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19 BC ~ Death of Virgil, Roman poet. (Aeneid, etc.)

1756 ~ Birthday of John MacAdam, road builder.

1780 ~ Benedict Arnold gave the British the plans to West Point.

1866 ~ Birthday of H. G. Wells, science fiction author.

1874 ~ Birthday of Gustav Holst, Composer.

1896 ~ British force under Horatio Kitchener took Dongola in the Sudan.

1897 ~ The Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus letter was published in the New York Sun.

1937 ~ J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit.

1947 ~ Birthday of Stephen King, Author.

2003 ~ The Galileo mission was terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter's atmosphere.