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What happened in history on this day: December 19?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On December 19 in ...
- 1984 - The youth media watchdog of the German Federal Republic adds three video games to its list of titles that could not be advertised, and sold only to adults: River Raid cartridge of Activision, Battle-Zone arcade game of Atari, and Speed Racer game for the Commodore 64.
- 1994 - Apple Computer files a write of certiorari with the US Supreme Court asking justices to review the case of Microsoft copyright infringement in Windows.
- 1994 - Kaleida Labs releases Media Player and ScriptX language.
- 1995 - Taligent becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of IBM.
- 1999 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A personal computer appears: system unit, monitor, keyboard, mouse. One child asks another why a toy is destroying other toys. The other child responds "They must have programmed it to eliminate the competition." "You mean like Microsoft?".
- 1925 - Disney completes the 28th Alice Comedy film, Alice's Orphan.
- 1936 - The Silly Symphony film More Kittens is released to theaters.
- 1956 - The ABC TV network airs the Disneyland TV show, entitled the 1956 Christmas Show: A Present for Donald, including portions of the film The Three Caballeros.
- 1958 - The ABC TV network airs the Walt Disney Presents TV show, entitled From All of Us to All of You.
- 1962 - Disney releases the animated short film A Symposium on Popular Songs to theaters.
- 1962 - Buena Vista releases Disney's live-action feature film In Search of the Castaways to theaters in the US. The film is based on the novel Captain Grant's Children by Jules Verne.
- 1965 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, entitled A Country Coyote Goes Hollywood.
- 1971 - The NBC TV network airs The Wonderful World of Disney show, entitled Disney on Parade.
- 1983 - Grenada issues ten postage stamps depicting various Disney characters participating in Olympic sports.
- 1989 - The Gambia issues ten postage stamps depicting various Disney characters and classic automobiles.
- 1990 - Disney withdraws the "Steve the Tramp" doll from the market, after complaints from advocates of homeless people. The doll was part of the Dick Tracy series of toys.
- 1992 - The CBS TV network airs the special program Disney's Christmas Fantasy on Ice.
- 2003 - Touchstone releases the live-action feature film Calendar Girls in theaters in the US.
- 2003 - Disney releases the animated film Destino to theaters in Los Angeles and New York City.
- 1962 - Bunkie Knudsen meets with the General Motors executive committee of Fred Donner, Jack Gordon, Ed Cole, and others. He asks for exclusion of Corvette from the 1957 AMA racing support ban. Donner says he needs time to think about it.
- 1939 - Argentine government issues a decree saying Germans from the Graf Spee are to be interned in Buenos Aires.
- 1941 - By dawn on Hong Kong Island, Japanese forces occupy Mount Parker, Mount Butler, and Jardine's Lookout in the center of the island.
- 1941 - Soviet Colonel Lev Dovator, commander of the 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps is killed in action near the village of Palashkino, west of Moscow.
- 1941 - Adolf Hitler removes General Walther von Brauchitsch as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, assuming the post himself.
- 1941 - Italian Navy Lieutenant Luigi Durand de la Penne sets a torpedo mine under the British battleship HMS Valiant off Alexandria, Egypt. Captured, he informs the captain of the ship ten minutes before the explosion, allowing lower decks to be evacuated. A hole is blown, and the battleship sinks, with no casualties.
- 1942 - German 57th Panzer Corps crosses the Aksai River, reaching the Miskova River, 30 miles from the Soviet siege front around Stalingrad.
- 1944 - (morning) US 101st Airborne Division under Anthony McAuliffe reaches Bastogne, France.
- 1944 - 32 British Lancaster bombers attack the rail centre at Trier.
- 1945 - Russians discover a body buried in an armored shelter in a garden near the Chancellery. A dentist identifies the body as being Adolf Hitler.
- 1994 - Turks and Caicos Islands issues nine postage stamps to mark the 50th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Normandy.
- 1984 - The youth media watchdog of the German Federal Republic adds three video games to its list of titles that could not be advertised, and sold only to adults: River Raid cartridge of Activision, Battle-Zone arcade game of Atari, and Speed Racer game for the Commodore 64.
