Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 19
This is a list of selected December 19 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only 5–6 events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is not generally posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled December 19, 2012 featured article or the December 19, 2012 featured picture.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.
Images
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Coat of arms for Hong Kong, prior to 1997
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Charles Dickens – Project Gutenberg eText 13103.jpg
Charles Dickens
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Bill Clinton
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John C. Calhoun
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Andrei Sakharov
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1154 – Henry II was crowned King of England in London's Westminster Abbey. | {{unreferenced section}}, {{refimprove}} |
| 1920 – Constantine I returned as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander I and a plebiscite. | {{refimprove}} |
| 1984 – The People's Republic of China and the United Kingdom signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration, agreeing to the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong to China on 1 July 1997. | {{refimprove}}, {{cleanup}} |
Eligible
- 1828 – Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun wrote the South Carolina Exposition and Protest to protest the Tariff of 1828.
- 1932 – The BBC's World Service was launched as BBC Empire Service.
- 1956 – Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams was arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 of his patients.
- 1964 – The Army of the Republic of Vietnam, the ruling junta of South Vietnam led by Nguyen Khanh, initiated a coup, dissolving and arresting members of the High National Council, a civilian advisory body.
- 1981 – Sixteen lives were lost when a Penlee lifeboat went to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas off the south-west coast of England.
- 1997 – The film Titanic was released, eventually becoming the then highest-grossing film of all time with a worldwide total of over US$1.8 billion.
December 19: Liberation Day in Goa (1961)
- 1843 – A Christmas Carol (frontispiece pictured) by Charles Dickens, a novella about the miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his conversion after being visited by three Christmas ghosts, was first published.
- 1941 – Second World War: Three Italian Royal Navy divers on manned torpedoes detonated limpet mines on British Royal Navy ships, sinking two battleships.
- 1946 – The First Indochina War began when Viet Minh operatives attacked French military positions and homes in Hanoi.
- 1986 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev released dissident Andrei Sakharov after six years of internal exile in Gorky.
- 1998 – The U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Bill Clinton following the Lewinsky scandal.
More anniversaries: December 18 – December 19 – December 20
