Decembre 19th

December 19 is the 353rd (thirty-fifty-third) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 354th in leap years. There are 12 days left until the end of the year.

Events

• 324: In Rome, Licinius abdicates his position as a Roman emperor king.
• 1154: At the Westminster Abbey (England) is crowned Henry II.
• 1186: King Alfonso VIII grants the villas of Villasila and Villamelendro to Pedro Rodríguez de Castro in a diploma signed in Arévalo.
• 1308: In Spain, through the Treaty of Alcalá de Henares, Fernando IV de Castilla y Jaime II de Aragón, they approach positions against the common enemy, the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada.
• 1490: Anna of Brittany is married (by a representative) with the Roman emperor Maximilian I of Habsburg.
• 1562: In Dreux, during the First War of Religion in France, Catholics defeat Protestants.
• 1606: Three ships leave England: the Susan Constant, the Godspeed and the Discovery, taking the settlers who will founded in Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies to become the United States.
• 1771: In New Orleans the illustrated governor Luis de Unzaga and Amézaga created the first bilingual public education system in the world.
• 1776: In the United States, Thomas Paine publishes the first of a series of pamphlets in the newspaper Pennsylvania Journalentitled “The American Crisis”.
• 1777: In Valley Forge (Pensilvania)—in the framework of the U.S. Independence War—George Washington's continental army enters winter barracks.
• 1783: In London (England), William Pitt Young assumes the position of prime minister.
• 1835: In Toledo (Ohio), the newspaper was founded The Blade.
• 1863: In Mortlake (a London district), the first football game in history is played.
• 1897: In the United States, President William McKinley announced his country's intervention in the Cuban war against Spain.
• 1907: In Jacobs Creek (Pensilvania) a coal mine explodes. 239 miners die.
• 1909: In Dortmund, Germany, the football club Ballspielverein Borussia was founded 09 Dortmund.
• 1912: In the United States, President William Howard Taft granted an amnesty and released William H. Van Schaick, imprisoned for three years for negligence in the face of the fire of his steamship General Slocum, who killed over a thousand people.
• 1916: In the battle of Verdun—in the framework of the First World War—in the western front, the French army backs the German army.
• 1920: In Greece, King Constantine I is put back on the throne after the death of his son Alexander I of Greece and a plebiscite.
• 1924: In London (England) the latest Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold.
• 1932: The BBC World Service begins to transmit for the entire British Empire.
• 1941: In Germany—in the framework of the Second World War—Adolph Hitler assumes the supreme command of the German armed forces.
• 1944: First edition Le Monde It's published.
• 1948: In Colombia, Independent Santa Fe becomes the first champion of professional Colombian football, beating Junior de Barranquilla in the final.
• 1961: The Republic of India recovers Goa, Damán and Diu from the hands of the Portuguese.
• 1965: In France, Charles de Gaulle is re-elected president.
• 1967: Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt is officially considered dead.
• 1968: The United Nations General Assembly requests the British Empire to decolonize Gibraltar (Spanish territory) by 1 October 1969.
• 1972: In the framework of the Apollo program, the crew of Apollo 17 (the last mission crewed to the Moon), formed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, return to Earth.
• 1979: The Philippines, in the province of Davao del Sur, creates the municipality of Don Marcelino.
• 1979: In Colombia the Americas of Cali is a champion for the first time in its history.
