1154: Henry II is crowned King of England.
1777: The Continental Army, under the command of General George Washington, goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
1843: Charles Dickens' novella "A Christmas Carol" is first published in London.
1900: Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia, John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, resigns after being in office for only four months.
1920: The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
1932: The BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.
1941: Adolf Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army.
1972: Apollo 17, the final Apollo moon mission, lands on the Moon.
1975: John Paul Stevens is appointed as a justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1998: The U.S. House of Representatives forwards articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate.
2016: Andrei Karlov, the Russian ambassador to Turkey, is assassinated in Ankara.
These are just a few notable events that happened on December 19 throughout history.
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