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Date | Description | Type |
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15th of December 0533 | EVENT | Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Ticameron. |
15th of December 1167 | EVENT | Sicilian chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to Messina to prevent a rebellion. |
15th of December 1256 | EVENT | Hulagu Khan captures and destroys the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut in present-day Iran as part of the Mongol offensive on Islamic southwest Asia. |
15th of December 1467 | EVENT | Stephen III of Moldavia defeats Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, with the latter being injured thrice, at the Battle of Baia. |
15th of December 1791 | EVENT | The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly. |
15th of December 1863 | EVENT | In Romania the mountain railway from Anina to Oravita is used for the first time. |
15th of December 1864 | EVENT | In the Battle of Nashville, Union forces under George H. Thomas almost completely destroy the Army of Tennessee under John B. Hood. |
15th of December 1868 | EVENT | Shogunate rebels found Ezo Republic in Hokkaido. |
15th of December 1905 | EVENT | The Pushkin House is established in St. Petersburg to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin |
15th of December 1906 | EVENT | The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens. |
15th of December 1913 | EVENT | Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention. |
15th of December 1914 | EVENT | World War I: The Serbian Army recaptures Belgrade from the invading Austro-Hungarian Army. |
15th of December 1914 | EVENT | A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hojyo coal mine, Kyushu, Japan, kills 687. |
15th of December 1917 | EVENT | World War I: An armistice is reached between the new Bolshevik government and the Central Powers. |
15th of December 1933 | EVENT | The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment that prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol. |
15th of December 1939 | EVENT | Gone with the Wind receives its premiere at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. |
15th of December 1941 | EVENT | Holocaust: German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobitsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine. |
15th of December 1941 | EVENT | The American Federation of Labor adopts a no-strike policy in war industries. |
15th of December 1942 | EVENT | The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse begins during the Guadalcanal campaign. |
15th of December 1945 | EVENT | Occupation of Japan: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as the state religion of Japan. |
15th of December 1954 | EVENT | The Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands is signed. |
15th of December 1955 | EVENT | Jens Olsen's World Clock is started by Danish King Frederick IX and Jens Olsen's youngest grandchild Birgit. |
15th of December 1960 | EVENT | Richard Paul Pavlick is arrested for attempting to blow up and assassinate the U.S. President-Elect, John F. Kennedy only four days earlier. |
15th of December 1961 | EVENT | In Jerusalem, Adolph Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization. |
15th of December 1965 | EVENT | Gemini program: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7. |
15th of December 1967 | EVENT | The Silver Bridge collapses, killing 46 people. |
15th of December 1970 | EVENT | Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully land on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet |
15th of December 1970 | EVENT | South Korean ferry Namyong Ho capsizes off Korean Strait killing 308. |
15th of December 1973 | EVENT | John Paul Getty III, grandson of American billionaire J. Paul Getty, is found alive near Naples, Italy, after being kidnapped by an Italian gang on July 10, 1973. |
15th of December 1973 | EVENT | The American Psychiatric Association votes 13 : 0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-II. |
15th of December 1976 | EVENT | Samoa becomes a member of the United Nations. |
15th of December 1978 | EVENT | U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People's Republic of China and cut off all relations with Taiwan |
15th of December 1993 | EVENT | History of Northern Ireland: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds. |
15th of December 1994 | EVENT | Palau becomes a member of the United Nations. |
15th of December 1997 | EVENT | The Treaty of Bangkok is signed allowing the transformation of Southeast Asia into a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone. |
15th of December 1997 | EVENT | A chartered Tupolev TU-154 from Tajikistan crashes in the desert near Sharja, United Arab Emirates airport killing 85. |
15th of December 2000 | EVENT | The 3rd reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down. |
15th of December 2001 | EVENT | The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean. |
15th of December 2002 | EVENT | The Capital Center (formerly US Airways Arena) is demolished. |
15th of December 2005 | EVENT | Latvia amends its constitution to eliminate possibility of same-sex couples being entitled to marry. |
15th of December 2005 | EVENT | Argentina's president Nestor Kirchner announces the early repayment of its external debt to the IMF. |
15th of December 2005 | EVENT | Introduction of the F-22 Raptor into USAF active service. |
15th of December 2006 | EVENT | First flight of the F-35 Lightning II. |
15th of December 2009 | EVENT | Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner makes its maiden flight from Seattle, Washington. |
15th of December 0037 | BIRTHDAY | Nero, Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (d. 68) |
15th of December 0130 | BIRTHDAY | Lucius Verus, Roman co-emperor (d. 169) |
15th of December 1832 | BIRTHDAY | Gustave Eiffel, French engineer and architect (Eiffel tower) (d. 1923) |
