December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in Leap Year s) in the Gregorian Calendar . There are 12 days remaining.
- 324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor .
- 1187 - Pope Clement III is elected.
- 's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania .
- John C. Calhoun pens the '' South Carolina Exposition And Protest '', protesting the Tariff Of 1828 .
- 1835 - The first issue of '' The Blade '' newspaper is published in Toledo, Ohio .
- 1910 - Edward Douglass White is sworn in as the 9th Chief Justice Of The United States .
- 1912 - William H. Van Schaick, captain of the Steamship '' General Slocum '' which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by President Taft after 3-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison .
- - On the Western Front , the French Army successfully holds off the German Army and drives it back to its starting position.
- 1941 - Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army
- 1961 - India annexes Daman And Diu , part of Portuguese India .
- 1963 - Zanzibar receives its Independence from the United Kingdom , to become a Constitutional Monarchy under Sultan Hamoud Bin Mohammed .
- 1965 - Prison guard George Hodson is killed during Ronald Ryan and Peter Walker 's escape from HM Prison Pentridge in Coburg, Victoria .
- 1967 - Prime Minister Of Australia Harold Holt is Officially Presumed Dead .
- '', crewed by Eugene Cernan , Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt , returns to Earth .
- 1974 - The Altair 8800 Microcomputer kit goes on sale.
- 1974 - Nelson A. Rockefeller is sworn is as the 41st Vice President Of The United States under President Gerald Ford .
- 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 by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher .
- 1988 - Lawn Darts are banned from sale in the United States by the Consumer Product Safety Commission .
- 1997 - Silkair Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River , near Palembang in Indonesia , killing 104.
- 1997 - The film '' Titanic '' is released.
- forwards articles I and III of Impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate .
- 1999 - Portugal transferred Sovereignty of Macau to the People's Republic Of China .
- 2000 - The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party Of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul , killing one person and injuring three.
- 2001 - A record high Barometric Pressure of 1085.6 HPa (32.06 InHg ) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Hövsgöl in Mongolia .
- 2001 - - Riots erupt in Buenos Aires after Domingo Cavallo 's " Corralito " measures restrict the withdrawal of cash from bank deposits.
- 1554 - Philip William, Prince Of Orange (d. 1618 )
- 1683 - King Philip V Of Spain (d. 1746 )
- 1699 - William Bowyer , English printer (d. 1777 )
- 1714 - John Winthrop , American astronomer (d. 1779 )
- 1778 - Marie Thérèse Charlotte , eldest child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI of France (d. 1851 )
- 1813 - Thomas Andrews , Irish chemist (d. 1885 )
- 1852 - Albert Abraham Michelson , Prussian-born American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931 )
- 1865 - Minnie Maddern Fiske , American actress (d. 1932 )
- 1885 - Joe "King" Oliver , American jazz musician (d. 1938 )
- 1888 - Fritz Reiner , Austro-Hungarian-born American conductor (d. 1963 )
- 1894 - Ford Frick , American baseball commissioner (d. 1978 )
- 1901 - Rudolf Hell , German inventor (d. 2002 )
- 1902 - Sir Ralph Richardson , British actor (d. 1983 )
- 1903 - George Davis Snell , American geneticist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996 )
- 1906 - Leonid Brezhnev , Russian-born leader of the Soviet Union (d. 1982 )
- 1907 - Jimmy McLarnin , Northern Irish-born boxer and World Welterweight Champion (d. 2004 )
- 1910 - Jean Genet , French writer (d. 1986 )
- 1915 - Édith Piaf , French singer and actress (d. 1963 )
- 1918 - Professor Longhair (Henry Roeland Byrd), American blues musician (d. 1980 )
