| Date | Weekday | Event |
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| December 19, 1686 | Thursday | Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe) |
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| December 19, 1732 | Friday | Benjamin Frankin begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack" |
| December 19, 1741 | Tuesday | Vitus Bering Dutch navigator & explorer died |
| December 19, 1776 | Thursday | Thomas Paine publishes his 1st `American Crisis' essay |
| December 19, 1777 | Friday | Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge Pa for the winter |
| December 19, 1842 | Monday | US recognized independence of Hawaii |
| December 19, 1843 | Tuesday | Charles Dickens publishes `A Christmas Carol ' in England |
| December 19, 1859 | Monday | Grading started for Market Street RR |
| December 19, 1861 | Thursday | Battle of Black Water |
| December 19, 1889 | Thursday | Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii |
| December 19, 1907 | Thursday | 239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek Penn |
| December 19, 1932 | Monday | British Broadcasting Corp. began transmitting overseas |
| December 19, 1933 | Tuesday | Electric Home & Farm Authority Inc authorized |
| December 19, 1946 | Thursday | War broke out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacked French |
| December 19, 1950 | Tuesday | Gen. Eisenhower named NATO commander |
| December 19, 1957 | Thursday | The Music Man starring Robert Preston opens on Broadway |
| December 19, 1962 | Wednesday | Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission |
| December 19, 1971 | Sunday | NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp |
| December 19, 1972 | Tuesday | Apollo 17 returns to Earth |
| December 19, 1974 | Thursday | Nelson A. Rockefeller was sworn in as the 41st VP |
| December 19, 1977 | Monday | Nellie Tayloe Ross 1st woman governor dies at 101 |
| December 19, 1984 | Wednesday | Fire at the Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people |
| December 19, 1986 | Friday | USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile |