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Today in History ~ December 19
Events1154 - King Henry II of England crowned
1686 - Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
1732 - Benjamin Franklin under the name Richard Saunders begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack" [H]
1776 - Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls"
1777 - Gen. George Washington led his army of about 11,000 men to Valley Forge, Pa., to camp for the winter.
1823 - Georgia passes 1st US state birth registration law
1843 -"A Christmas Carol," by Charles Dickens, was first published in England. [H]
1862 - Skirmish at Jackson/Salem Church, Tenn (80 casualties)
1871 - Albert L Jones (NYC), patents corrugated paper
1890 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Beryl Coronet"
1903 - Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn & Manhattan
1907 - Gas explosion at Jacobs Creek Pa, coal mine kills 239
1910 - Rayon 1st commercially produced, Marcus Hook, Penn
1918 - Robert Ripley begins his "Believe It or Not" column (NY Globe)
1919 - American Meteorological Society found
1928 - 1st autogiro (predecessor of helicopter) flight in US
1932 - British Broadcasting Corp begins transmitting overseas "Empire Service" to Australia.
1941 - Hitler takes complete command of German Army [H]
1941 - US Office of Censorship created to control info about WW II
1945 - Jean Giraudoux' "La Folle de Chaillot," premieres in Paris
1946 - Noel Coward's musical "Pacific 1860," premieres in London
1946 - War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi
1950 - Tibet's Dalai Lama flees Chinese invasion
1950 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was named commander of the military forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
1955 - Carl Perkins records "Blue Suede Shoes"
1957 - "Music Man" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1375 performances
1958 - The U.S. satellite Atlas transmitted the first radio voice broadcast from space, a 58-word recorded Christmas greeting from President Eisenhower.
1960 - Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Bkln (50 die)
1960 - Frank Sinatra's 1st session with Reprise Records (Ring-A-Ding-Ding)
1962 - Transit 5A1, 1st operational navigational satellite, launched
1964 - John Ford's "Cheyenne Autumn" released [H]
1965 - French president De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%)
1971 - Stanley Kubrick's X-rated "A Clockwork Orange" premieres
1972 - Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, winding up the Apollo program of manned lunar landings.
1974 - Nelson A. Rockefeller was sworn in as the 41st vice president of the United States.
1978 - Indira Gandhi ambushed and murdered in India
1980 - Iran requests $24 billion in US guarantees to free hostages
1984 - British government formally agreed to honor an earlier pledge to return Hong Kong, a British colony since 1898, to China after ninety-nine years of control
1984 - The United States formally withdrew from UNESCO in an effort to force reform of the U.N. cultural organization's budget and alleged Third World bias.
1986 - Attorney General Edwin Meese said President Reagan did NOT know that money Iran paid for U.S. arms was going to Nicaraguan rebels.
1986 - The Soviet Union announced it had freed dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile, and pardoned his wife, Yelena Bonner.
1990 - A judge in Oshkosh, Wis., dismissed the case against a man convicted of sex assault against a woman with at least 46 personalities.
1991 - Boris Yeltsin takes control of Kremlin
1991 - Patricia Bowman, who had accused William Kennedy Smith of raping her, told ABC's "Prime Time Live" she was shocked by his acquittal.
1991 - The failed Bank of Credit and Commerce International agreed to settle federal racketeering charges by forfeiting all its U.S. assets.($550 million.)
1995 - Queen Elizabeth asks Prince Charles & Diana to divorce
1996 - The school board of Oakland, Calif., voted to recognize black English, also known as "Ebonics," in a decision that set off a firestorm of controversy (the board later modified its stance).
1996 - The television industry unveiled a plan to rate programs using tags such as "TV-G," "TV-Y" and "TV-M."
1996 - O.J. Simpson was called to the witness stand in his civil trial for damages in the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
1997 - The motion picture "Titanic" opened in U.S. theaters to generally favorable reviews.
1998 - House Speaker-designate Bob Livingston, R-La, announced he would not be a candidate and would be leaving Congress. Two days earlier, Livingston admitted he'd had extra-marital affairs "on occasion."
1998 - President Clinton became only the second U.S. president to be impeached when the House of Representatives approved two articles of impeachment, charging him with perjury and obstruction of justice. The allegations stemmed from the actions he took to conceal his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. (he was later acquitted by the Senate).