15th of December 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1908) |
15th of December 1859 | BIRTHDAY | L. L. Zamenhof, Polish initiator of Esperanto (d. 1917) |
15th of December 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Abner Powell, American baseball player (d. 1953) |
15th of December 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1904) |
15th of December 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Finnish politician (d. 1944) |
15th of December 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Duryea, American automobile pioneer (d. 1938) |
15th of December 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Dehon Little, American chemist and chemical engineer (d. 1935) |
15th of December 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Marchlewski, Polish chemist (d. 1946) |
15th of December 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary (d. 1899) |
15th of December 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Hans Carossa, German writer (d. 1956) |
15th of December 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Leonid Pitamic, Slovenian philosopher (d. 1971) |
15th of December 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Maxwell Anderson, American writer (d. 1959) |
15th of December 1892 | BIRTHDAY | J. Paul Getty, American oil tycoon (d. 1976) |
15th of December 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Smith, American author (d. 1972) |
15th of December 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Abrahams, English sprinter (d. 1978) |
15th of December 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Robert F. Bradford, 57th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1983) |
15th of December 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Tamanishiki San'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 32nd Yokozuna (d. 1938) |
15th of December 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect |
15th of December 1910 | BIRTHDAY | John H. Hammond, American musician (d. 1987) |
15th of December 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholas P. Dallis, American psychiatrist and comic strip writer (d. 1991) |
15th of December 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Stan Kenton, American musician (d. 1979) |
15th of December 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Eames, American designer (d. 1988) |
15th of December 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Gaudry, French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (d. 2001) |
15th of December 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Muriel Rukeyser, American poet (d. 1980) |
15th of December 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Buddy Cole, American pianist (d. 1964) |
15th of December 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004) |
15th of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, linguist and writer of Pakistan (d. 2005) |
15th of December 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Chandler, American actor (d. 1961) |
15th of December 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Max Yasgur, owner of the Woodstock Festival site (d. 1973) |
15th of December 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Schaffenberger, American comics artist (d. 2002) |
15th of December 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Freed, American disc jockey (d. 1965) |
15th of December 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Todd, British comedian (d. 1992) |
15th of December 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Freeman Dyson, English-born American physicist |
15th of December 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer (d. 2002) |
15th of December 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Valentin Varennikov, Russian general and statesman (d. 2009) |
15th of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Kasey Rogers, American actress (d. 2006) |
15th of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Pollock, Canadian ice hockey general manager (d. 2007) |
15th of December 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (d. 2000) |
15th of December 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Wallace, American singer (d. 2008) |
15th of December 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Harris, American bebop jazz pianist |
15th of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Edna O'Brien, Irish novelist and short story writer |
15th of December 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Belvin, American musician (d. 1960) |
15th of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Bapu, Indian cartoonist, designer and film director |
15th of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Conway, American actor and comedian |
15th of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Woods, South African journalist and anti-apartheid activist (d. 2001) |
15th of December 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Joe D'Amato, Italian director (d. 1999) |
15th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Shaw, American football player |
15th of December 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Cindy Birdsong, American singer (The Supremes) |
15th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Buoniconti, American football player |
15th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Clark, English musician (The Dave Clark Five) |
15th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Lucien den Arend, Dutch artist |
15th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Kathleen Blanco, American politician |
15th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Leyland, American baseball manager |
15th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Chico Mendes, Brazilian campaigner (d. 1988) |
15th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Thaao Penghlis, Australian actor |
15th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Art Howe, American baseball player and manager |
