Page 4: Historical Events In December - 19

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

1894  Cricket day 5 1T Aus v Eng Eng 437 all out, Aus need 177 are 2-113 on December - 19.   

1894  On December - 19 ford C Frick, baseball commissioner (1951-65)   

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

1896  John Seldon Whale, theologian on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1902  On this day in history leonard Hirsch, British violinist/orchestra leader (RAF Symph Orch)   

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

1903  On December - 19 williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn & Manhattan   

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

1904  On December - 19 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   

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 December - 19 leonid Brezhnev Russian leader of the Communist Party was born   

1906  On December - 19 the birth of Leonid Brezhnev, Former President and General secretary of the Soviet Union   

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

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

1907  Explosion at Jacobs Creek PA, coal mine kills 239 on December - 19.   

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

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

1910  On this day in history 1st city ordinace requiring white & black residential areas (Balt)   

1910  Jean Genet, Paris France, criminal/novelist/dramatist (The Blacks) on this day in history.   

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  Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German catholic lawyer, dies at 87 on this day in history.   

1915  On this day in history the birth of Edith Piaf, French singer   

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

1915  Alvis Alzheimer, German neurologist (Alzheimer Disease), dies at 51 on December - 19.   

1916  Suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo on December - 19.   

1916  On December - 19 adriaan van der Veen, Dutch writer (Sister at Sea)   

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

1917  On this day in history graham Sharp, ice skater   

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1036  On December - 19 birth of su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher   

1498  Andreas Osiander, Germany, Protestant Reformation theologist was born on December - 19.   

1554  On December - 19 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  On December - 19 birth of philip V, Versailles France, King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46)   

1699  William Bowyer, English printer (d. 1777) was born on this day in history.   

1714  On December - 19 birth of john Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779)   

1723  On this day in history birth of susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother   

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

1075  Death of Edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor of England on December - 19.   

1327  On December - 19 death of agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy   

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  Death of James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667) on December - 19.   

1741  Vitus J Bering, Dutch navigator/explorer, dies on this day in history.   

1749  Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer, dies at 76 on December - 19.