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 this day in history.   

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

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

1896  John Seldon Whale, theologian on December - 19.   

1897  On this day in history 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 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 December - 19 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  On this day in history charles Robert Owen Medley, dancer/choreographer   

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

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

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

1907  On December - 19 239 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  On this day in history 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania   

1910  Rayon first commercially produced, Marcus Hook PA on December - 19.   

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

1910  On December - 19 jean Genet, Paris France, criminal/novelist/dramatist (The Blacks)   

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

1913  William C De Vries, surgeon/inventor (artificial heart) on this day in history.   

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

1915  On December - 19 the birth of Edith Piaf, French singer   

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 this day in history.   

1916  On December - 19 suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo   

1916  Adriaan van der Veen, Dutch writer (Sister at Sea) on this day in history.   

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

1917  On this day in history 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  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 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  On this day in history birth of william Bowyer, English printer (d. 1777)   

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

1723  On this day in history birth of susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother   

0401  Anastasius I, Bishop of Rome (399-401), dies on December - 19.   

1075  Death of Edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor of England on December - 19.   

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

1737  Death of James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667) on December - 19.   

1741  Vitus J Bering, Dutch navigator/explorer, dies on this day in history.   

1749  Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer, dies at 76 on December - 19.