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Events on December 19

• 1843 The Englishman Charles Dickens publishes the novel A Christmas Carol (A Christmas Carol).
• 1909 The football club Borussia Dortmund is founded.
• 1932 On a trial run, the Flying Hamburger covers the route between Berlin and Hamburg in a record time of 142 minutes. The high-speed railcar enters scheduled service on 15 May 1933.
• 1938 Otto Hahn and Fritz Straßmann search for transuranium elements in a uranium sample irradiated with neutrons and find traces of the element barium. Hahn informs Lise Meitner by letter about the phenomenon, inexplicable to him, surrounding the discovery of nuclear fission.
• 1945 In Vienna, the Austrian State Chancellor Karl Renner opens the first session of the National Council and the Federal Council after the Second World War.
• 1969 The feature film Easy Rider, by and starring Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda, premieres in cinemas in the Federal Republic of Germany. The premiere was on 8 May at the film festival in Cannes.
• 1972 With Apollo 17, the most recent people to have set foot on the Moon return to Earth.
• 1982 In the snap elections to the Hamburg State Parliament, the SPD regains an absolute majority under First Mayor Klaus von Dohnanyi.
• 1996 The American science fiction film Star Trek: The Motion Picture opens in German cinemas.
• 1998 The House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., votes in favor of an impeachment complaint against U.S. President Bill Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of the U.S. Congress.
• 2013 The ESA's European space telescope Gaia is launched.
• 2016 In an attack carried out with a truck on the Berlin Christmas market at the Church of Remembrance, twelve people are killed and 57 others are injured.

Born on December 19

• 1875 Mileva Marić, Serbian mathematician and physicist
• 1894 Paul Dessau, German composer and conductor
• 1901 Rudolf Hell, German inventor
• 1910 Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright and poet
• 1932 Bernhard Vogel, German politician
• 1950 Jürgen Fuchs, German writer and civil rights activist in the GDR
• 1963 Jennifer Beals, American actress
• 1972 Alyssa Milano, American actress, producer and singer
• 1980 Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor
• 1992 Iker Muniain, Spanish footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „19. Dezember“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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