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What Happened on December 19th This Day in History

Year	Name
2016	Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov is assassinated while at an art exhibition in Ankara. The assassin, Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, is shot and killed by a Turkish guard.
2016	A vehicular attack in Berlin, Germany, kills and injures multiple people at a Christmas market.
2013	Spacecraft Gaia is launched by European Space Agency.
2012	Park Geun-hye is elected the first female president of South Korea.
2001	A record high barometric pressure of 1,085.6 hectopascals (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl, Mongolia.
2001	Argentine economic crisis: December riots: Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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.
1998	President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second President of the United States to be impeached.
1997	SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
1995	The United States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Native American tribe.
1991	Joe Cole, American roadie and author, is killed in an armed robbery
1986	Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky.
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.
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.
1981	Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.
1977	The Ms  5.8 Bob–Tangol earthquake strikes Kerman Province in Iran, destroying villages and killing 665 people.
1974	Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford under the provisions of the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1972	Apollo program: The last crewed lunar flight, Apollo 17, carrying Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
1967	Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, is officially presumed dead.
1961	India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.
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.
1946	Start of the First Indochina War.
1945	John Amery, British Fascist, is executed at the age of 33 by the British Government for treason.
1941	World War II: Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Oberkommando des Heeres.
1941	World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers heavily damage HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth in Alexandria harbour.
1940	Risto Ryti, the Prime Minister of Finland, is elected President of the Republic of Finland in a presidential election, which is exceptionally held by the 1937 electoral college.[14]
1932	BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.
1929	The Indian National Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the Declaration of the Independence of India).
1927	Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan, are executed by the British Raj for participation in the Kakori conspiracy.
1924	The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
1924	German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.
1920	King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander of Greece and a plebiscite.
1912	William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after .mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{bor
1907	Two hundred thirty-nine coal miners die in the Darr Mine Disaster in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
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.
1900	French parliament votes amnesty for all involved in scandalous army treason trial known as Dreyfus affair.
1828	Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun sparks the Nullification Crisis when he anonymously publishes the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.
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.
1783	William Pitt the Younger becomes the youngest Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at 24.
1777	American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
1776	Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".
1675	The Great Swamp Fight, a pivotal battle in King Philip's War, gives the English settlers a bitterly won victory.
1606	The ships Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery depart England carrying settlers who founded, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
1562	The Battle of Dreux takes place during the French Wars of Religion.
1490	Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.
1187	Pope Clement III is elected.
1154	Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.

Famous People Born on December 19

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Year	Name
1986	Ingrid Burley, American rapper and songwriter
1849	Henry Clay Frick, American businessman and financier (d. 1919)
1951	Alan Rouse, English mountaineer and author (d. 1986)
1959	Lisa Wilkinson, Australian television host and journalist
1934	Pratibha Patil, Indian lawyer and politician, 12th President of India
1990	Greg Bretz, American snowboarder
1932	Wayne Tippit, American actor (d. 2009)
1960	Michelangelo Signorile, American journalist and author
1969	Tom Gugliotta, American basketball player
1962	Gary Fleder, American director, producer, and screenwriter

Famous People Deaths On December 19

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on December 19. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
2013	Winton Dean, English musicologist and author (b. 1916)
1091	Adelaide of Susa, margravine of Turin
1999	Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh soldier and actor (b. 1914)
1927	Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (b. 1900)
2010	Anthony Howard, English journalist and author (b. 1934)
1442	Elizabeth of Luxembourg (b. 1409)
2005	Vincent Gigante, American mobster (b. 1927)
1745	Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (b. 1684)
1637	Christina of Lorraine, Grand Duchess consort of Tuscany (b. 1565)
2003	Peter Carter-Ruck, English lawyer, founded Carter-Ruck (b. 1914)