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.
- 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.
- 1906 –The London Underground’s Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 –The oil tanker MV Argo Merchant runs aground near Nantucket, Massachusetts, causing one of the worst marine oil spills in history.
- 1978 –U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People’s Republic of China and cut off all relations with Taiwan
- 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.
- 2001 –The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean.
- 2005 –Latvia amends its constitution to eliminate possibility of same-sex couples being entitled to marry.
- 2011 –American forces withdraw from Iraq after a 9-year long campaign.
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