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December 19
(Redirected from 19 December)
December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 12 days remaining.
Events
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324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor.
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1187 - Pope Clement III elected
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1732 - Benjamin Franklin publishes Poor Richard's Almanack
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1777 - George Washington's army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
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1828 - John C. Calhoun pens South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.
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1835 - Toledo Blade newspaper begins publishing.
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1842 - United States recognizes the independence of Hawaii
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1912 - William H. Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum, that killed over 1,000 people on June 15, 1904, the worst disaster in New York City before 9/11, was pardoned after 3 1/2 years in Sing Sing prison by President Taft.
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1916 - The Battle of OH SNAP ended.
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1928 - First autogiro flight in the United States
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1945 - Austria becomes a republic for the second time, the first having been founded in 1918 and interupted by the Austro-fascist dictatorship from 1934 onwards and the Nazi invasion of Austria in 1938.
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1946 - Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi
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1961 - The Indian Army invades the Portuguese province of Estado da India Portuguesa (Portuguese State of India) comprising of Goa, Damăo, Diu (Dadrá and Nagar-Avelí previously invaded in 1954). Later the Constitution of India is ammended to include the ex-Portuguese territory acquired by act of conquest by the Indian Union from Portugal.
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1962 - Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia and Nyasaland
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1963 - Zanzibar received its independence from the United Kingdom to become a constitutional monarchy under the sultan.
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1972 - Apollo 17, the last manned lunar flight, returns to Earth.
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1974 - Australian Prime Minister, Harold Holt is pronounced dead.
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1974 - The Altair 8800, the first personal computer, goes on sale
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1974 - Portuguese Democratic Revolution. (Revolucao de Abril)
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1978 - John Wayne Gacy is arrested for the killings of 33 boys and young men
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1979 - Kramer vs. Kramer opens in theaters, starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep.
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1980 - Anguilla is made a dependency of the United Kingdom separate from St. Kitt's
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1984 - The United Kingdom and People's Republic of China sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which handed Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.
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1997 - A Silkair Boeing 737-300 crashes into the Musi River, in Sumatra, Indonesia killing 104
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1998 - The U.S. House of Representatives pass articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton over the Lewinsky scandal.
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2001 - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is the first Lord of the Rings movie to open in theaters.
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2001 - A new world-record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 mb (32.06 inches Hg) is set at Tosontsengel, Hövsgöl Aymag, Mongolia.
Births
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1683 - King Philip V of Spain
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1699 - William Bowyer, printer
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1813 - Thomas Andrews, chemist (d. 1885)
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1820 - Mary Ashton Livermore , suffragist, women's rights activist (d. 1905)
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1865 - Minnie Maddern Fiske , Actress of Broadway fame, (d. 1932)
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1885 - Joe "King" Oliver, jazz musician (d. 1938)
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1888 - Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (d. 1963)
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1894 - Ford Frick, commissioner of baseball
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1900 - Géza von Cziffra , film director (d. 1989)
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1901 - Rudolf Hell, inventor (d. 2002)
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1906 - Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet politician (d. 1982)
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1910 - Jean Genet, novelist (d. 1986)
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1915 - Edith Piaf, singer, actress (d. 1963)
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1916 - Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann , publicist
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1918 - Professor Longhair, musician (d. 1980)
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1920 - David Susskind , movie, stage and television producer (d. 1987)
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1923 - Gordon Jackson, film, stage & tv actor best known as 'Hudson' on Upstairs Downstairs (d. 1990)
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1925 - Tankred Dorst, dramatist
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1933 - Cicely Tyson, actress
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1934 - Al Kaline, Baseball Hall of Famer
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1935 - Bobby Timmons, jazz pianist (d. 1974)
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1939 - Gwynn Dowell , teacher
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1940 - Phil Ochs, singer, songwriter (d. 1976)
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1941 - Maurice White, musician
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1944 - Richard Leakey, anthropologist
- 1944 - Alvin Lee, musician
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1946 - Stan Smith, tennis player
- 1946 - Robert Urich, actor (d. 2002)
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1949 - Claudia Kolb , swimming star
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1960 - Mike Lookinland, actor (The Brady Bunch)
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1961 - Reggie White, football player (d. 2004)
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1964 - Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball star
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1965 - Chito Martinez, Belizean baseball player
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1969 - Kristy Swanson, actress
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1971 - Tiffany Towers, pornographic actress
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1972 - Alyssa Milano, actress
- 1972 - Warren Sapp, American football player
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1974 - Jake Plummer, American football quarterback
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1980 - Jake Gyllenhaal, actor (The Day After Tomorrow)
- 1980 - Marla Sokoloff, actress (Full House, The Practice)
Deaths
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401 - St. Anastasius I, Pope
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1370 - Pope Urban V (b. 1310)
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1737 - James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667)
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1741 - Vitus Bering, explorer
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1749 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b. 1672)
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1848 - Emily Brontë, author (b. 1818)
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1939 - Hans Langsdorff, German naval officer (b. 1894)
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1967 - Harold Holt, seventeenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
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1968 - Norman Thomas, Leading American socialist (b. 1884)
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1989 - Stella Gibbons, English author (b. 1902)
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1996 - Marcello Mastroianni, actor (b. 1924)
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1999 - Desmond Llewelyn, actor (b. 1914)
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2003 - Hope Lange, American actress
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2003 - Peter Carter-Ruck, British libel lawyer
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2004 - Renata Tebaldi, opera singer
Holidays and observances
Fictional Events
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2003 - the events of the fictional docu-drama The Day Britain Stopped take place.
December 18 - December 20 - November 19 - January 19 -- listing of all days
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