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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. A leap year (or intercalary year) is a year containing an extra day or month in order to keep the calendar year in sync with an astronomical or seasonal year. ...
The Gregorian calendar is the calendar that is used nearly everywhere in the world. ...
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Events
- 324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor.
- 1187 - Pope Clement III is elected.
- 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.
- 1912 - William H. Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by 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.
- 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, Victoria.
- 1967 - Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.
- 1972 - Project Apollo: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
- 1974 - The Altair 8800 microcomputer kit goes on sale.
- 1974 -Nelson A. Rockefeller is sworn is as the 41st Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford.
- 1984 - The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that 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.
- 1988 - Lawn darts are banned from sale in the United States by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
- 1997 - Silkair Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
- 1997 - The film Titanic is released.
- 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate.
- 1999 - Portugal transferred sovereignty of Macau to the People's Republic of China.
- 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 film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is released.
- 2001 - A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Hövsgöl in 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.
Events Constantine becomes the sole emperor of the Roman Empire. ...
Coin of Licinius For other Romans of this name, see Licinius (gens). ...
This is a list of Roman Emperors with the dates they controlled the Roman Empire. ...
// Events May 1 - Battle of Cresson - Saladin defeats the crusaders July 4 - Saladin defeats Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem, at the Battle of Hattin. ...
Clement III, born Paulino Scolari (or Paolo) (b. ...
1777 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
Combatants American Revolutionaries, France, allies British Empire, allies Commanders George Washington Comte de Rochambeau Nathanael Greene William Howe Henry Clinton Charles Cornwallis Strength {{{strength1}}} {{{strength2}}} Casualties {{{casualties1}}} {{{casualties2}}} The American Revolutionary War (1775â1783), also known as the American War of Independence was the military side of the American Revolution. ...
George Washington (February 22, 1732 â December 14, 1799) was the successful Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War (1775â1783), and later became the first President of the United States, an office to which he was elected twice. ...
The Continental Army was the unified command structure of the thirteen colonies fighting Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War. ...
The Village of Valley Forge is an unincorporated settlement located just outside of Valley Forge National Historic Park in Schuylkill Township of Chester County, Pennsylvania. ...
1828 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
In the United States, the Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson over the issue of protective tariffs. ...
Richard B. Cheney, 46th and current Vice President of the United States The Vice President of the United States is the second-highest executive official of the United States government, the person who, in the words of Adlai Stevenson, is a heartbeat from the presidency. ...
John C. Calhoun John Caldwell Calhoun (March 18, 1782 â March 31, 1850) was a prominent United States politician from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century. ...
The South Carolina Exposition and Protest was written in 1828 by Andrew JacksonsPresident]], John C. Calhoun, during the Nullification Crisis. ...
The Tariff of 1828, also known as the Tariff of Abominations, was a protective tariff passed by the U.S. Congress in 1828. ...
1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
The Blade is a 1997 album by Sol Invictus. ...
Nickname: The Glass City Motto: {{{motto}}} Official website: www. ...
1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday. ...
Paddle steamers - Lucerne-Switzerland Left: original paddlewheel from a paddle steamer on the lake of Lucerne. ...
Wreckage of the General Slocum Victims of the General Slocum washed ashore at North Brother Island The General Slocum was a steamship launched in 1891. ...
William Howard Taft I (September 15, 1857–March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States (1909-1913), and the 10th Chief Justice of the United States (1921 - 1930). ...
Alternative meaning: Sing Sing (band) Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a prison in Ossining, New York. ...
1916 (MCMXVI) is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January-February January 1 -The first successful blood transfusion using blood that had been stored and cooled. ...
Clockwise from top: Trenches in frontline, a British Mark I Tank crossing a trench, the Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a mine at the battle of the Dardanelles, a Vickers machine gun crew with gas masks and a Sopwith Camel biplane. ...
Combatants France Germany Commanders Philippe Pétain Robert Nivelle Erich von Falkenhayn Strength About 30,000 on 21 February 1916 About 150,000 on 21 February 1916 Casualties 377,000â542,000 total (of which 162,308 killed or missing) 336,000â434,000 total (of which about 100,000...
