This Day In History

December 19th

1917  The first games of the new National Hockey League played.
1959  The last surviving veteran of the US Civil War, Walter Williams, died in Houston, Texas at the age of 117.
1998  US President William Jefferson Clinton is impeached for obstruction of justice, not for having sexual affairs with Whitehouse intern Monica Lewinsky, but for lying about it.
1999 Massive mudslides and flooding in Venezuela puts the death toll at over 5,000 people, the worst natural disaster to strike this nation this century.

1920  TV Producer & Host David Susskind
1939  Actress Cicely Tyson
1946  Actor Robert Urich
1972  Actress Alyssa Milano

1959

• Heartaches by the Number - Guy Mitchell

• Mr. Blue - The Fleetwoods

• In the Mood - Ernie Field's Orchestra

• The Same Old Me - Ray Price

1967

• Daydream Believer - The Monkees

• I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Gladys Knight & The Pips

• Hello Goodbye - The Beatles

• It's the Little Things - Sonny James

1975

• Fly, Robin Fly - Silver Convention

• Let's Do It Again - The Staple Singers

• Saturday Night - Bay City Rollers

• Love Put a Song in My Heart - Johnny Rodriguez

1983

• Say Say Say - Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson

• Union of the Snake - Duran Duran

• Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes

• Black Sheep - John Anderson

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