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19 December, 2003
Nepal financial crisis leads hundreds to protest outside of presidential palace.
19 December, 2001
The fire at the World Trade Center, as a result of the September 11, 2001 attacks, is finally extinguished after three months.
19 December, 2001
A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia.
19 December, 2001
Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riots - Riots erupt in Buenos Aires after Domingo Cavallos corralito measures restrict the withdrawal of cash from bank deposits.
19 December, 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.
19 December, 1998
Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate.
19 December, 1997
Silkair Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
19 December, 1984
The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that the Peoples 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.
19 December, 1983
The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janiero.
19 December, 1981
Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.
19 December, 1972
Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
19 December, 1967
Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.
19 December, 1965
Prison guard George Hodson is killed during Ronald Ryan and Peter Walkers escape from HM Prison Pentridge in Coburg, Victoria.
19 December, 1963
Zanzibar receives its independence from the United Kingdom, to become a constitutional monarchy under Sultan Hamoud bin Mohammed.
19 December, 1961
India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.
19 December, 1941
Adolf Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army
19 December, 1920
King Constantine I restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander I of Greece and a plebescite.
19 December, 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.
19 December, 1912
William H. Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison.
19 December, 1843
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, is first published in England.
19 December, 1835
The first issue of The Blade newspaper is published in Toledo, Ohio.
19 December, 1828
Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.
19 December, 1777
American Revolutionary War: George Washingtons Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
19 December, 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.
19 December, 1154
Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey
19 December, 324
Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor.

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