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December 19
1732 - Benjamin Franklin began publishing Poor Richard's Almanac.
1776 - Thomas Paine published his first American Crisis essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls."
1777 - Gen. George Washington led his army of about 11,000 men to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to camp for the winter.
1843 - Charles Dickens published "A Christmas Carol".
1907 - A coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania, killed 239 workers.
1946 - War broke out in Indochina when Ho Chi Minh attacked the French.
1950 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was named commander of the military forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
1972 - Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, ending the Apollo program of manned lunar landings.
1974 - Nelson A. Rockefeller was sworn in as vice president, replacing Gerald R. Ford, who had become president upon the resignation of Richard Nixon.
1975 - John Paul Stevens was sworn in as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1984 - Britain and China signed an accord returning Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997.
1986 - The 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.
1998 - President Bill Clinton was impeached on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice by a divided House of Representatives, which recommended virtually along party lines that the Senate remove the nation's 42nd president from office. (Clinton was later acquitted in the Senate.)
2000 - The 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.
2001 - The fires that had burned beneath the ruins of the World Trade Center in New York City for the previous three months were declared extinguished except for a few scattered hot spots.
2003 - Muammar al-Qaddafi of Libya announced that his country would discontinue development of weapons of mass destruction.
2003 - Design plans were unveiled for the signature skyscraper -- a 1,776-foot tall glass tower -- at the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.
2005 - Afghanistan's first democratically elected parliament in more than three decades convened.
2008 - Citing imminent danger to the national economy, President George W. Bush ordered an emergency bailout of the U.S. auto industry.
2014 - President Barack Obama said Sony Pictures Entertainment “made a mistake” in shelving “The Interview,” a satirical film about a plot to assassinate North Korea’s leader; Sony defended its decision, saying it had no choice but to cancel the film’s Christmas Day theatrical release because the country’s top theater chains had pulled out in the face of threats.
2018 - President Donald Trump announced that all 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria would be leaving that country, a move that sparked alarm and outrage from Republican lawmakers and prompted the resignation of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis; Trump explained the decision by declaring victory against the Islamic State group.
Birthdays
26 - Nik Dodani (actor)
28 - Jenelle Evans (reality star)
32 - Ronan Farrow (journalist)
33 - Jade Roper (reality star)
34 - Lady Sovereign (rapper)
39 - Marla Sokoloff (actress)
39 - Jake Gyllenhaal (actor)
40 - Tara Summers (actress)
47 - Alyssa Milano (actress)
47 - Rosa Blasi (actress)
47 - Warren Sapp (football player)
48 - Amy Locane (actress)
49 - Tyson Beckford (model)
50 - Kristy Swanson (actress)
51 - Derek Webster (actor)
51 - Kevin Shepard (musician)
51 - Elvis Nolasco (actor)
51 - Ken Marino (actor)
52 - Criss Angel (magician)
53 - Robert MacNaughton (actor)
56 - Jennifer Beals (actress)
58 - Scott Cohen (actor)
59 - Mike Lookinland (actor)
72 - Janie Fricke (singer)
75 - Tim Reid (actor)
76 - Elaine Joyce (actress)
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Today in Sports History - December 19
1887 - Jake Kilrain and Jim Smith fought in a bare knuckles fight which lasted 106 rounds and 2 hours and 30 minutes. The fight was ruled a draw and was halted due to darkness.
1917 - The first regular season games of the new National Hockey League (NHL) were played. Five teams made up the league Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, the Montreal Canadiens and the Montreal Wanderers. Quebec did not actually begin operations until two years later. Dave Ritchie (Montreal Wanderers) scored the first goal in NHL history.
1948 - The Cleveland Browns defeat the Buffalo Bills 49-7 in the AAFC Championship Game.
1948 - The Philadelphia Eagles defeat the Chicago Cardinals 7-0 in the NFL Championship Game.
1959 - Penn State defeated Alabama 7-0 in the first Liberty Bowl.
1964 - ABC used an overhead camera to televise a sporting event for the first time at the Liberty Bowl.
