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Events on the 15th of December in history

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15 Dec 0533 Vandalic War: Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Tricamarum.
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15 Dec 0687 Pope Sergius I is elected.
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15 Dec 0687 St Sergius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Conon
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15 Dec 1124 Chancellor Haimeric selects pope (Lamberto becomes Honorius II)
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15 Dec 1161 Jin–Song wars: Military officers conspire against Emperor Hailing of the Jin Dynasty after a military defeat at the Battle of Caishi, and assassinate the emperor at his camp.
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15 Dec 1167 Sicilian Chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to Messina to prevent a rebellion.
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15 Dec 1256 Hulagu Khan captures and destroys the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut Castle (in present-day Iran) as part of the Mongol offensive on Islamic southwest Asia.
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15 Dec 1467 Stephen III of Moldavia defeats Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, with the latter being injured thrice, at the Battle of Baia.
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15 Dec 1488 Bartholomeus Diaz returns to Portugal after sailing round Cape of Good Hope
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15 Dec 1569 Westmoreland flees to Scotland
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15 Dec 1582 Spanish Netherlands / Denmark / Norway adopt Gregorian calendar
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15 Dec 1582 Leidse University names Rembert Dodoens professor of botany/medicine
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15 Dec 1586 Laevinus Torrentius, becomes bishop of Antwerp
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15 Dec 1593 State of Holland grants patent on windmill with crankshaft
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15 Dec 1612 Simon Marius, is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope
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15 Dec 1640 Duke of Bragan
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15 Dec 1660 Philippines: Andres Malongs rebels plunders Bagnotan
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15 Dec 1664 English colonizing Connecticut
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15 Dec 1667 Brandenburg declares himself neutral in Devolutie War
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15 Dec 1680 Tax revolt on Terschelling due to tax on cereal
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15 Dec 1688 Lord Delamere sides with King James II
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15 Dec 1745 Battle at Kesseldorf: Prussia beats Saksen & Austria
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15 Dec 1778 American Revolutionary War: British and French fleets clash in the Battle of St. Lucia.
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15 Dec 1791 The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
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15 Dec 1791 Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval
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15 Dec 1791 1st US law school established at University of Pennsylvania
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15 Dec 1792 1st life insurance policy issued in US (Philadelphia)
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15 Dec 1794 Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France
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15 Dec 1810 1st Irish magazine in US, The Shamrock, is published
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15 Dec 1811 Earthquake hits New Madrid, Missouri
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15 Dec 1815 Rossini gets assignment for Il barbiere di Siviglia
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15 Dec 1820 1st general pharmacopoeia in US published, Boston
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15 Dec 1836 Patent Office burns in Washington DC
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15 Dec 1854 1st street-cleaning machine in US 1st used in Philadelphia
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15 Dec 1859 GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun
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15 Dec 1863 Skirmish at Bean's Station TN (Knoxville Campaign)
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15 Dec 1864 Battle of Nashville, Tennessee
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15 Dec 1864 Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon and Glade Springs, Virginia
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15 Dec 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Nashville – Union forces under George Thomas almost completely destroy the Army of Tennessee under John Hood.
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15 Dec 1874 1st reigning king to visit US (of Hawaii) received by President Grant
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15 Dec 1877 Thomas Edison patents phonograph
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15 Dec 1890 Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
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15 Dec 1891 James Naismith invents basketball (Canada)
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15 Dec 1893 Dvor
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15 Dec 1894 Cricket day 2 1st T Australia vs England Australia 586 (Gregory 201) England 3-130
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15 Dec 1899 Battle at Colenso, South Africa (Boers-British army)
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15 Dec 1899 3rd defeat of "Black Week" - Battle at Colenso South Africa (Boers-British army)
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15 Dec 1905 The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin
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15 Dec 1906 The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.
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15 Dec 1909 Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League
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15 Dec 1913 Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention.
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15 Dec 1914 World War I: The Serbian Army recaptures Belgrade from the invading Austro-Hungarian Army.
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15 Dec 1914 A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.
