What happened today, and who was born/died

BIRTHS
12/19/1790	Sir William Parry, British Arctic explorer
12/19/1849	Henry Clay Frick, industrialist; worked for Carnegie.
12/19/1852	Albert Michelson, took the measure of light, (Nobel 1907).
EVENTS
12/19/	Underdog Day
12/19/1686	Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
12/19/1732	Benjamin Frankin begins publication of 'Poor Richard's Almanack'
12/19/1777	Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge for the winter.
12/19/1842	US recognizes the independence of Hawaii
12/19/1889	Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii.
12/19/1932	the BBC begins transmitting overseas.
12/19/1946	War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks the French.
12/19/1971	NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp
12/19/1986	USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile

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