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December 19 leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 11 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events [ ] 324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor .1154 - Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey1606 - The Susan Constant Godspeed Discovery England carrying settlers who, at Jamestown , would found the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States .1777 - American Revolutionary War : George Washington 's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge .1828 - Nullification Crisis : Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest Tariff of 1828 .1835 - The first issue of The Blade Toledo .1843 - A Christmas Carol , by Charles Dickens , is first published in England .1912 - William H. Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum President Taft after 3-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison .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 restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander I of Greece and a plebescite.1941 - Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army 1961 - India annexes Daman and Diu , part of Portuguese India .1963 - Zanzibar receives its independence from the United Kingdom , to become a constitutional monarchy under Sultan Hamoud bin Mohammed .1965 - Prison guard George Hodson is killed during Ronald Ryan and Peter Walker 's escape from HM Prison Pentridge in Coburg .1967 - Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead .1972 - Apollo program : The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17 Eugene Cernan , Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt , returns to Earth .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 Janiero .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 .1997 - Silkair Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River , near Palembang in Indonesia , killing 104.1998 - 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 - The fire at the World Trade Center , as a result of the September 11 , is finally extinguished after three months.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
2003 - Nepal financial crisis leads hundreds to protest outside of presidential palace.Births [ ] 1554 - Philip William (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 )1813 - Thomas Andrews , Irish chemist (d. 1885 )1817 - James Archer , Confederate general (d. 1904 )1831 - Bernice Pauahi Bishop , Hawaiian philanthropist (d. 1884 )1852 - Albert Abraham Michelson , Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931 )1853 - Charles Fitzpatrick , Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Quebec (d. 1942 )1865 - Minnie Maddern Fiske , American actress (d. 1932 )1885 - Joe "King" Oliver , American jazz musician (d. 1938 )1888 - Fritz Reiner , Austro-Hungarian-born American conductor (d. 1963 )1894 - Ford Frick , American baseball commissioner (d. 1978 )1901 - Rudolf Hell , German inventor (d. 2002 )1902 - Sir Ralph Richardson , British actor (d. 1983 )1903 - George Davis Snell , Nobel Prize 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 - David Susskind , American TV talk show host (d. 1987 )1923 - Gordon Jackson , British actor (d. 1990 )1924 - Edmund Purdom , English actor1924 - Doug Harvey , National Hockey League defenceman (d. 1989 )
1924 - Cicely Tyson , American actress
1925 - Robert B. Sherman , American songwriter1925 - Tankred Dorst , German dramatist
1927 - James Booth , British actor and screenwriter (d. 2005 )1929 - Bob Brookmeyer , American jazz musician1929 - Howard Sackler , American screenwriter (d. 1982 )
1932 - Salvador Elizondo , Mexican writer.1933 - Kevan Gosper , Australian athlete
1934 - Al Kaline , baseball player1934 - Rudi Carrell , Dutch singer
1934 - Casper R. Taylor , former Maryland politician.
1935 - Barbara Bostock , American actress1935 - Bobby Timmons , American jazz pianist (d. 1974 )
1936 - Marian McKnight , Miss America 19571940 - Phil Ochs , American folk singer (d. 1976 )1941 - Maurice White , American singer and songwriter (Earth )1943 - Ross M. Lence , American political scientist (d. 2006 )1944 - William Christie , American-born director of Les Arts Florissants 1944 - Mitchell Feigenbaum , American mathematical physicist
1944 - Richard Leakey , British anthropologist
1944 - Alvin Lee , British singer/guitarist (Ten Years After )
1944 - Tim Reid , American actor
1944 - Zal Yanovsky , Canadian guitarist (The Lovin' Spoonful ) (d. 2002 )
1945 - Elaine Joyce , American actress1946 - Robert Urich , American actor (d. 2002 )1948 - Ken Brown , Canadian ice hockey player1949 - Nancy Kyes , American actress1949 - Sebastian , Danish musician
1956 - Tom Lawless , baseball player1957 - Kevin McHale , American basketball player1957 - John Gulager , American film director
