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Events on the 19th of December in history

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19 Dec 0211 Publius Septimius Geta, co-emperor of Rome, is lured to come without his bodyguards to meet his brother Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Caracalla), to discuss a possible reconciliation. When he arrives, the Praetorian Guard murders him and he dies in the arms of his mother, Julia Domna.
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19 Dec 0401 St Anastasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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19 Dec 1055 Seldjuken under Toghril Beg occupy Baghdad
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19 Dec 1154 Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
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19 Dec 1154 King Henry II of England crowned
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19 Dec 1490 Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.
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19 Dec 1551 Dutch west coast hit by hurricane
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19 Dec 1562 The Battle of Dreux takes place during the French Wars of Religion.
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19 Dec 1562 Battle at Dreux: Anne de Montmorency & huguenots under Cond
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19 Dec 1606 The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery depart England carrying settlers who found, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
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19 Dec 1675 The Great Swamp Fight, a pivotal battle in King Philip's War, gives the English settlers a bitterly won victory.
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19 Dec 1686 Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
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19 Dec 1688 King James II's wife & son flee to France
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19 Dec 1696 Jean-Fran
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19 Dec 1732 Benjamin Franklin (under the name Richard Saunders) begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
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19 Dec 1776 Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".
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19 Dec 1776 Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls"
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19 Dec 1777 American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
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19 Dec 1777 Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge PA for the winter
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19 Dec 1783 English government of Pitt Jr forms
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19 Dec 1788 Chinese troops occupy capital Thang Long Vietnam
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19 Dec 1795 1st state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky
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19 Dec 1796 French Revolutionary Wars: Two British frigates under Commodore Horatio Nelson and two Spanish frigates under Commodore Don Jacobo Stuart engage in battle off the coast of Murcia.
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19 Dec 1823 Georgia passes 1st US state birth registration law
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19 Dec 1828 Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.
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19 Dec 1828 South Carolina declares the right of states to nullify federal laws
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19 Dec 1835 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin approaches New Zealand
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19 Dec 1842 US recognizes independence of Hawaii
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19 Dec 1843 Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol, " in England
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19 Dec 1854 Allen Wilson of Connecticut patents sewing machine to sew curving seams
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19 Dec 1859 Grading started for Market Street RR
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19 Dec 1861 Battle of Black Water
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19 Dec 1862 Skirmish at Jackson / Salem Church, Tenn (80 casualties)
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19 Dec 1867 Victims of "Angola Horror" burned to death (Angola NY)
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19 Dec 1871 Albert L Jones (New York NY), patents corrugated paper
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19 Dec 1881 Jules Massenet's opera "H
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19 Dec 1884 Italy recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
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19 Dec 1887 Jake Kilrain & Jem Smith fight 106 round bare knuckle draw
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19 Dec 1888 Stanley's expedition reaches Fort Bodo, East-Africa
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19 Dec 1889 Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii
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19 Dec 1890 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Beryl Coronet" (BG)
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19 Dec 1890 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Beryl Coronet" (BG)
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19 Dec 1891 1st Negro Catholic priest ordained in US, Charles Uncles, Baltimore
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19 Dec 1891 Canadian Rugby Union forms
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19 Dec 1894 Cricket day 5 1T Australia vs England England 437 all out, Australia need 177 are 2-113
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19 Dec 1900 Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.
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19 Dec 1903 Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn & Manhattan
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19 Dec 1904 The Dawson City (Yukon) hockey team begins 9 day walk to get a boat to Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in the Stanley Cup on January 13 1905
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19 Dec 1907 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Penn
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19 Dec 1907 Two hundred thirty-nine coal miners die in a mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
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19 Dec 1907 Gas explosion at Jacobs Creek PA coal mine kills 239
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19 Dec 1910 Rayon 1st commercially produced, Marcus Hook, Penn
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19 Dec 1910 1st city ordinance requiring white & black residential areas (Baltimore)
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19 Dec 1912 William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison.
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19 Dec 1913 Jack Johnson fights Jim Johnson to a draw in 10 for hw boxing title
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19 Dec 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.
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19 Dec 1916 Suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo
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19 Dec 1917 Quebec Bulldogs play their 1st professional hockey game
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19 Dec 1917 1st NHL game played on artificial ice (Toronto)
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19 Dec 1917 Qu
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19 Dec 1918 Robert Ripley began his "Believe It or Not" column (NY Globe)
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19 Dec 1919 American Meteorological Society found
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19 Dec 1920 1st US indoor curling rink opens (Brookline, Massachusetts)
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19 Dec 1920 King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander of Greece and a plebiscite.
