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Today in History: December 19
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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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2 Comments To "Today in History: December 19"
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