What are the important events that happened on December 19? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

December 19: Facts & Myths About This Day

December 19 is the 353^rd day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 12 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 6, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 490,584 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectapentacontatrigon’ day.

Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 60 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,746 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

December 19 Historical Events

• 1154 –
  Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
• 1776 –
  Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in the Pennsylvania Journal titled The American Crisis.
• 1828 –
  Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.
• 1924 –
  The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
• 1946 –
  Start of the First Indochina War.
• 1956 –
  Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.
• 1963 –
  Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah.
• 1972 –
  Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
• 1984 –
  The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that the People’s Republic of China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997 is signed in Beijing by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.
• 1986 –
  Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky.

Who were born on December 19?

• 1920 –
  Little Jimmy Dickens, American country singer
• 1923 –
  Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor (d. 1990)
• 1924 –
  Carlo Chiti, Italian race car engineer (d. 1994)
• 1948 –
  Ken Brown, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1957 –
  Cyril Collard, French film director (d. 1993)
• 1965 –
  Chito Martínez, Belizean baseball player
• 1972 –
  Alyssa Milano, American actress
• 1975 –
  Makis Belevonis, Greek footballer
• 1975 –
  Russell Branyan, American baseball player
• 1980 –
  Iman Ali, Pakistani model and actress

Who died on December 19?

• 211 –
  Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor (b. 189)
• 401 –
  Pope Anastasius I
• 1111 –
  Al-Ghazali, Islamic philosopher (b. 1058)
• 1737 –
  James Louis Sobieski, son of John III Sobieski, and pretender to the throne of Poland (b. 1667)
• 1814 –
  Joseph Bramah, British inventor and locksmith (b. 1748)
• 1848 –
  Emily Brontë, English author (b. 1818)
• 2002 –
  Arthur Rowley, English footballer (b. 1926)
• 2003 –
  Hope Lange, American actress (b. 1933)
• 2004 –
  Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (b. 1922)
• 2008 –
  Dock Ellis, American baseball pitcher (b. 1945)