2000 - President-elect Bush met with President Clinton in Washington.
2000 - The U.N. Security Council voted to impose broad sanctions on Afghanistan's Taliban rulers unless they closed "terrorist" training camps and surrender U.S. embassy bombing suspect Osama bin Laden.
Birthdays Today
1683 - Philip V, Versailles France, King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46)
1778 - Marie-Therese-Charlotte, daughter of King Louis XVI & Marie-Antoinette
1779 - Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers, Paris France, engraver
1814 - Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, Ohio, US Secretary of War (1861-65)
1849 - Henry Clay Frick, Penn, built world's largest coke & steel operation
1868 - Novelist Eleanor Porter ("Pollyanna")
1888 - Fritz Reiner, Budapest Hungary, US conductor (Chicago Symphony Orch)
1894 - Ford Frick (baseball: Commissioner of Baseball)
1902 - Actor Ralph Richardson
1906 - H Allen Smith, Ill, humorist/author (Low Man on Totem Pole)
1906 - Leonid I Brezhnev, Ukraine, 1st Secretary of USSR (1964-82)
1910 - French dramatist Jean Genet, criminal/novelist/dramatist a pioneer in the theater of the absurd
1915 - Edith Piaf, [E Giovanna Gassion], Paris, chanteuse (Little Sparrow)
1920 - David Susskind (TV producer)
1924 - Doug Harvey (hockey)
1925 - 'Little' Jimmy Dickens (Country Music Hall of Famer; Country Boy, My Heart's Bouquet, May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose)
1928 - Galt MacDermot (composer)
1929 - Howard Sackler (playwright)
1934 - Al Kaline (baseball: Detroit Tigers)
1935 - Tony Taylor (baseball: Philadelphia Phillies)
1939 - Cicely Tyson (actress: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Roots, Fried Green Tomatoes, Heat Wave, Sounder)
1940 - Phil Ochs (folk singer, songwriter: There But for Fortune, Doesn't Lenny Live Here Anymore?, Here's to the State of Richard Nixon, Joe Hill, War is Over)
1941 - Maurice White (singer, musician: drummer; founder of group: Earth, Wind & Fire: Shining Star, Sing a Song, Got to Get You into My Life, After the Love Has Gone, Best of My Love)
1942 - Bob Windsor (football)
1943 - Ronald Schock (hockey)
1943 - William De Vries, Bkln, surgeon-inventor (Symbion artifical heart)
1944 - Alvin Lee (musician: group: Ten Years After: A Space in Time)
1944 - Richard Leakey, anthropologist
1944 - Tim Reid (actor: WKRP in Cincinnati, Frank's Place)
1946 - Robert Urich (actor: Magnum Force, Vegas, Spencer: for Hire)
1946 - Stan Smith (tennis: Men's Singles Wimbledon Champion [1972] and Amateur U.S. Open Champion [1969])
1947 - Larry Ely (football)
1948 - Martin Huff (football)
1949 - Claudia Kolb (U.S. Olympic Gold swimmer: 200-meter Individual Relay and 400-meter Individual Relay [1968)
1951 - Leonard Gray (basketball)
1952 - Janie Fricke (singer: CMA Female Vocalist of the Year, [1982 and 1983]; It Ain't Easy)
1952 - Jeff Davis (musician: bass: group: Amazing Rhythm Aces: Third Rate Romance)
1963 - Actress Jennifer Beals
1966 - Alberto "La Bomba" Tomba, Italian skier (Olympic-gold-1988, 92)
1972 - Alyssa Milano (actress: television: Who's the Boss, Melrose Place)
Famous deaths
1915 - Alvis Alzheimer, German neurologist (Alzheimer Disease), dies at 51
1953 - Robert A Millikan, US physicist (Nobel 1923), dies at 85
1959 - Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, dies at 117
1968 - Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84
1996 - Marcello Mastroiani, actor (8th Assassin, Family Diary), dies at 72
1997 - Masaru Ibuka, co-founder (Sony Corp), dies at 89
1996 - Actor Marcello Mastroianni died in Paris at age 72.
2000 - Jazz bassist Milt Hinton at age 90;
2000 - Gospel singer Roebuck "Pops" Staples at age 85;
2000 - Former New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay at age 79;
2000 - Rob Buck, lead guitarist for the rock band 10,000 Maniacs, at age 42.
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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