Page 4: Historical Events In December - 19

1891  On this day in history edward Bernard Andre Maria Raczynski, Poland, pres-in-exile (1979-86)   

1894  Cricket day 5 1T Aus v Eng Eng 437 all out, Aus need 177 are 2-113 on December - 19.   

1894  Ford C Frick, baseball commissioner (1951-65) on this day in history.   

1895  Ingeborg Refling-Hagen, Norwegian author/poet (Loke Saar Havre) on this day in history.   

1896  On this day in history john Seldon Whale, theologian   

1897  On December - 19 louis Darquier de Pellepoix, France, anti-Semite/nazi collaborator   

1901  Oliver [Hazard Perry] La Farge, NYC, anthropologist/novelist on December - 19.   

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

1902  Leonard Hirsch, British violinist/orchestra leader (RAF Symph Orch) on this day in history.   

1903  Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn and Manhattan on this day in history.   

1903  On this day in history williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn & Manhattan   

1903  On this day in history cyril Dean Darlington, England, biologist (hereditary mechanisms)   

1904  On this day in history 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 December - 19.   

1906  Leonid Brezhnev Russian leader of the Communist Party was born on December - 19.   

1906  The birth of Leonid Brezhnev, Former President and General secretary of the Soviet Union on this day in history.   

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  On December - 19 explosion at Jacobs Creek PA, coal mine kills 239   

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

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

1910  1st city ordinace requiring white & black residential areas (Balt) on this day in history.   

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

1913  On December - 19 jack Johnson fights Jim Johnson to a draw in 10 for hw boxing title   

1913  William C De Vries, surgeon/inventor (artificial heart) on December - 19.   

1914  Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German catholic lawyer, dies at 87 on this day in history.   

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

1915  On this day in history edith Piaf, [E Giovanna Gassion], Paris, chanteuse (Little Sparrow)   

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

1916  Suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo on December - 19.   

1916  On this day in history adriaan van der Veen, Dutch writer (Sister at Sea)   

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

1917  On December - 19 graham Sharp, ice skater   

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1036  On this day in history birth of su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher   

1498  On December - 19 birth of andreas Osiander, Germany, Protestant Reformation theologist   

1554  Philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618) was born on this day in history.   

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  John Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779) was born on December - 19.   

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 this day in history melchior Bischoff, composer, dies at 67   

1737  Death of James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667) on this day in history.   

1741  On December - 19 vitus J Bering, Dutch navigator/explorer, dies   

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