December 19th All Events |
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| December 19th, 2007 (December 19 2007) | Event | 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. | |
| December 19th, 2005 (December 19 2005) | Death | Keith Duckworth, English mechanical engineer (Cosworth; born in 1933) | |
| December 19th, 2005 (December 19 2005) | Death | Vincent Gigante, American mafioso (born in 1927) | |
| December 19th, 2004 (December 19 2004) | Death | Herbert C. Brown, English-born American chemist, Nobel laureate (born in 1912) | |
| December 19th, 2004 (December 19 2004) | Death | Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (born in 1922) | |
| December 19th, 2003 (December 19 2003) | Death | Peter Carter-Ruck, English lawyer (born in 1914) | |
| December 19th, 2003 (December 19 2003) | Death | Hope Lange, American actress (born in 1933) | |
| December 19th, 2003 (December 19 2003) | Death | Les Tremayne, English-born American actor (born in 1913) | |
| December 19th, 2002 (December 19 2002) | Death | Arthur Rowley, English footballer. (born in 1926) | |
| December 19th, 2001 (December 19 2001) | Event | A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khovsgol Province, Mongolia. | |
| December 19th, 2001 (December 19 2001) | Event | Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riotsRiots erupt in Buenos Aires after Domingo Cavallo s corralito measures restrict the withdrawal of cash from bank deposits. | |
| December 19th, 2001 (December 19 2001) | Death | Marcel Mule, French saxophonist. (born in 1901) | |
| December 19th, 2000 (December 19 2000) | Event | 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. | |
| December 19th, 2000 (December 19 2000) | Death | Rob Buck, American guitarist (10,000 Maniacs) (born in 1958) | |
| December 19th, 2000 (December 19 2000) | Death | Milt Hinton, American jazz double bassist (born in 1910) | |
| December 19th, 2000 (December 19 2000) | Death | John Lindsay, American politician (born in 1921) | |
| December 19th, 2000 (December 19 2000) | Death | Pops Staples, American singer (The Staple Singers) (born in 1915) | |
| December 19th, 1999 (December 19 1999) | Death | Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (born in 1914) | |
| December 19th, 1998 (December 19 1998) | Event | Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate. | Bill Clinton Quotes |
| December 19th, 1998 (December 19 1998) | Death | Mel Fisher, American treasure hunter (born in 1922) | |
| December 19th, 1998 (December 19 1998) | Death | Antonio Ordonez, Spanish bullfighter (born in 1932) | |
| December 19th, 1997 (December 19 1997) | Event | SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104. | |
| December 19th, 1997 (December 19 1997) | Event | Titanic is released in theaters. This movie would become the most financially successful movie in U.S. history, grossing approximately $1.8 billion worldwide. | |
| December 19th, 1997 (December 19 1997) | Death | Masaru Ibuka, Japanese industrialist (Sony) (born in 1908) | |
| December 19th, 1997 (December 19 1997) | Death | Jimmy Rogers, American blues guitarist (born in 1924) | |
| December 19th, 1996 (December 19 1996) | Death | Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (born in 1924) | |
| December 19th, 1994 (December 19 1994) | Event | Rolls-Royce announces its future cars will feature V12 engine which will be produced by BMW. | |
| December 19th, 1993 (December 19 1993) | Death | Michael Clarke, American drummer (The Byrds) (born in 1946) | |
| December 19th, 1991 (December 19 1991) | Birth | Declan Galbraith, English singer | |
| December 19th, 1991 (December 19 1991) | Death | Joe Cole, American rock music roadie (born in 1961) | |
| December 19th, 1989 (December 19 1989) | Death | Stella Gibbons, English author (born in 1902) | |
| December 19th, 1988 (December 19 1988) | Birth | Paulina Gretzky, American-born Canadian actress and model | |
| December 19th, 1988 (December 19 1988) | Birth | Peter Winn, English footballer | |
| December 19th, 1987 (December 19 1987) | Birth | Karim Benzema, French footballer | |
| December 19th, 1987 (December 19 1987) | Birth | Alexis Sanchez, Chilean footballer | |
| December 19th, 1986 (December 19 1986) | Event | Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from internal exile in Gorky. | Andrei Sakharov Quotes |
| December 19th, 1986 (December 19 1986) | Birth | Ryan Babel, Dutch Footballer | |
| December 19th, 1986 (December 19 1986) | Death | V. C. Andrews, American author (born in 1923) | |
