December 19

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

Events

• 1732 - Benjamin Franklin publishes Poor Richard's Almanack[?]
• 1777 - George Washington's army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
• 1842 - United States recognizes the independence of Hawaii
• 1928 - First autogiro flight in the United States
• 1945 - Austria becomes a republic
• 1946 - Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi
• 1962 - Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia and Nyasaland[?]
• 1972 - Apollo 17, the last manned lunar flight, returns to Earth.
• 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
• 1980 - Anguilla is made a dependency of the United Kingdom separate from St. Kitt's
• 1984 - Great Britain and China sign accord that will return Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.
• 1998 - President Bill Clinton is impeached.

Births

• 1813 - Thomas Andrews[?], chemist (+ 1885)
• 1820 - Mary Ashton Livermore[?], suffragist, women's rights activits (+ 1905)
• 1894 - Ford Frick[?], commissioner of baseball
• 1900 - Géza von Cziffra[?], film director (+ 1989)
• 1901 - Rudolf Hell, inventor
• 1906 - Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet politician (+ 1982)
• 1910 - Jean Genet, novelist (+ 1986)
• 1915 - Edith Piaf, singer, actress (+ 1963)
• 1916 - Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann[?], publicist
• 1918 - Professor Longhair, musician
• 1920 - David Sussking[?], movie, stage and television producer (+ [[1987]
• 1925 - Tankred Dorst[?], dramatist
• 1933 - Cicely Tyson, actress
• 1934 - Al Kaline[?], Baseball Hall of Famer
• 1940 - Phil Ochs, singer, songwriter
• 1941 - Maurice White[?], musician
• 1944 - Richard Leakey, anthropologist
• 1944 - Alvin Lee[?], musician
• 1946 - Robert Urich, actor (+ 2000)
• 1946 - Stan Smith[?], tennis player
• 1949 - Claudia Kolb[?], swimming star

Deaths

• 401 - St. Anastasius I, Pope
• 1737 - James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland
• 1848 - Emily Bronte, author
• 1996 - Marcello Mastroianni, actor
• 1999 - Desmond Llewelyn, actor

Holidays and observances

• Feast of Saint Boniface

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