December 15

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on December 15. From 1900 until now. December 15 is under the sign of Sagittarius. Famous birthdays on this day include Elodie Gossuin (1980), Adam Brody (1979) and Don Johnson (1949). Several movies were released around December 15 over the years, such as Wild Strawberries in 1957 directed by Ingmar Bergman and The Graduate in 1967 directed by Mike Nichols.
But much more happened on December 15 over the years: find out below

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2018 Kashmir conflict: Indian soldiers and counterinsurgency police exchange gunfire with militants in the southern district of Pulwama, resulting in the deaths of one soldier and three militants. The soldiers then opened fire on a crowd of anti-government protesters who gathered after the battle, killing seven civilians and injuring 40 others. (The Independent)
2017 Palestinians and the Israeli army scuffle in Jerusalem, Bethlehem and at the Qalandia border crossing over the status of Jerusalem. Clashes are also reported in Gaza, Ramallah, Hebron and Qalqilya. In conflicts where Israeli law enforcement used live ammunition and Palestinians threw rocks, two Palestinians died in Gaza while 150 were wounded and two more were killed in the West Bank while a further 10 were wounded. (Reuters)
2016 War in Donbass: The European Union extends its main Ukraine-related economic sanctions against Russia for six months until mid-2017. (Reuters)
2015 Syrian Civil War, Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War: The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that increased airstrikes by Russia have forced humanitarian assistance organizations to curtail their relief efforts, exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in northern Syria. (The Washington Post)
2014 A fire at a karaoke bar in China's Henan province kills at least 11 people. (IANS via The Hindu)
2013 War in Afghanistan (2001–present):: The last Australian combat troops leave Afghanistan. (BBC)
2012 Cyclone Evan is expected to hit northern parts of Tonga before turning south towards Fiji. (Sky News Australia)
2011 The United States formally declares an end to the Iraq War. While this ends the insurgency it begins another.
2010 Communist rebels in the Philippines kill 10 soldiers as they returned to base to observe a Christmas truce. (''Straits Times'')
2009 US television evangelist Oral Roberts dies in Newport Beach, California at age 91 from complications from pneumonia.
2008 Montenegro presents its official application for European Union membership to current EU Council President Nicolas Sarkozy, hoping to win candidate status in 2009. (EU Observer)
2007 Sikhanyiso Ndlovu, the Information Minister of Zimbabwe, calls Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany a ampquotNaziampquot. Ndlovu responded to the German government's criticism of rising human rights abuses in Zimbabwe by telling Merkel to ampquotshut upampquot. (allAfrica.com)
2006 Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter successfully flies for the first time.
2005 Latvia amends its constitution to eliminate possibility of same-sex couples being entitled to marry.
2004 The House of Lords rules that the British Government breaches human rights legislation, by detaining without trial foreign nationals suspected of being terrorists.
2003 Wesley Clark concludes his first day of closed-door testimony against Slobodan Milošević at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
2002 The Capital Center (formerly US Airways Arena) is demolished.
2000 The 3rd reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
1999 The MRT-3 Metrostar Express line in Manila, Philippines is inaugurated between North Ave. and Taft Ave.
1997 The Treaty of Bangkok is signed allowing the transformation of Southeast Asia into a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone.
1996 A ski lift accident in the Swiss resort of Riederalp leaves one dead and 18 injured.
1995 Playboy goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland
1994 Tuna Christmas opens at Booth Theater NYC for 20 performances
1993 British Premier Major / Irish Premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination
1992 Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportman of Year
1991 Nick & Nora closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 9 performances
1990 Rocker Rod Stewart marries supermodel Rachel Hunter.
1989 The Romanian Revolution begins in Timişoara when rioters break into the Committee Building and cause extensive vandalism. Their attempts to set the buildings on fire are foiled by military units.
1988 Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks
1987 Les Miserables opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston
1986 CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure
1985 Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielson wed
1983 Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB
1982 Bill Parcells becomes the 12th head coach of the New York Giants.
1981 4th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1980 New York Yankees' Dave Winfield becomes highest-paid player, ten years $15 million.
1979 World Court in Hague rules Iran should release all US hostages.
1978 Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James.
1976 Jamaica premier Manley wins elections.
1973 Golf Resort (Disney Inn) opens
1970 Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261
1969 San Francisco Fire Department replaces leather helmets with plastic ones
1967 Beatles release Christmas Time is Here Again
1966 Joyful Noise opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 12 performances
1965 Bangladesh windstorm kills 10,000
1964 Canada adopts maple leaf flag
1962 Storm over North Sea. Belgian pirate radio station Radio Uylenspiegel is knocked off the airwaves, never to operate again.
1961 Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel
1960 Richard Paul Pavlick is arrested for attempting to blow up and assassinate the U.S. President-Elect, John F. Kennedy only four days earlier.
1959 Everly Brothers record Let It Be Me
1958 Arthur L. Schawlow and Charles H. Townes of Bell Laboratories publish a paper in ''Physical Review Letters'' setting out the principles of the optical laser.
1956 KGW TV channel 8 in Portland, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 Jens Olsen's World Clock is started by Danish King Frederick IX and Jens Olsen's youngest grandchild Birgit.
1954 Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of the Netherlands
1953 WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, Florida (NBC / ABC) begins broadcasting
1952 KHON TV channel 2 in Honolulu, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 Ezzard Charles knocks out Nick Barone to retain heavyweight boxing title.
1949 A typhoon strikes a fishing fleet off Korea, killing several thousand.
1948 Former state department official Alger Hiss indicted in New York City for perjury.
1946 Chicago Bears beat the New York Giants 24-14 in NFL championship game
1945 Occupation of Japan: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as the state religion of Japan.
1944 bandleader/composer Glenn Miller ("Chattanooga Choo-Choo"), at age 40, in a plane crash between London and Paris.
1942 Massachusetts issues first US vehicular license plate tabs.
1941 Gas / electrical use restricted in Holland
1939 Gone with the Wind receives its premiere at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
1938 Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC.
1936 KVL-AM in Seattle Washington changes call letters to KEEN (now KING)
1935 Max Euwe becomes world champion chess player beating Alexander Aljechin.
1934 Fokker F18 Snip flies to the Netherlands West Indies
1933 Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15.
1929 Walter Mittelholzer flies as 1st about the Kilimanjaro
1927 Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads
1926 Facist national symbol elevated in Italy.
1925 First road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic.
1922 IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague.
1920 December 22 ampndash The Brussels Conference establishes a timetable for German war reparations intended to extend for over 42 years.
1917 Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia.
1916 French defeat Germans in WWI Battle of Verdun.
1914 British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea.
1913 Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention.
1906 The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.
1905 The Pushkin House is established in St. Petersburg to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin
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