Sunday 19 December 2010

On This Day - 19th December


1902 - Ralph Richardson born
1920 - David Susskind born
1933 - Cicely Tyson born
1934 - Al Kaline born
1944 - Tim Reid, Alvin Lee born and Louis Leakey born
1946 - Robert Urich born
1956 - At least six people die and several others are injured in road accidents in thick fog.
1963 - Jennifer Beals born
1965 - Jessica Steen born
1971 - Amy Locane and 1971 Tyson Beckford born
1972 - Ugandan leader General Idi Amin gives British workers an ultimatum to accept reduced pay or be expelled. Also Alyssa Milano born
1979 - Kristanna Loken born
1984 - It is announced that the British colony of Hong Kong is to be returned to China in 1997 after an historic agreement is signed.
1997 - Conservative party leader William Hague marries his fiancée Ffion Jenkins at ceremony in Westminster.
2003 - Libya makes a surprise announcement that it will destroy its arsenal of weapons of mass destruction.

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