December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 12 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).
NATIONAL OATMEAL MUFFIN DAY
NATIONAL OATMEAL MUFFIN DAY
1732 – On this day in 1732, Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia first published Poor Richard's Almanack. The book, filled with proverbs preaching industry and prudence, was published continuously for 25 years and became one of the most popular publications in colonial America, selling an average of 10,000 copies a year.
1776 – Thomas Paine's "The American Crisis", is published in the Pennsylvania Journal.
1777 – With the onset of the bitter winter cold, the Continental Army under General George Washington, still in the field, enters its winter camp at Valley Forge, 22 miles from British-occupied Philadelphia. Washington chose a site on the west bank of the Schuylkill River that could be effectively defended in the event of a British attack.
1828 – South Carolina declares the right of states to nullify federal laws via the Ordinance of Nullification. The ensuing conflict with resident Andrew Jackson was called the Nullification Crisis.
1828 – South Carolina declares the right of states to nullify federal laws via the Ordinance of Nullification. The ensuing conflict with resident Andrew Jackson was called the Nullification Crisis.
1861 – The Battle of Blackwater Creek is fought in Milford, Missouri in the American Civil War.
1900 – During the Second Boer War, Britain's Lord Kitchener offers protections to all Boers who will surrender and asks the Dutch community of Pretoria to convey this offer, but leaders in the field refuse to surrender; although organised military operations are largely over, the guerrilla war continues.
1907 – A coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania, kills 239 workers on this day in 1907. Only one worker in the deep mine at the time survived the tragedy.
1917 – On this day in 1917, four teams of the National Hockey League (NHL) play in the fledgling league’s first two games. At the time of its inception, the NHL was made up of five franchises: the Canadiens and the Wanderers (both of Montreal), the Ottawa Senators, the Quebec Bulldogs and the Toronto Arenas. The Montreal teams won two victories that first day, as the Canadiens beat Ottawa 7-4 and the Wanderers triumphed over Toronto 10-9.
1941 – On this day, in a major shake-up of the military high command, Adolf Hitler assumes the position of commander in chief of the German army.
1958 – First radio broadcast from space (President Eisenhower voice "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth & Good Will to Men Everywhere").
1964 – Another bloodless coup occurs when Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khanh and a group of generals led by Air Commodore Nguyen Cao Ky and Army Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu arrest three dozen high officers and civilian officials in South Vietnam.
1976 – A Piper Cherokee crashes into Baltimore Memorial Stadium upper stands, 10 minutes after the Colts lose 40-14 to the Pittsburgh Steelers. No one was seriously hurt.
1986 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife, Elena Bonner, from their internal exile in Gorky, a major city on the Volga River that was then closed to foreigners. The move was hailed as evidence of Gorbachev's commitment to lessening political repression inside the Soviet Union. Sakharov was a Russian nuclear physicist (atomic bomb), Soviet dissident and human rights activist.
2007 – The Lakotah people, a Native American tribe, proclaim independence and withdraw all their treaties with the United States. They then proceed to establish the Republic of Lakotah, with an ongoing process of international recognition as a separate country.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1778 – Marie Thérèse of France (d. 1851)
1849 – Henry Clay Frick, American businessman and financier, H. C. Frick & Company coke manufacturing company, was chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company (d. 1919)
1899 – Martin Luther King, Sr., American pastor, missionary, and activist (d. 1984)
1906 – Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian-Russian marshal, engineer, and politician, 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
1910 – Jean Genet, French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1986)
1944 – Richard Leakey, Kenyan paleontologist and politician
From Wikipedia and Google, ex as noted.
1778 – Marie Thérèse of France (d. 1851)
1849 – Henry Clay Frick, American businessman and financier, H. C. Frick & Company coke manufacturing company, was chairman of the Carnegie Steel Company (d. 1919)
1899 – Martin Luther King, Sr., American pastor, missionary, and activist (d. 1984)
1906 – Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian-Russian marshal, engineer, and politician, 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
1910 – Jean Genet, French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1986)
1944 – Richard Leakey, Kenyan paleontologist and politician
From Wikipedia and Google, ex as noted.
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