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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.
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 , protesting the Tariff of 1828. 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 Verdun 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 colony of Goa 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 1978 - John Wayne Gacy is arrested for the killings of 33 boys and young men 1979 - Kramer vs. Kramer opens in theaters, starring 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 is the first Lord of the Rings movie to open in theaters. 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 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
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In brief - Yemen Times (501 words)
19 — A ribbon cutting ceremony in Bir Ali brought together members of the Yemen LNG Board of Directors marking the inauguration of the Bir Ali 300 kw electrical generator provided by the company to the village last Wednesday.
The generator is one of a series of projects that aim not only to compensate for any unavoidable impact also to improve the living conditions of affected communities and achieve sustainable development
19 — Taiz governorate stated that heads of education centers suspended the November month's salaries of 400 teachers that amounted to YR 10 million at Shara'ab district.
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