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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