Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 19

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 * 1154 – Henry II was crowned king of England in Westminster Abbey, London.
 * 1675 – King Philip's War: In the Great Swamp Fight, the colonial militia of New England and their Pequot allies attacked a Narragansett fort in Rhode Island, killing many warriors and hundreds of non-combatants.
 * 1776 – Thomas Paine published the first in a series of pamphlets entitled The American Crisis, opening with the line: "These are the times that try men's souls."
 * 1956 – British physician and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams was arrested in connection with the death of Edith Alice Morrell.
 * 1964 – The ruling junta of South Vietnam, led by Nguyễn Khánh, initiated a coup, dissolving the High National Council, a civilian advisory body.
 * 1984 – 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.
 * 1985 – Aeroflot Flight 101/435 was hijacked by the co-pilot and landed in a cow pasture in China, where he was apprehended.
 * 1997 – Titanic, the third-highest-grossing film of all time, with a worldwide total of more than US$1.8 billion, was released in the United States.
 * 2016 – Andrei Karlov (pictured), Russia's ambassador to Turkey, was assassinated at an art gallery in Ankara.
 * 2022 – Argentina won the 2022 World Cup.


 * Born/died: | Pope Urban V |d|1370| Vitus Bering |d|1741| Mary Livermore |b|1820| J. M. W. Turner |d|1851|  Mileva Marić |b|1875| Grace Marie Bareis |b|1875| Ann Bishop |b|1899| Ashfaqulla Khan |d|1927 Phil Ochs |b|1940| Jake Gyllenhaal |b|1980| Stella Gibbons |d|1989

December 19


 * 1828 – Nullification crisis: American vice president John C. Calhoun's South Carolina Exposition and Protest, written to protest the Tariff of Abominations, was presented to the South Carolina House of Representatives.
 * 1843 – A Christmas Carol (illustration pictured), a novella by Charles Dickens about the miser Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation after being visited by ghosts, was published.
 * 1983 – The Jules Rimet Trophy, awarded to the winner of the FIFA World Cup, was stolen from the offices of the Brazilian Football Confederation.
 * 1997 – SilkAir Flight 185 crashed into the Musi River in Indonesia, killing 104 people.
 * 2013 – The European Space Agency's spacecraft Gaia was launched with the goal of constructing the largest and most precise star catalogue ever made.