About December 15
December 15, 2025 is the 349th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 16 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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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 64 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 15
- 533 –Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Ticameron.
- 1778 –American Revolutionary War: British and French fleets clash in the Battle of St. Lucia.
- 1868 –Shogunate rebels found Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
- 1906 –The London Underground’s Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.
- 1917 –World War I: An armistice is reached between the new Bolshevik government and the Central Powers.
- 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.
- 1939 –Gone with the Wind receives its première at Loew’s Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
- 1942 –The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse begins during the Guadalcanal campaign.
- 1945 –Occupation of Japan: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as the state religion of Japan.
- 1967 –The Silver Bridge collapses, killing 46 people.
- 1970 –Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully land on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet
- 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, 1973.
- 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.
- 1993 –History of Northern Ireland: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.
- 1994 –Palau becomes a member of the United Nations.
- 1997 –The Treaty of Bangkok is signed allowing the transformation of Southeast Asia into a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone.
- 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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