• 1980: In Mexico, D. F. died former Peronist President Héctor José Cámpora, who was associated four years at the Mexican embassy in Buenos Aires and was allowed to exile (due to advanced cancer) only in August 1980.
• 1982: In the Tacoa sector of the former Vargas Department of the Federal District (now the State Vargas) of Venezuela, a voracious fire consumes the electricity plant "Ricardo Zuloaga". In the sinister, known as the Tacoa Tragedy, more than 180 people die.
• 1983: In Rio de Janeiro, the original trophy "Jules Rimet" (of the FIFA World Cup) is stolen from the Brazilian Confederation of Football.
• 1984: By means of an agreement, the United Kingdom is committed to delivering Hong Kong to China in 1997.
• 1985: Mary Lund is the first woman to receive an artificial heart Jarvik VII, developed by Robert Jarvik.
• 1986: Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev liberates the scientist Andréi Sájarov and his wife from his exile in Gorki.
• 1995: The United States Government restores federal recognition to the indigenous tribe of Potawatomi.
• 1997: At the Musi River near Palembang, Indonesia, flight 185 from SilkAir falls. 104 people die.
• 1997: The Titanic film is released. The most successful film of the 20th century and at the time of the Film History, which was written and directed by director James Cameron and with a collection of more than 1800 million US dollars worldwide.
• 1998: In the United States, the House of Representatives presents to the Senate articles I and III in the trial against President Bill Clinton for the Lewinsky scandal.
• 2000: In Istanbul, Turkey, the Leninist guerrillas of the Communist Party/Leninist of Labour attack an office of the Nationalist Movement Party, killing one person and wounding three.
• 2000: The Spanish company Wanadoo – affiliate of the former Telecom France – buys the guides QDQ for 60 billion pesetas.
• 2001: Se estrena global The Lord of the Rings: the Ring Community, first delivery of the film trilogy of Peter Jackson, based on the homonym work of J. R. R. Tolkien.
• 2001: In Argentina the popular mobilization known as Argentinazo begins from the social discontent against the economic measures of the Government of Fernando de la Rúa and the imposition of the state of siege.
• 2001: At Tosontsengel (Mongolia) there is a record of high atmospheric pressure of 1085,6 hPa (32,06 inHg).
• 2001: Launch the first massive multiplayer role video game in Argentine online, entitled Argentum Online.
• 2003: In Peru, Science is crowned as champion of the South American Cup making history in Peruvian football.
• 2006: Chile approves the bill that consists of the creation of two new regions: the XIV and the XV (same as Valdivia and Arica respectively).
• 2009: The Tajumulco Volcano (Guatemala) produces one of the largest snowfalls in the history of this Central American country, a product of a cold front from North America. At the peak of the volcano they accumulate around 25 cm of snow.
• 2010: In San Martín Texmelucan ducts of Pemex explode, heating 28 people.
• 2016: In Ankara, during an art exhibition, the Russian ambassador to Turkey Andréi Kárlov is shot dead by a man who was being held by a Turkish police officer. The killer would then be shot down by the Turkish security forces.
• 2016: In Berlin, a truck hit a crowd of people in a Christmas market leaving 12 dead and 48 wounded.
• 2021: In Chile, left-wing candidate Gabriel Boric wins the presidential election, becoming the youngest president in the history of his country.
• 2021: Five Nights are published at Freddy's: Security Breach (FNaF 9) the ninth franchise game.
• 2021: the 19th edition of the Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión Junior takes place, with the winner of the candidate Armenia.

