Historical Events In December - 19

1891  On December - 19 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 this day in history.   

1894  Ford C Frick, baseball commissioner (1951-65) on December - 19.   

1895  On December - 19 ingeborg Refling-Hagen, Norwegian author/poet (Loke Saar Havre)   

1896  John Seldon Whale, theologian on December - 19.   

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

1901  On December - 19 oliver [Hazard Perry] La Farge, NYC, anthropologist/novelist   

1902  The birth of Sir Ralph Richardson, English actor on December - 19.   

1902  On this day in history leonard Hirsch, British violinist/orchestra leader (RAF Symph Orch)   

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

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

1903  Cyril Dean Darlington, England, biologist (hereditary mechanisms) on December - 19.   

1904  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 on December - 19.   

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  On December - 19 charles Robert Owen Medley, dancer/choreographer   

1906  On December - 19 leonid Brezhnev Russian leader of the Communist Party was born   

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

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

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

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  Rayon first commercially produced, Marcus Hook PA on this day in history.   

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

1910  Jean Genet, Paris France, criminal/novelist/dramatist (The Blacks) on this day in history.   

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 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 December - 19.   

1915  On December - 19 alvis Alzheimer, German neurologist (Alzheimer Disease), dies at 51   

1916  On this day in history suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo   

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

1917  On December - 19 1st NHL game played on artificial ice (Toronto)   

1917  Graham Sharp, ice skater on this day in history.   

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

1498  Andreas Osiander, Germany, Protestant Reformation theologist was born on this day in history.   

1554  On this day in history birth of philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618)   

1676  On December - 19 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  On December - 19 birth of william Bowyer, English printer (d. 1777)   

1714  On December - 19 birth of john Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779)   

1723  Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother was born on this day in history.   

0401  Anastasius I, Bishop of Rome (399-401), dies on this day in history.   

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 December - 19.   

1370  Urban V, [Guillaume de Grimoard], 1st Avignon Pope (1362-70), dies on December - 19.   

1614  Melchior Bischoff, composer, dies at 67 on this day in history.   

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 December - 19.