About December 15
December 15, 2024 is the 350th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 16 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 45 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 15
- 1167 –Sicilian chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to Messina to prevent a rebellion.
- 1467 –Stephen III of Moldavia defeats Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, with the latter being injured thrice, at the Battle of Baia.
- 1778 –American Revolutionary War: British and French fleets clash in the Battle of St. Lucia.
- 1868 –Shogunate rebels found Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
- 1913 –Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention.
- 1914 –World War I: The Serbian Army recaptures Belgrade from the invading Austro-Hungarian Army.
- 1945 –Occupation of Japan: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as the state religion of Japan.
- 1946 –US-backed Iranian troops evict the leadership of the breakaway Republic of Mahabad, putting an end to the Iran crisis of 1946.
- 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.
- 1967 –The Silver Bridge collapses, killing 46 people.
- 1973 –The American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-II.
- 1976 –Samoa becomes a member of the United Nations.
- 1976 –The oil tanker MV Argo Merchant runs aground near Nantucket, Massachusetts, causing one of the worst marine oil spills in history.
- 1994 –Palau becomes a member of the United Nations.
- 1997 –A chartered Tupolev TU-154 from Tajikistan crashes in the desert near Sharja, United Arab Emirates airport killing 85.
- 2000 –The 3rd reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
- 2005 –Introduction of the F-22 Raptor into USAF active service.
- 2006 –First flight of the F-35 Lightning II.
- 2010 –A boat carrying 90 asylum seekers crashes into rocks off the coast of Christmas Island, Australia, killing at least 30 passengers.
- 2011 –American forces withdraw from Iraq after a 9-year long campaign.
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