December 19......

December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 12 days remaining in the year on this date.

EVENTS

● 324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor.

● 401 - St Anastasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

● 1055 - Seldjuken under Toghril Beg occupy Baghdad

● 1154 - King Henry II of England crowned

● 1187 - Pope Clement III is elected.

● 1551 - Dutch west coast hit by hurricane

● 1562 - Battle at Dreux: Anne de Montmorency & Huguenots under Condé captured by the Catholics, beginning the French Wars of Religion.

● 1606 - The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery depart England carrying settlers who, at Jamestown, Virginia, would found the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.

● 1675 - Colonial forces escalate King Phillip's War by burning 300 old men, women, and children alive in their village, and later attack the Narragansetts in the Great Swamp, killing over 1,000 Indians.

● 1688 - King James II's wife & son flee to France

● 1732 - Benjamin Franklin (under the name Richard Saunders) begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"

● 1766 - English Parliament suspends New York legislature for voting against Quartering Act.

● 1776 - Thomas Paine published his 1st "American Crisis" essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls"

● 1777 - Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge PA for the winter

● 1783 - English government of Pitt Jr forms

● 1788 - Chinese troops occupy capital Thang Long Vietnam

● 1795 - 1st state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky

● 1808 - Birth of Horatius Bonar, Scottish clergyman and poet. He authored several missionary biographies and penned over 600 hymns, including "I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say."

● 1823 - Georgia passes 1st US state birth registration law

● 1828 - Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.

● 1835 - The first issue of The Blade newspaper is published in Toledo, Ohio.

● 1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin approaches New Zealand

● 1842 - U.S. recognizes Hawai'ian independence. 55 years later, the U.S. would unilaterally annex Hawai'i instead.

● 1843 - Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol" in England

● 1854 - Allen Wilson of Connecticut patents sewing machine to sew curving seams

● 1855 - Birth of William Henry Draper, Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter. His words to "All Creatures of Our God and King" are an English translation of a Latin text believed to have been penned by St. Francis of Assisi.

● 1859 - Grading started for Market Street RR

● 1860 - Birth of Frank E. Graeff, American Methodist clergyman. Well-known for his interest in children's ministry and for his storytelling abilities, Graeff also authored over 200 hymns, including "Does Jesus Care?"

● 1861 - Battle of Black Water

● 1862 - Birth of Nicolas Stoinoff, Choumen, Bulgaria. The "patriarch" of Bulgarian anarchism, antimilitarist, writer, journalist, teacher, author. Never ceased denouncing the odious crimes of the Soviet occupation during his 101 years.

● 1862 - Skirmish at Jackson/Salem Church TN (80 casualties)

● 1867 - Victims of "Angola Horror" burned to death (Angola NY)

● 1871 - Albert L Jones (New York NY), patents corrugated paper

● 1875 - Birth of black educator/historian Carter Woodson.

● 1884 - Italy recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State

● 1888 - Stanley's expedition reaches Fort Bodo, East-Africa

● 1889 - Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii

● 1891 - 1st Negro Catholic priest ordained in US, Charles Uncles, Baltimore

● 1903 - The Williamsburg Bridge opened in New York City. It opened as the largest suspension bridge on Earth and remained the largest until 1924. It was also the first major suspension bridge to use steel towers to support the main cable.

● 1906 - Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet statesman who was the leader of the Soviet Union for 18 years, was born.

● 1907 - Gas explosion at Jacobs Creek PA coal mine kills 239

● 1910 - Edward Douglass White is sworn in as the 9th Chief Justice of the United States.

● 1910 - 1st city ordinance requiring white & black residential areas (Baltimore)

● 1910 - Rayon 1st commercially produced, Marcus Hook PA

● 1912 - William H. Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by President Taft after 3-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison .

● 1915 - Birth of Edith Piaff. French singer who entertained POW's while refusing to sing for Nazis during WWII.

● 1916 - World War I: Battle of Verdun - On the Western Front, the French Army successfully holds off the German Army and drives it back to its starting position.

● 1916 - Suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo

● 1917 - The first games of the new National Hockey League (NHL) were played. Five teams made up the league: Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, the Montreal Canadiens and the Montreal Wanderers.

● 1918 - Robert Ripley began his "Believe It or Not" column (New York Globe)

● 1919 - American Meteorological Society found

● 1920 - King Constantine I restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander I of Greece and a plebescite.

