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19 Dec 1862
Skirmish at Jackson Salem Church Tennessee (80 casualties)
19 Dec 1871
Albert L Jones of New York City patents corrugated paper
19 Dec 1881
Opera Hrodiade by Jules Massenet is produced in Brussels
19 Dec 1884
Italy recognizes King Leopold IIs Congo Free State
19 Dec 1887
Jake Kilrain & Jem Smith fight 106 round bare knuckle draw
19 Dec 1890
Start of Sherlock Holmes Adventure of Beryl Coronet (BG)
19 Dec 1562
Battle at Dreux Anne de Montmorency & huguenots under Cond captured
19 Dec 1686
Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Daniel Defoe)
19 Dec 1696
Jean-Francois Regnards Le Joueur premieres in Paris
19 Dec 1777
Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge Pennsylvania for the winter
19 Dec 1788
Chinese troops occupy capital Thang Long Vietnam
19 Dec 1795
1st state appropriation of money for road building Kentucky
19 Dec 1823
Georgia passes 1st US state birth registration law in US
19 Dec 1828
South Carolina declares right of states to nullify federal laws
19 Dec 1854
Allen Wilson of Conn patents sewing machine to sew curving seams
19 Dec 1891
1st Negro Catholic priest ordained in US Charles Uncles Baltimore
19 Dec 1903
Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn and Manhattan
19 Dec 1904
Dawson City hockey team begins 9 day walk to get a boat to Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905
19 Dec 1907
239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek Pennsylvania
19 Dec 1910
1st US city ordinance requiring white & black residential areas in Baltimore
19 Dec 1910
Rayon 1st commercially produced in Marcus Hook Pennsylvania
19 Dec 1913
Jack Johnson fights Jim Johnson to a draw in 10 rounds for heavyweight boxing title
19 Dec 1917
1st NHL game played on artificial ice in Toronto
19 Dec 1917
Quebec Bulldogs play their 1st professional hockey game
19 Dec 1918
Robert Ripley began his Believe It or Not column (NY Globe)
19 Dec 1920
1st US indoor curling rink opens (Brookline Mass)
19 Dec 1920
King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander I of Greece and a plebiscite.
19 Dec 1922
Theresa Vaughn 24 confesses in court in Sheffield England to being married 61 times over 5 years in 50 cities in three countries
19 Dec 1924
Test Cricket debut of Bill Ponsford who scored 110 in 1st innings
19 Dec 1924
The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London England.
19 Dec 1931
Joseph A Lyons (C) becomes premier of Australia
19 Dec 1932
British Broadcasting Corp begins transmitting overseas
19 Dec 1933
Electric Home & Farm Authority Inc authorized
19 Dec 1939
Russian air & ground attack against Finnish positions near Summa
19 Dec 1941
US Office of Censorship created to control info pertaining to WW II
19 Dec 1942
Robert Stroud Birdman of Alcatraz is transferred to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary
19 Dec 1945
Jean Giraudoux La Folle de Chaillot premieres in Paris
19 Dec 1946
Noel Cowards musical Pacific 1860 premieres in London
19 Dec 1947
1948 NFL Draft Harry Gilmer from University of Alabama first pick by Washington Redskins
19 Dec 1948
Cleveland Browns beats Buffalo Bills 49-7 in AAFC championship game
19 Dec 1948
Philadelphia Eagles shutout Chicago Cards 7-0 in NFL championship game
19 Dec 1949
Luxury passenger ship Aquitania demolished in Gareloch Scotland
19 Dec 1949
WJW TV channel 8 in Cleveland Ohio (CBS) begins broadcasting
19 Dec 1953
KFYR TV channel 5 in Bismarck ND (NBCABC) begins broadcasting
19 Dec 1957
Music Man opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1375 performances
19 Dec 1958
1st radio broadcast from space US President Dwight D. Eisenhower Christmas message to all mankind Americas wish for peace on Earth and goodwill to men everywhere
19 Dec 1959
1st Liberty Bowl game-Penn State beats Alabama 7-0
19 Dec 1960
Fire aboard USS Constellation under construction at Brooklyn (50 die)
19 Dec 1960
Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight
19 Dec 1962
Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission
19 Dec 1962
Transit 5A1 1st operational navigational satellite launched
19 Dec 1964
Gertrud Danish film directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer starring Nina Pens Rode Bendt Rothe and Ebbe Rode is released in France
19 Dec 1967
Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.
