Hisdates•ComPage 7: Historical Events In December - 19
Saturday, 18 January 2025
1969 On December - 19 beatle's 7th Christmas album is released 
1971 "Inner City" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 97 performances on this day in history.
1972 Apollo 17 (last of Apollo Moon landing series) returns to Earth on this day in history.
1974 Nelson A Rockefeller sworn-in as the 41st VP on this day in history.
1974 Nelson Rockefeller sworn in as American Vice-President on December - 19.
1974 On this day in history the personal computer revolution was launched quietly on this day when the Altair 8800, a do-it-yourself computer kit, went on sale for $397
1975 On this day in history john Paul Stevens becomes a Supreme Court Justice
1977 Nellie Tayloe Ross, 1st woman governor, dies at 101 on December - 19.
1979 The Senate green lighted a $1.5 billion loan to help put the auto maker Chrysler back on its feet. In the short term, though, the loan did little to staunch the bleeding on this day in history.
1980 Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St Kitts on December - 19.
1980 On this day in history iran requests $24 billion in US guarantees to free hostages
1982 Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, French organist/composer, dies at 71 on this day in history.
1983 On December - 19 after a grueling and sometimes bloody six weeks on the picket line, striking Greyhound workers agreed to sign off on a new contract and head back to work
1984 On this day in history fire at the Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people
1984 Michel Magne, composer, dies at 54 on December - 19.
1985 ABC Sports announced that it was severing ties with Howard Cosell and released ‘The Mouth’ from all TV commitments on this day in history.
1985 On this day in history aBC Sports announces that sportscaster Howard Cosell will no longer be providing television commentary.
1985 NFL kicker Jan Stenerud announces his retirement, leaving behind a record of most career field goals (373) on this day in history.
1986 On December - 19 uSSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
1988 On this day in history nASA unveils plans for lunar colony and manned missions to Mars
1988 Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany-5,000 evacuated on December - 19.
1989 On this day in history american Airlines purchases Eastern Airline's Latin American route
1989 On this day in history dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English journalist/author, dies at 87
1990 On December - 19 basil Henson, actor (Change Partners), dies of stroke at 71
1991 6,000th episode of One Life To Live on this day in history.
1991 On December - 19 boris Yeltsin takes control of Kremlin
1991 On this day in history ernest K Gann, US adventure novelist, dies at 81
1993 Anthonius AM "Ton" Kors, writer (Time of Anton de Lange), dies at 47 on December - 19.
1994 On December - 19 great Britain's prestigious Rolls-Royce, a luxury automobile maker, announced that its future cars would feature 12-cylinder motors manufactured by Germany's BMW
1994 Noel Pointer, jazz violinist, dies at 39 on December - 19.
1995 Dame Ruth Nita Barrow, governor-general of Barbados, dies at 79 on December - 19.
1996 On this day in history marcello Mastroiani, actor (8½, Assassin, Family Diary), dies at 72
1997 David Norman Schramm, physicist, dies at 52 on this day in history.
2005 On December - 19 keith Duckworth, English mechanical engineer (Cosworth; b. 1933)
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