- 2017 - Square Enix releases the Life Is Strange: Before the Storm - Hell Is Empty video game for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in the USA.
- 1978 - A & W International's "ROOTBEAR" is registered as a service mark.
- 1983 - A proclamation sets the designs of the 1984 commemorative silver dollar, and the regular issue nickel dollar, effective January 1, 1984.
- 1892 - First Columbian half dollar coins are received by World's Columbian Exposition officials.
- 1921 - Commission of Fine Arts announces winner of design competition for Peace dollar: Anthony de Francisci.
- 2007 - The US House of Representatives passes H.R. 2764, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008, which includes authority to strike six 2009 quarter dollars to commemorate the District of Columbia and five territories, and another measure to move the motto "IN GOD WE TRUST" on Presidential dollars from the edge to the obverse or reverse.
- 1887 - Jake Kilrain and Jem Smith fight bare knuckles 106 rounds to a draw.
- 1891 - Canadian Rugby Union forms.
- 1894 - Cricket day five 1T Australia versus England; England 437 all out, Australia need 177 are 2-113.
- 1913 - Jack Johnson fights Jim Johnson to a draw in 10 for heavyweight boxing title.
- 1917 - First NHL game played on artificial ice (Toronto, Ontario, Canada).
- 1917 - Québec Bulldogs play their first professional hockey game.
- 1920 - First US indoor curling rink opens (Brookline, Massachusetts).
- 1924 - Test Cricket debut of Bill Ponsford, who scores 110 in first innings.
- 1931 - Donald Bradman scores 112 Australia versus South Africa at cricket Sydney Cricket Ground.
- 1948 - Cleveland Browns beat Buffalo Bills 49-7 in AAFC championship game.
- 1948 - Philadelphia Eagles shutout Chicago Cardinals 7-0 in NFL championship game.
- 1959 - First Liberty Bowl game-Pennsylvania State beats Alabama 7-0.
- 1974 - Dave Kryskow scores Washington Capitals' first NHL shorthanded goal.
- 1976 - Jo Ann Washam/Chi Chi Rodriguez win Pepsi-Cola Mixed Team Golf Championship.
- 1976 - John Lever takes 7-46 in first Test Cricket innings, versus India Delhi.
- 1976 - Piper Cherokee plane crashes into Baltimore Memorial Stadium upper stands, injuring the pilot and three others, 10 minutes after Baltimore Colts lose 40-14 to Pittsburgh Steelers; no one seriously hurt.
- 1983 - The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro.
- 1984 - Scotty Bowman becomes NHL's all time winningest coach.
- 1984 - Wayne Gretzky, 23, is 18th and youngest NHL player to score 1,000 points.
- 1986 - Jack Morris agrees to salary arbitration with former team Detroit Tigers and accuses owners of collusion against free agency.
- 1986 - Michael Sergio, who parachuted into Shea Stadium during game six of the World Series, sentenced to 100 hours of community service and fined $500.
- 1987 - Boston Bruins' Ken Linseman and Saint Louis Blues' Doug Gilmore score goals, two seconds apart.
- 1988 - Oklahoma's College football team gets three year probation.
- 2021 - At Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., USA, NHL regular season game: Los Angeles Kings beats Washington Capitals by score 3-2.
- 2021 - At Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, USA, NHL regular season game: Pittsburgh Penguins beats New Jersey Devils by score 3-2.
- 2021 - At Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, NHL regular season game: Winnipeg Jets beats Saint Louis Blues by score 4-2.
- 2021 - At UBS Arena in Elmont, New York, USA, NHL regular season game: Vegas Golden Knights beats New York Islanders by score 4-3.
- 1958 - First radio broadcast from space (recorded Christmas message by President Eisenhower: "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth and Good Will to Men Everywhere").
- 1960 - Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight.
- 1962 - Transit 5A1, first operational navigational satellite, launched.
- 1971 - NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp.
- 1972 - The last American manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
- 1988 - NASA unveils plans for lunar colony and manned missions to Mars.
- 1551 - Dutch west coast hit by hurricane.
- 2001 - A new world-record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded in Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia.
