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15 Dec 1124
Chancellor Haimeric selects pope (Lamberto becomes Honorius II)
15 Dec 1167
Sicilian chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to Messina to prevent a rebellion.
15 Dec 1256
Hulagu Khan captures and destroys Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut in present-day Iran part of the Mongol offensive on Islamic southwest Asia
15 Dec 1467
Stephen III of Moldavia defeats Matthias Corvinus of Hungary with the latter being injured thrice at the Battle of Baia
15 Dec 1582
Leidse university names Rembert Dodoens professor of botany and medicine
15 Dec 1582
Spanish Netherlands Denmark and Norway adopt the Gregorian calendar
15 Dec 1586
Laevinus Torrentius becomes bishop of Antwerp
15 Dec 1593
State of Holland grants patent on windmill with a crankshaft
15 Dec 1612
German Astronomer Simon Marius is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope
15 Dec 1640
Duke of Braganca crowned King Johan IV of Portugal
15 Dec 1660
Philippines Andres Malongs rebels plunders Bagnotan
15 Dec 1667
Brandenburg declares himself neutral in Devolutie War
15 Dec 1680
Tax revolt on Terschelling due to tax on cereal
15 Dec 1688
Lord Delamere sides with King James II [NS 1225]
15 Dec 1745
Battle at Kesseldorf Prussia beats Saksen & Austria
15 Dec 1791
1st US law school established at University of Pennsylvania
15 Dec 1791
US Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gives its approval becomes amendments 1-10 of the US constitution
15 Dec 1792
1st life insurance policy issued in US (Philadelphia)
15 Dec 1810
1st Irish magazine in US Shamrock published
15 Dec 1815
Gioacchino Rossini gets assignment for Il barbiere di Siviglia
15 Dec 1820
1st General pharmacopoeia in US published Boston
15 Dec 1854
1st street-cleaning machine in US 1st used in Philadelphia
15 Dec 1859
GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun
15 Dec 1863
Skirmish at Beans Station Tennessee (Knoxville Campaign)
15 Dec 1863
Romanias mountain railway from Anina to Oravita opens
15 Dec 1864
Raid on Stoneman Abingdon & Glade Springs Virginia
15 Dec 1868
Shogunate rebels found Ezo Republic in Hokkaid
15 Dec 1874
1st reigning king to visit US is the King of Hawaii received by President Grant
15 Dec 1893
Dvorks From the New World premieres at Carnegie Hall NYC
15 Dec 1894
Day 2 of first cricket test between Australia and England Australia 586 runs (Gregory 201) England 3-130
15 Dec 1899
Battle at Colenso South Africa (Boers-British army)
15 Dec 1905
The Pushkin House is established in St. Petersburg to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin
15 Dec 1907
In Persia the Shah leads a coup deetat 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
15 Dec 1909
Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseballs National League
15 Dec 1913
Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty
15 Dec 1914
Battle of Lodz ends Russians retreat toward Moscow
15 Dec 1914
British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea
15 Dec 1914
Serbian troops retake Belgrade in Austria-Hungary
15 Dec 1916
French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun
15 Dec 1917
Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia
15 Dec 1917
World War I An armistice is reached between the new Russian Bolshevik government and the Central Powers.
15 Dec 1918
American Jewish Congress holds its 1st meeting
15 Dec 1919
Edna St Vincent Millays Aria da Capo premieres in NYC
15 Dec 1922
IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague
15 Dec 1925
1st hockey game at Madison Square Garden Montreal Canadiens 3 NY Americans 1
15 Dec 1925
1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic
15 Dec 1927
William Edward Hickman kidnaps 12 year-old Marion Parker in Los Angeles whom he later kills
15 Dec 1929
Swiss pilot Walter Mittelholzer is the first to fly over Mt. Kilimanjaro
15 Dec 1933
Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15
15 Dec 1934
Fokker F18 Snip flies to the Dutch West Indies
15 Dec 1935
Max Euwe becomes world champ chess beating Alexander Alekhine
15 Dec 1936
KVL-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KEEN (now KING)
15 Dec 1938
Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C.