Births

• 1498: Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (f. 1552).
• 1518: Enrique de Borja y Aragón, bishop and Spanish cardinal (f. 1540).
• 1554: Philip William of Orange-Nassau, French aristocrat (f. 1618).
• 1594: Gustavo II Adolfo, Swedish king (f. 1632).
• 1629: Melchor de Liñán y Cisneros, virrey española en Perú (f. 1708).
• 1676: Louis-Nicolas Clérambault, French composer and organist (f. 1749).
• 1683: Philip V, king of Spain (f. 1746).
• 1700: Julián de Arriaga y Ribera, marine, military and man of Spanish state (f. 1776).
• 1776: Eusebio Bardají Azara, lawyer, diplomat and Spanish politician (f. 1842).
• 1778: Maria Teresa of France, French princess (f. 1851).
• 1782: Julius Vincenz von Krombholz, a German physician and mycologist (f. 1843).
• 1783: Charles Brianchon, mathematician, chemical and military French (f. 1864).
• 1790: William Edward Parry, admiral and British explorer (f. 1855).
• 1792: Tomás Lander, journalist, political scientist, businessman, editor and Venezuelan politician (f. 1845).
• 1796: Manuel Bretón de los Herreros, Spanish playwright (f. 1873).
• 1814: Edwin M. Stanton, American lawyer (f. 1869).
• 1818: Nemesio Fernández Cuesta, a Spanish journalist (f. 1893).
• 1820: Mary Livermore, American suffrageist and abolitionist (f. 1905).
• 1821: María Mendoza de Vives, a Spanish writer (f. 1894).
• 1830: Susan Huntington Gilbert, poet lover Emily Dickinson (f. 1913).
• 1834: Antonio Gisbert, a Spanish painter (f. 1901).
• 1835: María del Pilar Sinués, a Spanish writer (f. 1893).
• 1838: Khedrub Gyatso, Nepali religious, 11th dalái lama (f. 1856).
• 1852: Albert Abraham Michelson, Prussian physicist, nobel prize of physics in 1907 (f. 1931).
• 1854: Marcel Brillouin, French physicist and mathematician (f. 1948).
• 1861: Italo Svevo, Italian writer (f. 1928).
• 1861: Fritz Kater, German anarcho-syndicalist (f. 1945).
• 1868: José Comas and Solá, Spanish astronomer (f. 1937).
• 1868: Piotr Abashkin, Russian General (f. 1934).
• 1873: Ángel García Díaz. Spanish sculptor (f. 1954).
• 1875: Mileva Marić, Serbian mathematics, wife of Albert Einstein (f. 1948).
• 1876: Enrique Plá and Deniel, Spanish cardinal (f. 1968).
• 1883: Guido Gozzano, Italian poet (f. 1916).
• 1883: Antonio Caso, Mexican philosopher (f. 1946).
• 1885: Joe King Oliver, American jazz musician (f. 1938).
• 1886: Angel Herrera Oria, journalist and Spanish priest (f. 1968).
• 1888: Fritz Reiner, director of Hungarian orchestra and musician (f. 1963).
• 1895: Miguel Darío Miranda Gómez, Mexican archbishop (f. 1986).
• 1899: Nemesio Etxaniz, priest and Basque writer (f. 1982).
• 1901: Rudolf Hell, inventor and German engineer (f. 2002).
• 1902: Ralph Richardson, British actor (f. 1983).
• 1903: George D. Snell, American geneticist, nobel prize for medicine in 1980 (f. 1996).
• 1906: Leonid Brézhnev, Soviet leader (f. 1982).
• 1908: Yvette Cauchois, French physics (f. 1999)
• 1910: Jean Genet, French writer (f. 1986).
• 1910: José Lezama Lima, a Cuban writer (f. 1976).
• 1912: Michel André, playwright and French actor (f. 1987).
• 1913: Juan Landázuri Ricketts, Peruvian cardinal (f. 1997).
• 1915: Édith Piaf, a French singer (f. 1963).
• 1916: Manoel de Barros, Brazilian poet (f. 2014).
• 1919: Johnny Albino, Puerto Rican singer (f. 2011).
• 1919: Tatiana Baramziná, a Soviet sniper (f. 1944).
• 1920: Manuel Pacheco, Spanish poet and prosist (f. 1998).
• 1920: Eduard Pons Prades, writer and Spanish anarchist historian (f. 2007).