- 1776 - Thomas Paine publishes his first "American Crisis" essay, in which he writes, "These are the times that try men's souls".
- 1777 - George Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania for the winter.
- 1795 - First state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky.
- 1823 - Georgia passes first US state birth registration law.
- 1828 - South Carolina declares the right of states to nullify federal laws.
- 1842 - US recognizes independence of Hawaii.
- 1854 - Allen Wilson of Connecticut patents sewing machine to sew curving seams.
- 1862 - Skirmish at Jackson/Salem Church, Tennessee, CSA (80 casualties).
- 1867 - Victims of "Angola Horror" burn to death (Angola, New York).
- 1871 - Albert L Jones (New York City, New York), patents corrugated paper.
- 1903 - Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn and Manhattan, New York.
- 1907 - 239 workers die in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek Pennsylvania.
- 1910 - First US city ordinance requiring white and black residential areas (Baltimore, Maryland).
- 1910 - Rayon fabric is first commercially produced, in Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania.
- 1913 - US Senate passes its version of the Glass-Owen bill (Federal Reserve Act).
- 1919 - American Meteorological Society is founded.
- 1920 - First US indoor curling rink opens (Brookline, Massachusetts).
- 1928 - First autogiro (predecessor of helicopter) flight in US.
- 1930 - James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP.
- 1933 - Electric Home and Farm Authority Inc, authorized.
- 1941 - US Office of Censorship is created to control information pertaining to war.
- 1950 - US General Dwight Eisenhower is named NATO commander.
- 1957 - The Music Man, starring Robert Preston, opens at Majestic Theater in New York City for 1375 performances.
- 1958 - First radio broadcast from space (recorded Christmas message by President Eisenhower: "To all mankind, America's wish for Peace on Earth and Good Will to Men Everywhere").
- 1960 - Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction in Brooklyn, New York (50 die).
- 1960 - Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight.
- 1962 - Transit 5A1, first operational navigational satellite, launched.
- 1971 - The USA devalues the dollar and realigns exchange rates.
- 1971 - NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp.
- 1972 - The last American manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
- 1974 - Nelson A Rockefeller sworn-in as the 41st Vice-President.
- 1975 - John Paul Stevens becomes a US Supreme Court Justice.
- 1976 - Piper Cherokee plane crashes into Baltimore Memorial Stadium upper stands, injuring the pilot and three others, 10 minutes after Baltimore Colts lose 40-14 to Pittsburgh Steelers; no one seriously hurt.
- 1980 - Iran requests US$24 billion in US guarantees to free hostages.
- 1980 - Mutual Broadcasting cancels Sears Radio Theater.
- 1984 - Fire at the Wilberg Mine in central Utah kills 27 people.
- 1988 - NASA unveils plans for lunar colony and manned missions to Mars.
- 1989 - American Airlines purchases Eastern Airline's Latin American route.
- 1994 - A planned exchange rate correction of the Mexican Peso to the US Dollar becomes a massive financial meltdown in Mexico, unleashing the 'Tequila' effect on global financial markets.
- 1994 - The Whitewater scandal investigation begins in Washington, DC.
- 1998 - The US House of Representatives approves two articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, charging him with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice.
- 2007 - An explosion and fire at the T2 Laboratories facility in Jacksonville, Florida kills four and injures 14.
- 2008 - U.S. crude oil prices drop to US$33.87 a barrel, lowest since February 2004.
- 2008 - US President George W. Bush announces US$17.4 billion in emergency loans to U.S. carmakers to prevent a collapse of the industry and save hundreds of thousands of jobs.
Other history:
- 1843 - Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol" in England.
- 1987 - Gari Kasparov becomes world chess champion.
- 1988 - NASA unveils plans for lunar colony and manned missions to Mars.
- 1991 - Boris Yeltsin takes control of Kremlin.
- 1995 - Queen Elizabeth asks Prince Charles and Diana to divorce.
- 2001 - In Argentina, President Fernando de la Rúa and finance minister Domingo Cavallo impose stricter austerity measures. The resulting population revolt is put down by federal police. 21 are killed, 1350 injured.
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