The $200 million epic "Titanic" by James Cameron premiered in American theatres on December 19, 1997. The movie went on to earn more than $1.8 billion worldwide, breaking the previous record until Mr. Cameron's "Avatar" did so in 2010.

William Bradley Pitt was born on December 18, 1963, in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to truck company owner William Alvin and his wife, Jane Etta, a school counsellor. He eventually relocated in Springfield, Missouri, with his family, which included two more brothers, Doug and Julie Neal. Brad Pitt is a well-known American actor who began his career with minor roles in Hollywood films. Having shown an interest in performing at an early age, the actor dropped out of college to pursue a career in show business. After small roles in films such as '21 Jump Street,' 'Cutting Class,' and 'Happy Together,' he had his big break in 'Legends of the Fall.'

Steven Allan Spielberg, an American film director, producer, and screenwriter, was born on December 18, 1946. He started his career in the New Hollywood era and is now the most financially successful filmmaker in the industry. Three Academy Awards (two for Best Director), a Kennedy Center distinction, a Cecil B. DeMille Award, and an AFI Life Achievement Award have all been bestowed to Spielberg.

Pratibha Devisingh Patil (born December 19, 1934) is an Indian politician and lawyer who served as the country's 12th president between 2007 and 2012. Patil, a member of the Indian National Congress, is the first and only woman to hold the position. She was the Governor of Rajasthan from 2004 to 2007.

Emily Jane Bronte was an English author and poet best known for her one and only novel, Wuthering Heights, which is today regarded as a classic of English literature. She also collaborated on a poetry collection with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, titled Verses by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, with her own poems being hailed as artistic talent. Between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell, Emily was the second-youngest of the four surviving Bronte siblings. She wrote under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. TB took her life on December 19 1848.

Kate Noelle Holmes is an actress, director, and producer from the United States. She rose to prominence on the television series Dawson's Creek (1998–2003) as Joey Potter. Holmes was born in the city of Toledo in the state of Ohio. Kathleen A. has five children, the youngest of whom is her.

Jake Benjamin Gyllenhaal is an American actor who was born on December 19, 1980. He is the son of filmmaker Stephen Gyllenhaal and author Naomi Foner; his older sister, actress Maggie Gyllenhaal, is also a member of the Gyllenhaal family. He began acting as a kid, first in City Slickers (1991) and then in his father's films A Dangerous Woman (1993) and Homegrown (1994). (1998). In October Sky (1999), he played Homer Hickam, and in Donnie Darko, he played a psychologically unstable adolescent (2001).

Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who served as the country's 11th and 13th prime ministers, respectively, between 1988 and 1990 and 1993 and 1996. She was the first woman in a Muslim-majority country to lead a democratic government. She headed or co-chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) from the early 1980s until her assassination in 2007. She was an ideological liberal and a secularist. In 1987, she married Asif Ali Zardari.

On December 18, 1878, he was born in Gori, Georgia. Losif Jughashvili was his birth name. Stalin's parents were impoverished, and he had a difficult upbringing. He contracted smallpox when he was seven years old. He lived, but his skin was scarred. He eventually went to seminary to become a priest, but he was booted because he was a radical. Stalin joined the Bolshevik revolutionaries after leaving the seminary. This was an underground movement founded by Vladimir Lenin that adhered to Karl Marx's communist theories.

Despite their disagreements, Princess Diana intended to remain married to Prince Charles for the rest of her life. Something changed, however, when the queen asked the late princess to divorce her son. Why did Queen Elizabeth want the Prince and Princess of Wales to be separated? In 1995, the late Princess of Wales went on the television and stated unequivocally that she did not wish to divorce her husband under any circumstances. But when she spoke her now-famous phrase, "well, there were three of us in the marriage, so it was a little crowded," she unwittingly sealed her destiny.

Joni Flynn was born in Assam, India on December 18, 1949. She has appeared in films such as Monty Python's Holy Grail, Octopussy, and Felicity.

Following China's invasion of Tibet in 1950, His Holiness was called upon to take complete political control. He visited Beijing in 1954 and met with Mao Zedong and other Chinese officials, including Deng Xiaoping and Chou Enlai. Finally, in 1959, as Chinese soldiers brutally suppressed the Tibetan national movement in Lhasa, His Holiness was compelled to flee into exile. He has been residing in Dharamsala, northern India, since then. In exile, the Central Tibetan Administration, led by His Holiness, petitioned the United Nations to take up the Tibet issue. In 1959, 1961, and 1965, the General Assembly passed three resolutions on Tibet.

On December 19, 1984, Thatcher and Premier Zhao Ziyang signed the formal Sino-British Joint Declaration at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. That month, on a visit to Hong Kong, Thatcher told the city's political elite that Britain would take action if the Sino-British Joint Declaration was violated. It is a 1984 agreement reached by Britain and China to determine the future of Hong Kong. The two countries agreed that China would retake sovereignty of Hong Kong, which Britain had seized during the Opium War in 1840, on July 1, 1997. On December 19, 1984, Thatcher and Premier Zhao Ziyang signed the formal Sino-British Joint Declaration at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

Robert Lee Frost was a poet from the United States. Before being published in the United States, his work was first published in England. Frost, who was known for his accurate descriptions of rural life and grasp of American vernacular English, frequently wrote about rural settings in early twentieth-century New England, utilising them to explore difficult social and philosophical subjects.After one of them finally quit dragging his feet, Robert Frost and Elinor White married in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in December of 1895.They were high school sweethearts at Lawrence High School in their hometown.

Ricky Thomas Ponting, AO, a cricket coach, commentator, and former player from Australia, was born on December 19, 1974. The most successful captain in the history of international cricket is Ponting, who led the Australian national team during its "golden era" between 2004 and 2011 in Test cricket and 2002 to 2011 in One Day Internationals (ODIs). With 220 victories in 324 games and a winning percentage of 67.91%, Ponting is the most successful captain in the sport's history.