15 Dec 1939
1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn in Seaford Delaware
15 Dec 1939
Snip departs for 1st flight to Paramaribo and Curacao
15 Dec 1941
North Africa allied assault up Italians Gazala-posing
15 Dec 1941
USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship
15 Dec 1941
The American Federation of Labor adopts a no-strike policy in war industries.
15 Dec 1942
Massachusetts issues 1st US vehicular license plate tabs
15 Dec 1945
John J Cardinal OConnor ordained as a priest
15 Dec 1946
Chicago Bears beat NY Giants 24-14 in NFL championship game
15 Dec 1946
Giants Filchock & Hapes suspended by NFL didnt report bribe attempt
15 Dec 1948
Former state department official Alger Hiss indicted in NYC for perjury
15 Dec 1952
Twos Company opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 90 performances
15 Dec 1952
Christine Jorgenson is the first known American to undergo a sex-change operation
15 Dec 1952
KHON TV channel 2 in Honolulu HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
15 Dec 1952
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientales Ecclesias
15 Dec 1953
WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City FL (NBCABC) begins broadcasting
15 Dec 1954
Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons
15 Dec 1954
Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands
15 Dec 1956
Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes
15 Dec 1956
KGW TV channel 8 in Portland OR (NBC) begins broadcasting
15 Dec 1956
WRAL TV channel 5 in Raleigh-Durham NC (CBS) begins broadcasting
15 Dec 1959
Ballon dOr Real Madrid forward Alfredo Di Stfano wins his second award for best football player in Europe ahead of team mate Raymond Kopa and Juventus Welsh utility John Charles
15 Dec 1961
Equal access rule political parties get TV broadcasting time
15 Dec 1961
L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels
15 Dec 1964
Canadas House of Commons votes 163 to 78 to approve the red Maple Leaf Flag
15 Dec 1965
3rd cyclone of year kills 15000 at the mouths of the Ganges River in Bangladesh
15 Dec 1965
D Heneker & J Taylors musical Charlie Girl premieres in London
15 Dec 1965
Gemini 6 launched makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7)
15 Dec 1965
Queen Juliana opens Zeeland Bridge to Oosterschelde
15 Dec 1965
William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th Commissioner of Baseball
15 Dec 1966
Joyful Noise opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 12 performances
15 Dec 1966
Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn Janus
15 Dec 1966
John W Mecom Jr becomes 1st owner of New Orlean Saints
15 Dec 1967
The Beatles release Christmas Time is Here Again
15 Dec 1967
The Silver Bridge collapses over the Ohio River in the US killing 46 people
15 Dec 1969
Plastic Ono Band play their only concert at Londons Lyceum Ballroom
15 Dec 1969
San Francisco Fire Department replaces leather helmets with plastic ones
15 Dec 1970
Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261
15 Dec 1970
South Korean ferry Namyong-Ho sinks in Strait of Korea 308 killed
15 Dec 1970
Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
15 Dec 1970
Illinois State Constitution is adopted at a special election.
15 Dec 1970
Stan Smith and Rod Laver finish with 4-1 records atop inaugural season ending ATP Masters Grand Prix tennis standings in Tokyo Japan Smith wins event after beating Laver 46 63 64 in the rounds
15 Dec 1973
American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not a mental illness
15 Dec 1973
Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year
15 Dec 1973
Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game
15 Dec 1974
As Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees)
15 Dec 1974
Guillermo Vilas of Argentina beats defending champion lie Nstase 76 62 36 36 64 to win his first and only season-ending ATP Masters Grand Prix tennis final in Melbourne Australia
15 Dec 1976
Oil tanker Argo Merchant runs aground on the Nantucket Shoals spilling 7.6 m million gallons of fuel oil - one of the largest oil spills at sea
15 Dec 1978
Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James
15 Dec 1978
Test Cricket debut of Malcolm Marshall v India at Bangalore
15 Dec 1979
World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all US hostages
15 Dec 1980
NY Yankee Dave Winfield becomes highest-paid player 10 years 15M
15 Dec 1980
Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital Ndjamena
15 Dec 1980
ZBZ Sangha registered after 5 yrs of administrative hassles in Warsaw
15 Dec 1982
Roy Williams Teamsters pres & 4 others convicted of bribery
15 Dec 1983
Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso Kelly AFB
15 Dec 1983
Last 80 US combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew
15 Dec 1983
Wendy Wassersteins Isnt It Romantic premieres in NYC
15 Dec 1984
USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halleys Comet
15 Dec 1986
Carnegie Hall reopens after a 50 million facelift
15 Dec 1987
First National US Tour of Les Miserables opens at Shubert Theatre Boston
15 Dec 1991
Nick & Nora closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 9 performances
