Historical Events In December - 19

1891  Edward Bernard Andre Maria Raczynski, Poland, pres-in-exile (1979-86) on this day in history.  

1894  Cricket day 5 1T Aus v Eng Eng 437 all out, Aus need 177 are 2-113 on this day in history.  

1894  On this day in history ford C Frick, baseball commissioner (1951-65)  

1895  Ingeborg Refling-Hagen, Norwegian author/poet (Loke Saar Havre) on December - 19.  

1896  John Seldon Whale, theologian on December - 19.  

1897  Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, France, anti-Semite/nazi collaborator on this day in history.  

1901  On this day in history oliver [Hazard Perry] La Farge, NYC, anthropologist/novelist  

1902  On December - 19 the birth of Sir Ralph Richardson, English actor  

1902  Leonard Hirsch, British violinist/orchestra leader (RAF Symph Orch) on December - 19.  

1903  Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn and Manhattan on December - 19.  

1903  On December - 19 williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn & Manhattan  

1903  On December - 19 cyril Dean Darlington, England, biologist (hereditary mechanisms)  

1904  On December - 19 the Dawson City (Yukon) hockey team starts walking towards Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in the Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905  

1904  On December - 19 dawson City hockey team begins 9 day walk to get a boat to Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905  

1905  Charles Robert Owen Medley, dancer/choreographer on this day in history.  

1906  Leonid Brezhnev Russian leader of the Communist Party was born on this day in history.  

1906  The birth of Leonid Brezhnev, Former President and General secretary of the Soviet Union on December - 19.  

1906  On December - 19 h Allen Smith, Ill, humorist/author (Low Man on Totem Pole)  

1907  On this day in history 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek PA  

1907  Explosion at Jacobs Creek PA, coal mine kills 239 on this day in history.  

1907  239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania on December - 19.  

1910  On December - 19 rayon first commercially produced, Marcus Hook PA  

1910  1st city ordinace requiring white & black residential areas (Balt) on December - 19.  

1910  Jean Genet, Paris France, criminal/novelist/dramatist (The Blacks) on December - 19.  

1913  Jack Johnson fights Jim Johnson to a draw in 10 for hw boxing title on December - 19.  

1913  On December - 19 william C De Vries, surgeon/inventor (artificial heart)  

1914  On this day in history johann F Ritter von Schulte, German catholic lawyer, dies at 87  

1915  The birth of Edith Piaf, French singer on this day in history.  

1915  Edith Piaf, [E Giovanna Gassion], Paris, chanteuse (Little Sparrow) on this day in history.  

1915  Alvis Alzheimer, German neurologist (Alzheimer Disease), dies at 51 on December - 19.  

1916  On December - 19 suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo  

1916  On December - 19 adriaan van der Veen, Dutch writer (Sister at Sea)  

1917  1st NHL game played on artificial ice (Toronto) on this day in history.  

1917  On December - 19 graham Sharp, ice skater  

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1036  On December - 19 birth of su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher  

1498  Andreas Osiander, Germany, Protestant Reformation theologist was born on December - 19.  

1554  On December - 19 birth of philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618)  

1676  On December - 19 birth of louis-Nicholas Clerambault, Paris France, composer/organist  

1683  On this day in history birth of philip V, Versailles France, King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46)  

1699  William Bowyer, English printer (d. 1777) was born on this day in history.  

1714  On this day in history birth of john Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779)  

1723  On December - 19 birth of susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother  

0401  On December - 19 anastasius I, Bishop of Rome (399-401), dies  

1075  On this day in history death of edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor of England  

1327  Death of Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy on this day in history.  

1370  Urban V, [Guillaume de Grimoard], 1st Avignon Pope (1362-70), dies on this day in history.  

1614  On December - 19 melchior Bischoff, composer, dies at 67  

1737  On December - 19 death of james Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667)  

1741  On this day in history vitus J Bering, Dutch navigator/explorer, dies  

1749  Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.