Notable Historical Events on December 19th
December 19th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
324 |
Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor. |
401 |
St Anastasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
1055 |
Seldjuken under Toghril Beg occupy Baghdad |
1154 |
King Henry II of England crowned |
1551 |
Dutch west coast hit by hurricane |
1562 |
Battle at Dreux: Anne de Montmorency & huguenots under Condé captured |
1642 |
4 of Tasman's crew are killed at Wharewharangi (Murderers) Bay by Māori; Tasman's ships depart without landing |
1686 |
Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Daniel Defoe) |
1688 |
King James II's wife & son flee to France |
1696 |
Jean-Francois Regnard's "Le Joueur" premieres in Paris |
1732 |
Benjamin Franklin under the name Richard Saunders begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack" |
1776 |
Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls" |
1777 |
Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pa for winter |
1783 |
British government of William Pitt the Younger forms |
1788 |
Chinese troops occupy capital Thang Long Vietnam |
1795 |
1st state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky |
1823 |
Georgia passes 1st US state birth registration law in US |
1828 |
South Carolina declares right of states to nullify federal laws |
1835 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin approaches NZ |
1842 |
US recognizes independence of Hawaii |
1843 |
"A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold |
1854 |
Allen Wilson of Conn patents sewing machine to sew curving seams |
1859 |
Grading started for Market Street RR |
1861 |
Battle of Black Water (American Civil War) |
1862 |
Skirmish at Jackson/Salem Church, Tenn (80 casualties) |
1871 |
Albert L Jones (NYC), patents corrugated paper |
1881 |
Opera "Hérodiade" is produced (Brussels) |
1884 |
Italy recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State |
1887 |
Jake Kilrain & Jem Smith fight 106 round bare knuckle draw |
1888 |
Stanley's expedition reaches Fort Bodo, East-Africa |
1889 |
Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii |
1890 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Beryl Coronet" (BG) |
1891 |
1st Negro Catholic priest ordained in US, Charles Uncles, Baltimore |
1891 |
Canadian Rugby Union forms |
1894 |
Cricket day 5 1T Aus v Eng Eng 437 all out, Aus need 177 are 2-113 |
1900 |
Kitchener offers protections to all Boers who will surrender and asks the Dutch community of Pretoria to convey this offer, but leaders in the field refuse to surrender; although organised military operations are largely over, the guerrilla war continues |
1903 |
Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn & Manhattan |
1904 |
Dawson City hockey team begins 9 day walk to get a boat to Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905 |
1907 |
239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania |
1910 |
1st US city ordinance requiring white & black residential areas (Balt) |
1910 |
Rayon 1st commercially produced, Marcus Hook, Penn |
1913 |
Jack Johnson fights Jim Johnson to a draw in 10 for heavyweight boxing title |
1916 |
Suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo |
1917 |
1st NHL game played on artificial ice (Toronto) |
1917 |
Quebec Bulldogs play their 1st professional hockey game |
1918 |
Robert Ripley began his "Believe It or Not" column (NY Globe) |
1919 |
American Meteorological Society found |
1920 |
1st US indoor curling rink opens (Brookline, Mass) |
1920 |
King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander I of Greece and a plebiscite. |
1922 |
Theresa Vaughn, 24, confessed in court in Sheffield, England, to being married 61 times over 5 years in 50 cities in three countris |
1924 |
Test Cricket debut of Bill Ponsford, who scored 110 in 1st innings |
1924 |
The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England. |
1928 |
1st autogyro flight in US |
1930 |
James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP |
1931 |
Bradman scores 112 Australia v South Africa at cricket SCG |
1931 |
Joseph A Lyons (C) becomes premier of Australia |
1932 |
British Broadcasting Corp begins transmitting overseas |
1933 |
Electric Home & Farm Authority Inc, authorized |
1934 |
Japan agrees to naval treaty of 1922 & 1930 |
1939 |
Russian air & ground attack against Finnish positions near Summa |
1941 |
German submarine U-574 sinks |
1941 |
Hitler takes complete command of German Army |
1941 |
US Office of Censorship created to control info pertaining to WW II |
1943 |
Military coup in Bolivia |
1945 |
Austrian Republic re-establishes |
1945 |
Jean Giraudoux' "La Folle de Chaillot" premieres in Paris |
1946 |
Noel Cowards musical "Pacific 1860" premieres in London |
1946 |
War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi |
1948 |
2nd political action of Java/Sumatra |
1948 |
8th largest snowfall in NYC history (15.3") |
1948 |
Cleveland Browns beats Buffalo Bills 49-7 in AAFC championship game |
1948 |
Philadelphia Eagles shutout Chicago Cards 7-0 in NFL championship game |
1949 |
Luxury passenger ship Aquitania demolished in Gareloch, Scotland |
1949 |
WJW TV channel 8 in Cleveland, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1950 |
Gen Eisenhower named NATO commander |
1950 |
Tibet's Dalai Lama flees Chinese invasion |
1951 |
Nazi General Christiansen leaves Netherlands |
1952 |
Queen Juliana unveals statue "Docker" |
1953 |
KFYR TV channel 5 in Bismarck, ND (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
Carl Perkins records "Blue Suede Shoes" |
1957 |
"Music Man" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1375 performances |
1958 |
1st radio broadcast from space (Pres Eisenhower voice "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth & Good Will to Men Everywhere") |
1959 |
1st Liberty Bowl game-Penn State beats Alabama 7-0 |
1960 |
Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Brooklyn (50 die) |
1960 |
Frank Sinatra's 1st session with Reprise Records (Ring-A-Ding-Ding) |
1960 |
Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight |
1961 |