| December 19th, 1985 (December 19 1985) | Birth | Gary Cahill, English footballer | |
| December 19th, 1985 (December 19 1985) | Birth | Neil Kilkenny, English-born Australian footballer | |
| December 19th, 1985 (December 19 1985) | Birth | Lady Sovereign, English musician | |
| December 19th, 1984 (December 19 1984) | Event | 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. | Margaret Thatcher Quotes |
| December 19th, 1984 (December 19 1984) | Birth | Ian Kennedy, Major League Baseball pitcher | |
| December 19th, 1984 (December 19 1984) | Death | Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (born in 1903) | |
| December 19th, 1983 (December 19 1983) | Event | The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro. | |
| December 19th, 1983 (December 19 1983) | Birth | Matt Stajan, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| December 19th, 1982 (December 19 1982) | Birth | Vincent Accardi, American musician | |
| December 19th, 1982 (December 19 1982) | Birth | Maurice Williams, American basketball player | |
| December 19th, 1982 (December 19 1982) | Death | Dwight Macdonald, American social critic (born in 1906) | |
| December 19th, 1981 (December 19 1981) | Event | Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas. | |
| December 19th, 1980 (December 19 1980) | Birth | Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor | Jake Gyllenhaal Quotes |
| December 19th, 1980 (December 19 1980) | Birth | Marla Sokoloff, American actress | |
| December 19th, 1979 (December 19 1979) | Birth | Kevin Devine, American musician | |
| December 19th, 1979 (December 19 1979) | Birth | Paola Rey, Colombian actress | |
| December 19th, 1978 (December 19 1978) | Birth | Patrick Casey, American screenwriter and actor | |
| December 19th, 1977 (December 19 1977) | Birth | Jorge Garbajosa, Spanish basketball player | |
| December 19th, 1975 (December 19 1975) | Event | John Paul Stevens appointed as a justice of The United States Supreme Court. | |
| December 19th, 1975 (December 19 1975) | Birth | Olivier Tebily, Ivorian footballer | |
| December 19th, 1974 (December 19 1974) | Birth | Mikko Paananen, Finnish bassist (HIM) | |
| December 19th, 1974 (December 19 1974) | Birth | Jake Plummer, American football player | |
| December 19th, 1974 (December 19 1974) | Birth | Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer | |
| December 19th, 1973 (December 19 1973) | Birth | Takashi Sorimachi, Japanese actor | |
| December 19th, 1973 (December 19 1973) | Birth | Zulfiya Zabirova, Russian cyclist | |
| December 19th, 1972 (December 19 1972) | Event | Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth. | Evans Quotes |
| December 19th, 1972 (December 19 1972) | Birth | Alyssa Milano, American actress | Alyssa Milano Quotes |
| December 19th, 1972 (December 19 1972) | Birth | Rosa Blasi, American actress | |
| December 19th, 1972 (December 19 1972) | Birth | Warren Sapp, American football player | |
| December 19th, 1971 (December 19 1971) | Birth | Liz Cho, American television reporter | |
| December 19th, 1971 (December 19 1971) | Birth | Amy Locane, American actress | |
| December 19th, 1971 (December 19 1971) | Birth | Tiffany Towers, Canadian adult film actress | |
| December 19th, 1970 (December 19 1970) | Birth | Tyson Beckford, American model | |
| December 19th, 1969 (December 19 1969) | Birth | Richard Hammond, English television presenter | |
| December 19th, 1969 (December 19 1969) | Birth | Tom Gugliotta, American basketball player | |
| December 19th, 1969 (December 19 1969) | Birth | Kristy Swanson, American actress | |
| December 19th, 1969 (December 19 1969) | Birth | Villano IV, Mexican professional wrestler | |
| December 19th, 1968 (December 19 1968) | Death | Norman Thomas, American socialist (born in 1884) | |
| December 19th, 1967 (December 19 1967) | Event | Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead. | |
| December 19th, 1967 (December 19 1967) | Birth | Frankie Lam, Hong Kong actor | |
| December 19th, 1967 (December 19 1967) | Birth | Criss Angel, Illusionist,Actor, Musician, etc. | |
| December 19th, 1966 (December 19 1966) | Birth | Chuckii Booker, American singer, musician and producer | Chuck D Quotes |
| December 19th, 1966 (December 19 1966) | Birth | Robert MacNaughton, American stage and screen actor | |
| December 19th, 1966 (December 19 1966) | Birth | Alberto Tomba, Italian alpine skier | |
| December 19th, 1966 (December 19 1966) | Birth | Eric Weinrich, American ice hockey player | |
| December 19th, 1965 (December 19 1965) | Birth | Chito Martinez, Belizean baseball player | |
