Life's Shop Window is an American silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards, released on November 19, 1914. Starring Claire Whitney and Stuart Holmes, it is a film adaptation of the 1907 novel by Annie Sophie Cory. It depicts the story of English orphan Lydia Wilton (Whitney) and her husband Bernard Chetwin (Holmes). Although Wilton's marriage is legitimate, it was conducted in secret, and she is accused of having a child out of wedlock. Forced to leave England, she reunites with her husband in Arizona. There, she meets an old acquaintance, Eustace Pelham, and considers running away with him before she sees the error of her ways and returns to her family. Life's Shop Window was the first film produced, rather than simply distributed, by William Fox's Box Office Attractions Company, the corporate predecessor to Fox Film. Reviewers' opinions of the film's quality were mixed, but it was very popular upon its initial release in New York. Like many of Fox's early works, it was likely lost in the 1937 Fox vault fire. (Full article...)

Coat of arms of the Prince of Wales

• ... that the coat of arms of the Prince of Wales (pictured) features the Red Dragon, but with a white label of difference?
• ... that Leo Holzer led a resistance group inside the Theresienstadt concentration camp?
• ... that oppositionist delegates to the Philippine Constitutional Convention of 1971 were among the first to be arrested when Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in the Philippines?
• ... that an obscenity conviction for screening Kenneth Anger's Fireworks was reversed by the Supreme Court of California?
• ... that Camille Saint-Saëns composed the Messe de Requiem, in memory of his patron, in just eight days, and conducted the first performance in 1878 at Saint-Sulpice in Paris?
• ... that Hesham Ashmawy was one of Egypt's most-wanted militants prior to his arrest in Libya last month?
• ... that the United Kingdom conducted 24 nuclear weapons tests in the United States between 1962 and 1991, and has conducted subcritical tests not involving explosions since then?
• ... that Tommy Lockhart booked a roller-skating grizzly bear to perform as the on-ice intermission entertainment at a Hershey Bears game?

ARA San Juan in March 2007

• The wreck of Argentinian submarine San Juan (pictured), which disappeared in November 2017, is found in the South Atlantic.
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• The General Conference on Weights and Measures confirms new definitions for the units kilogram, ampere, kelvin and mole.
• Amidst a constitutional crisis, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka suspends the attempt by President Maithripala Sirisena to dissolve parliament.

November 19: International Men's Day; World Toilet Day

Reagan (left) and Gorbachev in Geneva

• 1794 – The United States and Great Britain signed the Jay Treaty, the basis for ten years of peaceful trade between the two nations.
• 1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
• 1943 – The Holocaust: Inmates at the Janowska concentration camp near what is now Lviv, Ukraine, staged a failed uprising, after which the SS liquidated the camp, resulting in at least 6,000 deaths.
• 1985 – Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President Ronald Reagan (both pictured) held the first of five summit meetings between them in Geneva.
• 2002 – The Greek oil tanker Prestige split in half off the coast of Galicia, after spilling 17.8 million US gallons (420,000 bbl) in the worst environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.

Nicolas Poussin (d. 1665) · Mikhail Kalinin (b. 1875) · James Ensor (d. 1949)