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 |
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