Sunday, December 19, 2010

December 19

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1. 211 Publius Septimius Geta, co-emperor of Rome, is lured to come without his bodyguards to meet his brother Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Caracalla), to discuss a possible reconciliation. When he arrives the Praetorian Guard murders him and he dies in the arms of his mother Julia Domna. New Order Murder Substance
2. 1606 The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery depart England carrying settlers who found, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States. The Postal Service Brand New Colony Give Up
3. 1828 Nullification CrisisVice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828. Boduf Songs Absolutely Null and Utterly Void This Alone Above All Else in Spite of Everything
4. 1900 Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appointed Sir William Lyne as premier of the new state New South Wales, but he was unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and was forced to resign. The Posies Golden Blunder Dream All Day
5. 1941 World War IIAdolf Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army. Dave Greenslade Mischief The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony
6. 2001 A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at TosontsengelKhövsgöl ProvinceMongolia. Queen and David Bowie Under Pressure Hot Space

(Historical facts about December 19 are from Wikipedia.)

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