19th December: Today In History

Today is 19th December,  the 353 day of 2015. There are 12 days left in the year. Today's Highlight In History; Birthdays:   1790 William Edward Parry, British Arctic explorer   1902 Sir Ralph Richardson, English Stage and screen actor   1906 Leonid Brezhnev, Former President & General secretary of the Soviet Union   1915 Edith Piaf, French singer   1922 Eamonn Andrews, Irish born TV presenter and broadcaster   1923 Gordon Jackson, Stage & screen actor; TV's 'Upstairs, Downstairs'   1942 Sid Little, Comedian with Eddie Large; 'Little and Large'   1944 Alvin Lee, Of the Pop group 'Ten Years After' Events:   1154 Henry II became King of England   1848 Emily Bronte, the novelist, died from tuberculosis aged 30   1851 The renowned landscape painter, Joseph Turner, died in a lodging house in Chelsea, London   1957 An air service between London and Moscow was inaugurated   1974 Nelson Rockefeller was sworn in as American Vice-President   1984 Ted Hughes was appointed as Poet Laureate   1987 In Seville, Spain, Gary Kasparov retained his title as world chess champion, by beating Anatoly Karpov   1991 In Australia, Bob Hawke was deposed as Prime Minister by his colleagues, and replaced by Paul Keating