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ELEVEN DAYS

Thankyou to Perter Ferter
If you are reading this, On This Day, you will be aware of the importance of the facts as they happen.
Many things are reported to have happened on this day, which did not happen.  ( This is Fact )

19TH DECEMBER
FEAST DAY OF

"ST TIMOTHY; ST GREGORY OF AUXERRE; ST ANASTASIUS I OF ANTIOCH; & ST NEMESIUS OF ALEXANDRIA."

19TH 401 "ST. ANASTASIUS I" ENDS HIS REIGN AS CATHOLIC POPE.
19TH 1154 "HENRY II" IS CROWNED KING OF ENGLAND.
19TH 1686 THE DATE NOVELIST, "DANIEL DEFOE" GAVE US FOR "ROBINSON CRUSOE" LEAVING HIS ISLAND.
19TH 1854 "ALLEN WILSON" OF CONNECTICUT, PATENTS A SEWING MACHINE TO SEW AROUND CURVING SEAMS.
19TH 1871 "ALBERT JONES" OF NEW YORK, PATENTS CORRUGATED PAPER.
19TH 1872 A SCOTCH COLLIE NAMED, "KELPIE", WINS THE FIRST SHEEP DOG TRIALS.
THE START OF A NEW BREED OF DOG.
19TH 1887 "JAKE KILRAIN" & "JEM SMITH" FIGHT A 106 ROUND, BARE-KNUCKLE DRAW.
19TH 1907 NSW LEGISLATES TO INTRODUCE THE WORLD’S FIRST NON CONTRIBUTORY INVALID PENSION; STARTING 1-1-1908.
19TH 1922 "MRS THERES VAUGHN" 24, CONFESSED IN COURT TO BEING MARRIED 62 TIMES.
19TH 1953 EQUIPMENT FAILURE LED TO A FATAL CRASH AT SYDENHAM, NSW, WHEN A TRAIN HIT A STATIONARY LOCOMOTIVE, KILLING 5 PEOPLE.
19TH 1955 "CARL PERKINS" RECORDED ‘BLUE SUEDE SHOES’ IN MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.
19TH 1961 A HIJACKED U.S. PLANE IS FORCED TO LAND IN CUBA.
IT IS THE FIRST TIME A HIJACK HAS BEEN CARRIED THROUGH TO COMPLETION.
19TH 1968 THE BREATHALISER IS INTRODUCED IN NSW.
19TH 1999 BRITISH ACTOR, "DESMOND LLEWELYN" 85, WHO PLAYED "Q" IN SEVENTEEN "JAMES BOND" MOVIES, WAS KILLED IN A HEAD-ON CAR CRASH NEAR FIRLE, ENGLAND.
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