Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Dec19
Reuters
1907 - More than 230 miners killed in Pennsylvania mine disaster.
1950 - The North Atlantic Council named General Dwight Eisenhower as Supreme Commander for Allied Powers, Europe.
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1965 - Charles de Gaulle won the French presidential election runoff, defeating Francois Mitterrand.
1990 - Lebanese Prime Minister Selim Hoss resigned, clearing the way for the formation of a national reconciliation government including rival warlords.
1996 - The Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni, quintessential Latin lover and star of many Italian and French films, died at his home in Paris, aged 72.
1997 - A Singapore SilkAir Boeing 737 crashed near Palembangare, Indonesia, killing all 104 people on board.
1997 - Veteran South Korean dissident Kim Dae-jung won the presidency in a close vote, succeeding Kim Young-sam.
1999 - Macau ceased to be a Portuguese territory at midnight, reverting to Chinese rule.
1999 - The veteran British character actor Desmond Llewelyn, who played the gadgetry expert 'Q' in a string of James Bond films, died in a car crash. He was 85.
2003 - The British Mars probe Beagle 2 successfully broke free from its mothership, the Mars Express rocket, after a 100 million km journey from Earth.
2005 - Afghanistan's parliament convened for the first time in more than 30 years after decades of bloodshed.