19 Dec 1968
WCWB (now WMGT) TV channel 41 in Macon GA (NBC) begins broadcasting
19 Dec 1971
Inner City opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 97 performances
19 Dec 1971
CBS airs Homecoming A Christmas Story (introducing the Waltons)
19 Dec 1972
Apollo 17 (last of Apollo Moon landing series) returns to Earth
19 Dec 1973
Molly closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 68 performances
19 Dec 1974
Dave Kryskow scores Washington Capitals 1st NHL shorthanded goal
19 Dec 1975
John Paul Stevens becomes a US Supreme Court Justice
19 Dec 1975
The Red Hand Commandos a very secretive Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland explode a no-warning car bomb in Dundalk killing 2 civilians and wounding 20
19 Dec 1976
John Lever takes 7-46 in 1st Test Cricket innings v India Delhi
19 Dec 1976
Piper Cherokee crashes into Balt Memorial Stadium upper stands 10 minutes after Colts lose 40-14 to Steelers. No one seriously hurt
19 Dec 1976
65th Davis Cup Italy beats Chile in Santiago (4-1)
19 Dec 1980
Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St Kitts
19 Dec 1980
Iran requests 24 billion in US guarantees to free hostages
19 Dec 1980
Mutual Broadcasting cancels Sears Radio Theater
19 Dec 1981
Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee Cornwall lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.
19 Dec 1981
Romuald Spasowski Polish ambassador to the United States defects to show support for the Solidarity movement amid a crackdown
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.
19 Dec 1984
Fire at Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people
19 Dec 1984
UK signs agreement with China to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
19 Dec 1985
Wind in the Willows opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 4 performances
19 Dec 1985
Mary Lund is 1st woman to receive a Jarvik VII artificial heart at Abbott Northwestern Hospital Minneapolis
19 Dec 1985
STS 61-C scrubbed at T -13s because of SRB auxiliary power problem
19 Dec 1986
Jack Morris agrees to salary arbitration with former team Tigers & accuses owners of collusion against free agency
19 Dec 1986
Michael Sergio who parachuted into Shea Stadium during game 6 of the World Series sentenced to 100 hrs of community service & fined 500
19 Dec 1986
OPEC reaches an accord that would cut production by 7 percent for the first six months of 1987 and would raise prices immediately toward a target world oil price of 18 per barrel
19 Dec 1987
Bruins Linseman & Blues Doug Gilmore score goals 2 seconds apart
19 Dec 1988
NASA unveils plans for lunar colony & manned missions to Mars
19 Dec 1988
Oklahomas College football team gets 3 year probation
19 Dec 1988
Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt Germany-5000 evacuated
19 Dec 1989
American Airlines purchases Eastern Airlines Latin American route
19 Dec 1991
Christmas Carol opens at Eugene ONeill Theater NYC for 14 performances
19 Dec 1991
NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe arrested for cocaine possession
19 Dec 1993
Red Shoes closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 5 performances
19 Dec 1994
Rolls-Royce announces its future cars will feature V12 engine which will be produced by BMW
19 Dec 1996
Once Upon a Matress opens at Broadhurst NYC for 187 performances
19 Dec 1997
MTV drops video Smack My Bitch Up by Prodigy
19 Dec 2000
The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of TurkeyLeninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul killing one person and injuring three.
19 Dec 2000
Ballon dOr Real Madrids Portuguese midfielder Lus Figo is named best football player in Europe ahead of Juventus midfielder Zinedine Zidane and Milan striker Andriy Shevchenko
19 Dec 2001
A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel Khvsgl Province Mongolia.
19 Dec 2001
Argentine economic crisis December riots - Riots erupt in Buenos Aires after Domingo Cavallos corralito measures restrict the withdrawal of cash from bank deposits.
19 Dec 2007
The Lakotah people a Native American tribe proclaim independence and withdraw all their treaties with the United States. Establish the Republic of Lakotah as a separate country.