- 1920 - David Susskind , American TV talk show host (d. 1987 )
- 1923 - Gordon Jackson , British actor (d. 1990 )
- 1925 - Robert B. Sherman , American songwriter
- 1925 - Tankred Dorst , German dramatist
- 1927 - James Booth (David Geeves), British actor and screenwriter (d. 2005 )
- 1929 - Bob Brookmeyer , American jazz musician
- 1933 - Cicely Tyson , American actress
- 1934 - Al Kaline , baseball player
- 1934 - Rudi Carrell , Dutch singer
- 1935 - Bobby Timmons , American jazz pianist (d. 1974 )
- 1940 - Phil Ochs , American folk singer and songwriter (d. 1976 )
- 1941 - Maurice White , American singer and songwriter ( Earth, Wind & Fire )
- 1944 - Richard Leakey , British anthropologist
- 1944 - Mitchell Feigenbaum , American mathematical physicist
- 1944 - Alvin Lee (Graham Barnes), British singer and guitarist ( Ten Years After )
- 1944 - Zal Yanovsky , Canadian guitarist and singer ( The Lovin' Spoonful )
- 1946 - Stan Smith , American tennis player
- 1946 - Robert Urich , American actor (d. 2002 )
- 1957 - Kevin McHale , American profesional basketball player
- 1958 - Limahl (Christopher Hamill), British singer ( Kajagoogoo )
- 1960 - Mike Lookinland , American actor
- 1961 - Eric Allin Cornell , American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
- 1961 - Matthew Waterhouse , British actor
- 1961 - Reggie White , American football player (d. 2004 )
- 1964 - Arvydas Sabonis , Soviet-born Lithuanian basketball player and Olympic gold medalist
- 1965 - Chito Martinez , Belizean baseball player
- 1966 - Eric Weinrich , American ice hockey player
- 1969 - Kristy Swanson , American actress
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- 1971 - Tiffany Towers , Canadian adult film actress
- 1972 - Alyssa Milano , American actress
- 1972 - Warren Sapp , American football player
- 1974 - Jake Plummer , American football player
- 1974 - Ricky Ponting , Australian test cricketer
- 1975 - Olivier Tebily , Ivorian international footballer
- 1980 - Jake Gyllenhaal , American actor
- 1980 - Marla Sokoloff , American actress
- 1983 - Kahlen Rondot , American model
- 1988 - Paulina Gretzky , American actress; daughter of Wayne Gretzky
- 401 - Pope Anastasius I
- 1075 - Edith Of Wessex , wife of Edward The Confessor of England
- 1327 - Agnes Of France , Duchess of Burgundy
- 1370 - Pope Urban V (b. 1310 )
- 1737 - James Sobieski , Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667 )
- 1741 - Vitus Bering , Danish-born explorer (b. 1681 )
- 1745 - Jean-Baptiste Van Loo , French painter (b. 1684 )
- 1749 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti , Italian priest and composer (b. 1672 )
- 1751 - Louise Of Great Britain , wife of Frederick V Of Denmark (b. 1724 )
- 1807 - Friedrich Melchior, Baron Von Grimm , German writer (b. 1723 )
- 1819 - Sir Thomas Fremantle , British naval officer and politician (b. 1765 )
- 1848 - Emily Brontë , British author (b. 1818 )
- 1915 - Alois Alzheimer , German neuroscientist (b. 1864 )
- 1932 - Yoon Bong-Gil , Protester against Japanese occupation of Korea (executed) (b. 1908 )
- 1939 - Hans Langsdorff , German naval officer (b. 1894 )
- 1946 - Paul Langevin , French physicist (b. 1872 )
- 1953 - Robert Millikan , American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868 )
- 1967 - Harold Holt , seventeenth Prime Minister Of Australia (b. 1908 )
- 1968 - Norman Thomas , American socialist (b. 1884 )
- 1989 - Stella Gibbons , British author (b. 1902 )
- 1996 - Marcello Mastroianni , Italian actor (b. 1924 )
- 1999 - Desmond Llewelyn , British actor (b. 1914 )
- 2003 - Peter Carter-Ruck , British lawyer (b. 1914 )
- 2003 - Hope Lange , American actress (b. 1931 )
- 2004 - Herbert C. Brown , British-born American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912 )
- 2004 - Renata Tebaldi , Italian soprano (b. 1922 )
- 2005 - Vincent Gigante , American mafioso (b. 1927 )
December 18 - December 20 - November 19 - January 19 -- Listing Of All Days
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