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15 Dec 1914 American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded by Hiram Percy Maxim
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15 Dec 1914 Battle of L
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15 Dec 1914 British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea
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15 Dec 1914 Swedish troops over run Belgrade in Austria-Hungary
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15 Dec 1916 French defeat Germans in WWI Battle of Verdun
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15 Dec 1917 World War I: An armistice is reached between the new Bolshevik government and the Central Powers.
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15 Dec 1917 Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia
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15 Dec 1918 American Jewish Congress holds it's 1st meeting
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15 Dec 1919 Edna St Vincent Millay's "Aria da Capo" premieres in New York NY
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15 Dec 1919 Fiume (Rijeka) declares it's Independence
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15 Dec 1922 IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague
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15 Dec 1925 1st hockey game at Madison Square Garden, Montreal Canadiens 3, New York Americans 1
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15 Dec 1925 1st hockey game at Madison Square Garden, Montr
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15 Dec 1925 1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic
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15 Dec 1926 Facist national symbol elevated in Italy
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15 Dec 1927 Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads
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15 Dec 1929 Walter Mittelholzer flies as 1st about the Kilimanjaro
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15 Dec 1930 Don Bradman takes his 1st Test Cricket wicket (Ivan Barrow, West Indies, lbw)
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15 Dec 1933 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.
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15 Dec 1933 Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15
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15 Dec 1934 Fokker F18 Snip flies to the Netherlands West Indies
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15 Dec 1935 Detroit Lions win NFL championship
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15 Dec 1935 Max Euwe becomes world champion chess beating Alexander Aljechin
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15 Dec 1936 KVL-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KEEN (now KING)
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15 Dec 1938 Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC
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15 Dec 1939 "Gone With the Wind" premieres in Atlanta
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15 Dec 1939 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware
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15 Dec 1939 Snip departs for 1st flight to Paramaribo / Curacao
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15 Dec 1939 Gone with the Wind receives its premiere at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.
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15 Dec 1939 World premiere of "Gone With The Wind" in Atlanta GA
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15 Dec 1941 The Holocaust: German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobytsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Soviet Union.
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15 Dec 1941 USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship
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15 Dec 1941 Gas/electrical use restricted in Holland
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15 Dec 1941 German submarine U-127 sinks
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15 Dec 1941 Nazi's transfers 100 Czechoslovakian citizens/Heinrich Himmler falls faint
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15 Dec 1941 North Africa: allied assault up Italians Gazala-posing
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15 Dec 1942 World War II: The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
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15 Dec 1942 Massachusetts issues 1st US vehicular license plate tabs
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15 Dec 1943 World War II: The Battle of Arawe begins during the New Britain Campaign.
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15 Dec 1944 Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel
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15 Dec 1944 Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms
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15 Dec 1944 US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star
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15 Dec 1944 US troops lands on Mindoro
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15 Dec 1945 Occupation of Japan: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as the state religion of Japan.
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15 Dec 1945 John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest
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15 Dec 1946 Chicago Bears beat the New York Giants 24-14 in NFL championship game
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15 Dec 1946 U.S.-backed Iranian troops evict the leadership of the breakaway Republic of Mahabad, putting an end to the Iran crisis of 1946.
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15 Dec 1946 The first election to the Representative Assembly of French India was held.
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15 Dec 1946 Giants Frank Filchock & Merle Hapes suspended by NFL, because they didn't report bribe attempt
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15 Dec 1948 Former state department official Alger Hiss indicted in NYC for perjury
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15 Dec 1949 Albert Camus' "Les Justes" premieres in Paris
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15 Dec 1950 Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone to retain heavyweight boxing title
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15 Dec 1950 NYC's Port Authority opens
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15 Dec 1952 "Two's Company" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 90 performances
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15 Dec 1952 Christine Jorgenson is 1st person to undergo a sex-change operation
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15 Dec 1952 KHON TV channel 2 in Honolulu HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
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15 Dec 1952 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientales Ecclesias
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15 Dec 1953 WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, Florida (NBC / ABC) begins broadcasting
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15 Dec 1954 Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of the Netherlands
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15 Dec 1954 The Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands is signed.