15th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Carmine Appice, American musician (Vanilla Fudge) |
15th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Rodney Bingenheimer, American radio personality |
15th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Melanie Chartoff, American actress |
15th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Cassandra Harris, Australian actress (d. 1991) |
15th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Don Johnson, American actor |
15th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Taymor, American director |
15th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Rudi Protrudi, American musician (The Fuzztones) |
15th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Allan Simonsen, Danish footballer |
15th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | J. M. DeMatteis, American comic book writer |
15th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Warner, American politician, United States Senator from Virginia and 69th Governor of Virginia |
15th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Simonon, English bassist (The Clash) |
15th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | William Orbit, English producer, mixer and musician |
15th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Mike McAlary, American journalist (d. 1998) |
15th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Marois, Canadian ice hockey player |
15th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Yuuichi Nagashima, Japanese voice actor |
15th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Molina, American artist, musician and actress |
15th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Eddy Annys, Belgian high jumper |
15th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Werzowa, Austrian composer |
15th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Karin Resetarits, Austrian journalist |
15th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | David Wingate, American basketball player |
15th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Luster, American rapist |
15th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Norman J. Grossfeld, American television producer and screenwriter |
15th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Slater, American actress |
15th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Molly Price, American actress |
15th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Manos Papayiannis, Greek fashion model and actor |
15th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Hooper, former West Indian cricket player and captain |
15th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | David Howells, English footballer |
15th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Mo Vaughn, American baseball player |
15th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Osama Ali Maher, Swedish politician |
15th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Garrett Wang, American actor |
15th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Chantal Petitclerc, Canadian wheelchair athlete |
15th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Frankie Dettori, Italian jockey |
15th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Funderburke, American basketball player |
15th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Shanks, Canadian actor |
15th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Clint Lowery, American guitarist (Sevendust) |
15th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Arne Quinze, Belgian conceptual artist |
15th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Rodney Harrison, American football player |
15th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Stuart Townsend, Irish actor |
15th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Surya Bonaly, French-born American figure skater |
15th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Ryu Seung-wan, South Korean actor and director |
15th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Miles, American baseball player |
15th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Baichung Bhutia, Indian footballer |
15th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Elix Skipper, American professional wrestler |
15th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Mackintosh, Scottish drummer (Dragonforce) |
15th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Geoff Stults, American actor |
15th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Eba, Mongolian entertainer |
15th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome McDougle, American football player |
15th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Jansen, Dutch guitarist (Epica) |
15th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Brody, American actor |
15th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Young, Canadian professional wrestler |
15th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Sergio Pizzorno, English guitarist (Kasabian) |
15th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Manuel Wilhelm, German rugby player |
15th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Dockery, British actress |
15th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Najoua Belyzel, French singer |
15th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Brendan Fletcher, Canadian actor |
15th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Herrion, American football player (d. 2005) |
15th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Roman Pavlyuchenko, Russian footballer |
15th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Creighton Lovelace, American Baptist minister |
15th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Gonzalez, Puerto Rican baseball player |
15th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Borja Garcia, Spanish racing driver |
15th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | George O. Gore II, American actor |
15th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Wang Hao, Chinese table tennis player |