Western Front was a term used during the First and Second World Wars to describe the contested armed frontier between lands controlled by Germany to the East and the Allies to the West. ...
French soldiers of the IFOR in Mostar, 1995. ...
The German Army (German: Heer listen â¶(?)) is one of the three parts of the Bundeswehr (Federal Defence), as well as previously the Wehrmacht (Defence Force) - the others are the Air Force (Luftwaffe) and the Navy (Marine). ...
1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Daman and Diu (Portuguese: Gujarati is the main language; use of Portuguese is declining because it is not official or taught at school (but still spoken by 10% in Daman). ...
Portuguese India (Port. ...
1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Map of Zanzibars main island Zanzibar, Tanzania, comprises a pair of islands off the east coast of Africa called Zanzibar (Unguja) (1994 est. ...
A constitutional monarchy is a form of monarchical government established under a constitutional system which acknowledges a hereditary or elected monarch as head of state. ...
A sultan (Arabic: Ø³ÙØ·Ø§Ù) is an Islamic title, with several historical meanings. ...
Hamoud bin Mohammed (ruled August 27, 1896-July 18, 1902) was the British-controlled Omani sultan of the protectorate of Zanzibar, who outlawed slavery on the island. ...
1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ...
Ronald Joseph Ryan (c. ...
Peter Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester, PC (born 1932), was Conservative MP for Worcester between March 1961 and April 1992, and the founder of the Tory Reform Group. ...
HM Prison Pentridge was an Australian prison built in 1850 and located in Coburg, Victoria. ...
Coburg is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...
1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The current (25th) Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard (sitting, fifth from left), with his Cabinet, 1999 The office of Prime Minister is in practice the most powerful political office in the Commonwealth of Australia. ...
Harold Edward Holt (5 August 1908 - 17 December 1967) was an Australian politician and the 17th Prime Minister of Australia from 1966 - 1967, now best remembered for the bizarre circumstances of his death. ...
Death in absentia describes a legal finding of death if a person has been missing for more than a certain period of time. ...
1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...
Apollo Program insignia Project Apollo was a series of human spaceflight missions undertaken by the United States of America using the Apollo spacecraft and Saturn launch vehicle, conducted during the years 1961â1972. ...
Apollo 17 was the eleventh manned space mission in the NASA Apollo program, and was the sixth and last mission to date to land on the Moon. ...
Eugene Cernan Eugene A. Cernan (born March 14, 1934) is a former United States astronaut. ...
Ronald E. Evans (November 10, 1933 - April 7, 1990) (Captain, USN Ret. ...
Harrison Jack Schmitt (left) poses with Gene Cernan (seated) and Ronald Evans (right) Dr. Harrison Hagan Jack Schmitt (born July 3, 1935) is a geologist, astronaut, and former senator. ...
Earth, also known as Terra, and Tellus mostly in the 19th century, is the third-closest planet to the Sun. ...
1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ...
Altair 8800 The MITS Altair 8800 was a microcomputer design from 1975, based on the Intel 8080A CPU. Sold as a kit through Popular Electronics magazine, the designers intended to sell only a few hundred to hobbyists, and were surprised when they sold over ten times that many in the...
Apple IIc Hi class Although there is no rigid definition, a microcomputer (sometimes shortened to micro) is most often taken to mean a computer with a microprocessor (µP) as its CPU. Another general characteristic of these computers is that they occupy physically small amounts of space. ...
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 - January 26, 1979) was a Governor of New York and the 41st Vice President of the United States of America from December 19, 1974 to January 20, 1977. ...
Richard B. Cheney, 46th and current Vice President of the United States The Vice President of the United States is the second-highest executive official of the United States government, the person who, in the words of Adlai Stevenson, is a heartbeat from the presidency. ...
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. ...
1984 (MCMLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong ( Chinese: (Trad. ...
July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining. ...
1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
â¶ (help· info) (Chinese: å京; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Pei-ching; Postal System Pinyin: Peking) is the capital of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ...