19 Dec 2010
Miracle at the New Meadowlands Philadelphia Eagles trail New York Giants by 21 points with eight minutes to play before scoring 4 touchdowns in final 7 minutes including dramatic walk-off punt returned for a touchdown by DeSean Jackson
19 Dec 2012
UBS bank is fined 1.5 billion for its role in manipulating the Libor rate
19 Dec 2012
Park Geun-hye wins the South Korean presidential election to become the nations first female president
19 Dec 2013
81 people are injured after part of the ceiling caved in at Londons Apollo Theatre
19 Dec 2014
The Guardian newspaper calls The year the people stood up
19 Dec 2015
Third Democratic presidential candidates debate broadcast by ABC held in Goffstown New Hampshire
19 Dec 2016
At least 48 people die after drinking bath lotion in Irkutsk Siberia thinking it contained alcohol
19 Dec 2016
Russian ambassador to Turkey shot dead at an art gallery in Ankara by Turkish gunman
19 Dec 2016
Truck driven into a Christmas market in Berlin kills 12 injures 48
19 Dec 1859
Grading started for Market Street RR in San Francisco
19 Dec 1926
National Football League Championship Frankford Yellow Jackets (14-1-2) win first past the post title
19 Dec 1927
National Football League Championship New York Giants (11-1-1) win first past the post title
19 Dec 1948
National Football League Championship Shribe Park Philadelphia Philadelphia Eagles shutout Chicago Cardinals 7-0 in a snowstorm the Philly Blizzard
19 Dec 2009
Former Welsh and Lions captain Gareth Thomas is the first international rugby player to reveal he is gay
19 Dec 2018
First use of a drone to deliver vaccines - to island of Erromango Vanuatu by Unicef
19 Dec 2018
Drones flying over Gatwick airport England causes delays and cancellations for 800 flights and 110000 people
19 Dec 2018
US President Donald Trump announces victory over the Islamic State and planned withdrawal of US troops from Syria
19 Dec 2018
Houston Rockets set NBA single-game record with 26 three-pointers in 136-118 victory over Washington Wizards 8 players hit from deep as Rockets shoot 26-of-55 (47.3%) James Harden leads charge shooting 6-of-11 on 3s
19 Dec 1976
Davis Cup Mens Tennis Santiago Chile Paolo Bertolucci & Adriano Panatta give Italy unassailable 3-0 lead beat Patricio Cornejo & Jaime Fillol of Chile 6-3 2-6 9-7 6-3 ends 4-1
19 Dec 2019
Australian state of New South Wales announces 7-day state of emergency amid extreme heat and over 100 bushfires that have burnt for two months
19 Dec 2019
Earliest fossilized trees 386 million years old found at a quarry in Cairo New York study published in Current Biology
19 Dec 1675
King Philips War Combined colonial millitias stake massive attack against the Great Swamp Fort owned by the Narragansetts totally destroying the settlement and killing or displacing hundreds of non-combatant women and children
19 Dec 1870
After 31 days at sea in a small boat William Halford and 3 others reach the island of Kauai Hawaii to seek help for the shipwrecked USS Saginaw. A capsize in the breakers meant only Halford survived.
19 Dec 1957
Meredith Wilsons musical The Music Man starring Robert Preston and Barbara Cook opens at Majestic Theater NYC runs for 1375 performances wins 5 Tony and a Grammy Award
19 Dec 1969
Beatles 7th Christmas fan-club single is released
19 Dec 1987
NHL Boston Bruins Ken Linseman & St. Louis Blues Doug Gilmore set a record for the fastest two goals in league history scoring 2 seconds apart
19 Dec 2004
Worlds largest indoor water park Tropical Islands Resort opens in the Aerium an old airship hanger in the worlds largest free-standing hall south of Berlin Germany
19 Dec 1487
Opening ceremony of the sixth Great Temple of Tenochtitlan (modern Mexico City) 4000 prisoners of war are sacrificed to Aztec gods over four days [1]
19 Dec 1918
Robert Ripley begins his Believe It or Not column (NY Globe)
19 Dec 1932
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins transmitting overseas
19 Dec 1942
Robert Stroud convicted murdered transferred to Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary where he becomes known as Birdman of Alcatraz
19 Dec 1952
Queen Juliana of the Netherlands unveils statue Docker (Dokwerker) memorializing the February Strike of 1941 over the arrest of 450 Jews for the killing of a Nazi sympathizer designed by Mari Andriessen it was relocated in 1970 from Amsterdams Waterlooplein Market to Jonas Daniel Meijerplein (Square)
19 Dec 1957
Meredith Willsons musical The Music Man starring Robert Preston and Barbara Cook opens at Majestic Theater NYC runs for 1375 performances wins 5 Tony and a Grammy Award