• 1923: Gordon Jackson, British actor (f. 1990).
• 1923: Onofre Marimón, Argentine pilot of Formula 1 (f. 1954).
• 1924: Alexandre O'Neill, Portuguese poet (f. 1986).
• 1924: Michel Tournier, French writer (f. 2016).
• 1924: Cicely Tyson, American actress.
• 1925: Tankred Dorst, German playwright (f. 2017).
• 1925: Robert B. Sherman, American singer (f. 2012).
• 1925: Jacques Fatton, Swiss footballer born in France (f. 2011).
• 1925: Rabah Bitat, Algerian politician, President of Algeria between 1978 and 1979 (f. 2010).
• 1929: Bob Brookmeyer, American musician (f. 2011).
• 1929: Paul Macera, Peruvian historian (f. 2020).
• 1932: Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer (f. 2006).
• 1934: Al Kaline, American baseball player.
• 1934: Pratibha Patil, Indian politics, president of India between 2007 and 2012.
• 1935: Luis Landriscina, Argentine actor and humorist.
• 1935: Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist.
• 1935: Julien Schepens, Belgian cyclist (f. 2006).
• 1937: Chango Farías Gómez, Argentine singer (f. 2011).
• 1938: Karel Svoboda, Czech composer and musician (f. 2007).
• 1940: Phil Ochs, American singer (f. 1976).
• 1941: Maurice White, American singer, of the Earth, Wind & Fire band (f. 2016).
• 1941: Lee Myung-bak, South Korean politician, President of Korea between 2008 and 2013.
• 1942: María Martha Serra Lima, Argentinean singer (f. 2017).
• 1944: Mitchell Feigenbaum, American physicist and mathematician (f. 2019).
• 1944: Richard Leakey, anthropologist, paleontologist and Kenyan politician (f. 2022).
• 1944: Alvin Lee, British singer and guitarist, of the Ten Years After band.
• 1944: Tim Reid, American actor.
• 1946: Eduardo Serra, Spanish politician.
• 1946: Robert Urich, American actor (f. 2002).
• 1946: Otto Sirgo, Mexican actor.
• 1947: Jimmy Bain, British bassist, Rainbow and Dio bands.
• 1947: Olga María Ramos, actress, writer and Spanish coupletist.
• 1949: Nancy Loomis, American actress.
• 1951: Migueli (Miguel Bernardo Bianquetti), Spanish footballer.
• 1954: Alejandro Apo, Argentine sports journalist.
• 1954: Juan Uslé, Spanish painter.
• 1956: Jens Fink-Jensen, writer, lyric poet, photographer and Danish composer.
• 1956: Merzbow, Japanese musician.
• 1957: Cyril Collard, French filmmaker (f. 1993).
• 1957: Kevin McHale, American basketball player.
• 1957: José María Granados, Spanish singer.
• 1958: Limahl, British singer, Kajagoogoogoo.
• 1960: Derrick Jensen, American writer and activist.
• 1961: Eric A. Cornell, U.S. physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001.
• 1961: Reggie White, American football player (f. 2004).
• 1962: Jill Talley, American actress.
• 1963: Jennifer Beals, American actress.
• 1963: Cristina Marcos, Spanish actress.
• 1964: Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball.
• 1966: Alberto Tomba, Italian skier.
• 1967: Criss Angel, American illusionist.
• 1969: Tom Gugliotta, American basketball player.
• 1969: Richard Hammond, British presenter, of the Top Gear program.
• 1969: Kristy Swanson, American actress.
• 1970: Cristian Montecinos, Chilean footballer.
• 1971: Tristan Egolf, American novelist, musician and political activist (f. 2005).
• 1971: Giovanni Gil, Salvadoran plastic artist.
• 1972: Alyssa Milano, American actress.
• 1972: Ena Lucía Portela, Cuban writer.
• 1972: Rosa Blasi, American actress.
• 1973: Takashi Sorimachi, Japanese actor.
• 1973: Vrbica Stefanov, Macedonian basketball player.

