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19 Important Events of December
1927: Revolutionaries Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqullah Khan were hanged by the British government.
1941: World War II – Adolf Hitler becomes Commander-in-Chief of the German Army.
1961: The Portuguese-held provinces of Daman and Diu were annexed to India.
1963: Zanzibar gained independence from the United Kingdom and the monarchy of Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah came into being.
1983: The FIFA World Cup was stolen from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2002: V. N. Khare served as the 33rd Chief Justice of India.
1961: Goa Liberation Day.
19 Born in December
1852: Birth of Albert Michelson, German-American physicist who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the measurement of light by spectroscopy. (Died: 9 May 1931)
1894: Birth of Padma Bhushan and nationalist industrialist Kasturbhai Lalbhai. (Death: 20 January 1980)
1899: Birth of Martin Luther King, a lifelong civil rights leader. (Died: 11 November 1984)
1906: Birth of Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Russia. (Death: 10 November 1982)
1919: Birth of character actor Omprakash Bakshi alias Omprakash. (Death: 21 February 1919)
1934: Birth of Pratibha Patil, the 12th and first woman President of India.
1966: Indian cricketer Rajesh Chauhan born.
1969: Birth of Indian cricketer Nayan Mongia.
1974: Birth of Australian cricket captain and batsman Ricky Ponting.
19 December Death
1848: English writer Emily Bront died. (Born: 30 July 1818)
1860: Death of Lord James Andrew Brown Ramsay – Dalhousie, Governor General of India. (Born: 22 April 1812)
1915: German neurologist Alois Alzheimer dies. (Born: 14 June 1864)
1927: Death of revolutionary Ram Prasad Bismil. (Born: 11 June 1897)
1927: Death of revolutionary Ashfaqula Khan. (Born: 22 October 1900)
1997: Dr. Freedom Fighter, Philosopher, President of Maharashtra State Board of Literature and Culture. Surendra Barlinge passed away. (Born: 20 July 1919)
1997: Sony co-founder Masaru Ibaku dies. (Born: 11 April 1908)
1998: Singer Janardhan Vitthal and J. L. Ranade passed away.
1999: Death of Ranji and Test cricketers, skilled sports organizers Hemchandra Tukaram and Bal Dani. (Born: 24 May 1933).
2014: Indian journalist and director S. Balasubramaniam passed away. (Born: 28 December 1935)
Other important and special events in the month of December
Architect of Indian Constitution Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar passed away. (Born: 14 April 1891)
Date: 6 December 1956
Establishment of SAARC Council.
Dated: 8 December 1985
First meeting of Constitutional Council in Delhi.
Dated: 9 December 1946
Establishment of UNICEF.
Dated: 11 December 1946
Birth of the great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. (Died: 26 April 1920)
Date: 22 December 1887
28 countries jointly established World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
Date: 27 December 1945
World AIDS Day.
Date: 1 December 1988
National Pollution Control Day.
Dated: 2nd December 1984
World Disability Day.
Dated: 3rd December 1992
Accessible India Campaign.
Dated : 3rd December 2015
Indian Navy Day.
Date: 4 December 1971
World Soil Day.
Dated: 5th December 2014
Human Rights Day.
Date: 10 December 1948
Establishment of UNHCR.
Date: 14 December 1950
Goa Liberation Day.
Date: 19 December 1961
Indian Consumer Day.
Date: 24 December 1986
Establishment of Muslim League.
Dated: 30th December 1906