December 19 in History

Historical Events on December 19

1154 Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.

1776 Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".

1777 American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

1941 World War II: Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Oberkommando des Heeres.

1946 Start of the First Indochina War.

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

1972 Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.

1986 Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky.

1998 President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second President of the United States to be impeached.

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Famous Birthdays on December 19

1906 Leonid Brezhnev

1955 Rob Portman

1974 Ricky Ponting

1987 Karim Benzema

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Famous Deaths on December 19

1111 Al-Ghazali

1997 Sara Northrup Hollister

2008 Dock Ellis

2012 Robert Bork

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