This Day in History
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
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Last lunar-landing mission ends
The Apollo lunar-landing program ends on December 19 1972 when the last three astronauts to travel to the moon splash down safely in the Pacific Ocean. Apollo...
Continental Army enters winter camp at Valley Forge
With the onset of the bitter winter cold the Continental Army under General George Washington still in the field enters its winter camp at Valley Forge 22 m...
Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China
In the Hall of the People in Beijing British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang sign an agreement committing Britain to return Ho...
President Clinton impeached
After nearly 14 hours of debate the House of Representatives approves two articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton charging him with lying under...
North Vietnam condemns Linebacker raids
Hanois foreign ministry calling the new B-52 raids against Hanoi and Haiphong extremely barbaric accuses the United States of premeditat...
Another bloodless coup topples the government in Saigon
Another bloodless coup occurs when Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khanh and a group of generals led by Air Commodore Nguyen Cao Ky and Army Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu arrest three...
Washington leads troops into winter quarters at Valley Forge
On this day in 1777 commander of the Continental Army George Washington the future first president of the United States leads his beleaguered troops into win...
John Ford’s Cheyenne Autumn released
Offered in the guise of a Western film John Fords Cheyenne Autumn one of the best post-war critiques of American society is released ...
Ahmadinejad bans all Western music in Iranian state television and radio broadcasts
The first known pronouncement by a public figure regarding the potential of popular music to act as a socially destabilizing force comes from the first century ...
Poor Richard’s Almanack is published
On this day in 1732 Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia first published Poor Richards Almanack. The book filled with proverbs preaching industry and pru...
A Christmas Carol Is Published
On this day in 1843 Charles Dickens classic story A Christmas Carol is published.Dickens was born in 1812 and attended school in Portsmou...
Titanic sails into theaters
On this day in 1997 director James Camerons epic drama Titanic the story of the real-life luxury ocean liner that struck an iceberg and sank on its ma...
Pennsylvania miners perish in coal mine explosion
A coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek Pennsylvania kills 239 workers on this day in 1907. Only one worker in the deep mine at the time survived the tragedy.Th...
World Series parachutist sentenced
Michael Sergio who parachuted into Game Six of the 1986 World Series at New Yorks Shea Stadium is fined 500 and sentenced to 100 hours of community s...
Gorbachev releases Sakharov from internal exile
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife Elena Bonner from their internal exile in Gorky a major city on the Volga River that wa...
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