● 1922 - Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confessed in court to being married 62 times

● 1928 - 1st autogiro (predecessor of helicopter) flight in US

● 1931 - Joseph A Lyons (C) becomes premier of Australia

● 1932 - The British Broadcasting Corp. began transmitting overseas with its "Empire Service" to Australia.

● 1933 - Electric Home & Farm Authority Inc, authorized

● 1934 - Japan agress to fleet treaty of 1922 & 1930

● 1939 - Russian air & ground attack against Finnish positions near Summa

● 1940 - Birth of folk music protester Phil Ochs, El Paso.

● 1940 - Civilian public service camps for conscientious objectors established.

● 1941 - German submarine U-574 sinks

● 1941 - Hitler takes complete command of German Army becoming Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army

● 1941 - US Office of Censorship created to control info pertaining to WWII

● 1943 - Military coup in Bolivia

● 1944 - Birth of Andrew Robert Culverwell, American sacred music songwriter. This contemporary music artist has written such popular Christian songs as "Born Again" and "Come On, Ring Those Bells."

● 1945 - Karl Renner, leader of Austrian Socialist Party, elected President.

● 1945 - Austrian Republic re-establishes

● 1946 - War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi. There would be continuous war until 1975 when the North defeated the South united the country.

● 1946 - Reenactment of Boston Tea Party in Boston.

● 1948 - 8th largest snowfall in NYC history (15.3")

● 1948 - 2nd political action of Java/Sumatra

● 1949 - Luxury passenger ship Aquitania demolished in Garelock Scotland

● 1950 - General Eisenhower named NATO commander

● 1950 - Tibet's Dalai Lama flees Chinese invasion

● 1951 - Nazi General Christiansen leaves Netherlands

● 1952 - Queen Juliana unveals statue "Docker"

● 1956 - Thick fog causes death on British roads; At least six people die and several others are injured in road accidents in thick fog.

● 1957 - Meredith Wilson’s "The Music Man" opened at the Majestic Theatre in New York City. It ran for 1,375 shows.

● 1957 - Air service between London and Moscow was inaugurated.

● 1958 - 1st radio broadcast from space (recorded Christmas message by President Eisenhower: "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth & Good Will to Men Everywhere")

● 1959 - Walter Williams died in Houston, TX, at the age of 117. He was said to be the last surviving veteran of the U.S. Civil War.

● 1960 - Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction in Brooklyn (50 die)

● 1960 - Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight

● 1961 - India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.

● 1961 - British government begins decimal coin system

● 1961 - Indonesian President Sukarno proclaims general mobilization

● 1961 - "Judgment At Nuremberg" opened in New York City.

● 1962 - Juan Bosch elected President of the Dominican Republic in first free elections in 38 years. Overthrown by U.S.-backed coup in September 1963.

● 1962 - Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia & Nyasaland

● 1962 - Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission

● 1962 - Transit 5A1, 1st operational navigational satellite, launched

● 1963 - Zanzibar receives its independence from the United Kingdom, to become a constitutional monarchy under Sultan Hamoud bin Mohammed.

● 1965 - Demonstrations against Vietnam War, worldwide.

● 1965 - Prison guard George Hodson is killed during Ronald Ryan and Peter Walker's escape from HM Prison Pentridge in Coburg, Victoria.

● 1965 - French President De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%)

● 1967 - Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.

● 1969 - Six-time Socialist Party Presidential candidate Norman Thomas dies.

● 1971 - NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp

● 1971 - Stanley Kubrick's X-rated "A Clockwork Orange" premieres; The uncut version now is rated only “R”

● 1972 - Collision involving the Sea Star, in the Gulf of Oman, dumping 115,000 gallons of oil into the gulf.

● 1972 - Amin ultimatum to Uganda Britons; Ugandan leader General Idi Amin gives British workers an ultimatum to accept reduced pay or be expelled.

● 1972 - Project Apollo: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.

● 1973 - Johnny Carson started a fake toilet-paper scare on the "Tonight Show."

● 1973 - Grenada adopts constitution

● 1974 - The Altair 8800 microcomputer kit goes on sale.

● 1974 - Nelson A. Rockefeller was sworn in as the 41st vice president of the United States, replacing Gerald R. Ford, who became president when Richard M. Nixon resigned.

● 1974 - "The Man With the Golden Gun" premieres in US

● 1975 - John Paul Stevens becomes a Supreme Court Justice

● 1975 - Ron Wood joined the Rolling Stones

● 1976 - President Brezhnev receives his 5th Lenin order

● 1977 - An attack destroys the luxury Paris food store, Fauchon.