Wisin

• 1973: Reyes Maroto, Spanish politics.
• 1974: Migé Amour, Finnish bassist, of the HIM band.
• 1974: Jake Plummer, American football player.
• 1976: Theo Lucius, Dutch footballer.
• 1977: Agustina Lecouna, an Argentine actress.
• 1977: Jorge Garbajosa, Spanish basketball player.
• 1977: Elisa Toffoli, Italian singer.
• 1977: Martin Barlocco, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1978: Wisin, Puerto Rican singer of the Wisin & Yandel duo.
• 1978: Antonio Soldevilla, Spanish footballer.
• 1979: Paola Rey, Colombian actress.

Jake Gyllenhaal

• 1979: Lorena Capetillo, Chilean actress
• 1979: Óscar Sánchez Fuentes, Spanish footballer.
• 1979: Theo Lucius, a Dutch footballer.
• 1979: Tara Summers, British actress.
• 1980: Jake Gyllenhaal, actor, producer and American singer.
• 1980: Lilly Goodman, Dominican singer of Christian music.
• 1980: Marla Sokoloff, American actress.
• 1982: Maurice Williams, American basketball player.
• 1983: Mia Rosing, Danish model.
• 1983: Benjamin De Ceulaer, Belgian footballer.
• 1984: Dominik Reinhardt, German footballer.
• 1984: Led Varela, Venezuelan humorist.
• 1985: Lady Sovereign, British singer.
• 1985: Gary Cahill, British footballer.

Karim Benzema

• 1985: Rafe Wolfe, Jamaican footballer.
• 1986: Ryan Babel, Dutch footballer.
• 1986: Miguel Lopes, Portuguese footballer.
• 1986: Julieth Restrepo, Colombian actress.
• 1987: Karim Benzema, French footballer.
• 1987: Aaron Renfree, British singer, actor and dancer, S Club 8.
• 1987: Shuko Aoyama, Japanese tennis player.
• 1987: Kento Takeuchi, Japanese tennis player.
• 1988: Alexis Sánchez, Chilean footballer.
• 1991: Declan Galbraith, British singer.
• 1991: Jorge Blanco, Mexican actor.
• 1991: Steven Berghuis, Dutch footballer.
• 1992: Iker Muniain, Spanish footballer.
• 1992: Raphael Spiegel, Swiss footballer.
• 1992: Nasser Saleh, Spanish actor.
• 1992: Gojko Cimirot, Bosnian footballer.
• 1993: Leonardo Bittencourt, German footballer.
• 1996: Franck Kessié, Ivory footballer.
• 1997: Mario Gorziglia Muzard, a Chilean doctor and comedian.
• 1998: King Princess, American singer.
• 1998: Caroline Møller, Danish footballer.
• 2001: Francisca Hernández, public character.
• 2002: Antonio Cioffi, Italian footballer.