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15 Dec 1954 Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons
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15 Dec 1956 Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes
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15 Dec 1956 KGW TV channel 8 in Portland OR (NBC) begins broadcasting
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15 Dec 1956 WRAL TV channel 5 in Raleigh-Durham NC (CBS) begins broadcasting
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15 Dec 1959 Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me"
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15 Dec 1959 Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me"
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15 Dec 1960 Richard Pavlick is arrested for plotting to assassinate U.S. President-Elect John F. Kennedy.
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15 Dec 1960 King Mahendra of Nepal suspends the country's constitution, dissolves parliament, dismisses the cabinet, and imposes direct rule.
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15 Dec 1960 King Boudouin of Belgium marries do
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15 Dec 1961 Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization.
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15 Dec 1961 Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel
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15 Dec 1961 Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time
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15 Dec 1961 JFK visits Puerto Rico
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15 Dec 1961 L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels
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15 Dec 1962 Vaughn Meader's "The 1st Family" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 12 weeks
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15 Dec 1964 Canada adopts maple leaf flag
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15 Dec 1964 1st time 4 people in space
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15 Dec 1964 American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded
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15 Dec 1965 Bangladesh windstorm kills 10,000
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15 Dec 1965 Project Gemini: 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.
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15 Dec 1965 3rd cyclone of year kills another 10,000 at mouth of Ganges River, Bangladesh
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15 Dec 1965 Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7)
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15 Dec 1965 William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th commissioner of baseball
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15 Dec 1965 D Heneker & J Taylor's musical "Charlie Girl" premieres in London
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15 Dec 1965 Queen Juliana opens Zeeland Bridge to Oosterschelde
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15 Dec 1966 "Joyful Noise" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 12 performances
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15 Dec 1966 Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus
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15 Dec 1966 John W Mecom Jr becomes 1st owner of the New Orlean Saints
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15 Dec 1967 Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again"
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15 Dec 1967 The Silver Bridge over the Ohio River collapses, killing 46 people.
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15 Dec 1967 Joe Garagiola joins the Today Show panel
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15 Dec 1967 Silver Bay bridge (Ohio-West Virginia) collapses during afternoon rush hour, 34 die
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15 Dec 1969 San Francisco Fire Department replaces leather helmets with plastic ones
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15 Dec 1969 Plastic Ono Band, play their only concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom
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15 Dec 1970 Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261
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15 Dec 1970 Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully land on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet
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15 Dec 1970 The South Korean ferry Namyong Ho capsizes in the Korea Strait, killing over 300 people.
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15 Dec 1970 Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
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15 Dec 1970 South Korean ferry Namyong-Ho sinks in Strait of Korea, 308 killed
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15 Dec 1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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15 Dec 1973 US Psychiatrist say homosexuals are not mentally ill
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15 Dec 1973 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.
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15 Dec 1973 The American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-II.
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15 Dec 1973 Golf Resort (The Disney Inn) opens
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15 Dec 1973 Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year
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15 Dec 1973 Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game
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15 Dec 1973 American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not mental illness
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15 Dec 1973 Pirates of Caribbean ride opens at Disneyland
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15 Dec 1974 A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees)
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15 Dec 1976 Western Samoa becomes a member of the United Nations.
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15 Dec 1976 The oil tanker MV Argo Merchant runs aground near Nantucket, Massachusetts, causing one of the worst marine oil spills in history.
