What Happened On December 15 - On This Day

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• 533 Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals led by King Gelimer at the Battle of Tricamarum
• 1256 Hulagu Khan captures and destroys the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut in present-day Iran as part of the Mongol offensive in Southwest Asia
• 1488 Bartolomeu Dias returns to Portugal after becoming the first known European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope

• 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"

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  Bill of Rights

  1791 US Bill of Rights is ratified and becomes Amendments 1 through 10 of the US Constitution when Virginia gives its approval
• 1840 Napoleon Bonaparte receives a French state funeral in Paris 19 years after his death

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  Gallipoli: Guts, Glory and Defeat

  1915 ANZAC forces begin their withdrawal from the Gallipoli Peninsula after Ottoman forces successfully defend access to Constantinople
• 1973 American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its list of mental disorders

More December 15 Events

• 1939 "Gone with the Wind", drama film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, premieres in Atlanta (Best Picture 1940, highest-grossing film of all time unadjusted for inflation)

• 1955 "Folsom Prison Blues" single released by Johnny Cash (Billboard Song of the Year 1968)

• 1992 Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year

State of Holland grants a patent for a windmill with a crankshaft

December 15, 1593

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  Nero

  37 AD - 68 AD
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  Lucius Verus

  130 AD - 169 AD
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  Gustave Eiffel

  1832 - 1923
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  Miles Dempsey

  1896 - 1969
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  Oscar Niemeyer

  1907 - 2012
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  Chico Mendes

  1944 - 1988

More Birthdays on December 15

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  Lee Jung-jae

  53 Years Old
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  Charlie Cox

  43 Years Old

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  Ronnie Radke

  42 Years Old

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  Jesse Lingard

  33 Years Old

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

December 15, 1970

• 1875 French "Statue of Liberty" sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi (41) weds one of his models, Jeanne-Emilie Baheux Puysieux (46) in Newport, Rhode Island, until his death in 1904
• 1933 American actor Gary Cooper (32) weds American actress Veronica Balfe (20) at her mother's home on Park Avenue, New York City, until his death in 1961
• 1944 American country music star Hank Williams (21) weds American country singer Audrey Sheppard (21). her second marriage and his first; divorce in 1952

• 1942 Actress Mary Astor (36) divorces film editor Manuel del Campo (29) after more than 4 years of marriage
• 2008 Pop singer Madonna (50) divorces film director Guy Ritchie (40) due to unreasonable behavior after almost 8 years of marriage
• 2010 American "Nip/Tuck" actor Dylan Walsh (47) divorces actress Joana Going (47) due to irreconcilable differences after 6 years of marriage

More December 15 Weddings

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  Selim II

  1524 - 1574
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  Sitting Bull

  - 1890
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  Glenn Miller

  1904 - 1944
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  Sardar Patel

  1875 - 1950
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  Walt Disney

  1901 - 1966
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  Christopher Hitchens

  1949 - 2011

More December 15 Deaths

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  The Tower that Twice Defied Hitler

  The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of France and twice managed to upstage Adolf Hitler. The man who built it, Gustave Eiffel was born on this day. December 15, 1832
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  Picasso and Friends

  Manuel Ortiz de Zarate, Moïse Kisling, Max Jacob, Pablo Picasso and Pâquerette in Paris December 15, 1916
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  Weekly Quiz for December 9 - 15

  Which country was Lech Wałęsa elected President of? Which British monarch abdicated their throne in 1936? Who headed the 1st expedition to the South Pole?

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  Great Balls of Fire! The 'Bride' is 13

  December 13, 1957
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  Heartbreak and Tragedy for Captain Scott

  December 14, 1911
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  Melodrama at Theatre Leaves Actor Dead

  December 16, 1897
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  Bowled Over by William and Harry

  December 17, 1849

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