| December 19th, 1965 (December 19 1965) | Birth | Jessica Steen, American actress | |
| December 19th, 1964 (December 19 1964) | Birth | Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player | |
| December 19th, 1963 (December 19 1963) | Birth | Jennifer Beals, American film actress | |
| December 19th, 1963 (December 19 1963) | Birth | Til Schweiger, German actor | |
| December 19th, 1962 (December 19 1962) | Birth | Jill Talley, American actress | |
| December 19th, 1961 (December 19 1961) | Event | India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India. | |
| December 19th, 1961 (December 19 1961) | Birth | Eric Allin Cornell, American physicist, Nobel laureate | |
| December 19th, 1961 (December 19 1961) | Birth | Matthew Waterhouse, English actor | |
| December 19th, 1961 (December 19 1961) | Birth | Reggie White, American football player (died in 2004) | Reggie White Quotes |
| December 19th, 1960 (December 19 1960) | Birth | Mike Lookinland, American actor | |
| December 19th, 1960 (December 19 1960) | Birth | Michelangelo Signorile, American writer | |
| December 19th, 1958 (December 19 1958) | Birth | Limahl, English singer (Kajagoogoo) | |
| December 19th, 1957 (December 19 1957) | Birth | Cyril Collard, French film director (died in 1993) | |
| December 19th, 1957 (December 19 1957) | Birth | John Gulager, American film director | |
| December 19th, 1957 (December 19 1957) | Birth | Kevin McHale, American basketball player | |
| December 19th, 1956 (December 19 1956) | Birth | Tom Lawless, American baseball player | |
| December 19th, 1953 (December 19 1953) | Death | Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel laureate (born in 1868) | |
| December 19th, 1949 (December 19 1949) | Birth | Nancy Kyes, American actress | |
| December 19th, 1949 (December 19 1949) | Birth | Sebastian, Danish musician | |
| December 19th, 1948 (December 19 1948) | Birth | Ken Brown, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| December 19th, 1946 (December 19 1946) | Birth | Rosemary Conley, English businesswoman, author and broadcaster | |
| December 19th, 1946 (December 19 1946) | Birth | Robert Urich, American actor (died in 2002) | |
| December 19th, 1946 (December 19 1946) | Death | Paul Langevin, French physicist (born in 1872) | |
| December 19th, 1945 (December 19 1945) | Birth | Elaine Joyce, American actress | |
| December 19th, 1944 (December 19 1944) | Birth | William Christie, American-born director of Les Arts Florissants | |
| December 19th, 1944 (December 19 1944) | Birth | Mitchell Feigenbaum, American mathematical physicist | |
| December 19th, 1944 (December 19 1944) | Birth | Richard Leakey, Kenyan paleontologist, conservationist and politician | |
| December 19th, 1944 (December 19 1944) | Birth | Alvin Lee, English singer/guitarist (Ten Years After) | |
| December 19th, 1944 (December 19 1944) | Birth | Tim Reid, American actor | |
| December 19th, 1944 (December 19 1944) | Birth | Zal Yanovsky, Canadian guitarist (The Lovin Spoonful) (died in 2002) | |
| December 19th, 1944 (December 19 1944) | Death | Khedive Abbas II of Egypt (born in 1874) | |
| December 19th, 1944 (December 19 1944) | Death | Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (born in 1856) | |
| December 19th, 1943 (December 19 1943) | Birth | Ross M. Lence, American political scientist (died in 2006) | |
| December 19th, 1942 (December 19 1942) | Birth | Rufus, French actor | |
| December 19th, 1941 (December 19 1941) | Event | World War II: Adolf Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army. | Adolf Hitler Quotes |
| December 19th, 1941 (December 19 1941) | Birth | Maurice White, American singer and songwriter (Earth, Wind & Fire) | |
| December 19th, 1940 (December 19 1940) | Birth | Phil Ochs, American folk singer (died in 1976) | Phil Ochs Quotes |
| December 19th, 1939 (December 19 1939) | Death | Hans Langsdorff, German naval officer (born in 1894) | |
| December 19th, 1938 (December 19 1938) | Death | Stephen Warfield Gambrill, U.S. Congressman (born in 1873) | |
| December 19th, 1936 (December 19 1936) | Birth | Marian McKnight, Miss America 1957 | |
| December 19th, 1935 (December 19 1935) | Birth | Barbara Bostock, American actress | |
| December 19th, 1935 (December 19 1935) | Birth | Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (died in 1974) | |
| December 19th, 1934 (December 19 1934) | Birth | Rudi Carrell, Dutch singer | |
| December 19th, 1934 (December 19 1934) | Birth | Al Kaline, American baseball player | |
