About December 15
December 15, 2023 is the 349th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 16 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 57 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On December 15
- 1256 –Hulagu Khan captures and destroys the Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut in present-day Iran as part of the Mongol offensive on Islamic southwest Asia.
- 1467 –Stephen III of Moldavia defeats Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, with the latter being injured thrice, at the Battle of Baia.
- 1791 –The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.
- 1864 –In the Battle of Nashville, Union forces under George H. Thomas almost completely destroy the Army of Tennessee under John B. Hood.
- 1905 –The Pushkin House is established in St. Petersburg to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin
- 1914 –A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hojyo coal mine, Kyūshū, Japan, kills 687.
- 1914 –World War I: The Serbian Army recaptures Belgrade from the invading Austro-Hungarian Army.
- 1939 –Gone with the Wind receives its première at Loew’s Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
- 1941 –Holocaust: German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobitsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine.
- 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.
- 1960 –King Mahendra of Nepal suspends the country’s constitution, dissolves parliament, dismisses the cabinet, and imposes direct rule.
- 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 –The oil tanker MV Argo Merchant runs aground near Nantucket, Massachusetts, causing one of the worst marine oil spills in history.
- 1997 –A chartered Tupolev TU-154 from Tajikistan crashes in the desert near Sharja, United Arab Emirates airport killing 85.
- 2001 –The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean.
- 2005 –Introduction of the F-22 Raptor into USAF active service.
- 2009 –Boeing’s new Boeing 787 Dreamliner makes its maiden flight from Seattle, Washington.
- 2011 –American forces withdraw from Iraq after a 9-year long campaign.
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