1957 - Cyril Collard , French film director (d. 1993 )
1958 - Limahl , British singer (Kajagoogoo )1960 - Mike Lookinland , American actor1960 - Michelangelo Signorile , American writer
1961 - Eric Allin Cornell , Nobel Prize laureate1961 - Matthew Waterhouse , British actor
1961 - Reggie White , American football player (d. 2004 )
1963 - Jennifer Beals , American film actress1964 - Arvydas Sabonis , Lithuanian basketball player1965 - Chito Martinez , Belizean baseball player1966 - Eric Weinrich , American ice hockey player1966 - Alberto Tomba , Italian alpine skier
1966 - Chuckii Booker , American singer, musician and producer1967 - Criss Angel , American illusionist and escapist1967 - Frankie Lam , Hong Kong actor
1969 - Kristy Swanson , American actress1969 - Richard Hammond , British television presenter
1969 - Villano IV , Mexican wrestler
1970 - Tyson Beckford , American model1971 - Tiffany Towers , Canadian adult film actress1971 - Amy Locane , American actress
1972 - Alyssa Milano , American actress1972 - Warren Sapp , American football player
1973 - Zulfiya Zabirova , Russian cyclist1973 - Takashi Sorimachi , Japanese actor
1974 - Jake Plummer , American football player1974 - Ricky Ponting , Australian test cricketer
1974 - Migé Amour , Bassist for the Finnish band, HIM
1975 - Olivier Tebily , Ivorian footballer1977 - Jorge Garbajosa , Spanish basketball player1978 - Patrick Casey , American screenwriter and actor1979 - Paola Rey , Colombian actress1979 - Kevin Devine , American musician.1980 - Jake Gyllenhaal , American actor1980 - Marla Sokoloff , American actress
1982 - Vincent Accardi , American musician1982 - Maurice Williams , American basketball player1983 - Matt Stajan , NHL hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs )1985 - Gary Cahill , English footballer1985 - Lady Sovereign , English musician
1987 - Karim Benzema , French footballer1991 - Christine Valvano , American girlfriend of Matt McGarr1991 - Declan Galbraith , British singerDeaths [ ] 401 - Pope Anastasius I 1075 - Edith of Wessex , wife of Edward the Confessor of England1327 - Agnes of France , Duchess of Burgundy1370 - Pope Urban V (b. 1310 )1737 - James Sobieski , Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667 )1741 - Vitus Bering , Danish-born explorer (b. 1681 )1745 - Jean-Baptiste van Loo , French painter (b. 1684 )1749 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti , Italian priest and composer (b. 1672 )1751 - Louise of Great Britain , wife of Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1724 )1807 - Friedrich Melchior , German writer (b. 1723 )1813 - James McGill , Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1744 )1814 - Joseph Bramah , Inventor and Locksmith, notably invented the beer pump1819 - Sir Thomas Fremantle , British naval officer and politician (b. 1765 )1848 - Emily Brontë , British author (b. 1818 )1915 - Alois Alzheimer , German neuroscientist (b. 1864 )1932 - Yoon Bong-Gil , Protester against Japanese occupation of Korea (executed) (b. 1908 )1938 - Stephen Warfield Gambrill , U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District (b. 1873 )1939 - Hans Langsdorff , German naval officer (b. 1894 )1944 - Khedive Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874 )1944 - Rudolph Karstadt , German entrepreneur (b. 1856 )
1946 - Paul Langevin , French physicist (b. 1872 )1953 - Robert Millikan , American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868 )1967 - Harold Holt , seventeenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908 )1968 - Norman Thomas , American socialist (b. 1884 )1982 - Dwight Macdonald , social critic, combative journalist and anarchist (b. 1906 )1986 - V. C. Andrews , American author (b. 1923 )1989 - Stella Gibbons , British author (b. 1902 )1991 - Joe Cole , roadie for American band Black Flag, Henry Rollins' best friend (b. 1961 )1993 - Michael Clarke , American drummer (The Byrds ) (b. 1946 )1996 - Marcello Mastroianni , Italian actor (b. 1924 )1997 - Masaru Ibuka , Japanese industrialist (Sony ) (b. 1908 )1997 - Jimmy Rogers , American blues guitarist (b. 1924 )
1999 - Desmond Llewelyn , British actor (b. 1914 )2000 - Robert Buck , American musician (10,000 Maniacs ) (b. 1958 )2000 - Milt Hinton , American jazz double bassist (b. 1910 )2000 - Pops Staples , American singer (The Staple Singers ) (b. 1915 )
2001 - Marcel Mule , French saxophonist. (b. 1901 )2003 - Peter Carter-Ruck , British lawyer (b. 1914 )2003 - Hope Lange , American actress (b. 1931 )
2004 - Herbert C. Brown , British-born American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912 )2004 - Renata Tebaldi , Italian soprano (b. 1922 )
2005 - Vincent Gigante , American mafioso (b. 1927 )Holidays and observances [ ] External links [ ]
110 Familypedia people were born on December 19
128 Familypedia people died on December 19
101 Familypedia people were first married on December 19