19 Dec 1972
Apollo 17 (last of Apollo Moon landing series) returns to Earth splashing down in the Pacific Ocean southeast of Samoa
19 Dec 1976
Piper Cherokee plane crashes into Baltimore Memorial Stadium upper stands 10 minutes after Colts lose 40-14 to Pittsburgh Steelers no one seriously hurt
19 Dec 1984
33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in Yale library [1]
19 Dec 1993
Marsha Norman Bob Merrill and Jule Stynes fairy tale musical Red Shoes directed by Stanley Donen closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 5 performances loses nearly 8 million
19 Dec 2021
Former student activist Gabriel Boric wins Chiles Presidential election to become the countrys youngest president at 35
19 Dec 1696
Jean-Francois Regnards play Le Joueur (The Gamester) premieres in Paris
19 Dec 1923
King George II of Greece moves in exile to Romania while the National Assembly deliberates over future of government
19 Dec 1933
US President Roosevelt creates Electric Home & Farm Authority (EHFA) to assist low income household with purchase of major appliances [1]
19 Dec 1958
First radio broadcast from space US President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends a Christmas message to all mankind Americas wish for peace on Earth and goodwill to men everywhere [1]
19 Dec 1967
Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead (after being swept out to sea swimming two days earlier)
19 Dec 2022
190 countries agree to protect 30% of worlds land and oceans by 2030 and other measures to halt declining global biodiversity at UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal [1]
19 Dec 2022
US House Jan. 6 committee votes to refer criminal charges to the Justice Department for Donald Trump for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election and encourage a mob to attack the Capitol [1]
19 Dec 2023
Science names anti-obesity medications that mimic the hormone GLP-1 containing semaglutide (Ozempic Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro) their breakthrough of the year [1]
19 Dec 1696
Jean-Franois Regnards play Le Joueur (The Gamester) premieres in Paris
19 Dec 1931
United Australia Party led by Joseph Lyons defeats the incumbent first-term Australian Labor Party led by Prime Minister James Scullin in a federal election
19 Dec 1971
CBS airs Homecoming A Christmas Story as a TV movie that evolves into long running series The Waltons
19 Dec 1974
Dave Kryskow scores NHL Washington Capitals 1st franchise shorthanded goal
19 Dec 2023
Science names anti-obesity medications that mimic the hormone GLP-1 their breakthrough of the year that contain semaglutide (Ozempic Wegovy) and tirzepatide (Mounjaro) [1]
19 Dec 2023
141 Indian opposition MPs are suspended for protesting a security breach when two intruders sprayed glass inside parliament [1]
19 Dec 2023
Colorados Supreme Court rules Donald Trump is ineligible to run for President after participating in an insurrection under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment [1]
19 Dec 2023
Oakland judge exonerates Glynn Simmons 70 after he spent 48 years in jail for a murder he didnt commit - longest known wrongful sentence in the US [1]
19 Dec 1924
Test Cricket debut of Australian Bill Ponsford who scores 110 in his 1st innings
19 Dec 1938
Discovery of nuclear fission using uranium by Otto Hahn and his assistant Fritz Strassmann [1]
19 Dec 1946
Nol Cowards musical Pacific 1860 premieres in London
19 Dec 1986
Jack Morris agrees to salary arbitration with his former team the Tigers and accuses the owners of collusion against free agency
19 Dec 1989
Boston Celtics forward Larry Bird begins an NBA free throw streak of 71 consecutive games
19 Dec 2016
Alex Puccio ascends Terre De Sienne V13 (8B) at Hueco Tanks six months after spinal surgery
19 Dec 2018
First use of a drone to deliver vaccines to the island of Erromango Vanuatu by UNICEF
19 Dec 2020
Worlds first undersea roundabout opens named the Jellyfish as part of a 11.2 km (6.9 miles) tunnel network for the Faroe Islands with illuminated artwork by Trndur Patursson [1]
19 Dec 2024
Frances largest-ever rape trial ends with Dominique Pelicot found guilty of all charges and sentenced to 20 years for drugging and raping his wife Gisle Pelicot and inviting at least 50 other men to do so [1]
19 Dec 2024
Paul McCartney wraps up his Got Back tour at Londons O2 Arena with guest appearances from Ron Wood during Get Back and Ringo Starr drumming on Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and Helter Skelter