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
- 1167 –Sicilian chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to Messina to prevent a rebellion.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1946 –US-backed Iranian troops evict the leadership of the breakaway Republic of Mahabad, putting an end to the Iran crisis of 1946.
- 1960 –King Mahendra of Nepal suspends the country’s constitution, dissolves parliament, dismisses the cabinet, and imposes direct rule.
- 1961 –In Jerusalem, Adolph Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.
- 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.
- 1967 –The Silver Bridge collapses, killing 46 people.
- 1970 –South Korean ferry Namyong Ho capsizes off Korean Strait killing 308.
- 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.
- 1997 –The Treaty of Bangkok is signed allowing the transformation of Southeast Asia into a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone.
- 2005 –Latvia amends its constitution to eliminate possibility of same-sex couples being entitled to marry.
- 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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