19 December

The 19t o December is the 353t day o the year (354t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 12 days bidin.

Events
 1154 - Henry II o Ingland is crouned.
 1187 - Pape Clement III is electit.
 1666 - Lund Varsity in Soothren Swaden is foondit.
 1783 - William Pitt the Younger becomes the youngest Prime meenister o Great Breetain, at age 24.
 1842 - The Unitit States recognises the unthirldom o the Kinrick o Hawaii.
 1909 - German fitbaa club Borussia Dortmund is foondit.
 1916 - Warld War I: The Battle o Verdun ends.
 1945 - Austrick becomes a republic for the seicont time.
 1972 - Apollo 17, the last Muin mission, returns tae the Yird.
 1980 - Anguilla becomes a separate dependency frae Saunt Kitts an Nevis.
 1984 - The Unitit Kinrick agrees tae the handower o Hong Kong tae Cheenae (in 1997).
 1986 - Mikhail Gorbachev releases Andrei Sakharov frae exile.
 1998 - The Unitit States Hoose o Representatives passes the airticles o impeachment against Bill Clinton.
 2007 - Lee Myung-bak is electit Preses o Sooth Korea.
 2011 - The daith o North Korea's leader Kim Jong-il is annooncit.
 2012 - Park Geun-hye is electit the first female Preses o Sooth Korea.
 2016 - Andrei Karlov, Roushie Ambassador tae Turkey, is assassinatit in Ankara.
 2016 - A lorry is driven intae a Christenmas mercat in central Berlin, killin 12 fowk.

Births
 1594 - Gustavus Adolphus o Swaden (d. 1632)
 1683 - Philip V o Spain (d. 1746)
 1852 - Albert A. Michelson, Proushie-American pheesicist (d. 1931)
 1903 - George Davis Snell, American geneticist (d. 1996)
 1906 - Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader (d. 1982)
 1915 - Édith Piaf, French sangster (d. 1963)
 1934 - Pratibha Patil, umwhile Preses o Indie
 1941 - Lee Myung-bak, umwhile Preses o Sooth Korea
 1961 - Eric Allin Cornell, American pheesicist
 1969 - Richard Hammond, Inglis telly presenter
 1969 - Kristy Swanson, American actress
 1972 - Alyssa Milano, American actress an sangster
 1980 - Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor
 1985 - Gary Cahill, Inglis fitbawer
 1986 - Ryan Babel, Dutch fitbawer
 1987 - Karim Benzema, French fitbawer
 1988 - Alexis Sánchez, Chilean fitbawer

Daiths
 211 - Geta, Roman Emperor
 1370 - Pape Urban V (b. 1310)
 1741 - Vitus Bering, Dens splorer (b. 1681)
 1811 - Mairjorie Fleemin, Scots poet (b. 1803)
 1848 - Emily Bronte, Inglis writer (b. 1818)
 1851 - J. M. W. Turner, Inglis penter (b. 1775)
 1908 - Thomas Lomar Gray, Scots ingineer (b. 1850)
 1915 - Alois Alzheimer, German medicinar (b. 1864)
 1972 - Thomas Brooke, 2nt Viscoont Alanbrooke (b. 1920)
 1996 - Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (b. 1924)
 1999 - Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (b. 1914)
 2015 - Kurt Masur, German conductor (b. 1927)
 2015 - Jimmy Hill, Inglis fitbawer an pundit (b. 1928)
 2016 - Andrei Karlov, Roushie diplomat (b. 1954)

Halidays
 Liberation Day (Goa)
 Naitional Heroes an Heroines Day (Anguilla)

Category:Days o the year