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Events from History on December 19

xxxx : Stnastasius 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 Cond‚ captured
1686 : Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
1688 : King James II's wife & son flee to France
1696 : Jean-Fran‡ois Regnard's "Le Joueur," premieres in Paris
1732 : Benjamin Franklin under the name Richard Saunders begins publication
1732 : of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
1776 : Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he
1776 : wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls"
1777 : Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pa for winter
1783 : English govt of Pitt Jr 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
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 : Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol," in England
1854 : Allen Wilson of Conn patents sewing machine to sew curving seams
1859 : Grading started for Market Street RR
1861 : Battle of Black Water
1862 : Skirmish at Jackson/Salem Church, Tenn (80 casualties)
1867 : Victims of "Angola Horror" burned to death (Angola NY)
1871 : Albert L Jones (NYC), patents corrugated paper
1881 : Opera "H‚rodiade" 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
1903 : Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn & Manhattan
1904 : Dawson City hockey team begins 9 day walk to get a boat to Seattle
1907 : 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Penn
1907 : Gas explosion at Jacobs Creek Pa, coal mine kills 239
1910 : 1st city ordinace 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 hw boxing title
1916 : Suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo
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)
1922 : Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confessed in court to being married 62 times
1928 : 1st autogiro (predecessor of helicopter) flight in US
1930 : James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP
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 agress to fleet 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
1949 : Luxury passenger ship Aquitania demolished in Garelock 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 Nethe
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,
1958 : 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 Bkln (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 : British govt begins decimal coin system
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
1963 : Zanzibar becomes independent from UK
1965 : French president De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%)
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 : Nelson A Rockefeller sworn-in as 41st VP
1975 : John Paul Stevens becomes a Supreme Court Justice
1975 : Ron Wood joined the Rolling Stones
1976 : Piper Cherokee crashes into Balt Memorial Stadium upper stands, 10
1976 : Pres Brezhnev receives his 5th Lenin order
1976 : minutes after Colts lose 40-14 to Steelers. No one seriously hurt
1977 : Dutch govt 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 : Mutaual Broadcasting cancels Sears Radio Theater
1984 : China PR Premier Zhao Ziyang & Margaret Thatcher sign Hong Kong Treaty
1984 : China PR 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
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 : Jack Morris agrees to salary arbitration with former team Tigers &
1986 : accuses owners of collusion against free agency
1986 : Michael Sergio, who parachuted into Shea Stadium during game 6 of the
1986 : USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
1986 : World Series, sentenced to 100 hrs of community service & fined $500
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
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
1993 : Guinee general Lansana re-elected president
1995 : Queen Elizabeth askes Prince Charles & Diana to divorce
1996 : "Once Upon a Matress," opens at Broadhurst NYC for 187 performances
1997 : MTV drops video "Smack My Bitch Up" by Prodigy

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