Page 4: Historical Events In December - 19

1891  On this day in history edward Bernard Andre Maria Raczynski, Poland, pres-in-exile (1979-86)   

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

1894  On this day in history ford C Frick, baseball commissioner (1951-65)   

1895  On this day in history ingeborg Refling-Hagen, Norwegian author/poet (Loke Saar Havre)   

1896  On December - 19 john Seldon Whale, theologian   

1897  On December - 19 louis Darquier de Pellepoix, France, anti-Semite/nazi collaborator   

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

1902  The birth of Sir Ralph Richardson, English actor on December - 19.   

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

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

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

1903  On this day in history cyril Dean Darlington, England, biologist (hereditary mechanisms)   

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 December - 19.   

1904  On this day in history 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   

1905  On December - 19 charles Robert Owen Medley, dancer/choreographer   

1906  Leonid Brezhnev Russian leader of the Communist Party was born on December - 19.   

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

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

1907  On this day in history 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek PA   

1907  Explosion at Jacobs Creek PA, coal mine kills 239 on this day in history.   

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

1910  On this day in history rayon first commercially produced, Marcus Hook PA   

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

1910  Jean Genet, Paris France, criminal/novelist/dramatist (The Blacks) on December - 19.   

1913  On December - 19 jack Johnson fights Jim Johnson to a draw in 10 for hw boxing title   

1913  William C De Vries, surgeon/inventor (artificial heart) on December - 19.   

1914  Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German catholic lawyer, dies at 87 on December - 19.   

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  On December - 19 alvis Alzheimer, German neurologist (Alzheimer Disease), dies at 51   

1916  On this day in history suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo   

1916  Adriaan van der Veen, Dutch writer (Sister at Sea) on this day in history.   

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

1917  Graham Sharp, ice skater on December - 19.   

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1036  On this day in history birth of su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/calligrapher   

1498  On this day in history birth of andreas Osiander, Germany, Protestant Reformation theologist   

1554  Philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618) was born on this day in history.   

1676  Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, Paris France, composer/organist was born on December - 19.   

1683  Philip V, Versailles France, King of Spain (1700-24, 24-46) was born on this day in history.   

1699  On this day in history birth of william Bowyer, English printer (d. 1777)   

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  Anastasius I, Bishop of Rome (399-401), dies on this day in history.   

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 December - 19.   

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

1614  On December - 19 melchior Bischoff, composer, dies at 67   

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

1741  On December - 19 vitus J Bering, Dutch navigator/explorer, dies   

1749  Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer, dies at 76 on this day in history.