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 353^rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 12 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 6, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,435,040 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 ‘trihectapentacontatrigon’ day.

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 60 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 4,746 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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.
• 1920 –
  King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander I of Greece and a plebiscite.
• 1932 –
  BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service
• 1946 –
  Start of the First Indochina War.
• 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 –
  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.
• 1983 –
  The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro.
• 1995 –
  The United States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indian tribe.

Who were born on December 19?

• 1849 –
  Henry Clay Frick, American industrialist and financier (d. 1919)
• 1865 –
  Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress (d. 1932)
• 1901 –
  Rudolf Hell, German inventor (d. 2002)
• 1906 –
  Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
• 1958 –
  Limahl, English singer (Kajagoogoo)
• 1973 –
  Takashi Sorimachi, Japanese actor
• 1977 –
  Jorge Garbajosa, Spanish basketball player
• 1980 –
  Marla Sokoloff, American actress
• 1984 –
  Ian Kennedy, American baseball player
• 1988 –
  Paulina Gretzky, American singer and model

Who died on December 19?

• 211 –
  Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor (b. 189)
• 1749 –
  Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b. 1672)
• 1751 –
  Louise of Great Britain, wife of Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1724)
• 1813 –
  James McGill, Scottish-born Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1744)
• 1878 –
  Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (b. 1825)
• 1938 –
  Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American politician (b. 1873)
• 1997 –
  Jimmy Rogers, American blues guitarist (b. 1924)
• 2000 –
  Milt Hinton, American jazz double bassist (b. 1910)
• 2004 –
  Herbert C. Brown, English-born American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
• 2004 –
  Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (b. 1922)