Indonesian President Sukarno proclaims general mobilization |
1962 |
Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia & Nyasaland |
1962 |
Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission |
1962 |
Transit 5A1, 1st operational navigational satellite, launched |
1965 |
French president De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%) |
1967 |
Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead. |
1968 |
WCWB (now WMGT) TV channel 41 in Macon, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1969 |
Beatle's 7th Christmas album is released |
1971 |
"Inner City" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 97 performances |
1971 |
CBS airs "Homecoming A Christmas Story," (introducing the Waltons) |
1971 |
NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp |
1971 |
Stanley Kubrick's X-rated "A Clockwork Orange" premieres |
1972 |
Apollo 17 (last of Apollo Moon landing series) returns to Earth |
1973 |
"Molly" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 68 performances |
1973 |
Grenada adopts constitution |
1974 |
"Man With Golden Gun" premieres in US |
1974 |
Dave Kryskow scores Washington Capitals 1st NHL shorthanded goal |
1974 |
Nelson A Rockefeller sworn-in as 41st VP |
1975 |
John Paul Stevens becomes a US Supreme Court Justice |
1975 |
Ron Wood joined the Rolling Stones |
1975 |
The Red Hand Commandos, a very secretive Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland, explode a no-warning car bomb in Dundalk, killing 2 civilians and wounding 20 |
1976 |
Jo Ann Washam/Chi Chi Rodriguez wins Pepsi-Cola Mixed Team Golf Champ |
1976 |
John Lever takes 7-46 in 1st Test Cricket innings, v India Delhi |
1976 |
Pres Leonid Brezhnev receives his 5th Order of Lenin |
1976 |
Piper Cherokee crashes into Balt Memorial Stadium upper stands, 10 minutes after Colts lose 40-14 to Steelers. No one seriously hurt |
1976 |
65th Davis Cup: Italy beats Chile in Santiago (4-1) |
1977 |
Dutch government of Van Agt/Wiegel forms |
1978 |
France performs nuclear test |
1978 |
Indira Gandhi ambushed in India |
1980 |
Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St Kitts |
1980 |
Iran requests $24 billion in US guarantees to free hostages |
1980 |
Mutual Broadcasting cancels Sears Radio Theater |
1980 |
"Raging Bull", starring Robert De Niro as boxer Jake LaMotta and Cathy Moriarty as his wife, is released |
1981 |
Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee, Cornwall, 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 |
China PR Premier Zhao Ziyang & British PM Margaret Thatcher sign Hong Kong Treaty |
1984 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1984 |
Fire at Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people |
1984 |
UK signs agreement with China to return Hong Kong to China in 1997 |
1984 |
Wayne Gretzky, 23, is 18th & youngest NHL-er to score 1,000 points |
1984 |
Scotty Bowman wins his 691st regular season game, the most wins by any coach in NHL history |
1985 |
"Wind in the Willows" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 4 perfs |
1985 |
Mary Lund is 1st woman to receive a Jarvik VII artificial heart |
1985 |
STS 61-C scrubbed at T -13s because of SRB auxiliary power problem |
1986 |
USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile |
1986 |
Jack Morris agrees to salary arbitration with former team Tigers & accuses owners of collusion against free agency |
1986 |
Michael Sergio, who parachuted into Shea Stadium during game 6 of the World Series, sentenced to 100 hrs of community service & fined $500 |
1986 |
OPEC reaches an accord that would cut production by 7 percent for the first six months of 1987 and would raise prices immediately toward a target world oil price of $18 per barrel |
1987 |
Bruins' Linseman & Blues' Doug Gilmore score goals, 2 seconds apart |
1987 |
Gari Kasparov becomes world chess champ |
1988 |
NASA unviels plans for lunar colony & manned missions to Mars |
1988 |
Oklahoma's College football team gets 3 year probation |
1988 |
Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany-5,000 evacuated |
1989 |
American Airlines purchases Eastern Airline's Latin American route |
1989 |
Larry Bird (Celtics) begins NBA free throw streak of 71 games |
1991 |
"Christmas Carol" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 14 perfs |
1991 |
6,000th episode of One Life To Live |
1991 |
Boris Yeltsin takes control of Kremlin |
1991 |
NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe arrested for cocaine possession |
1993 |
"Red Shoes" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 5 performances |
1994 |
Rolls-Royce announces its future cars will feature V12 engine which will be produced by BMW. |
1996 |
"Once Upon a Matress" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 187 performances |
1997 |
MTV drops video "Smack My Bitch Up" by Prodigy |
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. |
2007 |
The Lakotah people, a Native American tribe, proclaim independence and withdraw all their treaties with the United States. They then proceed to establish the Republic of Lakotah, with an ongoing process of international recognition as a separate country. |
2010 |
"Miracle at the New Meadowlands", trailing the New York Giants by 21 points with under eight minutes to play in the 4th quarter, the Philadelphia Eagles score four unanswered touchdowns in the final seven minutes and 28 seconds of play, including the final score, a dramatic walk-off punt returned for a touchdown by DeSean Jackson as time expires |
2012 |
UBS bank is fined $1.5 billion for its role in manipulating the Libor rate |
2012 |
Park Geun-hye wins the South Korean presidential election to become the nation's first female president |
2013 |
81 people are injured after part of the ceiling caved in at London's Apollo Theatre |
2015 |
Turkey to withdraw troops from Iraq |
2016 |
Australia's Projected Annual Deficits Worsen by $7.5 Billion |
2016 |
Raiders edge Chargers to clinch first playoff berth since 2002 |
2017 |
Passengers killed when Amtrak train on new route derails in Washington state |
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