What are the important events that happened on December 19? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
December 19: Facts & Myths About This Day
December 19 is the 354th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 12 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 6, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,909,440 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectapentacontatetragon’ day.
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Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 41 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,381 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 19 Historical Events
- 1490 –Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.
- 1776 –Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in the Pennsylvania Journal titled The American Crisis.
- 1941 –World War II: Adolf Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army.
- 1941 –World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers sink the HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth in Alexandria harbour.
- 1967 –Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.
- 1972 –Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
- 1975 –John Paul Stevens is appointed a justice of The United States Supreme Court.
- 1984 –The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that the People’s Republic of China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997 is signed in Beijing by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.
- 1986 –Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky.
- 1997 –SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
Who were born on December 19?
- 1852 –Albert Abraham Michelson, Prussian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1931)
- 1907 –Jimmy McLarnin, former Welterweight Champion (d. 2004)
- 1944 –William Christie, American-born French musician (Les Arts Florissants)
- 1949 –Sebastian, Danish musician
- 1960 –Derrick Jensen, American author and activist
- 1960 –Mike Lookinland, American actor
- 1963 –Til Schweiger, German actor
- 1964 –Béatrice Dalle, French actress
- 1969 –Richard Hammond, English television presenter
- 1980 –Marla Sokoloff, American actress
Who died on December 19?
- 1370 –Pope Urban V (b. 1310)
- 1751 –Louise of Great Britain, wife of Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1724)
- 1878 –Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (b. 1825)
- 1932 –Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean activist (b. 1908)
- 1944 –Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (b. 1856)
- 1996 –Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (b. 1924)
- 1998 –Antonio Ordóñez, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1932)
- 2001 –Marcel Mule, French saxophonist (b. 1901)
- 2003 –Peter Carter-Ruck, English lawyer (b. 1914)
- 2004 –Herbert C. Brown, English-born American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
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