domingo, 19 de diciembre de 2010

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On This Day in HistorySunday, December 19th
The 353rd day of 2010.
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On Dec. 19, 1984, Britain and China signed an accord returning Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997. (Go to article.)On Dec. 191906Leonid Brezhnev,the Soviet statesman who was the leader of the Soviet Union for 18 years, was born. Following his death on Nov. 101982his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. |Other Birthdays)
Editorial Cartoon of the Day

On December 19, 1863Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about a Union drummer boy during the Civil War.  (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)

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1732Benjamin Franklin began publishing "Poor Richard's Almanac."
1776Thomas Paine published his first "American Crisis" essay, writing: "These are the times that try men's souls."
1777Gen. George Washington led his army of about 11,000 men to Valley Forge, Pa., to camp for the winter.
1843Charles Dickens' Yuletide tale, "A Christmas Carol," was first published in Britain.
1907A coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pa., killed 239 workers.
1946War broke out in Indochina as troops under Ho Chi Minh launched widespread attacks against the French.
1972Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, ending the Apollo program of manned lunar landings.
1974Nelson A. Rockefeller was sworn in as vice president, replacing Gerald R. Ford, who became president when Richard M. Nixon resigned.
1986The Soviet Union announced it had freed dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile and pardoned his wife, Yelena Bonner.
1997"Titanic," the second highest-grossing movie of all time, opened in American theaters.
1998President Bill Clinton was impeached by the House of Representatives for perjury and obstruction of justice. (He was later acquitted by the Senate.)
2000The U.N. Security Council voted to impose broad sanctions on Afghanistan's Taliban rulers unless they closed terrorist training camps and surrendered U.S. embassy bombing suspect Osama bin Laden.
2003Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi agreed to halt his nation's drive to develop nuclear and chemical weapons.
2005Afghanistan's first democratically elected parliament in more than three decades convened.

Current Birthdays
Jake Gyllenhaal turns 30years old today.

AP Photo/Evan Agostini Actor Jake Gyllenhaal turns 30 years old today.

77Cicely Tyson
Actress
76Al Kaline
Baseball Hall of Famer
69Maurice White
R&B musician (Earth, Wind and Fire)
67James Jones
Former national security adviser
67Elaine Joyce
Actress
66Richard E. Leakey
Palaeontologist
66Alvin Lee
Rock singer (Ten Years After)
66Tim Reid
Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati")
55Rob Portman
Former White House budget director
53Kevin McHale
Basketball Hall of Famer
50Mike Lookinland
Actor ("The Brady Bunch")
47Jennifer Beals
Actress
46Randall McDaniel
Football Hall of Famer
43Criss Angel
Magician
41Kristy Swanson
Actress
39Amy Locane
Actress
38Alyssa Milano
Actress ("Charmed," "Who's the Boss?")
38Warren Sapp
Football player
25Lady Sovereign
Rapper
Historic Birthdays
Leonid Brezhnev
 
12/19/1906 - 11/10/1982
Russian statesman 

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80Charles-Julien Brianchon
12/19/1783 - 4/29/1864
French mathematician

55Edwin Stanton
12/19/1814 - 12/24/1869
American Secretary of War under President Lincoln

78A.A. Michelson
12/19/1852 - 5/9/1931
German-born American physicist

83Barry Byrne
12/19/1883 - 12/17/1967
American architect

74Fritz Reiner
12/19/1888 - 11/15/1963
Hungarian-born American conductor

80Sir Ralph Richardson
12/19/1902 - 10/10/1983
English actor

92George Davis Snell
12/19/1903 - 6/6/1996
American geneticist and Nobel Prize winner

75Jean Genet
12/19/1910 - 4/15/1986
French novelist

47Edith Piaf
12/19/1915 - 10/11/1963
French singer and actress

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