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 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  Louis Darquier de Pellepoix, France, anti-Semite/nazi collaborator on this day in history.   

1901  On December - 19 oliver [Hazard Perry] La Farge, NYC, anthropologist/novelist   

1902  On this day in history the birth of Sir Ralph Richardson, English actor   

1902  Leonard Hirsch, British violinist/orchestra leader (RAF Symph Orch) on December - 19.   

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

1903  Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn & Manhattan on this day in history.   

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 December - 19.   

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  Charles Robert Owen Medley, dancer/choreographer on this day in history.   

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  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  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 this day in history.   

1910  On December - 19 rayon first commercially produced, Marcus Hook PA   

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

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

1913  Jack Johnson fights Jim Johnson to a draw in 10 for hw boxing title on this day in history.   

1913  On this day in history william C De Vries, surgeon/inventor (artificial heart)   

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

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

1915  On December - 19 edith Piaf, [E Giovanna Gassion], Paris, chanteuse (Little Sparrow)   

1915  On December - 19 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 this day in history.   

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

1917  Graham Sharp, ice skater on this day in history.   

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

1498  Andreas Osiander, Germany, Protestant Reformation theologist was born on this day in history.   

1554  On December - 19 birth of philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618)   

1676  Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, Paris France, composer/organist was born on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history birth of john Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779)   

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

1327  On this day in history death of agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy   

1370  Urban V, [Guillaume de Grimoard], 1st Avignon Pope (1362-70), dies on December - 19.   

1614  On this day in history melchior Bischoff, composer, dies at 67   

1737  Death of James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667) on December - 19.   

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

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