19 December

The 19t o December is the 353t day o the year (354t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 12 days bidin.

Events

1842: Ryal Coat o Airms o Hawaii

2016: Berlin lorry attack

• 1154 - Henry II o Ingland is crouned.
• 1187 - Pape Clement III is electit.
• 1666 - Lund Varsity in Soothren Swaden is foondit.
• 1783 - William Pitt the Younger becomes the youngest Prime meenister o Great Breetain, at age 24.
• 1842 - The Unitit States recognises the unthirldom o the Kinrick o Hawaii.
• 1909 - German fitbaa club Borussia Dortmund is foondit.
• 1916 - Warld War I: The Battle o Verdun ends.
• 1945 - Austrick becomes a republic for the seicont time.
• 1972 - Apollo 17, the last Muin mission, returns tae the Yird.
• 1980 - Anguilla becomes a separate dependency frae Saunt Kitts an Nevis.
• 1984 - The Unitit Kinrick agrees tae the handower o Hong Kong tae Cheenae (in 1997).
• 1986 - Mikhail Gorbachev releases Andrei Sakharov frae exile.
• 1998 - The Unitit States Hoose o Representatives passes the airticles o impeachment against Bill Clinton.
• 2007 - Lee Myung-bak is electit Preses o Sooth Korea.
• 2011 - The daith o North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il is annooncit.
• 2012 - Park Geun-hye is electit the first female Preses o Sooth Korea.
• 2016 - Andrei Karlov, Roushie Ambassador tae Turkey, is assassinatit in Ankara.
• 2016 - A lorry is driven intae a Christenmas mercat in central Berlin, killin 12 fowk.

Births

Albert A. Michelson

• 1594 - Gustavus Adolphus o Swaden (d. 1632)
• 1683 - Philip V o Spain (d. 1746)
• 1852 - Albert A. Michelson, Proushie-American pheesicist (d. 1931)
• 1903 - George Davis Snell, American geneticist (d. 1996)
• 1906 - Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader (d. 1982)
• 1915 - Édith Piaf, French sangster (d. 1963)
• 1934 - Pratibha Patil, umwhile Preses o Indie
• 1941 - Lee Myung-bak, umwhile Preses o Sooth Korea
• 1961 - Eric Allin Cornell, American pheesicist
• 1969 - Richard Hammond, Inglis telly presenter
• 1969 - Kristy Swanson, American actress
• 1972 - Alyssa Milano, American actress an sangster
• 1980 - Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor
• 1985 - Gary Cahill, Inglis fitbawer
• 1986 - Ryan Babel, Dutch fitbawer
• 1987 - Karim Benzema, French fitbawer
• 1988 - Alexis Sánchez, Chilean fitbawer

Daiths

• 211 - Geta, Roman Emperor
• 1370 - Pape Urban V (b. 1310)
• 1741 - Vitus Bering, Dens splorer (b. 1681)
• 1811 - Mairjorie Fleemin, Scots poet (b. 1803)
• 1848 - Emily Bronte, Inglis writer (b. 1818)
• 1851 - J. M. W. Turner, Inglis penter (b. 1775)
• 1908 - Thomas Lomar Gray, Scots ingineer (b. 1850)
• 1915 - Alois Alzheimer, German medicinar (b. 1864)
• 1972 - Thomas Brooke, 2nt Viscoont Alanbrooke (b. 1920)
• 1996 - Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (b. 1924)
• 1999 - Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (b. 1914)
• 2015 - Kurt Masur, German conductor (b. 1927)
• 2015 - Jimmy Hill, Inglis fitbawer an pundit (b. 1928)
• 2016 - Andrei Karlov, Roushie diplomat (b. 1954)

Halidays

Banner o Anguilla

• Liberation Day (Goa)
• Naitional Heroes an Heroines Day (Anguilla)