Deng Xiaoping Deng Xiaoping â¶(?) (Simplified: éå°å¹³; Traditional: é§å°å¹³; Hanyu Pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Teng Hsiao-ping; August 22, 1904âFebruary 19, 1997) was a revolutionary elder in the Communist Party of China (CPC) who served as the de facto ruler of the Peoples Republic of China from the late 1970s to...
The Right Honourable Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS (born 13 October 1925), is a British politician. ...
1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Safety warning A set of lawn darts usually includes four large darts and two targets. ...
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government created in 1972 to protect âagainst unreasonable risks of injuries associated with consumer productsâ. As of 2005 its chairman is Hal Stratton. ...
1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Silkair Flight 185 was a scheduled passenger service from Jakarta, Indonesia to Singapore. ...
The Musi River is a river which passes through the city of Hyderabad in India. ...
Palembang is a city in the south of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. ...
Titanic is a 1997 dramatic film released by Paramount Pictures and 20th Century Fox. ...
1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ...
Time Magazines special report. ...
The United States House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Congress of the United States. ...
Depiction of the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson, then President of the United States, in 1868. ...
The President of the United States (unofficially abbreviated âPOTUSâ) is the head of state of the United States. ...
William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe, III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ...
Seal of the Senate The United States Senate is one of the two chambers of the Congress of the United States, the other being the House of Representatives. ...
1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
Sovereignty is the exclusive right to exercise supreme authority over a geographic region, group of people or oneself. ...
This article is about the year 2000. ...
Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist (in Turkish: Türkiye Komünist Emek Partisi/Leninist) is an illegal communist party in Turkey. ...
The Nationalist Movement Party (Can also be translated as Natioanlist Action Party) (Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi), far-right nationalist political party in Turkey. ...
Shows the Location of the Province Istanbul The Sultan Ahmed Mosque, Istanbul Istanbul (Turkish: İstanbul) (a Turkish contraction of Greek ÎµÎ¹Ï Ïην Ïολιν into the city, the former Constantinople, ÎÏνÏÏανÏινοÏÏολιÏ) is the largest city in Turkey, and arguably the most important. ...
2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is a film, released on Wednesday, December 19, 2001, directed by Peter Jackson with a runtime of 178 minutes (2 hours, 58 minutes). ...
Atmospheric pressure is the pressure caused by the weight of air above any area in the Earths atmosphere. ...
HPA means Physiology Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal axis: The hypothalamus, pituitary and adrenal glands work together to regulate hormone levels and maintain homeostasis. ...
Inches of mercury or inHg is a non SI unit for pressure. ...
Tosontsengel is a city in Hövsgöl aymag, Mongolia. ...
The Argentine economic crisis was part of the situation that affected Argentinas economy during the late 1990s and early 2000s. ...
The December 2001 riots were a period of civil unrest and rioting in Argentina that took place during December of 2001, with the worst incidents taking place on December 20 and December 21, 2001, in Argentinas capital Buenos Aires. ...
Buenos Aires (Good Airs in Spanish, originally meaning Fair Winds) is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port, as well as one of the largest cities in Latin America. ...
Domingo Cavallo was the finance minister of Argentina during the administration of President Carlos Menem, and also in President Fernando de la Rúas. ...
Corralito was the informal name for the economic measures taken in Argentina during 2001 by economy minister Domingo Cavallo in order to stop the draining of bank accounts. ...