| December 19th, 1934 (December 19 1934) | Birth | Casper R. Taylor, Jr., American politician | |
| December 19th, 1933 (December 19 1933) | Birth | Kevan Gosper, Australian athlete | |
| December 19th, 1933 (December 19 1933) | Birth | Cicely Tyson, American actress | |
| December 19th, 1933 (December 19 1933) | Death | George Jackson Churchward, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (born in 1857) | |
| December 19th, 1932 (December 19 1932) | Event | BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service | |
| December 19th, 1932 (December 19 1932) | Birth | Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer | |
| December 19th, 1932 (December 19 1932) | Death | Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean activist (born in 1908) | |
| December 19th, 1929 (December 19 1929) | Birth | Bob Brookmeyer, American jazz musician | |
| December 19th, 1929 (December 19 1929) | Birth | Howard Sackler, American screenwriter (died in 1982) | |
| December 19th, 1928 (December 19 1928) | Birth | Nathan Oliveira, American artist | |
| December 19th, 1927 (December 19 1927) | Birth | James Booth, English actor and screenwriter (died in 2005) | |
| December 19th, 1926 (December 19 1926) | Birth | Bobby Layne, American football player (died in 1986) | |
| December 19th, 1926 (December 19 1926) | Birth | Herb Stempel, American game show contestant | |
| December 19th, 1925 (December 19 1925) | Birth | Tankred Dorst, German dramatist | |
| December 19th, 1925 (December 19 1925) | Birth | Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter | |
| December 19th, 1924 (December 19 1924) | Event | The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England. | |
| December 19th, 1924 (December 19 1924) | Birth | Carlo Chiti, Italian race car engineer (died in 1994) | |
| December 19th, 1924 (December 19 1924) | Birth | Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player (died in 1989) | |
| December 19th, 1924 (December 19 1924) | Birth | Gary Morton, second husband of Lucille Ball (died in 1999) | |
| December 19th, 1924 (December 19 1924) | Birth | Edmund Purdom, English actor | |
| December 19th, 1923 (December 19 1923) | Birth | Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor (died in 1990) | |
| December 19th, 1922 (December 19 1922) | Birth | Eamonn Andrews, Irish-born television presenter (died in 1987) | |
| December 19th, 1920 (December 19 1920) | Event | King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander I of Greece and a plebiscite. | |
| December 19th, 1920 (December 19 1920) | Birth | Little Jimmy Dickens, American country singer | |
| December 19th, 1920 (December 19 1920) | Birth | David Susskind, American TV talk show host (died in 1987) | |
| December 19th, 1918 (December 19 1918) | Birth | Professor Longhair, American blues musician (died in 1980) | |
| December 19th, 1916 (December 19 1916) | Event | World War I: Battle of VerdunOn the Western Front, the French Army successfully holds off the German Army and drives it back to its starting position. | |
| December 19th, 1915 (December 19 1915) | Birth | Edith Piaf, French singer and actress (died in 1963) | |
| December 19th, 1915 (December 19 1915) | Death | Alois Alzheimer, German neuroscientist (born in 1864) | |
| December 19th, 1912 (December 19 1912) | Event | 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. | |
| December 19th, 1910 (December 19 1910) | Birth | Jean Genet, French writer (died in 1986) | Jean Genet Quotes |
| December 19th, 1909 (December 19 1909) | Birth | W.A. Criswell, American (Baptist) preacher (died in 2002) | |
| December 19th, 1907 (December 19 1907) | Event | A group of 239 coal miners die during a mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania. | |
| December 19th, 1907 (December 19 1907) | Birth | Jimmy McLarnin, former Welterweight Champion (died in 2004) | |
| December 19th, 1906 (December 19 1906) | Birth | Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union (died in 1982) | Leonid Brezhnev Quotes |
| December 19th, 1903 (December 19 1903) | Birth | George Davis Snell, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (died in 1996) | |
| December 19th, 1902 (December 19 1902) | Birth | Sir Ralph Richardson, English actor (died in 1983) | |
| December 19th, 1901 (December 19 1901) | Birth | Rudolf Hell, German inventor (died in 2002) | |
| December 19th, 1894 (December 19 1894) | Birth | Ford Frick, American baseball commissioner (died in 1978) | |
| December 19th, 1888 (December 19 1888) | Birth | Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-born American conductor (died in 1963) | |
