Paolo Scolari is elected as Pope Clement III.<\/p>\n
19 December 1848<\/h3>\n
Thirty-year-old Emily Bront\u00eb<\/a>, author of Wuthering Heights<\/em>, dies of tuberculosis at her family home at Haworth, West Yorkshire.<\/p>\n Birth at the Tarnier Clinic, Paris of criminal turned novelist, poet and playwright Jean Genet.<\/p>\n Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and former BEF commander, Sir John French, narrowly escaped assassination when the IRA ambushed his motorcade at Kelly\u2019s Corner in Dublin.<\/p>\n Apollo 17, the United States\u2019 last manned lunar mission, returned to Earth. The crew on the 12-day mission comprised Eugene Ceman, Ronald Evans and Harrison Schmitt.<\/p>\n The Penlee lifeboat disaster. The RNLB Solomon Browne went to the aid of the coaster MV Union Star after its engines failed in heavy seas off the Cornish coast. Both vessels were lost and 16 people died, including eight volunteer lifeboatmen.<\/p>\n Browse more On this day in history<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> By Dominic Sandbrook Published: Sunday, 19 December 2021 at 12:00 am 19 December 1187\u00a0 Paolo Scolari is elected as Pope Clement III. 19 December 1848 Thirty-year-old Emily Bront\u00eb, author of Wuthering Heights, dies of tuberculosis at her family home at Haworth, West Yorkshire. 19 December 1910 Birth at the Tarnier Clinic, Paris of criminal turned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":8233,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/12\/19-december-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/12\/19-december-on-this-day-in-history-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/12\/19-december-on-this-day-in-history-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/12\/19-december-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/12\/19-december-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/12\/19-december-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2021\/12\/19-december-on-this-day-in-history.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Dominic Sandbrook Published: Sunday, 19 December 2021 at 12:00 am 19 December 1187\u00a0 Paolo Scolari is elected as Pope Clement III. 19 December 1848 Thirty-year-old Emily Bront\u00eb, author of Wuthering Heights, dies of tuberculosis at her family home at Haworth, West Yorkshire. 19 December 1910 Birth at the Tarnier Clinic, Paris of criminal turned…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/8232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}19 December 1910<\/h3>\n
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