Births - 1554 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618)
- 1683 - King Philip V of Spain (d. 1746)
- 1699 - William Bowyer, English printer (d. 1777)
- 1714 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779)
- 1778 - Marie Thérèse Charlotte, eldest child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI of France (d. 1851)
- 1813 - Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (d. 1885)
- 1852 - Albert Abraham Michelson, Prussian-born American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
- 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, American geneticist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
- 1906 - Leonid Brezhnev, Russian-born leader of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
- 1907 - Jimmy McLarnin, Irish-born boxer and World Welterweight Champion (d. 2004)
- 1910 - Jean Genet, French writer (d. 1986)
- 1915 - Edith Piaf, French singer and actress (d. 1963)
- 1918 - Professor Longhair (Henry Roeland Byrd), American blues musician (d. 1980)
- 1920 - David Susskind, American TV talk show host (d.1987)
- 1923 - Gordon Jackson, British actor (d. 1990)
- 1925 - Tankred Dorst, German dramatist
- 1927 - James Booth (David Geeves), British actor and screenwriter (d. 2005)
- 1929 - Bob Brookmeyer, American jazz musician
- 1933 - Cicely Tyson, American actress
- 1934 - Al Kaline, American baseball player
- 1935 - Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (d. 1974)
- 1940 - Phil Ochs, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 1976)
- 1941 - Maurice White, American singer and songwriter (Earth, Wind & Fire)
- 1944 - Richard Leakey, British anthropologist
- 1944 - Mitchell Feigenbaum, American mathematical physicist
- 1944 - Alvin Lee (Graham Barnes), British singer and guitarist (Ten Years After)
- 1944 - Zal Yanovsky, Canadian guitarist and singer (The Lovin' Spoonful)
- 1945 - John McEuen, American guitarist (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
- 1946 - Stan Smith, American tennis player
- 1946 - Robert Urich, American actor (d. 2002)
- 1957 - Doug Johnson, Canadian keyboard player (Loverboy)
- 1958 - Limahl (Christopher Hamill), British singer (Kajagoogoo)
- 1960 - Mike Lookinland, American actor
- 1961 - Eric Allin Cornell, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
- 1961 - Matthew Waterhouse, British actor
- 1961 - Reggie White, American Football player (d. 2004)
- 1964 - Arvydas Sabonis, Soviet-born Lithuanian basketball player and Olympic gold medalist
- 1965 - Chito Martinez, Belizean baseball player
- 1968 - Kevin Shepard, American drummer (Tonic)
- 1969 - Kristy Swanson, American actress
- 1971 - Tiffany Towers (Tiffany Amarziano), Canadian adult film actress
- 1972 - Alyssa Milano, American actress
- 1972 - Warren Sapp, American Football player
- 1974 - Jake Plummer, American Football player
- 1974 - Ricky Ponting, Australian test cricketer
- 1975 - Olivier Tebily, Ivorian international footballer
- 1980 - Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor
- 1980 - Marla Sokoloff, American actress
Events February 12 - After claiming the throne of England the previous year, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason alongside her husband. ...
Philip William, Prince of Orange (° December 19, 1554 - â February 20, 1618). ...
Events March 8 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made but on May 15 confirms the discovery). ...
Events June 6 - The Ashmolean Museum opens as the worlds first university museum. ...
King Philip V of Spain (December 19, 1683 â July 9, 1746) or Philippe of Anjou was king of Spain from 1700 to 1746, the first of the Bourbon dynasty in Spain. ...
Events January 8 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling April 16 - Battle of Culloden brings an end to the Jacobite Risings October 22 - The College of New Jersey is founded (it becomes Princeton University in 1896) October 28 - An earthquake demolishes Lima and Callao, in Peru Catharine de Ricci (born 1522...
Events January 26 - Treaty of Karlowitz signed March 30 - the tenth Sikh Master, Guru Gobind Singh created the Khalsa. ...
William Bowyer (December 19, 1699 - November 13, 1777), was an English printer. ...
1777 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
// Events August 1 - George, elector of Hanover becomes King George I of Great Britain. ...
John Winthrop (December 19, 1714 â May 3, 1779) (not to be confused with his great-great-great-grandfather John Winthrop, founder of the Massachusetts Bay colony) was the 2nd Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Harvard College. ...
1779 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
1778 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
Portrait of Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, Madame Royale Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, (December 20, 1778 - October 19, 1851), also known as La Princesse Royale or Madame Royale, was the eldest child of King Louis XVI and his Austrian wife, Queen Marie Antoinette. ...
Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France and Archduchess of Austria (born November 1755 – executed 16 October 1793) Daughter of Maria Theresa of Austria, wife of Louis XVI and mother of Louis XVII. She was guillotined at the height of the French Revolution. ...
Louis XVI Louis XVI (August 23, 1754 - January 21, 1793), was King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, and then King of the French in 1791-1792. ...
1851 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
1813 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Thomas Andrews (December 19, 1813–November 26, 1885), Irish chemist and physicist, was born in Belfast, where his father was a linen merchant. ...
1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...
