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December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 12 days remaining until the end of the year.
324 –
Licinius abdicates his position as
Roman Emperor .
1154 –
Henry II of England is crowned at
Westminster Abbey .
1490 –
Anne of Brittany is married to
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.
1606 – The
Susan Constant , the
Godspeed , and the
Discovery depart
England carrying settlers who found, at
Jamestown, Virginia , the first of the
thirteen colonies that became the
United States .
1776 –
Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of
pamphlets in the Pennsylvania Journal titled
The American Crisis .
1777 –
American Revolutionary War :
George Washington 's
Continental Army goes into winter quarters at
Valley Forge, Pennsylvania .
1828 –
Nullification Crisis :
Vice President of the United States
John C. Calhoun pens the
South Carolina Exposition and Protest , protesting the
Tariff of 1828 .
1835 – The first issue of
The Blade newspaper is published in
Toledo, Ohio .
1907 – A group of 239 coal miners die during a mine explosion in
Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania .
1912 –
William H. Van Schaick , captain of the
steamship
General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by
U.S. President
William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in
Sing Sing prison.
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1916 –
World War I :
Battle of Verdun – On the
Western Front , the
French Army successfully holds off the
German Army and drives it back to its starting position.
1920 –
King Constantine I is restored as King of the
Hellenes after the death of his son
Alexander I of Greece and a
plebiscite .
1924 – The last
Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in
London ,
England .
1932 –
BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service
1941 –
World War II :
Adolf Hitler becomes Supreme
Commander-in-Chief of the
German Army .
1946 – Start of the
First Indochina War .
1961 –
India annexes
Daman and Diu , part of
Portuguese India .
1967 –
Prime Minister of Australia
Harold Holt is
officially presumed dead .
1972 –
Apollo program : The last manned lunar flight,
Apollo 17 , crewed by
Eugene Cernan ,
Ron Evans and
Harrison Schmitt , returns to
Earth .
1975 –
John Paul Stevens is appointed a justice of
The United States Supreme Court .
1981 – Sixteen lives are lost when the
Penlee lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.
1983 – The original
FIFA World Cup trophy, the
Jules Rimet
Trophy , is stolen from the headquarters of the
Brazilian Football Confederation in
Rio de Janeiro .
1984 – The
Sino-British Joint Declaration , stating that the
People's Republic of China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over
Hong Kong and the
United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to
China with effect from
July 1 ,
1997 is signed in
Beijing by
Deng Xiaoping and
Margaret Thatcher .
1986 –
Soviet leader
Mikhail Gorbachev releases
Andrei Sakharov and his wife from
internal exile in
Gorky .
1994 –
Rolls-Royce announces its future cars will feature
V12 engine which will be produced by
BMW .
1995 – The United States Government restores federal recognition to the
Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indian tribe.
1997 –
SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the
Musi River , near
Palembang in
Indonesia , killing 104.
1997 –
Titanic (starring
Leonardo Dicaprio and
Kate Winslet ) is released in theaters. This movie would become the most financially successful movie in history, grossing approximately $600 million domestically and $1.8 billion worldwide.
1998 –
Lewinsky scandal : The
United States House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of
impeachment against President
Bill Clinton to the
Senate .
2000 – The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the
Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a
Nationalist Movement Party office in
Istanbul , killing one person and injuring three.
2001 – A record high
barometric pressure of 1085.6
hPa (32.06
inHg ) is recorded at
Tosontsengel ,
Khövsgöl Province ,
Mongolia .
2001 –
Argentine economic crisis :
December 2001 riots – Riots erupt in
Buenos Aires after
Domingo Cavallo 's
corralito measures restrict the withdrawal of cash from bank deposits.
