Parvanov elected as Bulgaria President
2001 - Ex-Communist Georgi Parvanov was elected Bulgarian President, the first official results of run-off vote published by the central electoral commission showed. Results from 10 of Bulgaria’s 31 regional commissions gave Parvanov, leader of the ex-Communist Bulgarian Socialist Party, 52 per cent of the ballot. His rival, incumbent president Petar Stoyanov, who until the first round vote had been fairly sure of an easy victory, received 48 per cent of the votes, the commission said. Bulgarians, frustrated at years of painful reform that has visibly failed to improve their lot, had pinned their hopes on an ex-Communist after the country’s second poll upset in less than six months. Parvanov, whose party ran the country from 1994 until 1997, is the first ex-Communist President of Bulgaria since 1989.
November 19
1807 - France invades Portugal.
1862 - US President Abraham Lincoln delivers one of the most famous speeches in American history.
1919 - The US Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles.
1969 - Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean make man’s second landing on the moon.
1973 - Cambodian presidential palace in Phnom Penh is bombed, killing three people.
1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel on his first peace mission.
1979 - Militants seize Islam’s holiest shrine in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, and are later driven out.
1980 - A plane carrying 120 Cuban refugees arrives in Miami as an airlift of refugees from Havana begins.
1985 - US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time at a summit in Geneva.
1990 - Nepal adopts a new constitution, creating a democratic government.
1996 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Pope John Paul II meet in a historic first encounter in Rome.
2002 - A tanker laden with 70,000 tonnes of fuel oil splits and sinks off northwest Spain.
2004 - The Sudanese government and rebels sign deal to end the two-decade war in southern Sudan.
2006 - US trade pact opens door for Russia to join WTO.
2009 - Al Nasr football player Salem Sa’ad dies of a heart attack during practice. He was 31.
2010 - US President Barack Obama wins Nato summit agreement to build a missile shield over Europe.
2011 - Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif Al Islam is captured by revolutionaries in Libya.
2012 - US President Barack Obama makes a historic visit to Myanmar and becomes the first serving US President to visit the country.
2013 - Suicide bombers target the Iranian Embassy in Beirut, killing at least 23 people.
2014 - The 2.5 million square foot Yas Mall in Abu Dhabi is inaugurated.
2015 - Egypt and Russia sign a deal to build the first Egyptian nuclear plant.