1852 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
Albert Abraham Michelson. ...
Hannes Alfvén, 1970 winner for work on astrophysical plasmas List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ...
1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. ...
1865 is a common year starting on Sunday. ...
Minnie Maddern Fiske (1865 - 1932), was one of the leading United Stats actresses of the early twentieth century. ...
1932 (MCMXXXII) is a leap year starting on Friday. ...
1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...
Joe King Oliver Joe King Oliver, (December 19, 1885 â April 8, 1938) was a bandleader and jazz musician. ...
1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ...
This article contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ...
1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1894 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
Ford Christopher Frick (December 19, 1894 - April 8, 1978) was an American sportswriter and executive who served as president of the National League from 1934 to 1951 and as Baseball Commissioner from 1951 to 1965. ...
1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ...
1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
Rudolf Hell (December 19, 1901 â March 11, 2002) was a German inventor. ...
2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
Sir Ralph David Richardson (19 December 1902 - 10 October 1983) was an English actor, one of a group of theatrical knights of the mid-20th century who, though more closely associated with the stage, did their best to make the transition to film. ...
1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
George Davis Snell (December 19, 1903 â June 6, 1996) was a U.S. geneticist and co-recipient of the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, together with Baruj Benacerraf and Jean Dausset, for discovery of the Major histocompatibility complex genes which encode cell surface molecules important for the immune...
List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physiology or Medicine from 1901 to the present day. ...
1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev â¶(?) (Russian: ) (December 19 [O.S. December 6] 1906 â November 10, 1982) was effective ruler of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, though at first in partnership with others. ...
1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
Jimmy Archibald McLarnin, (December 19, 1907-October 28, 2004), was a two-time welterweight boxing champion of the world. ...
Welterweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1910 (MCMX) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...
Jean Genet (1910-1986) was a prominent, sometimes infamous, French writer and later political activist. ...
1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
Edith Piaf Édith Piaf (December 19, 1915 - October 11, 1963) was one of Frances most beloved singers, with much success shortly before and during World War II. Her music reflected her tragic life, with her specialty being the poignant ballad presented with a heartbreaking voice. ...
1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ...
Image of the artist Professor Longhair (nee Henry Roeland Byrd and aka Fess) (December 19, 1918 - January 30, 1980) was a legendary New Orleans blues musician. ...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
1920 (MCMXX) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ...
David Susskind (December 19, 1920, New York City - February 22, 1987, New York City, heart attack) was best known as a pioneer TV talk show host. ...
1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Gordon Cameron Jackson, OBE (December 19, 1923 - January 15, 1990), was a prolific Scottish character actor, best known for his roles in the film The Great Escape and the television series, Upstairs Downstairs (for which he won a best supporting actor Emmy Award) and The Professionals. ...
This article is about the year. ...
1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Tankred Dorst (born December 12, 1925) is a German playwright and storyteller. ...
1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
James Booth (19 December 1927- 11 August 2005) was the stage name of David Geeves. ...
2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Robert Brookmeyer (born December 19, 1929) is an American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, and arranger. ...
1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Cicely Tyson (born December 19, 1933) is an award-winning African-American actress. ...
1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Albert William Kaline (born December 19, 1934 in Baltimore, Maryland) was a Major League Baseball player from 1953 to 1974, spending his entire career with the Detroit Tigers, bypassing the minor league system. ...
1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Robert Henry Bobby Timmons (Born: December 19, 1935 in Philadelphia _ Died: March 1, 1974 in New York City) was an American jazz pianist and composer. ...
1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ...
1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Phil Ochs (1940-76) Photograph from the Michael Ochs Archives Philip David Ochs (December 19, 1940 â April 9, 1976) was a protest singer (or, as he preferred, a topical singer) of the early 1960s, perhaps best known for his songs Power and Glory, There But for Fortune, Changes, When I...
1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...
For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Maurice White - Munich, Germany 1975 Maurice White (born December 19, 1941 in Memphis, Tennessee) is an African-American soul, funk, and R&B singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and bandleader. ...
Earth, Wind & Fire is an American funk band, formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1969. ...