15 Dec 1991
Deb Richard wins JBP Cup LPGA Match Play Golf Championship
15 Dec 1992
WNew AM (1130) NYC resigns air replaced by WBBR
15 Dec 1993
C-130 flies into a Philippines hill & explodes 16 killed
15 Dec 1993
John Williams final appearance as conductor of Boston Pops
15 Dec 1994
A Tuna Christmas opens at Booth Theater NYC for 20 performances
15 Dec 1994
Liberia militia kills 48 inhabitants of Monrovia
15 Dec 1995
Playboy goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland
15 Dec 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.
15 Dec 1996
Dottie Pepper & Juli Inkster win LPGA Diners Club Golf Matches
15 Dec 1996
Jim Colbert & Bob Murphy wins Diners Club Senior PGA Golf Matches
15 Dec 2016
White supremacist Dylann Roof is found guilty of the Charleston Church Massacre which killed 9
15 Dec 1996
Tom Lehman & Duffy Waldoff wins Diners Club PGA Golf Matches
15 Dec 2001
The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and 27000000 to fortify it without fixing its famous lean
15 Dec 2002
68th Heisman Trophy Award Carson Palmer USC (QB)
15 Dec 2005
Latvia amends its constitution to eliminate possibility of same-sex couples being entitled to marry.
15 Dec 2005
Argentinas president Nstor Kirchner announces the early repayment of its external debt to the IMF.
15 Dec 2005
Introduction of the F-22 Raptor into USAF active service.
15 Dec 2008
74th Heisman Trophy Award Sam Bradford Oklahoma (QB)
15 Dec 2009
Boeings new 787 Dreamliner makes its maiden flight from Seattle Washington.
15 Dec 2012
18 Asylum seekers drown in the Aegean Sea on the way to Greece from Turkey
15 Dec 2013
China successfully lands its moon rover on the moon
15 Dec 2015
1000 schools closed in Los Angeles after a email threat supposedly from jihadists
15 Dec 2015
Mayor of Flint Michigan declares state of emergency over contaminated water supplies amid calls for a criminal investigation
15 Dec 2015
Fifth Republican presidential candidates debate in Las Vegas Nevada
15 Dec 2016
Ceasefire declared in Aleppo to allow hundreds to be evacutated from last rebel held area
15 Dec 1916
Battle of Verdun French launch major offensive against German lines after a six-day artillery bombardment
15 Dec 1929
National Football League Championship Green Bay Packers (12-0-1) win first past the post title
15 Dec 1935
In a major upset Dutch grand master Max Euwe becomes world chess champion beating Russian Alexander Alekhine (9 wins 13 draws 8 losses) in Zandvoort Netherlands
15 Dec 1946
National Football League Championship Polo Grounds NYC Chicago Bears beat New York Giants 24-14 record attendance 58346 at final NFL title game played at Polo Grounds
15 Dec 1973
American kidnap victim John Paul Getty III freed after ransom paid by oil tycoon grandfather John Paul Getty
15 Dec 2011
ESPN and the NCAA extend their TV rights deal through 2023-24 giving the network worldwide multi-media rights to 24 NCAA championships for various sports deal worth 500m
15 Dec 2017
Pakistani teenager Ahed Tamimi filmed slapping Israeli officers during protest arrested 4 days later
15 Dec 1859
GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of the Sun
15 Dec 1903
NY Wall Street vendor Italo Marchiony [Marcioni] granted patent for a mound for making ice cream cones
15 Dec 1959
Ballon dOr Real Madrid forward Alfredo Di Stfano wins his second award for best football player in Europe ahead of teammate Raymond Kopa and Juventus Welsh utility John Charles
15 Dec 1979
World Court in Hague rules Iran should release all US hostages
15 Dec 1982
Teamsters president Roy Williams and 4 others convicted of bribery
15 Dec 1983
Wendy Wassersteins play Isnt It Romantic premieres in NYC
15 Dec 1569
Hunted by Queen Elizabeth I for treason in The Rising of the North Charles Neville Earl of Westmorland escapes to Scotland.
