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:
  1790William Edward Parry, British Arctic explorer
  1902Sir Ralph Richardson, English Stage and screen actor
  1906Leonid Brezhnev, Former President & General secretary of the Soviet Union
  1915Edith Piaf, French singer
  1922Eamonn Andrews, Irish born TV presenter and broadcaster
  1923Gordon Jackson, Stage & screen actor; TV's 'Upstairs, Downstairs'
  1942Sid Little, Comedian with Eddie Large; 'Little and Large'
  1944Alvin Lee, Of the Pop group 'Ten Years After'

Events:
  1154Henry II became King of England
  1848Emily Bronte, the novelist, died from tuberculosis aged 30
  1851The renowned landscape painter, Joseph Turner, died in a lodging house in Chelsea, London
  1957An air service between London and Moscow was inaugurated
  1974Nelson Rockefeller was sworn in as American Vice-President
  1984Ted Hughes was appointed as Poet Laureate
  1987In Seville, Spain, Gary Kasparov retained his title as world chess champion, by beating Anatoly Karpov
  1991In Australia, Bob Hawke was deposed as Prime Minister by his colleagues, and replaced by Paul Keating

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