December 19

December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 12 days remaining.

Contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

5 Fictional Events

6 External links

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 OH SNAP 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 province of Estado da India Portuguesa (Portuguese State of India) comprising of Goa, Damão, Diu (Dadrá and Nagar-Avelí previously invaded in 1954). Later the Constitution of India is ammended to include the ex-Portuguese territory acquired by act of conquest by the Indian Union from Portugal.
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
1974 - Portuguese Democratic Revolution. (Revolucao de Abril)
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.