Deaths

• 211: Publio Septimio Geta, Roman emperor (n. 189).
• 401: Anastasio I, Catholic Pope (n.?).
• 1091: Adelaide de Susa, aristocrat turinesa (n. 1016).
• 1111: Al-Ghazali, theologian, jurist, philosopher, psychologist and mystical Iranian (n. 1058).
• 1122: Bernardo da Pagliara, religious and holy Italian (n.?).
• 1494: Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet (n. 1441).
• 1562: Jacques d'Albon de Saint-André, French Marshal (n. 1505).
• 1566: Luis Hurtado de Mendoza y Pacheco, noble Spanish (n. 1489).
• 1741: Vitus Bering, Danish explorer (n. 1681).
• 1745: Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (n. 1684).
• 1751: Louise of Great Britain, Queen Consort of Denmark and Norway (n. 1724).
• 1797: Francesco Sabatini, Italian architect (n. 1722).
• 1815: Benjamin Smith Barton, American physician and botanist (n. 1766).
• 1848: Emily Brontë, British writer (n. 1818).
• 1851: William Turner, British romantic painter (n. 1775).
• 1870: Nils Lilja, botanist and Swedish watchmaker (n. 1808).
• 1915: Alois Alzheimer, German neurologist (n. 1864).
• 1922: Clementina Black, writer, feminist and trade unionist (n. 1853)
• 1924: Luis Emilio Recabarren, Chilean politician (n. 1876).
• 1936: Pablo de la Torriente Brau, a Cuban-Puerto Rican writer (n. 1901).
• 1937: Fernando Espinosa de los Monteros and Bermejillo, a Spanish politician and diplomat (n. 1884).
• 1939: Hans Langsdorff, German naval officer (n. 1894).
• 1940: Tomás Carrasquilla, a Colombian writer (n. 1858).
• 1941: Lev Dovator, Soviet military (n. 1903)
• 1946: Paul Langevin, French physicist (n. 1872).
• 1947: Giovanni Bassanesi, Italian anarchist (n. 1905).
• 1953: Robert Andrews Millikan, U.S. physicist, nobel prize of physics in 1923 (n. 1868).
• 1956: Montagu Slater, British writer (n. 1902).
• 1959: Carlos María Princivalle, writer, playwright and Uruguayan journalist (n. 1887).
• 1966: Luis Emilio Gómez Ruiz, Ecuadorian lawyer and diplomat (n. 1911).
• 1971: Shōei Mishina, Japanese historian and mythologist (n. 1902).
• 1974: Catrano Catrani, filmmaker and producer ílo-argentino (n. 1910).
• 1974: Francisco Javier Conde García, Spanish philosopher and ambassador (n. 1908).
• 1976: Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter (n. 1893).
• 1980: Hector José Cámpora, dentist and Argentine president (n. 1909).
• 1985: Luis Korda, Cuban photographer (n. 1912).
• 1986: Virginia Cleo Andrews, American writer (n. 1923).
• 1990: Xavier Benguerel, Spanish writer (n. 1905).
• 1993: Michael Clarke, American drummer, of the band The Byrds (n. 1946).
• 1994: Vera Chaplina, a naturalist, screenwriter and writer of Soviet child literature (n. 1908).
• 1996: Raúl Durán Reveles, Mexican architect and politician (n. 1958).
• 1996: Marcello Mastroianni, an Italian actor (n. 1924).
• 1997: Masaru Ibuka, Japanese electronic industrialist, Sony co-founder (n. 1908).
• 1997: Jimmy Rogers, American blues musician (n. 1924).
• 1998: Antonio Ordóñez, Spanish bullfighter (n. 1932).
• 1999: Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (n. 1914).
• 2000: Rob Buck, American guitarist, Ten Thousand Maniacs band (n. 1958).
• 2000: Carlos Cano, Spanish singer (n. 1946).
• 2000: Milt Hinton, American jazz musician (n. 1910).
• 2001: Pocho Lepratti, an Argentine social activist (n. 1966).
• 2003: Hope Lange, American actress (n. 1933).
• 2003: El Vaquilla (Juan José Moreno Cuenca), Spanish delinquent (n. 1961).
• 2004: Herbert C. Brown, American chemical, nobel chemistry award in 1979 (n. 1912).
• 2004: Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (n. 1922).
• 2009: Kim Peek, American personality (n. 1951).
• 2010: Carlos Castro, musician and Argentine teacher (n. 1943).
• 2010: Trudy Pitts, American jazz soul singer and keyboardist (n. 1932).
• 2011: Héctor Núñez, Uruguayan footballer (n. 1936).
• 2011: José Antonio Fernández Romero, Spanish translator (n. 1931).
• 2015: Kurt Masur, director of German orchestra (n. 1927).
• 2016: Andréi Kárlov, Russian diplomat (n. 1954).
• 2021: Robert H. Grubbs, American scientist, nobel chemistry award in 2005 (n. 1942).
• 2021: Carlos Marín, lyric singer and Spanish producer (n. 1968).

Celebrations

• ChileChile: National Day Against Femicide
• International Emo Day.

Catholic saints list

• San Anastasio I, papa (401).
• Saint Gregory of Auxerre, bishop (s. VI).
• Blessed William of Fenolis, religious (c. 1200).
• Beato Urbano V, papa (1370).
• Saint Francis Javier Hà Trong Mâu, Domingo Bùi Van Úy, Tomás Nguyen Van De, Agustín Nguyen Van Mói and Esteban Nguyen Van Vinh, martyrs (1838).
• Blessed Mary Eve of Providence Noiszewska and Mary Martha of Jesus Wolowsk, virgins and martyrs (1942).