● 1977 - Dutch government of Van Agt/Wiegel forms

● 1978 - France performs nuclear test

● 1978 - Indira Gandhi was expelled from the Lok Sabha for contempt and imprisoned.

● 1979 - ESPN televised its first NHL game. The teams were the Washington Capitals and the Hartford Whales.

● 1980 - Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St Kitts

● 1980 - Iran requests $24 billion in US guarantees to free hostages

● 1980 - Mutual Broadcasting cancels Sears Radio Theater

● 1981 - Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.

● 1984 - The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that the People's Republic of 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.

● 1984 - Twenty-seven miners killed by speedup in an Orangeville, Utah mine.

● 1984 - Ted Hughes was appointed England's poet laureate.

● 1984 - China People's Republic performs nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Republic of China

● 1985 - Jan Stenerud announced his retirement from the NFL. The football kicker held the record for the most career field goals with 373.

● 1985 - ABC Sports announced that it was severing ties with Howard Cosell and released ‘The Mouth’ from all TV commitments. Cosell continued on ABC Radio for another five years.

● 1985 - STS 61-C scrubbed at T -13 seconds because of SRB auxiliary power problem

● 1985 - Mary Lund is 1st woman to receive a Jarvik VII artificial heart

● 1986 - The Soviet Union announced it had freed dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile, and pardoned his wife, Yelena Bonner.

● 1986 - Michael Sergio, who parachuted into Shea Stadium during game 6 of the World Series, sentenced to 100 hours of community service & fined $500

● 1988 - Lawn darts are banned from sale in the United States by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

● 1988 - NASA unveils plans for lunar colony & manned missions to Mars

● 1988 - Unexploded WWII bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany-5,000 evacuated

● 1989 - U.S. troops invaded Panama to overthrow the regime of General Noriega.

● 1989 - American Airlines purchases Eastern Airline's Latin American route

● 1990 - Bo Jackson (Los Angeles Raiders) became the first athlete to be chosen for All Star Games in two sports.

● 1991 - Boris Yeltsin takes control of Kremlin

● 1993 - Guinee General Lansana re-elected president

● 1994 - Zapatista rebels in Southeastern Mexico slip through army seige and briefly occupy 38 towns in Chiapas state, crippling Wall Street investments in Mexican bond market.

● 1995 - Queen Elizabeth asks Prince Charles & Diana to divorce

● 1996 - The school board of Oakland, CA, voted to recognize Black English, also known as "ebonics." The board later reversed its stance.

● 1997 - Tory leader weds; Conservative party leader William Hague marries his fiancée Ffion Jenkins at ceremony in Westminster.

● 1997 - MTV drops video "Smack My Bitch Up" by Prodigy

● 1997 - Silkair Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.

● 1997 - ''Titanic,'' the highest-grossing movie of all-time, opened in American theaters.

● 1998 - Two days after his confession of marital infidelity, Rep. Bob Livingston, R-La., told the House he wouldn't serve as its next speaker.

● 1998 - A four-day bombing of Iraq by British and American forces ended.

● 1998 - Pres. Clinton impeached. It sucked.

● 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate.

● 2000 - The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, killing one person and injuring three.

● 2000 - The U.N. Security Council voted to impose sanctions on Afghanistan's Taliban rulers unless they closed all terrorist training camps and surrender U.S. embassy bombing suspect Osama bin Laden.

● 2001 - The fire at the World Trade Center, as a result of the September 11, 2001 attacks, is finally extinguished after three months.

● 2001 - A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Hövsgöl in Mongolia.

● 2001 - Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riots - Riots erupt in Buenos Aires after Domingo Cavallo's corralito measures restrict the withdrawal of cash from bank deposits.

● 2002 - After a prosecutor cited new DNA evidence, a judge in New York threw out the convictions of five young men in a 1989 attack on a Central Park jogger who had been raped and left for dead.

● 2003 - Images for the new design for the Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center site were released. The building slopes into a spire that reaches 1,776 feet.

● 2003 - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi agreed to halt his nation's drive to develop nuclear and chemical weapons. Libya makes a surprise announcement that it will destroy its arsenal of weapons of mass destruction.

● 2005 - Afghanistan's first democratically elected parliament in more than three decades convened.

● 2005 - Mob boss Vincent "The Chin" Gigante died in the federal prison in Springfield, Mo., at age 77.

● 2006 - The first steel supports were put in place for the Freedom Tower, successor of the World Trade Center.

