December 19 holidays, events, history
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 Birthday of Linoleum.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇮🇳 India – Liberation Day of Goa.
🇦🇮 Anguilla – National Heroes’ Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1154 – Henry II ascended the throne in Westminster Abbey.
– 1783 – William Pitt became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the age of 24.
– 1863 – Englishman Frederick Walton patented linoleum.
– 1884 – The first Russian-style school was opened in the courtyard of Said Ghani Azimboyev, the son of merchant Saidazim, in the Shaykhantohur village of Tashkent.
– 1917 – The first regular championship of the Canadian National Hockey League began.
– 1946 – The beginning of the French war in Indochina.
– 1961 – India annexed the state of Goa.
– 1965 – Charles de Gaulle was elected President of France.
– 1972 – The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft returned to Earth from the lunar expedition.
– 1983 – The crime that was called the “theft of the century” in the world of sports was committed in Rio de Janeiro.
– 1984 – Great Britain and China concluded an agreement on the accession of Hong Kong to China.
– 1991 – The Republic of Peru recognized the sovereignty of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
– 1991 – The last Order of the Red Star was awarded to its holder.
– 1994 – An agreement was signed in Tashkent on the accession of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
– 1997 – The most profitable film of the 20th century – “Titanic” was released.
– 2001 – The world premiere of the film “The Lord of the Rings” began.
– 2010 – Alexander Lukashenko won again in the presidential elections in Belarus.
– 2013 – The European Space Agency launched the Gaia space telescope into orbit.
– 2016 – Russian Ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov was assassinated at an art exhibition in Ankara.
– 2016 – A terrorist attack occurred at a Christmas market in Berlin.
– 2017 – Lakota tribal activists declared the creation of an independent Lakota Republic.