15th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Goguen, Canadian professional wrestler |
15th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Delon Armitage, Trindadian/English rugby player |
15th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kirsty Lee Allan, Australian actress |
15th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Skrtel Slovakian footballer |
15th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Diogo Fernandes Brazilian footballer |
15th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Snejana Onopka, Ukrainian model |
15th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Xiah, South Korean singer (TVXQ) |
15th of December 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Emma Lockhart, American actress |
15th of December 1025 | DEATH | Basil II, Byzantine Emperor (Born 958) |
15th of December 1072 | DEATH | Alp Arslan, Turkish sultan (Born 1029) |
15th of December 1230 | DEATH | King Otakar I of Bohemia (Born 1155) |
15th of December 1263 | DEATH | King Haakon IV of Norway (Born 1204) |
15th of December 1598 | DEATH | Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde, Dutch writer and statesman (Born 1538) |
15th of December 1621 | DEATH | Charles d'Albert, Constable of France (Born 1578) |
15th of December 1673 | DEATH | Margaret Cavendish, English writer (Born 1623) |
15th of December 1675 | DEATH | Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter (Born 1632) |
15th of December 1683 | DEATH | Izaak Walton, English writer (Born 1593) |
15th of December 1688 | DEATH | Gaspar Fagel, Dutch statesman (Born 1634) |
15th of December 1715 | DEATH | George Hickes, English minister and scholar (Born 1642) |
15th of December 1753 | DEATH | Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (Born 1694) |
15th of December 1792 | DEATH | Joseph Martin Kraus, Swedish composer (Born 1756) |
15th of December 1855 | DEATH | Jacques Charles Francois Sturm, French mathematician (Born 1803) |
15th of December 1878 | DEATH | Alfred Bird, chemist (Born 1811) |
15th of December 1890 | DEATH | Sitting Bull, American Indian tribal chief (Born c. 1831) |
15th of December 1943 | DEATH | Fats Waller, American musician (Born 1904) |
15th of December 1944 | DEATH | Glenn Miller, American musician (presumed date of death) (Born 1904) |
15th of December 1947 | DEATH | Arthur Machen, Welsh author (Born 1863) |
15th of December 1950 | DEATH | Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian politician (Born 1875) |
15th of December 1958 | DEATH | Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1900) |
15th of December 1962 | DEATH | Charles Laughton, English actor (Born 1899) |
15th of December 1966 | DEATH | Walt Disney, American animator (Born 1901) |
15th of December 1968 | DEATH | Jess Willard, American boxer (Born 1881) |
15th of December 1968 | DEATH | Antonio Barrette, Canadian politician (Born 1899) |
15th of December 1969 | DEATH | Karl Theodor Bleek, German politician (Born 1898) |
15th of December 1971 | DEATH | Paul Pierre Levy, French mathematician (Born 1886) |
15th of December 1974 | DEATH | Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian screenwriter and film producer (Born 1902) |
15th of December 1977 | DEATH | Wilfred Kitching, American General of The Salvation Army (Born 1893) |
15th of December 1978 | DEATH | Chill Wills, American actor (Born 1903) |
15th of December 1980 | DEATH | Kostas Biris, Greek architect, city planner and folklorist (Born 1899) |
15th of December 1980 | DEATH | Dimitrios Partsalidis, Greek politician (Born 1905) |
15th of December 1980 | DEATH | Komninos Pyromaglou, Greek educator and politician (Born 1899) |
15th of December 1984 | DEATH | Jan Peerce, American tenor (Born 1904) |
15th of December 1984 | DEATH | Lennard Pearce, English actor (Born 1915) |
15th of December 1985 | DEATH | Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Mauritian politician (Born 1900) |
15th of December 1989 | DEATH | Arnold Moss, American actor (Born 1910) |
15th of December 1989 | DEATH | Edward Underdown, English actor (Born 1908) |
15th of December 1991 | DEATH | Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev, Soviet sniper (Born 1915) |
15th of December 1993 | DEATH | William Dale Phillips, American chemist (Born 1925) |
15th of December 2000 | DEATH | Haris Brkic, Bosnian basketball player (Born 1974) |
15th of December 2001 | DEATH | Rufus Thomas, American musician (Born 1917) |
15th of December 2001 | DEATH | Russ Haas, American professional wrestler (Born 1974) |
15th of December 2003 | DEATH | Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1947) |
15th of December 2003 | DEATH | George Fisher, American political cartoonist (Born 1923) |
15th of December 2004 | DEATH | Pauline Gore, mother of Al Gore (Born 1912) |
15th of December 2004 | DEATH | Vassal Gadoengin, Nauruan politician (Born 1943) |
15th of December 2005 | DEATH | Heinrich Gross, Austrian physician (Born 1914) |
15th of December 2005 | DEATH | William Proxmire, American politician (Born 1915) |
15th of December 2005 | DEATH | Darrell Russell, American football player (Born 1976) |
15th of December 2005 | DEATH | Stan Leonard, Canadian golfer (Born 1915) |
15th of December 2006 | DEATH | Clay Regazzoni, Swiss Formula One driver (Born 1939) |
15th of December 2007 | DEATH | John Berg, American actor (Born 1949) |
15th of December 2007 | DEATH | Julia Carson, American politician (Born 1938) |
15th of December 2008 | DEATH | Leon Febres Cordero, Ecuadorian politician (Born 1931) |
15th of December 2009 | DEATH | Oral Roberts, American television evangelist and author (Born 1918) |
15th of December 2009 | DEATH | Alan A'Court, British footballer (Born 1934) |
15th of December 2010 | DEATH | Blake Edwards, American film director (Born 1922) |
15th of December 2010 | DEATH | Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, American political scientist (Born 1940) |
15th of December 2010 | DEATH | Bob Feller, American baseball player (Born 1918) |