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timeanddate.com Sign in Home On This Day On This Day in History – December 19What Happened on December 19?2012 – First female President of South Korea electedPark Geun-hye is the eleventh President of South Korea and also holds the distinction of being the first female head of state in Northeast Asia. She assumed office in February 2013.1984 – Hong Kong Treaty SignedFormally known as the Joint Declaration of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the People's Republic of China on the Question of Hong Kong, the Sino-British Treaty was signed by Zhao Ziyang of China and Margaret Thatcher of the United Kingdom in Beijing. The treaty decided the fate of Hong Kong as a territory of China from July 1, 1997.1972 – Apollo 17 returns to EarthThe last mission of the United States' Apollo program spent 12 days in space and was the first human spaceflight launched at night from the United States. The three-member crew spent more time orbiting the Moon and on the surface of the Moon than during any other Moon landings. It was also the last time humans set foot on Earth's only natural satellite.1971 – A Clockwork Orange debuts in New York CityThe dystopian film was directed by Stanley Kubrick and was based on a novella of the same name by British author, Anthony Burgess. Based in a futuristic London, the film opened with critical acclaim, though the centrality of violence in it drew a lot of mainstream criticism. Today, the movie is considered to be one of the best movies of the 20th century.1886 – The beginning of Sherlock Holmes' The Adventure of Beryl CoronetThe short detective story written by Arthur Conan Doyle and featuring detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend and assistant Dr. Watson began on this date with the theft of 3 precious crystals from a coronet. The story is the 11th in a series of 12 stories contained in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.Births on December 191980 – Jake GyllenhaalAmerican actor1974 – Ricky PontingAustralian cricketer1967 – Criss AngelAmerican magician1915 – Édith PiafFrench singer-songwriter, actress1906 – Leonid BrezhnevSoviet politicianDeaths on December 192012 – Robert BorkAmerican lawyer, scholar, United States Attorney General2009 – Hussein-Ali MontazeriIranian theologian, scholar, activist2008 – Dock EllisAmerican baseball player2000 – John LindsayAmerican politician, 103rd Mayor of New York City1848 – Emily BrontëEnglish novelistChange Date:
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