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.6 million citizens.
• January 19 » Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.
• May 25 » A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koroma.
• August 3 » Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria: A total of 116 villagers killed, 40 in Oued El-Had and 76 in Mezouara.
• September 3 » Vietnam Airlines Flight 815 (Tupolev Tu-134) crashes on approach into Phnom Penh airport, killing 64.
• September 19 » The Guelb El-Kebir massacre in Algeria kills 53 people.
• December 22 » Hussein Farrah Aidid relinquishes the disputed title of President of Somalia by signing the Cairo Declaration, in Cairo, Egypt. It is the first major step towards reconciliation in Somalia since 1991.

The temperature on November 19, 1997 was between 2.3 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 3.8 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.