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19 Dec 1922 Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confessed in court to being married 62 times
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19 Dec 1924 The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
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19 Dec 1924 Test Cricket debut of Bill Ponsford, who scored 110 in 1st innings
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19 Dec 1927 Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan are executed by the British Empire.
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19 Dec 1928 1st autogiro (predecessor of helicopter) flight in US
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19 Dec 1930 James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP
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19 Dec 1931 Bradman scores 112 Australia vs South Africa at cricket SCG
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19 Dec 1931 Joseph A Lyons (C) becomes premier of Australia
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19 Dec 1932 BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.
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19 Dec 1932 British Broadcasting Corp begins transmitting overseas
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19 Dec 1933 Electric Home & Farm Authority Inc, authorized
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19 Dec 1934 Japan agress to fleet treaty of 1922 & 1930
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19 Dec 1939 Russian air & ground attack against Finnish positions near Summa
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19 Dec 1941 World War II: Adolf Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-chief of the German Army.
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19 Dec 1941 World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers heavily damage the HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth in Alexandria harbour.
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19 Dec 1941 German submarine U-574 sinks
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19 Dec 1941 Hitler takes complete command of German Army
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19 Dec 1941 US Office of Censorship created to control info pertaining to WWII
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19 Dec 1943 Military coup in Bolivia
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19 Dec 1945 Austrian Republic re-establishes
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19 Dec 1945 Jean Giraudoux' "La Folle de Chaillot" premieres in Paris
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19 Dec 1946 Noel Cowards musical "Pacific 1860, " premieres in London
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19 Dec 1946 Start of the First Indochina War.
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19 Dec 1946 War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi
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19 Dec 1946 No
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19 Dec 1948 8th largest snowfall in NYC history (15.3")
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19 Dec 1948 Cleveland Browns beats Buffalo Bills 49-7 in AAFC championship game
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19 Dec 1948 Philadelphia Eagles shutout Chicago Cardinals 7-0 in NFL championship game
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19 Dec 1948 2nd political action of Java/Sumatra
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19 Dec 1949 Luxury passenger ship Aquitania demolished in Garelock Scotland
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19 Dec 1949 WJW TV channel 8 in Cleveland OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
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19 Dec 1950 General Eisenhower named NATO commander
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19 Dec 1950 Tibet's Dalai Lama flees Chinese invasion
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19 Dec 1951 Nazi General Christiansen leaves Netherlands
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19 Dec 1952 Queen Juliana unveals statue "Docker"
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19 Dec 1952 Queen Juliana unveals statue "Docker"
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19 Dec 1953 KFYR TV channel 5 in Bismarck, ND (NBC / ABC) begins broadcasting
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19 Dec 1955 Carl Perkins records "Blue Suede Shoes"
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19 Dec 1955 Carl Perkins records "Blue Suede Shoes"
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19 Dec 1956 Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.
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19 Dec 1957 "Music Man" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1375 performances
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19 Dec 1957 "The Music Man", starring Robert Preston, opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1375 performances
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19 Dec 1958 1st radio broadcast from space (recorded Christmas message by President Eisenhower: "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth & Good Will to Men Everywhere")
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19 Dec 1959 1st Liberty Bowl game-Penn State beats Alabama 7-0
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19 Dec 1960 Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction in Brooklyn (50 die)
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19 Dec 1960 Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight
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19 Dec 1960 Frank Sinatra's 1st session with Reprise Records (Ring-A-Ding-Ding)
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19 Dec 1961 India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.
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19 Dec 1961 British government begins decimal coin system
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19 Dec 1961 Indonesian President Sukarno proclaims general mobilization
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19 Dec 1962 Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia & Nyasaland
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19 Dec 1962 Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission
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19 Dec 1962 Transit 5A1, 1st operational navigational satellite, launched
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19 Dec 1963 Zanzibar becomes independent from the UK
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19 Dec 1964 The South Vietnamese military junta of Nguyễn Khánh dissolve the High National Council and arrest some of the members.
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19 Dec 1965 French President De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%)
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19 Dec 1967 Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, is officially presumed dead.