15 Dec 1675
King Philips War After peace talk fail Narraganset warriors attack the Jireh Bull Blockhouse in South Kingston Rhode Island killing at least 15 colonists
15 Dec 1745
Battle at Kesseldorf Prussian force beats Saksen & Austria near Dresden
15 Dec 1854
1st street-cleaning machine in the US used in Philadelphia
15 Dec 1864
Battle of Nashville Tennessee Union forces under General George Thomas shatters General John Bell Hoods Confederate Army of Tennessee
15 Dec 1893
Preview performance of Antonn Dvoks Symphony No. 9 - New World Symphony draws a crowd to Carnegie Hall New York [1]
15 Dec 1899
Battle at Colenso South Africa British army defeated by Boer force
15 Dec 1909
Thomas J. Lynch becomes president of baseballs National League
15 Dec 1919
Edna St Vincent Millays play Aria da Capo premieres in NYC
15 Dec 1919
Fiume (Rijeka modern Croatia) declares its Independence
15 Dec 1939
Dutch airplane the Snip rFokker F.XVIII)departs for 1st flight to Paramaribo and Curacao
15 Dec 1961
L. J. Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels
15 Dec 1965
Dutch Queen Juliana opens Zeeland Bridge to Oosterschelde
15 Dec 1966
John W. Mecom Jr becomes 1st owner of New Orlean Saints
15 Dec 1967
Retired baseball player Joe Garagiola joins Today show panel
15 Dec 1978
Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W. James
15 Dec 1983
3 Kansas City Royals (Willie Wilson Willie Aikens and Jerry Martin) suspended due to cocaine usage
15 Dec 2018
Diplomats from 200 countries agree to a set of rules to implement the UN Paris Climate Agreement in Katowice Poland
15 Dec 1925
1st hockey game at Madison Square Garden NYC Montreal Canadiens 3 NY Americans 1
15 Dec 1935
In major upset Dutch grand master Max Euwe becomes World Chess Champion beating Russian Alexander Alekhine (9 wins 13 draws 8 losses) in Zandvoort Netherlands
15 Dec 1970
Striking shipyard workers in Gdask Poland set ablaze the ruling Provincial Committees building responding soldiers kill 8
15 Dec 1874
Henry Bergh Eldgridge Gerry and philanthropist John D. Wright found the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children the worlds 1st anti-child abuse agency in NYC (later known as The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NYSPCC)
15 Dec 1965
David Heneker and John Taylors musical Charlie Girl opens at the Adelphi Theatre London runs for 2202 performances
15 Dec 1966
Oscar Brand and Paul Nassaus musical A Joyful Noise starring John Raitt opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC runs for 12 performances
15 Dec 1967
The Beatles release fan-club single Christmas Time is Here Again
15 Dec 1970
Robert Wilson and Alan Lloyds musical theatre work Deafman Glance first performance at Center for New Performing Arts in Iowa City Iowa
15 Dec 1983
Last 80 US combat soldiers in Grenada withdrawn
15 Dec 1983
MLB suspends 3 Kansas City Royals players - Willie Wilson Willie Aikens and Jerry Martin - due to cocaine usage
15 Dec 1983
Space shuttle Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso Kelly AFB
15 Dec 1993
John Williams makes his final appearance as conductor of Boston Pops
15 Dec 1994
Jaston Williams Joe Sears and Ed Howard stage drama A Tuna Christmas opens at Booth Theater NYC runs for 20 performances
15 Dec 1448
Bishop Jonah of Moscow chosen as the new Metropolitan of Kiev for the first time by the bishops of Moscow not the Patriarch of Constantinople
15 Dec 1874
Henry Bergh Eldgridge Gerry and philanthropist John D. Wright found the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in NYC the worlds first anti-child abuse agency. Later known as The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NYSPCC).
