Today in history: December 19, 2023

Mondo History Updated on 2024-01-30

Hello everyone, today is December 19, 2023, and here are some of the major events that happened today in history:

Domestic: 1On December 19, 1280, the Yuan Dynasty promulgated the famous astronomer Guo Shoujing's "Calendar of Time", stipulating 3652425 days is a year, and the difference between the time and the Earth's rotation around the Sun is only 26 seconds, which is equal to the current Gregorian calendar, but appears 300 years earlier

2.On December 19, 1951, Panchen Erdeni Chokyi Gyaltsen and all his staff went to **;

3.On December 19, 1955, the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine was established

4.On December 19, 1960, China and the Kingdom of Cambodia signed a treaty of friendship and non-aggression

5.On 19 December 1984, the Joint Declaration of the People's Republic of China** and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland** on the Question of Hong Kong was formally signed

6.On December 19, 1990, the Shanghai ** Stock Exchange was officially opened

7.On December 19, 1994, the countdown to Hong Kong's return to the motherland stood in Tiananmen Square

8.On December 19, 1998, Mr. Qian Zhongshu, a famous scholar and writer, passed away in Beijing

9.On December 19, 2010, the Guangzhou Asian Para Games closed, Guangzhou, as the host city of the first Asian Para Games, will permanently retain the flame of the Games, and the flame is now stored in the Guangzhou Asian Games Asian Para Games Museum.

Abroad: 1December 19, 1793, Battle of Toulon: Napoleon Bonaparte occupies the territory of Toulon;

2.On December 19, 1849, Henry Clay Frick, the "Coke King", an American industrialist, billionaire, and one of the 75 richest people in human history in the late 19th century, was born

3.On December 19, 1852, Albert Abraham Michelson, an American physicist and winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physics, was born

4.On December 19, 1945, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought against France and saved the country

5.On December 19, 1946, Ho Chi Minh led his army to attack the French army

6.On December 19, 1957, European countries agreed to deploy nuclear weapons in Europe

7.On December 19, 1959, the summit of the West opened at the Elysee Palace in Paris, with the participation of Charles de Gaulle of France, Dwight D. Eisenhower of the United States, Prime Minister Macmillan of Great Britain, and Chancellor Adenauer of the Federal Republic of Germany. They spent two days discussing the current state of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization;

8.On 19 December 1966, the Outer Space Treaty was adopted at the United Nations

9.On December 19, 1972, the U.S. Apollo-17 spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific target area, ending the U.S. Apollo manned lunar landing program.

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