1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Richard Leakey Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (born 19 December 1944 in Nairobi, Kenya), is a British-born paleontologist, archaeologist and conservationist. ...
Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum (born December 19, 1944; Philadelphia, USA) is a mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constant. ...
Alvin Lee (?/?/1944) Alvin Lee is a guitarist who was famous throughout the 1960s for his work with the Jaybirds and in the 60s and 70s with Ten Years After Born Graham Barnes (Alvin was a nickname he picked up at school) in Nottingham ,England, Alvin Lee began playing guitar...
Ten Years After is a British blues rock band popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ...
Zalman Yanovsky (December 19, 1944 - December 13, 2002) was a founder with John Sebastian of The Lovin Spoonful rock band in 1964. ...
Lovin Spoonful album cover The Lovin Spoonful was an American pop-rock band of the 1960s, named to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. ...
1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band is an American country-folk-rock band that has existed in various forms since the original founding in California in 1965. ...
1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
Stan Smith (born December 14, 1946) is an American tennis player who, with his partner Bob Lutz, was one of the best doubles players of all time. ...
Robert Urich (December 19, 1946 - April 16, 2002) was an Emmy-winning actor, best known for playing private investigators on the television series Spenser: For Hire (1985-1988) and Vega$ {1978-1981). ...
2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Loverboy is a Canadian rock and roll group which was very popular in the 1980s, accumulating numerous hit songs in Canada and the United States. ...
1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Christopher Hamill (born December 19, 1958), better known by his stage name Limahl , was the lead singer of the 1980s pop band Kajagoogoo and subsequently enjoyed a solo career. ...
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1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Mike Lookinland (born December 19, 1960) played Bobby Brady on The Brady Bunch from 1969 - 1974. ...
1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Carl Wieman (left) and Eric Cornell (right) on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus Eric Allin Cornell (born December 19, 1961) is a physicist who, along with Carl E. Wieman, was able to synthesize the first Bose-Einstein condensate in 1995. ...
Hannes Alfvén, 1970 winner for work on astrophysical plasmas List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ...
Matthew Waterhouse (born December 19, 1961 Hertford) is a British actor best known for his role as Adric in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
Reggie White Autobiography cover The Reverend Reginald Howard Reggie White (December 19, 1961 â December 26, 2004), nicknamed the Minister of Defense (a dual reference to his football prowess and to his Evangelical Christian ordination) was one of footballs most prolific sackers in college, the USFL and the NFL. // Career...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ...
Arvydas Sabonis Arvydas Sabonis (born December 19, 1964) is a former professional basketball player from Lithuania. ...
1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ...
Chito Martinez was the first player in the history of Major League Baseball to be born in the country of Belize. ...
1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...
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1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ...
Kristy Swanson On the cover of Playboy, November 2002 Kristy Swanson (b. ...
1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ...
Tiffany Towers (born Tiffany Amarziano on December 19, 1971, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian erotic actress and model. ...
1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...
Alyssa Milano speaking to sailors Alyssa Jayne Milano (born December 19, 1972 in New York City) is an American actress. ...
Warren Sapp celebrating a big play while playing with Tampa Bay Warren Sapp (born December 19, 1972 in Orlando, Florida) is a professional football player for the NFLs Oakland Raiders. ...
1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ...
Jason Steven Jake (The Snake) Plummer (born December 19, 1974 in Boise, Idaho) is an American football player who starts at quarterback for the Denver Broncos. ...
Ricky Thomas Ponting (Born December 19, 1974, in Launceston, Tasmania) is the present captain of the Australian One-Day and Test cricket teams. ...
1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...
Olivier Tebily (born 19 December 1975 in Abidjan, France) is a French football player who currently plays for Birmingham City F.C. as a defender. ...
1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
Jake Gyllenhaal Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal (pronounced Jill-en-hall) (born December 19, 1980 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film actor and up-and-coming youth icon. ...
Marla Lynne Sokoloff (born December 19, 1980) is an American actress. ...
