Notable Historical Events on December 15th
December 15th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
533 |
Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Ticameron. |
687 |
St Sergius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Conon |
1124 |
Chancellor Haimeric selects pope (Lamberto becomes Honorius II) |
1167 |
Sicilian chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to Messina to prevent a rebellion. |
1256 |
Hulagu Khan captures and destroys the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut in present-day Iran as part of the Mongol offensive on Islamic southwest Asia. |
1467 |
Stephen III of Moldavia defeats Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, with the latter being injured thrice, at the Battle of Baia. |
1488 |
Bartholomeus Diaz returns to Portugal after becoming 1st known European to sail round Cape of Good Hope |
1569 |
Westmoreland flees to Scotland |
1582 |
Leidse university names Rembert Dodoens prof of botany/medicine |
1582 |
Spanish Netherlands/Denmark/Norway adopt Gregorian calendar |
1586 |
Laevinus Torrentius, becomes bishop of Antwerp |
1593 |
State of Holland grants patent on windmill with crankshaft |
1612 |
German Astronomer Simon Marius is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope |
1640 |
Duke of Braganca crowned King Johan IV of Portugal |
1660 |
Philippines: Andres Malongs rebels plunders Bagnotan |
1664 |
English colonizing Connecticut |
1667 |
Brandenburg declares himself neutral in Devolutie War |
1680 |
Tax revolt on Terschelling due to tax on cereal |
1688 |
Lord Delamere sides with King James II [NS 12/25] |
1745 |
Battle at Kesseldorf: Prussia beats Saksen & Austria |
1791 |
1st US law school established at University of Pennsylvania |
1791 |
US Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gives its approval. Becomes amendments 1-10 of the US constitution |
1792 |
1st life insurance policy issued in US (Phila) |
1794 |
Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France |
1810 |
1st Irish magazine in US, Shamrock, is published |
1815 |
Rossini gets assignment for Il barbiere di Siviglia |
1820 |
1st General pharmacopoeia in US published, Boston |
1836 |
Patent Office burns in Wash, DC |
1854 |
1st street-cleaning machine in US 1st used in Philadelphia |
1859 |
GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun |
1863 |
Skirmish at Bean's Station, Tennessee (Knoxville Campaign) |
1863 |
Romania is using for the first time a mountain railway (from Anina to Oravita). |
1864 |
Battle of Nashville, TN |
1864 |
Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon & Glade Springs, VA |
1868 |
Shogunate rebels found Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō. |
1874 |
1st reigning king to visit US (of Hawaii) received by Pres Grant |
1877 |
Thomas Edison patents phonograph |
1891 |
James Naismith invents basketball (Canada) |
1893 |
Dvoráks "From the New World" premieres at Carnegie Hall NYC |
1894 |
Cricket day 2 1st T Aus v Eng Aus 586 (Gregory 201) England 3-130 |
1899 |
Battle at Colenso, South Africa (Boers-British army) |
1905 |
The Pushkin House is established in St. Petersburg to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin |
1907 |
In Persia, the Shah leads a coup de'etat against the liberal Prime Minister Nasir ul-Mulk and imprisons him, but a popular uprising forces the Shah to restore Nasir ul-Mulk soon after |
1909 |
Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League |
1913 |
Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
1914 |
Battle of Lodz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow |
1914 |
British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea |
1914 |
Serbian troops retake Belgrade in Austria-Hungary |
1916 |
French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun |
1917 |
Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia |
1917 |
World War I: An armistice is reached between the new Russian Bolshevik government and the Central Powers. |
1918 |
American Jewish Congress holds it's 1st meeting |
1919 |
Edna St Vincent Millay's "Aria da Capo," premieres in NYC |
1919 |
Fiume (Rijeka) declares it's Independence |
1922 |
IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague |
1925 |
1st hockey game at Madison Sq Garden, Mont Candiens 3, NY Americans 1 |
1925 |
1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic |
1926 |
Facist national symbol elevated in Italy |
1927 |
Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads |
1929 |
Walter Mittelholzer flies as 1st about the Kilimanjaro |
1930 |
Don Bradman takes his 1st Test Cricket wicket (Ivan Barrow, WI, lbw) |
