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This day in history: November 19

1. 1969

   Playing for Santos against Vasco da Gama in Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian footballer Pelé scored his thousandth goal.

2. 1985

   The first of five summits between Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. president Ronald Reagan began in Geneva.

3. 1991

   Mexican singer Luis Miguel released the album Romance, which led to a revival of interest in bolero music.

4. 2002

   The Greek oil tanker Prestige split in two and sank off the coast of Galicia after spilling 420 thousand barrels (17.8 million US gallons) of oil, in the worst environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.

5. 2005

   Iraq War: A group of United States Marines massacred 25 people in the town of Haditha.

6. 2010

   The first of four explosions occurred at the Pike River Mine in the West Coast in New Zealand's worst mining disaster in nearly a century.

7. 2013

   A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killed 23 people and injured at least 160 others.

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