Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
December 19
| 1154 | Henry II is crowned king of England. | |
| 1562 | The French Wars of Religion between the Huguenots and the Catholics begins with the Battle of Dreux. | |
| 1793 | French troops recapture Toulon from the British. | |
| 1862 | Confederate General Nathan B. Forrest begins tearing up the railroads in Union generals Grant and Rosecrans rear, causing considerable delays in the movement of Union supplies. | |
| 1900 | The French Parliament votes amnesty for everyone involved in the Dreyfus Affair. | |
| 1909 | American socialist women denounce suffrage as a movement of the middle class. | |
| 1941 | Japanese land on Hong Kong and clash with British troops. | |
| 1941 | Adolf Hitler assumes the position of commander in chief of the German army. | |
| 1942 | The British advance 40 miles into Burma in a drive to oust the Japanese from the colony. | |
| 1944 | During the Battle of the Bulge, American troops begin pulling back from the twin Belgian cities of Krinkelt and Rocherath in front of the advancing German Army. | |
| 1945 | Congress confirms Eleanor Roosevelt as U.S. delegate to the United Nations. | |
| 1950 | The North Atlantic Council names General Dwight D. Eisenhower as supreme commander of Western European defense forces. | |
| 1959 | Reputed to be the last civil war veteran, Walter Williams, dies at 117 in Houston. | |
| 1974 | Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as vice president of the United states after a House of Representatives vote. | |
| 1982 | Four bombs explode at South Africa's only nuclear power station in Johannesburg. | |
| 1984 | British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang sign an agreement that committed Britain to return Hong Kong to China in 1997 in return for terms guaranteeing a 50-year extension of its capitalist system. Hong Kong was leased by China to Great Britain in 1898 for 99 years. | |
| 1998 | President Bill Clinton is impeached. The House of Representatives approved two articles of impeachment against President Clinton, charging him with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice. Clinton was the second president in American history to be impeached. | |
| Born on December 19 | ||
| 1683 | Philip V, the first Bourbon King of Spain. | |
| 1820 | Mary Ashton Livermore, a temperance worker, women's rights activist, lecturer, and writer. Founded her own suffrage paper, the Agitator, in 1869. | |
| 1906 | Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet General Secretary of the Communist party and President of the Supreme Soviet from 1964 until 1982. | |
| 1915 | Edith Piaf, internationally famous French cabaret singer, best remembered for her songs "La Vie en rose" and "Non, je ne regrette rein." | |
| 1933 | Cicely Tyson, actress, best remembered for her role in The Autobiography of Ms. Jane Pittman. | |
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