What happend on 19th December

18.12
20.12
1974

The Altair 8800, the first personal computer, goes on sale

1974

Australian Prime Minister, Harold Holt is pronounced dead.

1972

Apollo 17, the last manned lunar flight, returns to Earth.

1965

Prisoners Ronald Ryan and Peter Walker escape from Pentridge Prison, Melbourne. During the escape a guard is killed. Ryan would hang for his death, in 1967.

1963

Zanzibar received its independence from the United Kingdom to become a constitutional monarchy under the sultan.

1962

Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia and Nyasaland

1961

The Indian Army invades the Portuguese province of Estado da India Portuguesa (Portuguese State of India) which will become part of India.

1946

Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi

1945

Austria becomes a republic for the second time, the first having been founded in 1918 and interrupted by the Austro-fascist dictatorship from 1934 onwards and the Nazi invasion of Austria in 1938.

1928

First autogiro flight in the United States