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News: 50 years ago

1953 - The aircraft Sabena Convair CV-240-12 crashed 2.5 km short of the runaway at Zurich-Kloten Airport Switzerland killing one person.

Source: http://aviation-safety.net/database/1953/531219-0.htm

News: 25 years ago
1978 - Indira Gandhi ambushed in India.

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News: 10 years ago
1993 - The Jerusalem Post wrote a column requesting Pres. Bill Clinton to pardon Jonathan Pollard accused of spying against the United States for Israel.

Source: http://www.jonathanpollard.org/1993/121993.htm

News: 5 years ago
1998 - After nearly 14 hours of debate, the House of Representatives approves two articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, charging him with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice. Clinton, the second president in American history to be impeached, vowed to finish his term.

Source: http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/all42day/history/h4dec/h4dec19.html

News: 1 year ago
2002- Presidential election in South Korea. Roh Moo Hyun, 56 of the governing Millenium Democratic party, who wants better relations with North Korea, wins with 49% of the vote over Lee Hoi Chang, 67, of the conservative Grand National Party, who distrusts North Korea, and gets 47%.

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December 19th happenings in history!

Births:

1906 - Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev of Ukraine who became the 1st Secretary of the Community Party and President of the U.S.S.R. from 1964-82 was born.

1957 - Kevin McHale, who was an NBA forward of Boston Celtics before he retired was born.

1961 - Reggie White, an NFL defensive end who won Superbowl 31, with the Green Bay Packers and who spoke out against homosexuality was born.

1969 - Kristy Swanson, actress of the soap opera Knots Landing was born.

1972 - Alyssa Jane Milano, an actress of Brooklyn, NY who played Samantha on 'Who's the Boss' and Jennifer on 'Melrose Place' was born.

1972 - Warren Sapp, a NFL defensive tackle who won the 2003 Superbowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was born.

1974 - Jake Plummer, quarterback with the Denver Broncos was born.

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Deaths:

1915 - Alois Alzheimer, the German neurologist who first described Alzheimer's Disease dies at 51.

1959 - Walter Williams claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, dies at 117.

1968 - Norman Thomas, founder of the ACLU/Socialist Party from 1926-55, dies at 84.

1977 - Nellie Taylor Ross, 1st woman governor, dies at 101.

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Entertainment:

1974 - "The Man With the Golden Gun" premieres in U.S.

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Inventions:

1854 - Allen Wilson of Connecticut patents sewing machine to sew curving seams.

1928 - 1st autogiro, the predecessor of the helicopter flight in U.S. took place.

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News:

1686 - Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe).

1777 - Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge PA for the winter.

1823 - Georgia passes 1st US state birth registration law.

1828 - South Carolina declares the right of states to nullify federal laws.

1842 - U.S. recognizes independence of Hawaii.

1891 - 1st Negro Catholic priest ordained in U.S. was Charles Uncles of Baltimore.

1910 - 1st city ordinance requiring white & black residential areas in Baltimore.

1922 - Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confessed in court to being married 62 times.

1932 - British Broadcasting Corp (BBC) begins transmitting overseas.

1941 - German submarine U-574 sinks.

1941 - Hitler takes complete command of German Army.

1941 - US Office of Censorship created to control info pertaining to WWII.

1950 - General Eisenhower named NATO commander.

1950 - Tibet's Dalai Lama flees Chinese invasion.

1958 - 1st radio broadcast from space (recorded Christmas message by President Eisenhower: "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth & Good Will to Men Everywhere").

1965 - French President De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%).

1972 - Apollo 17 (last of Apollo Moon landing series) returns to Earth.

1973 - Grenada adopts constitution.

1974 - Nelson A Rockefeller sworn-in as the 41st Vice-President.

1975 - John Paul Stevens becomes a Supreme Court Justice.

1976 - President Brezhnev receives his 5th Lenin order.

1980 - Iran requests $24 billion in US guarantees to free hostages.

1984 - China People's Republic Premier Zhao Ziyang & Margaret Thatcher sign Hong Kong Treaty.

1984 - UK signs agreement with China to return Hong Kong to China in 1997.

1985 - Mary Lund is 1st woman to receive a Jarvik VII artificial heart.

1986 - USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile.

1988 - NASA unveils plans for lunar colony & manned missions to Mars.

1988 - Unexploded WWII bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany-5,000 evacuated.

1991 - Boris Yeltsin takes control of Kremlin.

1995 - Queen Elizabeth asks Prince Charles & Diana to divorce.

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2000 - Popocatepetl erupts. It may be the most dangerous volcano in the world. Most people in the vicinity have heeded government advice to flee. There are no casualties so far, but volcanologists warn it might get worse.

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Publications:

1732 - Benjamin Franklin (under the name Richard Saunders) begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"

1776 - Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls."

1843 - Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol" in England.

1890 - Start of Sherlock Holmes' "The Adventure of The Beryl Coronet" (BG).

1918 - Robert Ripley began his "Believe It or Not" column in the New York Globe.

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Religion:

1808 - Birth of Horatius Bonar, Scottish clergyman and poet. He authored several missionary biographies and penned over 600 hymns, including "I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say."

1855 - Birth of William Henry Draper, Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter. His words to "All Creatures of Our God and King" are an English translation of a Latin text believed to have been penned by St. Francis of Assisi.

1944 - Birth of Andrew Robert Culverwell, American sacred music songwriter. This contemporary music artist has written such popular Christian songs as "Born Again" and "Come On, Ring Those Bells."

1965 - American missionary and apologist Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'God has given us rules not because He is arbitrary, but because the rules...are fixed in His own character... Thus, when we sin we break the law of God...in the direction of destroying what we really are.'

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Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987

Sports:

1917 - 1st NHL game played on artificial ice (Toronto).

1959 - 1st Liberty Bowl game-Penn State beats Alabama 7-0.

1984 - Scotty Bowman becomes NHL's all time winning coach.

1984 - Wayne Gretzky, 23, is 18th & youngest NHL-er to score 1,000 points.

1986 - Michael Sergio, who parachuted into Shea Stadium during game 6 of the World Series, sentenced to 100 hours of community service & fined $500.

1987 - Gary Kasparov becomes world chess champion.

1989 - Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics begins NBA free throw streak of 71 games.

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Compiled by Ramesh C. Reddy

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