What happend on 19th December

18.12
20.12
2001

The Argentine economic crisis burst into street riots after the announcement by the economy minister of the measures of holding back the bank deposits.

2001

A new world-record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is set at Tosontsengel, Hövsgöl Aymag, Mongolia.

2001

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, the first film in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, opens in theaters.

2000

The Leninist Guerrilla Units attack a party office of the far-right MHP in Istanbul, Turkey. One MHP member is killed and several wounded.

1998

The U.S. House of Representatives passes articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton over the Lewinsky scandal.

1997

A Silkair Boeing 737-300 crashes into the Musi River, in Sumatra, Indonesia killing 104

1997

Titanic (the highest-grossing movie ever as of 2005) opens in U.S. theaters.

1984

The United Kingdom and People's Republic of China sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration, which handed Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty in 1997.

1980

Anguilla is made a dependency of the United Kingdom separate from Saint Kitts and Nevis

1978

John Wayne Gacy is arrested for the killings of 33 boys and young men