December 19: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1606 - The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery depart England carrying settlers who found, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
2. 1776 - Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".
3. 1777 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
4. 1843 - Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol goes on sale.
5. 1932 - BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service
6. 1941 - World War II: Adolf Hitler becomes SupremeCommander-in-chief of the German Army.
7. 1972 - Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight,Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans andHarrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
8. 1975 - John Paul Stevens is appointed a justice of theSupreme Court of the United States.
9. 2001 - A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa(32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl,Mongolia.
10. 2012 - Park Geun-hye becomes the first female electedPresident of South Korea
11. Famous Birthdays: William Bowyer (English printer), John Winthrop (American astronomer and educator), Albert Abraham Michelson (Prussian-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate), édith Piaf (French singer-songwriter and actress), Carter G. Woodson (American historian and author, founded Black History Month)

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