1933 |
Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15 |
1934 |
Fokker F18 Snip flies to Neth West Indies |
1935 |
Detroit Lions win NFL championship |
1935 |
Max Euwe becomes world champ chess beating Alexander Alekhine |
1936 |
KVL-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KEEN (now KING) |
1938 |
Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC |
1939 |
"Gone With the Wind" premieres in Atlanta |
1939 |
1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware |
1939 |
Snip departs for 1st flight to Paramaribo/Curacao |
1941 |
Gas/electrical use restricted in Holland |
1941 |
German submarine U-127 sinks |
1941 |
Nazi's transfers 100 Czech citizens/Heinrich Himmler falls faint |
1941 |
North Africa: allied assault up Italians Gazala-posing |
1941 |
USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship |
1941 |
The American Federation of Labor adopts a no-strike policy in war industries. |
1942 |
Massachusetts issues 1st US vehicular license plate tabs |
1944 |
Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel |
1944 |
Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms |
1944 |
US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star |
1944 |
US troops lands on Mindoro |
1945 |
John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest |
1946 |
Chic Bears beat NY Giants 24-14 in NFL championship game |
1946 |
Giants Filchock & Hapes suspended by NFL, didn't report bribe attempt |
1948 |
Former state dept official Alger Hiss indicted in NYC for perjury |
1949 |
Albert Camus' "Les Justes" premieres in Paris |
1950 |
NYC's Port Authority opens |
1952 |
"Two's Company" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 90 performances |
1952 |
Christine Jorgenson is 1st person to undergo a sex-change operation |
1952 |
KHON TV channel 2 in Honolulu, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1952 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientales Ecclesias |
1953 |
WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, FL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons |
1954 |
Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands |
1956 |
Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes |
1956 |
KGW TV channel 8 in Portland, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
WRAL TV channel 5 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1959 |
Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me" |
1961 |
Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel |
1961 |
Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time |
1961 |
JFK visits Puerto Rico |
1961 |
L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels |
1962 |
Vaughn Meader's "1st Family," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 12 wks |
1964 |
1st time 4 people in space |
1964 |
American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded |
1964 |
Canada adopts maple leaf flag |
1965 |
3rd cyclone of year kills 15,000 at the mouths of the Ganges River in Bangladesh |
1965 |
D Heneker & J Taylor's musical "Charlie Girl," premieres in London |
1965 |
Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7) |
1965 |
Queen Juliana opens Zeeland Bridge to Oosterschelde |
1965 |
William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th commissioner of baseball |
1966 |
"Joyful Noise" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 12 performances |
1966 |
Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus |
1966 |
John W Mecom Jr becomes 1st owner of New Orlean Saints |
1967 |
Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again" |
1967 |
Joe Garagiola joins Today Show panel |
1967 |
Silver Bay bridge (Oh-WV) collapes during afternoon rush hr, 34 die |
1967 |
The Silver Bridge collapses, killing 46 people. |
1969 |
Plastic Ono Band, play their only concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom |
1969 |
SF Fire Dept replaces leather helmets with plastic ones |
1970 |
Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261 |
1970 |
S Korean ferry Namyong-Ho sinks in Strait of Korea, 308 killed |
1970 |
Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus) |
1970 |
Illinois State Constitution is adopted at a special election. |
1971 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1973 |
American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not a mental illness |
1973 |
Golf Resort (Disney Inn) opens |
1973 |
Pirates of Caribbean ride opens at Disneyland |
1973 |
Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year |
1973 |
Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game |
1974 |
A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees) |
