SomeFacts | December 19

On this day - December 19

653 — Pope Martin I, having been abducted by Byzantine authorities ...

1154 — Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.

1187 — Pope Clement III is elected.

1490 — Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is married to Maximilian I, Holy ...

1562 — The Battle of Dreux takes place during the French Wars of ...

1606 — The ships Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery depart ...

1675 — The Great Swamp Fight, a pivotal battle in King Philip's ...

1688 — Glorious Revolution: Williamite forces defeat Jacobites at ...

1776 — Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The ...

1777 — American Revolutionary War: George Washington's ...

1783 — William Pitt the Younger becomes the youngest Prime Minister ...

1793 — War of the First Coalition: The Siege of Toulon ends when ...

1796 — French Revolutionary Wars: Two British frigates under ...

1828 — Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun sparks the ...

1900 — French parliament votes amnesty for all involved in scandalous ...

1900 — Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John ...

1907 — Two hundred thirty-nine coal miners die in the Darr Mine ...

1912 — William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum ...

1920 — King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after ...

1924 — German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for ...

1924 — The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.

1927 — Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh ...

1929 — The Indian National Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the ...

1932 — BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire ...

1940 — Risto Ryti, the Prime Minister of Finland, is elected ...

1941 — World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers heavily ...

1941 — World War II: Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the ...

1945 — John Amery, British Fascist, is executed at the age of 33 by ...

1946 — Start of the First Indochina War.

1956 — Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams is arrested in ...

1961 — India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.

1967 — Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, is officially ...

1972 — Apollo program: The last crewed lunar flight, Apollo 17, ...

1974 — Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United ...

1977 — The Ms 5.8 Bob–Tangol earthquake strikes Kerman Province in ...

1981 — Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee lifeboat goes to the ...

1983 — The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is ...

1984 — The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that China would ...

1985 — Aeroflot Flight 101/435 is hijacked to China by its first ...

1986 — Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei ...

1995 — The United States Government restores federal recognition to ...

1997 — SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang ...

1998 — President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House ...

1999 — Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-103, the third ...

2001 — Argentine economic crisis: December riots: Riots erupt in ...

2005 — A passenger train from Sucha Beskidzka to Żywiec in Poland ...

2005 — Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101 crashes into the ...

2012 — Park Geun-hye is elected the first female president of South ...

2013 — Spacecraft Gaia is launched by the European Space Agency.

2016 — A vehicular attack in Berlin, Germany, kills 12 and injures 56 ...

2016 — Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov is assassinated ...