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19 Dec 1968 WCWB (now WMGT) TV channel 41 in Macon, Georgia (NBC) begins broadcasting
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19 Dec 1969 Beatle's 7th Christmas album is released
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19 Dec 1971 "Inner City" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 97 performances
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19 Dec 1971 CBS airs "Homecoming A Christmas Story, " (introducing the Waltons)
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19 Dec 1971 NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp
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19 Dec 1971 Stanley Kubrick's X-rated "A Clockwork Orange" premieres
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19 Dec 1972 Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
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19 Dec 1972 Apollo 17 (last of Apollo Moon landing series) returns to Earth
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19 Dec 1973 "Molly" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 68 performances
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19 Dec 1973 Grenada adopts constitution
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19 Dec 1974 "Man With Golden Gun" premieres in US
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19 Dec 1974 Nelson A Rockefeller sworn-in as 41st VP
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19 Dec 1974 Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford under the provisions of the twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
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19 Dec 1974 Dave Kryskow scores Washington Capitals 1st NHL shorthanded goal
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19 Dec 1974 Nelson A Rockefeller sworn-in as the 41st Vice-President
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19 Dec 1974 "The Man With the Golden Gun" premieres in US
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19 Dec 1975 John Paul Stevens is appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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19 Dec 1975 John Paul Stevens becomes a Supreme Court Justice
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19 Dec 1975 Ron Wood joined the Rolling Stones
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19 Dec 1976 Jo Ann Washam/Chi Chi Rodriguez win Pepsi-Cola Mixed Team Golf Championship
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19 Dec 1976 John Lever takes 7-46 in 1st Test Cricket innings, vs India Delhi
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19 Dec 1976 Piper Cherokee crashes into Baltimore Memorial Stadium upper stands, 10 minutes after Colts lose 40-14 to Steelers; No one seriously hurt
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19 Dec 1976 President Brezhnev receives his 5th Lenin order
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19 Dec 1977 Dutch government of Van Agt/Wiegel forms
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19 Dec 1978 France performs nuclear test
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19 Dec 1978 Indira Gandhi ambushed in India
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19 Dec 1980 Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St Kitts
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19 Dec 1980 Iran requests $24 billion in US guarantees to free hostages
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19 Dec 1980 Mutual Broadcasting cancels Sears Radio Theater
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19 Dec 1981 Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.
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19 Dec 1983 The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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19 Dec 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, China by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.
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19 Dec 1984 Fire at the Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people
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19 Dec 1984 Scotty Bowman becomes NHL's all time winningest coach
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19 Dec 1984 China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic of China
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19 Dec 1984 China People's Republic Premier Zhao Ziyang & Margaret Thatcher sign Hong Kong Treaty
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19 Dec 1984 UK signs agreement with China to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
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19 Dec 1984 Wayne Gretzky, 23, is 18th & youngest NHL-er to score 1,000 points
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19 Dec 1985 "Wind in the Willows" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 4 performances
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19 Dec 1985 STS 61-C scrubbed at T -13 seconds because of SRB auxiliary power problem
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19 Dec 1985 Mary Lund is 1st woman to receive a Jarvik VII artificial heart
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19 Dec 1986 Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky.
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19 Dec 1986 USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
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19 Dec 1986 Jack Morris agrees to salary arbitration with former team Tigers & accuses owners of collusion against free agency
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19 Dec 1986 Michael Sergio, who parachuted into Shea Stadium during game 6 of the World Series, sentenced to 100 hours of community service & fined $500
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19 Dec 1987 Bruins' Linseman & Blues' Doug Gilmore score goals, 2 seconds apart
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19 Dec 1987 Gari Kasparov becomes world chess champion
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19 Dec 1988 NASA unveils plans for lunar colony & manned missions to Mars
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19 Dec 1988 Oklahoma's College football team gets 3 year probation
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19 Dec 1988 Unexploded WWII bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany-5,000 evacuated
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19 Dec 1989 American Airlines purchases Eastern Airline's Latin American route
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19 Dec 1989 Larry Bird (Celtics) begins NBA free throw streak of 71 games
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19 Dec 1991 6,000th episode of One Life To Live
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19 Dec 1991 Boris Yeltsin takes control of Kremlin
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19 Dec 1991 New York Yankee pitcher Steve Howe arrested for cocaine possession
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19 Dec 1991 "Christmas Carol" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 14 performances
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19 Dec 1993 "Red Shoes" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 5 performances
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19 Dec 1993 Guinee General Lansana re-elected president
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19 Dec 1995 The United States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Native American tribe.
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19 Dec 1995 Queen Elizabeth askes Prince Charles & Diana to divorce
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19 Dec 1996 "Once Upon a Matress, " opens at Broadhurst NYC for 187 performances
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19 Dec 1997 MTV drops video "Smack My Bitch Up" by Prodigy
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19 Dec 1997 SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
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19 Dec 1998 President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second President of the United States to be impeached.
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19 Dec 2000 The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, Turkey, killing one person and injuring three.
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19 Dec 2001 A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl, Mongolia.
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19 Dec 2001 Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riots – Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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19 Dec 2012 Park Geun-hye is elected the first female president of South Korea.
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