December, 19th in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Wednesday 19, 2001:
The Argentine economic crisis burst into street riots after the announcement by the economy minister of the measures of holding back the bank deposits.

Tuesday 19, 2000:
The Leninist Guerrilla Units attack a party office of the far-right MHP in Istanbul, Turkey. One MHP member is killed and several wounded.

Saturday 19, 1998:
The U.S. House of Representatives passes articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton over the Lewinsky scandal.

Friday 19, 1997:
Titanic (the highest-grossing movie ever as of 2005) opens in U.S. theaters.

Wednesday 19, 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.

Friday 19, 1980:
Anguilla is made a dependency of the United Kingdom separate from Saint Kitts and Nevis

Tuesday 19, 1978:
John Wayne Gacy is arrested for the killings of 33 boys and young men

Thursday 19, 1974:
The Altair 8800, the first personal computer, goes on sale

Tuesday 19, 1972:
Apollo 17, the last manned lunar flight, returns to Earth.

Sunday 19, 1965:
Prisoners Ronald Ryan and Peter Walker escape from Pentridge Prison, Melbourne. During the escape a guard is killed. Ryan would hang for his death, in 1967.

Thursday 19, 1963:
Zanzibar received its independence from the United Kingdom to become a constitutional monarchy under the sultan.

Wednesday 19, 1962:
Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia and Nyasaland

Tuesday 19, 1961:
The Indian Army invades the Portuguese province of Estado da India Portuguesa (Portuguese State of India) which will become part of India.

Thursday 19, 1946:
Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi

Wednesday 19, 1945:
Austria becomes a republic for the second time, the first having been founded in 1918 and interrupted by the Austro-fascist dictatorship from 1934 onwards and the Nazi invasion of Austria in 1938.

Wednesday 19, 1928:
First autogiro flight in the United States

Tuesday 19, 1916:
The Battle of Verdun ended.

Thursday 19, 1912:
William H. Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which killed over 1,000 people was pardoned by President Taft after 3 1/2 years in Sing Sing prison .

Monday 19, 1842:
United States recognizes the independence of Hawaii

Saturday 19, 1835:
Toledo Blade newspaper begins publishing.

Friday 19, 1828:
John C. Calhoun pens South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.

Friday 19, 1777:
George Washington's army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

Friday 19, 1732:
Benjamin Franklin publishes Poor Richard's Almanack

Saturday 19, 1187:
Pope Clement III elected

Friday 19, 324:
Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor.

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/19-december/on-this-day.html


People born on December 19

1980:
Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor (b: December 19, 1980) (Biography of Jake Gyllenhaal)
Marla Sokoloff, American actress (b: December 19, 1980) (Biography of Marla Sokoloff)

1974:
Jake Plummer, American football player (b: December 19, 1974) (Biography of Jake Plummer)
Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer (b: December 19, 1974) (Biography of Ricky Ponting)

1972:
Alyssa Milano, American actress (b: December 19, 1972) (Biography of Alyssa Milano)
Warren Sapp, American football player (b: December 19, 1972) (Biography of Warren Sapp)

1971:
Tiffany Towers, Canadian actress (b: December 19, 1971) (Biography of Tiffany Towers)

1969:
Kristy Swanson, American actress (b: December 19, 1969) (Biography of Kristy Swanson)

1965:
Chito Martinez, Belizean baseball player (b: December 19, 1965) (Biography of Chito Martinez)

1964:
Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player (b: December 19, 1964) (Biography of Arvydas Sabonis)

1963:
Jennifer Beals, American actress (b: December 19, 1963) (Biography of Jennifer Beals)

1961:
Matthew Waterhouse, British actor (b: December 19, 1961) (Biography of Matthew Waterhouse)
Eric Allin Cornell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b: December 19, 1961) (Biography of Eric Allin Cornell)
Reggie White, American football player (b: December 19, 1961 ; d: December 26, 2004) (Biography of Reggie White)

1960:
Mike Lookinland, American actor (b: December 19, 1960) (Biography of Mike Lookinland)

1946:
Robert Urich, American actor (b: December 19, 1946 ; d: April 16, 2002) (Biography of Robert Urich)
Stan Smith, American tennis player (b: December 19, 1946) (Biography of Stan Smith)

1944:
Richard Leakey, British anthropologist (b: December 19, 1944) (Biography of Richard Leakey)
Alvin Lee, English musician (b: December 19, 1944) (Biography of Alvin Lee)

1941:
Maurice White, American musician (b: December 19, 1941) (Biography of Maurice White)

1940:
Phil Ochs, American singer and songwriter (b: December 19, 1940 ; d: April 9, 1976) (Biography of Phil Ochs)

