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 Crisis: Vice 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 II: Adolf 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 Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl Province, Mongolia.	Queen and David Bowie	Under Pressure	Hot Space

(Historical facts about December 19 are from Wikipedia.)