December 15

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December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 16 days remaining.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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Events

533 - The Battle of Ticameron begins
687 - St. Sergius I becomes Pope
1256 - Hulagu Khan captures and destroys the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut in present-day Iran.
1791 - The United States Bill of Rights is passed
1891 - James Naismith introduces basketball.
1913 - Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1914 - The Battle of Łódź ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow
1916 - France defeats Germany in Battle of Verdun
1939 - Gone with the Wind premiers in Atlanta, Georgia
1945 - General Douglas MacArthur orders end of Shinto as state religion of Japan
1960 - King Baudouin of Belgium marries Fabiola Fernanda María de las Victorias Antonia Adelaida de Mora y Aragón
1961 - An Israeli war crimes tribunal sentences Adolph Eichmann to die for his part in the Jewish holocaust
1965 - Gemini program: Gemini 6A is launched
1976 - Samoa becomes a member of the UN
1994 - Netscape Navigator 1.0 is first released
1994 - Palau becomes a member of the UN.
1995 - The European Communities Court of Justice passes the Bosman ruling
1997 - A chartered Tupolev TU-154 from Tajikistan crashes in the desert near Sharja, United Arab Emirates airport killing 85
2002 - BBC 7, digital radio station is launched in UK

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Births

37 - Nero, Roman Emperor (d. 68)
130 - Lucius Verus, Roman Emperor (d. 169)
1242 - Prince Munetaka, Japanese shogun (d. 1274)
1567 - Christoph Demantius, German composer (d. 1643)
1610 - David Teniers the Younger, Flemish artist (d. 1690)
1634 - Thomas Hansen Kingo, Danish poet (d. 1703)
1648 - Gregory King, English statistician (d. 1712)
1713 - Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, British statesman (d. 1802)
1802 - János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1860)
1832 - Gustave Eiffel, French civil engineer (d. 1923)
1852 - Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1908)
1859 - L. L. Zamenhof, Russian initiator of Esperanto (d. 1917)
1860 - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician (d. 1904)
1861 - Charles Duryea, American automobile pioneer (d. 1938)
1878 - Hans Carossa, German writer (d. [[1956]})
1888 - Maxwell Anderson, American writer (d. 1959)
1892 - J. Paul Getty, American oil tycoon (d. 1976)
1899 - Harold Abrahams, British athlete (d. 1978)
1907 - Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect
1910 - John A. Hammond, American musician and record producer (d. 1987)
1912 - Ray Eames, American designer (d. 1988)
1912 - Stan Kenton, American musician (d. 1979)
1916 - Buddy Cole, American pianist (d. 1964)
1918 - Jeff Chandler, American actor (d. 1961)
1922 - Alan Freed, American disc jockey (d. 1965)
1923 - Freeman Dyson, English-born physicist
1928 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (d. 2000)
1933 - Tim Conway, American actor and comedian
1938 - Billy Shaw, American football player
1939 - Cindy Birdsong, American singer (Supremes)
1942 - Dave Clark, American musician (Dave Clark Five)
1949 - Don Johnson, American actor
1952 - Cassandra Harris Australian actress (d. 1991)
1955 - Paul Simonon, British bassist (The Clash)
1961 - Karin Resetarits, Austrian journalist and politician
1968 - Javid Hussain, Indian film producer
1968 - Garrett Wang, American actor
1970 - Michael Shanks, Canadian actor
1973 - Surya Bonaly, French-born figure skater
1976 - Baichung Bhutia, Indian footballer
1979 - Adam Brody, American actor
1981 - Thomas Herrion, American football player (d. 2005)

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Deaths

1025 - Basil II, Byzantine Emperor (b. 958)
1072 - Alp Arslan, Turkish sultan in Persia (b. 1029)
1263 - King Haakon IV of Norway (b. 1204)
1598 - Philips van Marnix, lord of Sint-Aldegonde, Dutch writer and statesman (b. 1538)
1621 - Charles de Luynes, Constable of France (b. 1578)
1673 - Margaret Cavendish, English writer (b. 1623)
1675 - Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter (b. 1632)
1683 - Izaak Walton, English writer (b. 1593)
1715 - George Hickes, English minister and scholar (b. 1642)
1753 - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (b. 1694)
1792 - Joseph Martin Kraus, Swedish composer (b. 1756)
1890 - Sitting Bull, Sioux nation leader (b. c.1831)
1943 - Fats Waller, American musician (b. 1904)
1947 - Arthur Machen, Welsh-born author (b. 1863)
1958 - Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
1966 - Walt Disney, American animator (b. 1901)
1968 - Jess Willard, American boxer (b. 1881)
1975 - Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born writer (b. 1902)
1984 - Jan Peerce, American tenor (b. 1904)
1989 - Arnold Moss, American character actor (b. 1910)
1991 - Vasily Zaitsev, Soviet World War II hero (b. 1915)
2001 - Rufus Thomas, American musician (b. 1917)
2001 - Russ Haas, Pro Wrestler (b. 1974)
2003 - George Fisher, American political cartoonist (b. 1923)

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Holidays and observances

Roman Empire - Consualia in honor of Consus is held.
Feast day of St. Valerian, martyred in 457
Zamenhof Day celebrated in the Esperanto movement in honor of L. L. Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto.
Bill of Rights Day in the United States, in honor of the 1791 ratification of the United States Bill of Rights