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1 - 18 of 18 Interesting & Fun 19th of December Facts: |
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| 324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor. |
| 1777 - American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. |
| 1828 - Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828. |
| 1835 - The first issue of The Blade newspaper is published in Toledo, Ohio. |
| 1910 - Edward Douglass White is sworn in as the 9th Chief Justice of the United States. |
| 1916 - World War I: Battle of Verdun - On the Western Front, the French Army successfully holds off the German Army and drives it back to its starting position. |
| 1941 - Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army |
| 1961 - India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India. |
| 1963 - Zanzibar receives its independence from the United Kingdom, to become a constitutional monarchy under Sultan Hamoud bin Mohammed. |
| 1965 - Prison guard George Hodson is killed during Ronald Ryan and Peter Walker's escape from HM Prison Pentridge in Coburg, Victoria. |
| 1967 - Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead. |
| 1972 - Project Apollo: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth. |
| 1974 - The Altair 8800 microcomputer kit goes on sale. |
| 1974 - Nelson A. Rockefeller is sworn is as the 41st Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford. |
| 1988 - Lawn darts are banned from sale in the United States by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. |
| 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate. |
| 1999 - Portugal transferred sovereignty of Macau to the People's Republic of China. |
| 2000 - The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, killing one person and injuring three. |
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