1554 –
Philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618)
1683 –
Philip V of Spain (d. 1746)
1699 –
William Bowyer , English printer (d. 1777)
1714 –
John Winthrop , American astronomer (d. 1779)
1778 –
Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte , eldest child of
Marie Antoinette and
Louis XVI (d. 1851)
1784 –
Marcus Morton , 16th and 18th
Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1864)
1796 –
Breton de los Herreros , Spanish playwright (d. 1873)
1813 –
Thomas Andrews , Irish chemist (d. 1885)
1817 –
James J. Archer , Confederate general (d. 1904)
1820 –
Mary Livermore , American journalist and women's rights advocate (d. 1905)
1831 –
Bernice Pauahi Bishop , Hawaiian philanthropist (d. 1884)
1852 –
Albert Abraham Michelson , Prussian-born American physicist,
Nobel laureate (d. 1931)
1853 –
Charles Fitzpatrick , Canadian politician,
lieutenant-governor of Quebec (d. 1942)
1861 –
Italo Svevo , Italian author (d. 1928)
1865 –
Minnie Maddern Fiske , American actress (d. 1932)
1875 –
Carter Woodson , American historian and author, founder of
Black History Month (d. 1950)
1885 –
Joe "King" Oliver , American jazz musician (d. 1938)
1888 –
Fritz Reiner , Hungarian-born American conductor (d. 1963)
1894 –
Ford Frick , American baseball commissioner (d. 1978)
1895 –
Werner Dankwort , German diplomat (d. 1986)
1895 –
Ingeborg Refling Hagen , Norwegian author and teacher (d. 1989)
1901 –
Rudolf Hell , German inventor (d. 2002)
1902 – Sir
Ralph Richardson , English actor (d. 1983)
1903 –
George Davis Snell , American geneticist,
Nobel laureate (d. 1996)
1906 –
Leonid Brezhnev , leader of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
1907 –
Jimmy McLarnin , former
Welterweight Champion (d. 2004)
1909 –
W.A. Criswell , American (Baptist) preacher (d. 2002)
1910 –
Jean Genet , French writer (d. 1986)
1915 –
Édith Piaf , French singer and actress (d. 1963)
1918 –
Professor Longhair , American blues musician (d. 1980)
1920 –
Little Jimmy Dickens , American country singer
1920 –
David Susskind , American TV talk show host (d. 1987)
1922 –
Eamonn Andrews , Irish-born television presenter (d. 1987)
1923 –
Gordon Jackson , Scottish actor (d. 1990)
1924 –
Carlo Chiti , Italian race car engineer (d. 1994)
1924 –
Doug Harvey , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1989)
1924 –
Gary Morton , American comic; widower of
Lucille Ball (d. 1999)
1924 –
Edmund Purdom , English actor
1925 –
Tankred Dorst , German dramatist
1925 –
Robert B. Sherman , American songwriter
1925 –
William Schutz , American psychologist (d. 2002)
1926 –
Bobby Layne , American football player (d. 1986)
1926 –
Herb Stempel , American game show contestant
1927 –
James Booth , English actor and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1928 –
Nathan Oliveira , American artist
1929 –
Bob Brookmeyer , American jazz musician
1929 –
Howard Sackler , American screenwriter (d. 1982)
1932 –
Salvador Elizondo , Mexican writer
1933 –
Kevan Gosper , Australian athlete
1933 –
Cicely Tyson , American actress
1934 –
Rudi Carrell , Dutch singer (d. 2006)
1934 –
Al Kaline , American baseball player
1934 –
Casper R. Taylor, Jr. , American politician
1934 –
Pratibha Patil ,
President of India
1935 –
Barbara Bostock , American actress
1935 –
Bobby Timmons , American jazz pianist (d. 1974)
1936 –
Marian McKnight ,
Miss America 1957
1940 –
Phil Ochs , American folk singer (d. 1976)
1941 –
Maurice White , American singer and songwriter (
Earth, Wind & Fire )
1941 –
Lee Myung-bak ,
President of South Korea
1942 –
Rufus , French actor
1943 –
Ross M. Lence , American political scientist (d. 2006)
1943 –
General James L. Jones , Nominee for National Security Advisor
1944 –
William Christie , American-born director of
Les Arts Florissants
1944 –
Mitchell Feigenbaum , American mathematical physicist
1944 –