1976 |
Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground |
1976 |
Jamaica premier Manley wins elections |
1976 |
Samoa becomes a member of the UN. |
1978 |
Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James |
1978 |
Test Cricket debut of Malcolm Marshall, v India at Bangalore |
1979 |
Deposed Shah of Iran leaves US for Panama |
1979 |
World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all US hostages |
1980 |
NY Yankee Dave Winfield becomes highest-paid player, 10 years $15M |
1980 |
Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena |
1980 |
ZBZ Sangha registered after 5 yrs of administrative hassles in Warsaw |
1981 |
4th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
1981 |
NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 503 |
1982 |
Bill Parcells becomes 12th head coach of NY Giants |
1982 |
Roy Williams, Teamsters pres, & 4 others convicted of bribery |
1982 |
Sao Tome & Principe constitution approved |
1982 |
Spain reopens border with Gibraltar |
1983 |
3 KC Royals suspended due to cocaine usage |
1983 |
Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB |
1983 |
Last 80 US combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew |
1983 |
Wendy Wasserstein's "Isn't It Romantic," premieres in NYC |
1984 |
USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet |
1986 |
150 killed during race riot in Karachi |
1986 |
CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure |
1986 |
Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift |
1987 |
"Les Miserables" opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston |
1988 |
Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks |
1991 |
"Nick & Nora" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 9 performances |
1991 |
Deb Richard wins JBP Cup LPGA Match Play Golf Championship |
1992 |
Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportman of Year |
1992 |
WNew AM (1130) NYC resigns air, replaced by WBBR |
1993 |
C-130 flies into a Philippines hill & explodes, 16 killed |
1993 |
Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns |
1993 |
John Williams final appearance as conductor of Boston Pops |
1993 |
Lee Aspen resigns as secretary of defense |
1993 |
Y-12 crashes at Phonesavanh, Laos: 18 killed |
1993 |
British premier Major/Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination |
1993 |
"Schindler's List", starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, and Ralph Fiennes, is released |
1994 |
"Tuna Christmas" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 20 performances |
1994 |
John Bruton becomes Ireland's premier |
1994 |
Liberia militia kills 48 inhabitants of Monrovia |
1994 |
Palau becomes a member of the UN. |
1995 |
Playboy goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland |
1995 |
The European Communities Court of Justice hands down the "Bosman ruling", giving EU footballers the right to a free transfer at the end of their contracts, with the provision that they are transferring from one UEFA Federation to another. |
1996 |
Dottie Pepper & Juli Inkster win LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches |
1996 |
Jim Colbert & Bob Murphy wins Diner's Club Senior PGA Golf Matches |
1996 |
Tom Lehman & Duffy Waldoff wins Diner's Club PGA Golf Matches |
1997 |
SF 49ers retire Joe Montana's #16 |
2001 |
The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean. |
2005 |
Latvia amends its constitution to eliminate possibility of same-sex couples being entitled to marry. |
2005 |
Argentina's president Néstor Kirchner announces the early repayment of its external debt to the IMF. |
2005 |
Introduction of the F-22 Raptor into USAF active service. |
2005 |
The 2005 Atlantic Power Outage began. |
2006 |
First flight of the F-35 Lightning II. |
2006 |
B.B. King is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush |
2009 |
Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner makes its maiden flight from Seattle, Washington. |
2011 |
Barry Bonds is sentenced to 30 days of house arrest, two years of probation and 250 hours of community service, for an obstruction of justice conviction stemming from a grand jury appearance in 2003 |
2012 |
18 Asylum seekers drown in the Aegean Sea on the way to Greece from Turkey |
2013 |
Michelle Bachelet is elected President of Chile |
2013 |
China successfully lands its moon rover on the moon |
2016 |
Yahoo Says 1 Billion User Accounts Were Hacked |
2016 |
Dollar near 14-year peak after Fed increases rate hike projections |
2017 |
Firefighter dies while battling Thomas fire in California |
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