15 Dec 1954
US Scientists involved in secret Project Superpressure at GE Research Labs realized they have synthesized diamonds for the first time [1]
15 Dec 1961
Equal access rule US political parties get TV broadcasting time
15 Dec 1961
L. J. Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels Belgium
15 Dec 1987
First National US tour of musical Les Misrables opens at Shubert Theatre Boston Massachusetts
15 Dec 2018
Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge in Fort Worth Texas later reversed by US Supreme Court
15 Dec 1256
Hulagu Khan captures and destroys the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut in present-day Iran as part of the Mongol offensive in Southwest Asia
15 Dec 1593
State of Holland grants a patent for a windmill with a crankshaft
15 Dec 1612
German astronomer Simon Marius is the first to observe the Andromeda Galaxy through a telescope describing it as like a candle seen at night through a horn
15 Dec 1791
First US law school is established at the University of Pennsylvania
15 Dec 1792
First life insurance policy issued in US (Philadelphia)
15 Dec 1854
First street-cleaning machine in the US used in Philadelphia
15 Dec 1893
Preview performance of Antonn Dvoks Symphony No. 9 - New World Symphony draws a crowd to Carnegie Hall New York City [1]
15 Dec 1903
New York Wall Street vendor Italo Marchiony is granted a patent for a mound apparatus for making ice cream cones
15 Dec 1925
First hockey game at Madison Square Garden New York City with the Montreal Canadiens defeating the New York Americans 3-1
15 Dec 1954
US Scientists involved in secret Project Superpressure at GE Research Labs realize they have synthesized diamonds for the first time [1]
15 Dec 1955
The Tappan Zee Bridge in New York opens to traffic
15 Dec 1959
Everly Brothers record Let It Be Me an English translation of Gilbert Bcauds French song Je tappartiens reaches No. 7 on the charts
15 Dec 1970
Soviet Venera 7 is the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on another planet (Venus) and the first to transmit data from there back to Earth
15 Dec 1973
American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its list of mental disorders
15 Dec 1979
British rocker David Bowie performs three songs on American television program Saturday Night Live - The Man Who Sold the World TVC-15 and Boys Keep Swinging
15 Dec 1982
Bill Parcells becomes 12th head coach of NY Giants
15 Dec 1986
CIA director William J. Casey suffers a cerebral seizure
15 Dec 1988
Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks
15 Dec 1988
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 43177 acknowledging the proclamation of the State of Palestine passes with 104 in favor 2 against and 36 abstentions
15 Dec 1994
South Pacific island nation of Palau becomes a member of the UN
15 Dec 2001
The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and 27000000 to fortify it without fixing its famous lean
15 Dec 2009
Boeings new 787 Dreamliner makes its maiden flight from Paine Field in Everett Washington to Boeing Field in Seattle
15 Dec 2018
Egyptian archaeologists announce the discovery of a 4400-year-old tomb of the Fifth Dynasty priest Wahtye in the Saqqara pyramid near Cairo
15 Dec 2019
Longest ever UN climate talks end in Madrid with compromise deal on curbing carbon only other targets deferred for a year
15 Dec 2019
Protests against Indias new citizenship bill that excludes Muslims erupt across major cities killing at least five
15 Dec 2019
Raiders play their final NFL game in Oakland conceding 17 unanswered 2nd half points to go down 20-16 to the Jacksonville Jaguars team to play out of Las Vegas in 2020
15 Dec 2020
UK newspaper The Sun publishes recording of Tom Cruise berating his film crew for breaking COVID-19 protocols
15 Dec 2021
COVID-19 Omicron variant called probably the most significant threat of the pandemic by head of UK Health Security Agency warning of staggering growth in next few days [1]
15 Dec 2022
Tens of thousands of nurses go on strike in England Wales and Northern Ireland in largest strike in NHS history [1]
15 Dec 2023
American jazz vocal quartet The Manhattan Transfer marks their 50th anniversary with a farewell concert at Disney Hall in Los Angeles California [1]
15 Dec 2023
New report reveals homelessness in the US increased by 12% with more than 650000 people experiencing homeless one night in January [1]
15 Dec 2023
State memorial held for Australian entertainer Barry Humphries (behind Dame Edna Everage character) at Sydney Opera House [1]
15 Dec 2024
Five members of the Bali Nine arresting for smuggling drugs out of Indonesia in 2005 return to Australia after serving nearly 20 years in prison [1]
15 Dec 2024
More than 50 people are killed in Gaza in Israeli airstrikes as the death toll for Palestinians killed in the Israel-Gaza War surpasses 45000 [1]