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
- 533 –Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Ticameron.
- 1167 –Sicilian chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to Messina to prevent a rebellion.
- 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.
- 1778 –American Revolutionary War: British and French fleets clash in the Battle of St. Lucia.
- 1905 –The Pushkin House is established in St. Petersburg to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin
- 1906 –The London Underground’s Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.
- 1913 –Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention.
- 1914 –A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hojyo coal mine, Kyūshū, Japan, kills 687.
- 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.
- 1941 –Holocaust: German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobitsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine.
- 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.
- 1965 –Gemini program: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Four orbits later, it achieves the first space rendezvous, with Gemini 7.
- 1970 –Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully land on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet
- 1976 –Samoa becomes a member of the United Nations.
- 1994 –Palau becomes a member of the United Nations.
- 2001 –The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean.
- 2006 –First flight of the F-35 Lightning II.
- 2009 –Boeing’s new Boeing 787 Dreamliner makes its maiden flight from Seattle, Washington.
- 2010 –A boat carrying 90 asylum seekers crashes into rocks off the coast of Christmas Island, Australia, killing at least 30 passengers.
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