Historical Events In December - 19

1891  On December - 19 edward Bernard Andre Maria Raczynski, Poland, pres-in-exile (1979-86)  

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

1894  On December - 19 ford C Frick, baseball commissioner (1951-65)  

1895  On this day in history ingeborg Refling-Hagen, Norwegian author/poet (Loke Saar Havre)  

1896  John Seldon Whale, theologian on this day in history.  

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  The birth of Sir Ralph Richardson, English actor on December - 19.  

1902  On December - 19 leonard Hirsch, British violinist/orchestra leader (RAF Symph Orch)  

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

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

1903  Cyril Dean Darlington, England, biologist (hereditary mechanisms) on this day in history.  

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  H Allen Smith, Ill, humorist/author (Low Man on Totem Pole) on December - 19.  

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

1907  On this day in history explosion at Jacobs Creek PA, coal mine kills 239  

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

1910  On this day in history 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 this day in history jack Johnson fights Jim Johnson to a draw in 10 for hw boxing title  

1913  On this day in history william C De Vries, surgeon/inventor (artificial heart)  

1914  On December - 19 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 December - 19.  

1915  Alvis Alzheimer, German neurologist (Alzheimer Disease), dies at 51 on this day in history.  

1916  Suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo on this day in history.  

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  Graham Sharp, ice skater on December - 19.  

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1036  Su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher was born on December - 19.  

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

1554  Philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618) was born on December - 19.  

1676  On this day in history birth of louis-Nicholas Clerambault, Paris France, composer/organist  

1683  On December - 19 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 this day in history.  

1723  Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother was born on December - 19.  

0401  On this day in history 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  On December - 19 death of agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy  

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

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.