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15 Dec 1976 Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 million gallons of crude when the ship runs aground
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15 Dec 1976 Jamaica premier Manley wins elections
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15 Dec 1978 U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People's Republic of China and sever diplomatic relations with Taiwan
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15 Dec 1978 Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James
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15 Dec 1978 Test Cricket debut of Malcolm Marshall, vs India at Bangalore
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15 Dec 1979 Deposed Shah of Iran leaves US for Panam
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15 Dec 1979 World Court in Hague rules Iran should release all US hostages
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15 Dec 1980 ZBZ Sangha registered after 5 yrs of administrative hassles in Warsaw
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15 Dec 1980 New York Yankee Dave Winfield becomes highest-paid player, 10 years $15 million
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15 Dec 1980 Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena
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15 Dec 1980 ZBZ Sangha (now ZBZ Bodhidharma) officially registered after 5 years of administrative hassles in Warsaw
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15 Dec 1981 A suicide car bombing targeting the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, levels the embassy and kills 61 people, including Iraq's ambassador to Lebanon. The attack is considered the first modern suicide bombing.
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15 Dec 1981 NASA launches Intelsat V
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15 Dec 1981 4th Emmy Sports Award presentation
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15 Dec 1982 Bill Parcells becomes the 12th head coach of the New York Giants
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15 Dec 1982 Roy Williams, Teamsters president, & 4 others convicted of bribery
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15 Dec 1982 Spain reopens border with Gibraltar
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15 Dec 1982 Sao Tome & Principe constitution approved
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15 Dec 1983 Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB
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15 Dec 1983 3 Kansas City Royals suspended due to cocaine usage
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15 Dec 1983 Last 80 US combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew
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15 Dec 1983 Wendy Wasserstein's "Isn't It Romantic" premieres in New York NY
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15 Dec 1984 USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
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15 Dec 1985 Sylvester Stallone & Brigitte Nielson wed
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15 Dec 1986 Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift
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15 Dec 1986 CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure
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15 Dec 1986 150 killed during race riot in Karachi Pakistan
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15 Dec 1987 "Les Miserables" opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston
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15 Dec 1988 Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks
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15 Dec 1990 Rocker Rod Stewart marries super model Rachel Hunter
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15 Dec 1991 "Nick & Nora" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 9 performances
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15 Dec 1991 Deb Richard wins JBP Cup LPGA Match Play Golf Championship
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15 Dec 1992 Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportman of Year
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15 Dec 1992 WNEW AM (1130) NYC resigns air, replaced by WBBR
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15 Dec 1993 The Troubles: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.
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15 Dec 1993 GATT Uruguay Round completed
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15 Dec 1993 British premier major/Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination
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15 Dec 1993 C-130 flies into a Philippines hill & explodes, 16 killed
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15 Dec 1993 Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns
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15 Dec 1993 John Williams final appearance as conductor of Boston Pops
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15 Dec 1993 Lee Aspen resigns as Secretary of Defense
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15 Dec 1993 Y-12 crashes at Phonesavanh, Laos: 18 killed
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15 Dec 1994 "Tuna Christmas" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 20 performances
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15 Dec 1994 Diane Modahl banned from Athletics for Drug Use, in the UK
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15 Dec 1994 John Bruton becomes Ireland's premier
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15 Dec 1994 Liberia militia kills 48 inhabitants of Monrovia
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15 Dec 1995 Playboy goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland
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15 Dec 1996 Dottie Pepper & Juli Inkster win LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
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15 Dec 1996 Jim Colbert & Bob Murphy win Diner's Club Senior PGA Golf Matches
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15 Dec 1996 Tom Lehman & Duffy Waldoff win Diner's Club PGA Golf Matches
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15 Dec 1997 Tajikistan Airlines Flight 3183 crashes in the desert near Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, killing 85.
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15 Dec 1997 San Francisco 49ers retire Joe Montana's #16
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15 Dec 2000 The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
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15 Dec 2001 The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean.
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15 Dec 2005 Introduction of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor into USAF active service.
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15 Dec 2006 First flight of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II.
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15 Dec 2009 Boeing's 787 Dreamliner makes its maiden flight from Seattle, Washington.
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15 Dec 2010 A boat carrying 90 asylum seekers crashes into rocks off the coast of Christmas Island, Australia, killing 48 people.
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15 Dec 2014 Man Haron Monis takes 18 hostages inside the Martin Place Lindt Café for 16 hours in Sydney. He dies, along with two hostages, when police raid the café the following morning.
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