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Old 12-20-2016, 01:44 PM   #467
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December 19....

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

1606 – The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery depart England carrying settlers who founded, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.

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.

1907 – Two hundred thirty-nine coal miners die in the Darr Mine Disaster in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.

1912 – William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison.

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

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

1956 – Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.

1967 – Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, is officially presumed dead.

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

1981 – Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.

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

2001 – A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khφvsgφl, Mongolia.

2013 – Spacecraft Gaia is launched by European Space Agency.

2016 – Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov is assassinated while at an art exhibition in Ankara. The accused assassin, Mevlόt Mert Altıntaş, is shot and killed by Turkish guards. Just hours later, a vehicular attack in Berlin, Germany, kills and injures multiple people.

2016 – More than 270 electors of the Electoral College vote for Donald Trump, confirming his status as President-elect of the United States, marking only the fifth time in US history that the winner of the popular vote did not win the general election.

Births

1899 – Martin Luther King, Sr.; 1906 – Leonid Brezhnev; 1915 – Ιdith Piaf; 1920 – Little Jimmy Dickens; 1940 – Phil Ochs; 1942 – "Mean Gene" Okerlund; 1944 – Alvin Lee; 1944 – Tim Reid; 1945 – Elaine Joyce; 1945 – John McEuen; 1946 – Robert Urich; 1956 – Phil Harris; 1961 – Reggie White; 1963 – Jennifer Beals; 1967 – Criss Angel; 1970 – Tyson Beckford; 1972 – Alyssa Milano; 1972 – Warren Sapp; 1980 – Jake Gyllenhaal

Deaths

1848 – Emily Brontλ; 1915 – Alois Alzheimer; 1986 – V. C. Andrews; 1997 – Jimmy Rogers; 1998 – Mel Fisher; 2003 – Hope Lange; 2005 – Vincent Gigante; 2008 – Dock Ellis
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