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