1979 - ESPN televised its first NHL game, a matchup between the Washington Capitals and the Hartford Whalers.
1983 - The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro.
1984 - Wayne Gretzky, 23, of the Edmonton Oilers, became only the 18th player in the National Hockey League (NHL) to score more than 1,000 points. He did it in his 424th career game. The previous record was held by Guy Lafleur who did it in 720 games.
1984 - Scotty Bowman became the NHL's all time winningest coach with his 691st victory.
1985 - Jan Stenerud announced his retirement from the NFL. The football kicker held the record for the most career field goals with 373.
1985 - ABC Sports announced it was severing ties with sportscaster Howard Cosell and released "The Mouth" from all TV commitments. (Cosell continued on ABC Radio for another five years.)
1988 - The NCAA placed the University of Oklahoma football program on probation for three years for violations.
1990 - Bo Jackson of the Los Angeles Raiders was named to the Pro Bowl, becoming the first athlete to be named to the All-Star Game in two different major professional sports leagues after having been named to the MLB All-Star Game as a member of the Kansas City Royals.
1999 - Orlando Brown (Cleveland Browns) was ejected from a game for pushing referee Jeff Triplette to the ground. Triplette had accidentally hit Brown in the eye with a weighted penalty flag.
2003 - The baseball that was deflected by a fan in the stands during a Chicago Cubs game was sold for $106,600 at auction. The foul ball appeared to be headed for the glove of left fielder Moises Alou in Game 6 of the National League Championship series. The Florida Marlins ended up winning the game 8-3. The Cubs then lost Game 7.
2010 - In the "Miracle at the Meadowlands", the Philadelphia Eagles trail the New York Giants by 21 points with eight minutes to play, before scoring four touchdowns in the final seven minutes, including a dramatic walk-off punt return for a touchdown by DeSean Jackson.
2018 - The Houston Rockets set an NBA single-game record with 26 three-pointers in a 136-118 victory over the Washington Wizards; eight players hit from deep as the Rockets shot 26-of-55 (47.3%) from behind the arc.
1732 - Benjamin Franklin began publishing Poor Richard's Almanac.
1776 - Thomas Paine published his first American Crisis essay, in which he wrote, "These are the times that try men's souls."
1777 - Gen. George Washington led his army of about 11,000 men to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to camp for the winter.
1843 - Charles Dickens published "A Christmas Carol".
1907 - A coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania, killed 239 workers.
1946 - War broke out in Indochina when Ho Chi Minh attacked the French.
1950 - Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was named commander of the military forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
1972 - Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, ending the Apollo program of manned lunar landings.
1974 - Nelson A. Rockefeller was sworn in as vice president, replacing Gerald R. Ford, who had become president upon the resignation of Richard Nixon.
1975 - John Paul Stevens was sworn in as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1984 - Britain and China signed an accord returning Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty on July 1, 1997.
1986 - The 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.
1998 - President Bill Clinton was impeached on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice by a divided House of Representatives, which recommended virtually along party lines that the Senate remove the nation's 42nd president from office. (Clinton was later acquitted in the Senate.)
2000 - The 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.
2001 - The fires that had burned beneath the ruins of the World Trade Center in New York City for the previous three months were declared extinguished except for a few scattered hot spots.
2003 - Muammar al-Qaddafi of Libya announced that his country would discontinue development of weapons of mass destruction.
2003 - Design plans were unveiled for the signature skyscraper -- a 1,776-foot tall glass tower -- at the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.
2005 - Afghanistan's first democratically elected parliament in more than three decades convened.
2008 - Citing imminent danger to the national economy, President George W. Bush ordered an emergency bailout of the U.S. auto industry.
2014 - President Barack Obama said Sony Pictures Entertainment “made a mistake” in shelving “The Interview,” a satirical film about a plot to assassinate North Korea’s leader; Sony defended its decision, saying it had no choice but to cancel the film’s Christmas Day theatrical release because the country’s top theater chains had pulled out in the face of threats.
2018 - President Donald Trump announced that all 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria would be leaving that country, a move that sparked alarm and outrage from Republican lawmakers and prompted the resignation of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis; Trump explained the decision by declaring victory against the Islamic State group.