BIRTHS

● 1554 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618)

● 1683 - Philip V of Spain (d. 1746)

● 1699 - William Bowyer, English printer (d. 1777)

● 1714 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779)

● 1778 - Princess Marie-Thérèse-Charlotte, eldest child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI (d. 1851)

● 1783 - Charles-Julien Brianchon, French mathematician (d. 1864)

● 1813 - Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (d. 1885)

● 1814 - Edwin Stanton, American Secretary of War under President Lincoln (d. 1869)

● 1817 - James Archer, Confederate general (d. 1904)

● 1831 - Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaiian philanthropist {d. 1884)

● 1852 - Albert Abraham Michelson, German-born American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)

● 1853 - Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Quebec (d. 1942)

● 1865 - Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress (d. 1932)

● 1883 - Barry Byrne, American architect (d. 1967)

● 1885 - Joe "King" Oliver, American jazz musician (d. 1938)

● 1888 - Fritz Reiner, Austro-Hungarian-born American conductor (d. 1963)

● 1894 - Ford Frick, American baseball commissioner (d. 1978)

● 1901 - Rudolf Hell, German inventor (d. 2002)

● 1902 - Sir Ralph Richardson, British actor (d. 1983)

● 1903 - George Davis Snell, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)

● 1906 - Leonid Brezhnev, Leader of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)

● 1907 - Jimmy McLarnin, former Welterweight Champion (d. 2004)

● 1910 - Jean Genet, French writer (d. 1986)

● 1915 - Charlie Ryan, Singer-songwriter

● 1915 - Édith Piaf, French singer and actress (d. 1963)

● 1918 - Professor Longhair, American blues musician (d. 1980)

● 1920 - Little Jimmy Dickens, Country singer

● 1920 - David Susskind, American TV talk show host (d. 1987)

● 1923 - Gordon Jackson, British actor (d. 1990)

● 1924 - Edmund Purdom, English actor

● 1924 - Doug Harvey, National Hockey League defenceman (d. 1989)

● 1925 - Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter

● 1925 - Tankred Dorst, German dramatist

● 1927 - James Booth, British actor and screenwriter (d. 2005)

● 1929 - Bob Brookmeyer, American jazz musician

● 1929 - Howard Sackler, American screenwriter (d. 1982)

● 1933 - Cicely Tyson, American actress

● 1934 - Al Kaline, baseball player

● 1934 - Rudi Carrell, Dutch singer

● 1935 - Barbara Bostock, American actress

● 1935 - Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (d. 1974)

● 1940 - Phil Ochs, American folk singer (d. 1976)

● 1941 - Maurice White, American singer and songwriter (Earth, Wind & Fire)

● 1943 - Ross M. Lence, American political scientist (d. 2006)

● 1944 - William Christie, American-born director of Les Arts Florissants

● 1944 - Mitchell Feigenbaum, American mathematical physicist

● 1944 - Richard Leakey, British anthropologist

● 1944 - Alvin Lee, British singer/guitarist (Ten Years After)

● 1944 - Tim Reid, American actor (''WKRP in Cincinnati'' “Barney Miller” “Firefly”)

● 1944 - Zal Yanovsky, Canadian guitarist (The Lovin' Spoonful) (d. 2002)

● 1945 - John McEuen, Country musician (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)

● 1945 - Elaine Joyce, American actress

● 1946 - Robert Urich, American actor (d. 2002)

● 1947 - Janie Fricke, Country singer

● 1949 - Sebastian, Danish musician

● 1955 - Rob Portman, White House budget director

● 1956 - Tom Lawless, baseball player

● 1957 - Kevin McHale, American basketball player and Hall of Fame member

● 1957 - John Gulager, American film director

● 1957 - Cyril Collard, French film director (d. 1993)

● 1958 - Limahl, British singer (Kajagoogoo)

● 1960 - Mike Lookinland, American actor (''The Brady Bunch'')

● 1961 - Eric Allin Cornell, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1961 - Matthew Waterhouse, British actor

● 1961 - Reggie White, American football player (d. 2004)

● 1963 - Jennifer Beals, American film actress

● 1964 - Arvydas Sabonis, basketball player

● 1965 - Chito Martinez, Belizean baseball player

● 1966 - Robert McNaughton, Actor

● 1966 - Eric Weinrich, American ice hockey player

● 1966 - Alberto Tomba, Italian alpine skier

● 1967 - Criss Angel, American illusionist and escapist

● 1968 - Kevin Shepard, Rock musician

● 1969 - Kristy Swanson, American actress

● 1969 - Richard Hammond, British television presenter

● 1970 - Tyson Beckford, American model

● 1971 - Tiffany Towers, Canadian adult film actress

● 1971 - Amy Locane, American actress

● 1972 - Rosa Blasi, Actress

● 1972 - Alyssa Milano, American actress (''Charmed,'' ''Who's the Boss?'')

