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December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 12 days remaining.

Events

1732 - Benjamin Franklin publishes Poor Richard's Almanack
1777 - George Washington's army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
1842 - United States recognizes the independence of Hawaii
1928 - First autogiro flight in the United States
1945 - Austria becomes a republic for the second time, the first having been interupted by the Nazi invasion of Austria in the mid 1930s.
1946 - Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi
1962 - Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia and Nyasaland
1972 - Apollo 17, the last manned lunar flight, returns to Earth.
1974 - The Altair 8800, the first personal computer, goes on sale
1978 - John Wayne Gacy is arrested for the killings of 33 boys and young men
1980 - Anguilla is made a dependency of the United Kingdom separate from St. Kitt's
1984 - The United Kingdom and People's Republic of China sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which handed Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.
1997 - A SilkAir Boeing 737-300 crashes into the Musi River, in Sumatra, Indonesia killing 104

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