| December 19th, 1885 (December 19 1885) | Birth | Joe "King" Oliver, American jazz musician (died in 1938) | |
| December 19th, 1878 (December 19 1878) | Death | Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (born in 1825) | Bayard Taylor Quotes |
| December 19th, 1865 (December 19 1865) | Birth | Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress (died in 1932) | |
| December 19th, 1853 (December 19 1853) | Birth | Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Quebec (died in 1942) | |
| December 19th, 1852 (December 19 1852) | Birth | Albert Abraham Michelson, Prussian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (died in 1931) | Abraham Quotes |
| December 19th, 1848 (December 19 1848) | Death | Emily Bronte, English author (born in 1818) | Emily Bronte Quotes |
| December 19th, 1835 (December 19 1835) | Event | The first issue of The Blade newspaper is published in Toledo, Ohio. | |
| December 19th, 1831 (December 19 1831) | Birth | Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaiian philanthropist (died in 1884) | |
| December 19th, 1828 (December 19 1828) | Event | Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828. | John C. Calhoun Quotes |
| December 19th, 1819 (December 19 1819) | Death | Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval officer and politician (born in 1765) | |
| December 19th, 1817 (December 19 1817) | Birth | James J. Archer, Confederate general (died in 1904) | |
| December 19th, 1814 (December 19 1814) | Death | Joseph Bramah, Inventor and Locksmith, notably invented the beer pump | Joseph Smith Quotes |
| December 19th, 1813 (December 19 1813) | Birth | Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (died in 1885) | |
| December 19th, 1813 (December 19 1813) | Death | James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (born in 1744) | |
| December 19th, 1807 (December 19 1807) | Death | Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (born in 1723) | |
| December 19th, 1784 (December 19 1784) | Birth | Marcus Morton, 16th and 18th Governor of Massachusetts (died in 1864) | |
| December 19th, 1778 (December 19 1778) | Birth | Princess Marie-Therese-Charlotte, eldest child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI (died in 1851) | Marie Antoinette Quotes |
| December 19th, 1777 (December 19 1777) | Event | American Revolutionary War: George Washington s Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. | George Washington Quotes |
| December 19th, 1776 (December 19 1776) | Event | Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in the Pennsylvania Journal titled The American Crisis. | Thomas Paine Quotes |
| December 19th, 1751 (December 19 1751) | Death | Louise of Great Britain, wife of Frederick V of Denmark (born in 1724) | |
| December 19th, 1749 (December 19 1749) | Death | Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (born in 1672) | |
| December 19th, 1745 (December 19 1745) | Death | Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (born in 1684) | |
| December 19th, 1741 (December 19 1741) | Death | Vitus Bering, Danish-born explorer (born in 1681) | |
| December 19th, 1737 (December 19 1737) | Death | James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (born in 1667) | |
| December 19th, 1714 (December 19 1714) | Birth | John Winthrop, American astronomer (died in 1779) | |
| December 19th, 1699 (December 19 1699) | Birth | William Bowyer, English printer (died in 1777) | |
| December 19th, 1683 (December 19 1683) | Birth | Philip V of Spain (died in 1746) | |
| December 19th, 1606 (December 19 1606) | Event | The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery depart England carrying settlers who, at Jamestown, Virginia, found the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States. | |
| December 19th, 1554 (December 19 1554) | Birth | Philip William, Prince of Orange (died in 1618) | |
| December 19th, 1490 (December 19 1490) | Event | Anne of Brittany is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy. | |
| December 19th, 1370 (December 19 1370) | Death | Pope Urban V (born in 1310) | |
| December 19th, 1327 (December 19 1327) | Death | Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy | |
| December 19th, 1075 (December 19 1075) | Death | Edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor of England | |
| December 19th, 0401 (December 19 0401) | Death | Pope Anastasius I | |
| December 19th, 0324 (December 19 0324) | Event | Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor. | |