1935:
Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (b: December 19, 1935 ; d: March 1, 1974) (Biography of Bobby Timmons)

1934:
Al Kaline, baseball player (b: December 19, 1934) (Biography of Al Kaline)

1933:
Cicely Tyson, American actress (b: December 19, 1933) (Biography of Cicely Tyson)

1929:
Bob Brookmeyer, American musician (b: December 19, 1929) (Biography of Bob Brookmeyer)

1927:
James Booth, English actor and writer (b: December 19, 1927) (Biography of James Booth)

1925:
Tankred Dorst, German dramatist (b: December 19, 1925) (Biography of Tankred Dorst)

1923:
Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor (b: December 19, 1923 ; d: January 15, 1990) (Biography of Gordon Jackson (actor))

1918:
Professor Longhair, American musician (b: December 19, 1918 ; d: January 30, 1980) (Biography of Professor Longhair)

1915:
Edith Piaf, French singer and actress (b: December 19, 1915 ; d: October 11, 1963) (Biography of Edith Piaf)

1910:
Jean Genet, French writer (b: December 19, 1910 ; d: April 15, 1986) (Biography of Jean Genet)

1907:
Jimmy McLarnin, Irish boxer (b: December 19, 1907 ; d: October 28, 2004) (Biography of Jimmy McLarnin)

1906:
Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet politician (b: December 19, 1906 ; d: November 10, 1982) (Biography of Leonid Brezhnev)

1901:
Rudolf Hell, German inventor (b: December 19, 1901) (Biography of Rudolf Hell)

1894:
Ford Frick, baseball commissioner (b: December 19, 1894 ; d: April 8, 1978) (Biography of Ford Frick)

1888:
Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (b: December 19, 1888 ; d: November 15, 1963) (Biography of Fritz Reiner)

1885:
Joe "King" Oliver, American musician (b: December 19, 1885 ; d: April 8, 1938) (Biography of Joe "King" Oliver)

1865:
Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress (b: December 19, 1865 ; d: February 15, 1932) (Biography of Minnie Maddern Fiske)

1852:
Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b: December 19, 1852 ; d: May 9, 1931) (Biography of Albert Abraham Michelson)

1813:
Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (b: December 19, 1813) (Biography of Thomas Andrews (scientist))

1699:
William Bowyer, English printer (b: December 19, 1699) (Biography of William Bowyer)

1683:
King Philip V of Spain (b: December 19, 1683 ; d: July 9, 1746) (Biography of Philip V of Spain)

1554:
Philip William, Prince of Orange (b: December 19, 1554 ; d: February 20, 1618) (Biography of Philip William, Prince of Orange)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/19-december/births.html

[Spiritus Temporis]

They left us on December 19

2004:
Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (b: February 1, 1922 ; d: December 19, 2004) (Biography of Renata Tebaldi)

2003:
Peter Carter-Ruck (d: December 19, 2003) (Biography of Peter Carter-Ruck)

1999:
Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (b: September 12, 1914 ; d: December 19, 1999) (Biography of Desmond Llewelyn)

1996:
Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (b: September 28, 1924 ; d: December 19, 1996) (Biography of Marcello Mastroianni)

1989:
Stella Gibbons, English novelist (b: January 5, 1902 ; d: December 19, 1989) (Biography of Stella Gibbons)

1968:
Norman Thomas, American social reformer (b: November 20, 1884 ; d: December 19, 1968) (Biography of Norman Thomas)

1967:
Harold Holt, seventeenth Prime Minister of Australia (b: August 5, 1908 ; d: December 19, 1967) (Biography of Harold Holt)

1953:
Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b: March 22, 1868 ; d: December 19, 1953) (Biography of Robert Millikan)

1939:
Hans Langsdorff (d: December 19, 1939) (Biography of Hans Langsdorff)

1848:
Emily Brontë, English novelist (b: July 30, 1818 ; d: December 19, 1848) (Biography of Emily Brontë)

1819:
Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval captain and politician (b: November 20, 1765 ; d: December 19, 1819) (Biography of Thomas Fremantle)

1749:
Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b: June 11, 1672 ; d: December 19, 1749) (Biography of Francesco Antonio Bonporti)

1745:
Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (b: January 14, 1684 ; d: December 19, 1745) (Biography of Jean-Baptiste van Loo)

1741:
Vitus Bering (d: December 19, 1741) (Biography of Vitus Bering)

1737:
James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b: November 2, 1667 ; d: December 19, 1737) (Biography of James Sobieski)

1370:
Pope Urban V (d: December 19, 1370) (Biography of Pope Urban V)

401:
Pope Anastasius I (d: December 19, 401) (Biography of Pope Anastasius I)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/19-december/deaths.html