Birthdays
26 - Nik Dodani (actor)
28 - Jenelle Evans (reality star)
32 - Ronan Farrow (journalist)
33 - Jade Roper (reality star)
34 - Lady Sovereign (rapper)
39 - Marla Sokoloff (actress)
39 - Jake Gyllenhaal (actor)
40 - Tara Summers (actress)
47 - Alyssa Milano (actress)
47 - Rosa Blasi (actress)
47 - Warren Sapp (football player)
48 - Amy Locane (actress)
49 - Tyson Beckford (model)
50 - Kristy Swanson (actress)
51 - Derek Webster (actor)
51 - Kevin Shepard (musician)
51 - Elvis Nolasco (actor)
51 - Ken Marino (actor)
52 - Criss Angel (magician)
53 - Robert MacNaughton (actor)
56 - Jennifer Beals (actress)
58 - Scott Cohen (actor)
59 - Mike Lookinland (actor)
72 - Janie Fricke (singer)
75 - Tim Reid (actor)
76 - Elaine Joyce (actress)
==============================
Today in Sports History - December 19
1887 - Jake Kilrain and Jim Smith fought in a bare knuckles fight which lasted 106 rounds and 2 hours and 30 minutes. The fight was ruled a draw and was halted due to darkness.
1917 - The first regular season games of the new National Hockey League (NHL) were played. Five teams made up the league Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, the Montreal Canadiens and the Montreal Wanderers. Quebec did not actually begin operations until two years later. Dave Ritchie (Montreal Wanderers) scored the first goal in NHL history.
1948 - The Cleveland Browns defeat the Buffalo Bills 49-7 in the AAFC Championship Game.
1948 - The Philadelphia Eagles defeat the Chicago Cardinals 7-0 in the NFL Championship Game.
1959 - Penn State defeated Alabama 7-0 in the first Liberty Bowl.
1964 - ABC used an overhead camera to televise a sporting event for the first time at the Liberty Bowl.
1979 - ESPN televised its first NHL game, a matchup between the Washington Capitals and the Hartford Whalers.
1983 - The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro.
1984 - Wayne Gretzky, 23, of the Edmonton Oilers, became only the 18th player in the National Hockey League (NHL) to score more than 1,000 points. He did it in his 424th career game. The previous record was held by Guy Lafleur who did it in 720 games.
1984 - Scotty Bowman became the NHL's all time winningest coach with his 691st victory.
1985 - Jan Stenerud announced his retirement from the NFL. The football kicker held the record for the most career field goals with 373.
1985 - ABC Sports announced it was severing ties with sportscaster Howard Cosell and released "The Mouth" from all TV commitments. (Cosell continued on ABC Radio for another five years.)
1988 - The NCAA placed the University of Oklahoma football program on probation for three years for violations.
1990 - Bo Jackson of the Los Angeles Raiders was named to the Pro Bowl, becoming the first athlete to be named to the All-Star Game in two different major professional sports leagues after having been named to the MLB All-Star Game as a member of the Kansas City Royals.
1999 - Orlando Brown (Cleveland Browns) was ejected from a game for pushing referee Jeff Triplette to the ground. Triplette had accidentally hit Brown in the eye with a weighted penalty flag.
2003 - The baseball that was deflected by a fan in the stands during a Chicago Cubs game was sold for $106,600 at auction. The foul ball appeared to be headed for the glove of left fielder Moises Alou in Game 6 of the National League Championship series. The Florida Marlins ended up winning the game 8-3. The Cubs then lost Game 7.
2010 - In the "Miracle at the Meadowlands", the Philadelphia Eagles trail the New York Giants by 21 points with eight minutes to play, before scoring four touchdowns in the final seven minutes, including a dramatic walk-off punt return for a touchdown by DeSean Jackson.
2018 - The Houston Rockets set an NBA single-game record with 26 three-pointers in a 136-118 victory over the Washington Wizards; eight players hit from deep as the Rockets shot 26-of-55 (47.3%) from behind the arc.