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Historical events & facts — December 19
What happened on December 19?
On December 19, 1998, the US House of Representatives approved two articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice, related to the scandal of his affair with intern Monica Lewinsky. The Senate acquitted Clinton in February 1999. Clinton is the second American president to have faced impeachment proceedings.
On December 19, 1984, Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration in Beijing, under which the United Kingdom agreed to return Hong Kong to China on July 1, 1997. The agreement established the principle of "one country, two systems" to guarantee Hong Kong's freedoms for 50 years.
On December 19, 1686, English astronomer Edmond Halley published in Philosophical Transactions the data from his observations of the comet that bears his name, demonstrating that the comets of 1531, 1607 and 1682 were in fact the same celestial body with a 75-76 year orbit. Halley predicted its return for 1758, which proved correct, 16 years after his death.
Notable birthdays — December 19
Famous people born on December 19
Carter G. Woodson
Carter Godwin Woodson was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)
David Susskind
David Howard Susskind was an American producer of TV, movies, and stage plays in addition to being a TV talk show host
Fikret Otyam
Fikret Otyam was a Turkish painter and journalist.
Christopher Smout
Thomas Christopher Smout is an English academic, historian, author and Historiographer Royal in Scotland.
Mitchell Feigenbaum
Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum was an American mathematical physicist whose pioneering studies in chaos theory led to the discovery of the Feigenbaum constants.
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