On This Day December 19th

 

December 19th is the three-hundred-fifty-third day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 12 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

1606 – The ships Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery depart England carrying settlers who founded, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.

1776 – Thomas Paine published one of a series of pamphlets entitled "The American Crisis" in The Pennsylvania Journal.

1777 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army enters winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

1828 – Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun sparked the nullification crisis when he anonymously published the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.

1907 – Two hundred thirty-nine coal miners die in the Darr Mine Disaster in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.

1932 – BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.

1972 – Apollo program: The last crewed lunar flight, Apollo 17, carrying Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.

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, Brazil.

2001 – A record-high barometric pressure of 1,085.6 hectopascals (32.06 inHg) was recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl, Mongolia.

Birthdays

 1797 – Antoine Louis Dugès, French obstetrician and naturalist (d. 1838)

1849 – Henry Clay Frick, American businessman and financier (d. 1919)

1894 – Ford Frick, American journalist and businessman (d. 1978)

1906 – Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian-Russian marshal, engineer, and politician, 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)

1918 – Professor Longhair, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1980)

1925 – Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2012)

1944 – Tim Reid, American actor and director

1961 – Reggie White, American football player and wrestler (d. 2004)

1972 – Warren Sapp, American football player and analyst

 

 

Holiday Highlight

Look for an Evergreen Day!

Look for an Evergreen Day that honors the beauty of evergreen trees, established by the National Arborist Association. Unlike the holiday decorations, this day appreciates evergreens in their natural glory!

Evergreens have long been important in various cultures. They symbolize endurance and were essential to Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, who relied on red cedar for clothing and canoes.

Did you know the philosopher Socrates drank hemlock, a type of evergreen? Identifying evergreens is essential, even if you have never faced such a situation!

The first decorated evergreen tree appeared in 1510 in Riga, Latvia, and by the 18th century, decorations like jingle bells and tinsel became popular. Let’s celebrate these remarkable trees!  

Holidays And Observance 

 Holly Day

Look For an Evergreen Day 

National Emo Day 

National Hard Candy Day 

National Oatmeal Muffin Day 

National Re-gifting Day