Deaths - 401 - Pope Anastasius I
- 1075 - Edith of Wessex, Queen of Edward the Confessor of England
- 1327 - Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy
- 1370 - 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, Queen of Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1724)
- 1807 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (b. 1723)
- 1819 - 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)
- 1939 - Hans Langsdorff, German naval officer (b. 1894)
- 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)
- 1989 - Stella Gibbons, British author (b. 1902)
- 1996 - Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (b. 1924)
- 1999 - Desmond Llewelyn, British actor (b. 1914)
- 2003 - Peter Carter-Ruck, British lawyer
- 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)
// Events Pope Innocent I succeeds Pope Anastasius I. The Vandals start their westward trek from Dacia and Hungary (or 400). ...
Anastasius I was pope from November 27, 399-401. ...
Events Revolt of the Earls. ...
Edith of Wessex, (c. ...
Edward the Confessor or Eadweard III (c. ...
Events January 25 - Edward III becomes King of England. ...
Agnes of France was the name of two notablefemale members of the Capetian dynasty which ruled France in the Middle Ages. ...
Events Beginning of the rule of Poland by Capet-Anjou family. ...
Urban V, né Guillaume Grimoard (1310 â December 19, 1370), pope from 1362 to 1370, was a native of Grizac in Languedoc (today part of the commune of Le Pont-de-Montvert, département of Lozère). ...
Events May 11 - In France, 64 members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake for heresy Abulfeda becomes governor of Hama. ...
Events 12 February â The San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated. ...
Nobel Family Sobieski Coat of Arms Janina Parents Jan III Sobieski Marie Casimire Louise Consorts Hedwig Elisabeth Amelia Children with Hedwig Elisabeth Amelia Maria Leopoldyna Sobieska Maria Kazimiera Sobieska Maria Karolina Sobieska Jan Sobieski Maria Klementyna Sobieska Maria Magdalena Sobieska Date of Birth November 2, 1667 Place of Birth Paris...
// Events January 20 - Poland cedes Kyiv, Smolensk, and eastern Ukraine to Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo that put a final end to the Deluge, and Poland lost its status as a Central European power. ...
// Events April 10 - Austrian army attack troops of Frederick the Great at Mollwitz August 10 - Raja of Travancore defeats Dutch East India Company naval expedition at Battle of Colachel December 19 - Vitus Bering dies in his expedition east of Siberia December 25 - Anders Celsius develops his own thermometer scale Celsius...
Vitus Bering Vitus Jonassen Bering (also, less correctly, Big Breasts) (August 1681âDecember 19, 1741) was a Danish-born navigator in the service of the Russian Navy, a captain-komandor known among the Russian sailors as Ivan Ivanovich. ...
Events March 4 - Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania. ...
// Events May 11 - War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy - At Fontenoy, French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army including the Black Watch June 4 â Frederick the Great destroys Austrian army at Hohenfriedberg August 19 - Beginning of the 45 Jacobite Rising at Glenfinnan September 12 - Francis I is elected...
The Triumph of Galatea Jean_Baptiste van Loo (14 January 1684 – 19 December 1745) was a French subject and portrait painter. ...
Events France under Louis XIV makes Truce of Ratisbon separately with the Empire and Spain. ...
Events While in debtors prison, John Cleland writes Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure). ...
Francesco Antonio Bonporti (1672 - 1748) - Italian priest and amateur composer. ...
Events England, France, Munster and Cologne invade the United Provinces, therefore this name is know as ´het rampjaar´ (the disaster year) in the Netherlands. ...
Events Adam Smith is appointed professor of logic at the University of Glasgow March 25 - For the last time, New Years Day is legally on March 25 in England and Wales. ...
Louise of Hanover and of Great Britain (December 18, 1724 - December 19, 1751) was the youngest surviving daughter of George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach, and became Queen consort of Denmark and Norway. ...
Frederick V, painting by Carl Gustaf Pilo Statue of Frederick V in the center of Amalienborg by Jacques François Joseph Saly Frederick V (March 31, 1723 - January 13, 1766) was king of Denmark and Norway from 1746, son of Christian VI of Denmark and Sophie Magdelena, Markgravin of Brandenburg...
Events January 14 - King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne February 20 - The premiere of Giulio Cesare, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel, takes place in London June 23 - Treaty of Constantinople signed. ...
1807 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...
Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm (December 26, 1723 - December 19, 1807), author, the son of a German pastor, was born at Ratisbon. ...
Events February 16 - Louis XV of France attains his majority Births February 24 - John Burgoyne, British general (d. ...
1819 common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
Sir Thomas Fremantle c. ...
1765 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
1848 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Portrait by her brother Emily Jane Brontë (July 30, 1818 â December 19, 1848) was a British novelist and poet, best remembered for her one single novel Wuthering Heights, which is now an acknowledged classic of English literature. ...
1818 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...
1915 (MCMXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
Alois Alzheimer Alois Alzheimer (Alois is a short form for his given name Aloysius) (June 14, 1864 - December 19, 1915), a German psychiatrist and neuropathologist, was a colleague of Emil Kraepelin, who first identified the symptoms of what is now known as Alzheimers Disease. ...
1864 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ...
1932 (MCMXXXII) is a leap year starting on Friday. ...
Yoon Bong-Gil (1908-1932) was a member of the Korean resistance group fighting the Japanese occupation of Korea. ...
1908 (MCMVIII) is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Kapitän zur See Hans Wilhelm Langsdorff (March 20, 1894 – December 19, 1939) was a German naval officer, most famous for his command of the Panzerschiff (pocket battleship) Admiral Graf Spee during the Battle of the River Plate. ...
1894 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ...
Paul Langevin (January 23, 1872 - December 19, 1946) was a French physicist. ...
1872 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
1953 (MCMLIII) is a common year starting on Thursday. ...
Robert Millikan. ...
Hannes Alfvén, 1970 winner for work on astrophysical plasmas List of Nobel Prize laureates in Physics from 1901 to the present day. ...
1868 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Harold Edward Holt (5 August 1908 - 17 December 1967) was an Australian politician and the 17th Prime Minister of Australia from 1966 - 1967, now best remembered for the bizarre circumstances of his death. ...
The current (25th) Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard (sitting, fifth from left), with his Cabinet, 1999 The office of Prime Minister is in practice the most powerful political office in the Commonwealth of Australia. ...
1908 (MCMVIII) is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...
Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 - December 19, 1968) was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party. ...
1884 is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar). ...
1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Stella Dorothea Gibbons (5 January 1902—19 December 1989) was an English novelist and poet. ...
1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
Marcello Mastroianni in 1958 Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (September 28, 1924 â December 19, 1996) was an Italian film actor. ...
1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...
Desmond Llewelyn as Q in Tomorrow Never Dies Desmond Llewelyn (September 12, 1914 â December 19, 1999) was a Welsh actor, famous for playing the fictional character of Q in the James Bond series of films. ...
1914 (MCMXIV) is a common year starting on Thursday. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Peter Carter-Ruck (February 26, 1914-December 19, 2003) was an English lawyer, specialising in libel cases. ...
Hope Elise Ross Lange (November 28, 1931 â December 19, 2003) was an American stage, film, and television actress. ...
1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Herbert Charles Brown (May 22, 1912 â December 19, 2004) was a chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1979 (along with Georg Wittig) for his work with organoboranes. ...
This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to the present day. ...
1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday. ...
The Italian opera singer Renata Tebaldi (February 1, 1922 - December 19, 2004) was one of the most famous sopranos of the post-war period. ...
1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Vincent the Chin Gigante (March 29, 1928â December 19, 2005) was a notorious Mafioso who headed the Genovese crime family for years, at times while in prison. ...
1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Holidays and observances Festivals in Ancient Rome include religious feasts, normal games and political activities. ...
Opiconsivia On August 25, the Opiconsivia (or Opeconsiva or Opalia) festival was held in honor of Ops. ...
This page refers to the year 1979. ...
James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. ...
The Iran hostage crisis was a 444-day period during which the new government of Iran after the Iranian Revolution held hostage 66 diplomats and citizens of the United States. ...
Fictional Events 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Day Britain Stopped is a drama documentary based around a fictional transport disaster which led to cause gridlock, a plane crash and a stock-markets crash. ...
External links December 18 - December 20 - November 19 - January 19 -- listing of all days December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
December 20 is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Condensed list of historical anniversaries. ...
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