Page 4: Historical Events In December - 19

1891  Edward Bernard Andre Maria Raczynski, Poland, pres-in-exile (1979-86) on December - 19.   

1894  On this day in history cricket day 5 1T Aus v Eng Eng 437 all out, Aus need 177 are 2-113   

1894  Ford C Frick, baseball commissioner (1951-65) on this day in history.   

1895  Ingeborg Refling-Hagen, Norwegian author/poet (Loke Saar Havre) on December - 19.   

1896  On December - 19 john Seldon Whale, theologian   

1897  On this day in history louis Darquier de Pellepoix, France, anti-Semite/nazi collaborator   

1901  Oliver [Hazard Perry] La Farge, NYC, anthropologist/novelist on December - 19.   

1902  On December - 19 the birth of Sir Ralph Richardson, English actor   

1902  On December - 19 leonard Hirsch, British violinist/orchestra leader (RAF Symph Orch)   

1903  On this day in history williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn and Manhattan   

1903  Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn & Manhattan on December - 19.   

1903  Cyril Dean Darlington, England, biologist (hereditary mechanisms) on December - 19.   

1904  The Dawson City (Yukon) hockey team starts walking towards Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in the Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905 on this day in history.   

1904  Dawson City hockey team begins 9 day walk to get a boat to Seattle to catch a train to Ottawa to play in Stanley Cup on Jan 13 1905 on December - 19.   

1905  On this day in history charles Robert Owen Medley, dancer/choreographer   

1906  On this day in history leonid Brezhnev Russian leader of the Communist Party was born   

1906  The birth of Leonid Brezhnev, Former President and General secretary of the Soviet Union on this day in history.   

1906  H Allen Smith, Ill, humorist/author (Low Man on Totem Pole) on December - 19.   

1907  On December - 19 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek PA   

1907  On December - 19 explosion at Jacobs Creek PA, coal mine kills 239   

1907  239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania on December - 19.   

1910  Rayon first commercially produced, Marcus Hook PA on December - 19.   

1910  1st city ordinace requiring white & black residential areas (Balt) on December - 19.   

1910  On this day in history jean Genet, Paris France, criminal/novelist/dramatist (The Blacks)   

1913  Jack Johnson fights Jim Johnson to a draw in 10 for hw boxing title on December - 19.   

1913  On December - 19 william C De Vries, surgeon/inventor (artificial heart)   

1914  On this day in history johann F Ritter von Schulte, German catholic lawyer, dies at 87   

1915  On December - 19 the birth of Edith Piaf, French singer   

1915  Edith Piaf, [E Giovanna Gassion], Paris, chanteuse (Little Sparrow) on December - 19.   

1915  On this day in history alvis Alzheimer, German neurologist (Alzheimer Disease), dies at 51   

1916  On December - 19 suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo   

1916  Adriaan van der Veen, Dutch writer (Sister at Sea) on December - 19.   

1917  On December - 19 1st NHL game played on artificial ice (Toronto)   

1917  On December - 19 graham Sharp, ice skater   

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1036  Su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher was born on December - 19.   

1498  On December - 19 birth of andreas Osiander, Germany, Protestant Reformation theologist   

1554  On this day in history birth of philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618)   

1676  On this day in history birth of louis-Nicholas Clerambault, Paris France, composer/organist   

1683  Philip V, Versailles France, King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46) was born on December - 19.   

1699  William Bowyer, English printer (d. 1777) was born on December - 19.   

1714  John Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779) was born on December - 19.   

1723  On December - 19 birth of susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother   

0401  On December - 19 anastasius I, Bishop of Rome (399-401), dies   

1075  On this day in history death of edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor of England   

1327  Death of Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy on this day in history.   

1370  Urban V, [Guillaume de Grimoard], 1st Avignon Pope (1362-70), dies on this day in history.   

1614  Melchior Bischoff, composer, dies at 67 on December - 19.   

1737  On this day in history death of james Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667)   

1741  On this day in history vitus J Bering, Dutch navigator/explorer, dies   

1749  On this day in history francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer, dies at 76