● 1972 - Warren Sapp, American football player

● 1973 - Zulfiya Zabirova, Russian cyclist

● 1974 - Jake Plummer, American football player

● 1974 - Ricky Ponting, Australian test cricketer

● 1975 - Olivier Tebily, Ivorian footballer

● 1977 - Jorge Garbajosa, Spanish basketball player

● 1980 - Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor

● 1980 - Marla Sokoloff, American actress

● 1988 - Lady Sovereign, Rapper

● 1988 - Paulina Gretzky, American model

DEATHS

● 401 - Pope Anastasius I

● 1075 - Edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor of England

● 1327 - Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy

● 1370 - Pope Urban V (b. 1310)

● 1737 - James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667)

● 1741 - Vitus Bering, Danish-born explorer (b. 1681)

● 1745 - Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (b. 1684)

● 1749 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b. 1672)

● 1751 - Louise of Great Britain, wife of Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1724)

● 1807 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (b. 1723)

● 1813 - James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1744)

● 1819 - Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval officer and politician (b. 1765)

● 1848 - Emily Brontë, British author (b. 1818)

● 1915 - Alois Alzheimer, German neuroscientist (b. 1864)

● 1932 - Yoon Bong-Gil, Protester against Japanese occupation of Korea (executed) (b. 1908)

● 1938 - Stephen Warfield Gambrill, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District (b. 1873)

● 1939 - Hans Langsdorff, German naval officer (b. 1894)

● 1944 - Khedive Abbas II of Egypt, (b. 1874)

● 1944 - Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (b. 1856)

● 1946 - Paul Langevin, French physicist (b. 1872)

● 1953 - Robert Millikan, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)

● 1965 - American missionary and apologist Francis Schaeffer wrote in a letter: 'God has given us rules not because He is arbitrary, but because the rules...are fixed in His own character... Thus, when we sin we break the law of God...in the direction of destroying what we really are.'

● 1967 - Harold Holt, seventeenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)

● 1968 - Norman Thomas, American socialist (b. 1884)

● 1982 - Dwight Macdonald, social critic, combative journalist and anarchist (b. 1906)

● 1989 - Stella Gibbons, British author (b. 1902)

● 1991 - Joe Cole (roadie) Actor, author and film-maker (b. 1961)

● 1993 - Michael Clarke, American drummer (The Byrds) (b. 1946)

● 1996 - Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (b. 1924)

● 1997 - Masaru Ibuka, Japanese industrialist (Sony) (b. 1908)

● 1997 - Jimmy Rogers, American blues guitarist (b. 1924)

● 1999 - Desmond Llewelyn, British actor (b. 1914)

● 2000 - Milt Hinton, American jazz double bassist (b. 1910)

● 2000 - Pops Staples, American singer (The Staple Singers) (b. 1915)

● 2001 - Marcel Mule, French saxophonist. (b. 1901)

● 2003 - Peter Carter-Ruck, British lawyer (b. 1914)

● 2003 - Hope Lange, American actress (b. 1931)

● 2004 - Herbert C. Brown, British-born American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)

● 2004 - Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (b. 1922)

● 2005 - Vincent Gigante, American mafioso (b. 1927)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. O Radix
● St. Augustine Moi
● St. Bernard Valeara
● St. Thomas De & Companions
● St. Darius
● St. Dominic Uy
● St. Francis Xavier Mau
● St. Fausta
● St. Manirus
● St. Ribert
● St. Nemesius
● St. Meuris & Thea
● Bl. Francis Man

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 6 (Civil Date: December 19)
● Nativity Fast.
● St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myra in Lycia
● Blessed Maximus, Metropolitan of Kiev.
● New Martyr Nicholas of Karamania in Asia Minor.
● Namesday of Royal Martyr Tsar Nicholas II (1918).

● Roman festivals:
● Opalia

● Hawaii : Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop's Birthday

● This Holiday is only applicable on a given "day of the week":
● World : Underdog Day - ( Friday )

FICTIONAL EVENTS

● 1686 - Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)

● 2003 - the events of the fictional docu-drama The Day Britain Stopped take place.


Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

On This Day Website

Scope Systems Any Day Website

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

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