Richard Leakey , Kenyan paleontologist, conservationist and politician
1944 –
Alvin Lee , English singer/guitarist (
Ten Years After )
1944 –
Tim Reid , American actor
1944 –
Zal Yanovsky , Canadian guitarist (
The Lovin' Spoonful ) (d. 2002)
1945 –
Elaine Joyce , American actress
1946 –
Rosemary Conley , English businesswoman, author and broadcaster
1946 –
Robert Urich , American actor (d. 2002)
1947 –
Jimmy Bain Scottish musician
1948 –
Ken Brown , Canadian ice hockey player
1949 –
Nancy Kyes , American actress
1949 –
Sebastian , Danish musician
1951 –
Alan Rouse , British mountaineer (d. 1986)
1952 –
Walter Murphy , American composer, pianist and arranger
1955 –
Lincoln Hall (climber) , Australian mountaineer
1956 –
Tom Lawless , American baseball player
1957 –
Cyril Collard , French film director (d. 1993)
1957 –
John Gulager , American film director
1957 –
Kevin McHale , American basketball player
1958 –
Limahl , English singer (
Kajagoogoo )
1959 –
Ivan Vallejo , Ecuadorian mountaineer
1960 –
Mike Lookinland , American actor
1960 –
Michelangelo Signorile , American writer
1960 –
Derrick Jensen , American author and activist
1961 –
Eric Allin Cornell , American physicist,
Nobel laureate
1961 –
Matthew Waterhouse , English actor
1961 –
Reggie White , American football player (d. 2004)
1962 –
Jill Talley , American actress
1962 –
Gary Fleder , American film director
1963 –
Jennifer Beals , American actress
1963 –
Til Schweiger , German actor
1964 –
Arvydas Sabonis , Lithuanian basketball player
1964 –
Béatrice Dalle , French actress
1965 –
Chito Martínez , Belizean baseball player
1965 –
Jessica Steen , American actress
1966 –
Chuckii Booker , American singer, musician and producer
1966 –
Robert MacNaughton , American stage and screen actor
1966 –
Alberto Tomba , Italian alpine skier
1966 –
Eric Weinrich , American ice hockey player
1967 –
Frankie Lam , Hong Kong actor
1967 –
Criss Angel , American illusionist, actor, and musician
1969 –
Richard Hammond , English television presenter
1969 –
Tom Gugliotta , American basketball player
1969 –
Kristy Swanson , American actress
1969 –
Villano IV , Mexican professional wrestler
1971 –
Tyson Beckford , American model
1971 –
Liz Cho , American television reporter
1971 –
Amy Locane , American actress
1971 –
Tiffany Towers , Canadian adult film actress
1972 –
Alyssa Milano , American actress
1972 –
Rosa Blasi , American actress
1972 –
Warren Sapp , American football player
1973 –
Takashi Sorimachi , Japanese actor
1973 –
Zulfiya Zabirova , Russian cyclist
1974 –
Mikko Paananen , Finnish bassist (
HIM )
1974 –
Joe Jurevicius , American football player
1974 –
Jake Plummer , American football player
1974 –
Ricky Ponting , Australian cricketer
1975 –
Olivier Tebily , Ivorian footballer
1975 –
Jon Smith , British writer
1977 –
Jorge Garbajosa , Spanish basketball player
1978 –
Patrick Casey , American screenwriter and actor
1979 –
Kevin Devine , American musician
1979 –
Paola Rey , Colombian actress
1980 –
Jake Gyllenhaal , American actor
1980 –
Chris Haslam , Canadian Skateboarder and Bass Player (Kobra Triangle)
1980 –
Iman Ali , Pakistan-based model and actress
1980 –
Marla Sokoloff , American actress
1982 –
Vincent Accardi , American musician (
Brand New )
1982 –
Maurice Williams , American basketball player
1982 –
Tero Pitkamaki , Finnish javelin thrower
1983 –
Matt Stajan , Canadian ice hockey player
1984 –
Ian Kennedy , Major League Baseball pitcher
1985 –
Gary Cahill , English footballer
1985 –
Neil Kilkenny , English-born Australian footballer
1985 –
Lady Sovereign , English musician
1986 –
Ryan Babel , Dutch Footballer
1987 –
Karim Benzema , French footballer
1988 –
Paulina Gretzky , American-born Canadian actress and model
1988 –
Peter Winn , English footballer
1988 –
Alexis Sánchez , Chilean footballer
1989 –
Valdimar Bergstað , Icelandic horse rider
1991 –
Declan Galbraith , English singer