19 December
Notable Births
King Princess
b. 1998
American musician (born 1998)
Gabriel Magalhães
b. 1997
Brazilian footballer (born 1997)
Fikayo Tomori
b. 1997
English footballer (born 1997)
Franck Kessié
b. 1996
Ivorian footballer (born 1996)
Maudy Ayunda
b. 1994
Musical artist
M'Baye Niang
b. 1994
Senegalese footballer (born 1994)
Young K
b. 1993
South Korean singer (born 1993)
Isiah Koech
b. 1993
Kenyan long-distance runner (born 1993)
Iker Muniain
b. 1992
Spanish footballer (born 1992)
Raphael Spiegel
b. 1992
Swiss footballer (born 1992)
Steven Berghuis
b. 1991
Dutch footballer (born 1991)
Declan Galbraith
b. 1991
English musician (born 1991)
Josh Huestis
b. 1991
American basketball player (born 1991)
Keiynan Lonsdale
b. 1991
Australian actor and singer
Sumire Uesaka
b. 1991
Japanese voice actress and singer
Torrey Craig
b. 1990
American basketball player (born 1990)
Yong Jun-hyung
b. 1989
South Korean musician and actor (born 1989)
Michał Masłowski
b. 1989
Polish footballer (born 1989)
Kosei Miura
b. 1989
Japanese jockey (born 1989)
Hamza Riazuddin
b. 1989
English cricketer
Notable Deaths
Michael Leunig
d. 2024
Australian cartoonist (1945–2024)
Sally Ann Howes
d. 2021
British actress and singer (1930–2021)
Johnny Isakson
d. 2021
American politician (1944–2021)
Rosalind Knight
d. 2020
English actress (1933–2020)
Andrei Karlov
d. 2016
Russian diplomat (1954–2016)
Jimmy Hill
d. 2015
English association football personality (1928–2015)
Greville Janner
d. 2015
British politician and barrister (1928–2015)
Karin Söder
d. 2015
Swedish politician (1928–2015)
S. S. Balan
d. 2014
Indian journalist, filmmaker, and analyst (1935–2014)
Philip Bradbourn
d. 2014
British politician (1951–2014)
Igor Rodionov
d. 2014
Soviet and Russian general and politician
Roberta Leigh
d. 2014
British novelist and television writer (1926–2014)
Al Goldstein
d. 2013
American pornographer (1936–2013)
Ned Vizzini
d. 2013
American writer
Robert Bork
d. 2012
American lawyer and judge (1927–2012)
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak
d. 2012
Israeli chief of staff, politician (1944–2012)
Larry Morris
d. 2012
American football player (1933–2012)
Peter Struck (politician)
d. 2012
German politician
Anthony Howard (journalist)
d. 2010
British journalist, broadcaster and writer
Kim Peek
d. 2009
American savant (1951–2009)
On This Day in History
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2016
Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov is assassinated while at an art exhibition in Ankara. The assassin, Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, is shot and killed by a Turkish guard.
Andrei Karlov
2016
A vehicular attack in Berlin, Germany, kills 12 and injures 56 people at a Christmas market.
2016 Berlin truck attack
2013
Spacecraft Gaia is launched by the European Space Agency.
Gaia (spacecraft)
2012
Park Geun-hye is elected the first female president of South Korea.
Park Geun-hye
2005
Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101 crashes into the Government Cut channel immediately after takeoff from Miami Seaplane Base, killing 20.
Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101
2005
A passenger train from Sucha Beskidzka to Żywiec in Poland loses its brakes while on a steep downhill part of the route. It is stopped in a controlled collision in Świnna by a train travelling in opposite direction. 2 drivers and 6 passengers are injured.
Sucha Beskidzka
2001
Argentine economic crisis: December riots: Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1998–2002 Argentine great depression
1999
Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on STS-103, the third Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
Space Shuttle Discovery
1998
President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second president of the United States to be impeached.
Bill Clinton
1997
SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
SilkAir Flight 185
1995
The United States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Native American tribe.
Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi
1986
Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky.
Mikhail Gorbachev
1985
Aeroflot Flight 101/435 is hijacked to China by its first officer.
Aeroflot Flight 101/435
1984
The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997, is signed in Beijing by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.
Sino-British Joint Declaration
1983
The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
FIFA World Cup
1981
Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.
Penlee lifeboat disaster
1977
The Ms 5.8 Bob–Tangol earthquake strikes Kerman Province in Iran, destroying villages and killing 665 people.
1977 Bob–Tangol earthquake
1974
Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford under the provisions of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Nelson Rockefeller
1972
Apollo program: The last crewed lunar flight, Apollo 17, carrying Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
Apollo program
1967
Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, is officially presumed dead.
Harold Holt