15/12/0687 - St Sergius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Conon
15/12/1124 - Chancellor Haimeric selects pope (Lamberto becomes Honorius II)
15/12/1488 - Bartholomeus Diaz returns to Portugal after sailing round Cape of Good Hope
15/12/1569 - Westmoreland flees to Scotland
15/12/1582 - Spanish Netherlands/Denmark/Norway adopt Gregorian calendar
15/12/1582 - Leidse university names Rembert Dodoens prof of botany/medicine
15/12/1586 - Laevinus Torrentius, becomes bishop of Antwerp
15/12/1593 - State of Holland grants patent on windmill with crankshaft
15/12/1612 - Simon Marius, is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope
15/12/1640 - Duke of Bragan‡a crowned King Johan IV of Portugal
15/12/1660 - Philippines: Andres Malongs rebels plunders Bagnotan
15/12/1664 - English colonizing Connecticut
15/12/1667 - Brandenburg declares himself neutral in Devolutie War
15/12/1680 - Tax revolt on Terschelling due to tax on cereal
15/12/1688 - Lord Delamere sides with King James II [NS 12/25]
15/12/1745 - Battle at Kesseldorf: Prussia beats Saksen and Austria
15/12/1791 - Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval
15/12/1791 - 1st US law school established at University of Pennsylvania
15/12/1792 - 1st life insurance policy issued in US (Phila)
15/12/1794 - Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France
15/12/1810 - 1st Irish magazine in US, Shamrock, is published
15/12/1811 - Earthquake hits New Madrid, Missouri
15/12/1815 - Rossini gets assignment for Il barbiere di Siviglia
15/12/1820 - 1st General pharmacopoeia in US published, Boston
15/12/1836 - Patent Office burns in Wash, DC
15/12/1854 - 1st street-cleaning machine in US 1st used in Philadelphia
15/12/1859 - GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun
15/12/1863 - Skirmish at Bean's Station, Tennessee (Knoxville Campaign)
15/12/1864 - Battle of Nashville, TN
15/12/1864 - Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon and Glade Springs, VA
15/12/1874 - 1st reigning king to visit US (of Hawaii) received by Pres Grant
15/12/1877 - Thomas Edison patents phonograph
15/12/1891 - James Naismith invents basketball (Canada)
15/12/1893 - Dvor ks "From the New World" premieres at Carnegie Hall NYC
15/12/1894 - Cricket day 2 1st T Aus v Eng Aus 586 (Gregory 201) England 3-130
15/12/1899 - Battle at Colenso, South Africa (Boers-British army)
15/12/1909 - Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League
15/12/1914 - Battle of L¢dz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow
15/12/1914 - British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea
15/12/1914 - Swedish troops over run Belgrade in Austria-Hungary
15/12/1916 - French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun
15/12/1917 - Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia
15/12/1918 - American Jewish Congress holds it's 1st meeting
15/12/1919 - Edna St Vincent Millay's "Aria da Capo," premieres in NYC
15/12/1919 - Fiume (Rijeka) declares it's Independence
15/12/1922 - IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague
15/12/1925 - 1st hockey game at Madison Sq Garden, Mont Candiens 3, NY Americans 1
15/12/1925 - 1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic
15/12/1926 - Facist national symbol elevated in Italy
15/12/1927 - Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads
15/12/1929 - Walter Mittelholzer flies as 1st about the Kilimanjaro
15/12/1930 - Don Bradman takes his 1st Test Cricket wicket (Ivan Barrow, WI, lbw)
15/12/1933 - Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15
15/12/1934 - Fokker F18 Snip flies to Neth West Indies
15/12/1935 - Detroit Lions win NFL championship
15/12/1935 - Max Euwe becomes world champ chess beating Alexander Aljechin
15/12/1936 - KVL-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KEEN (now KING)
15/12/1938 - Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC
15/12/1939 - "Gone With the Wind" premieres in Atlanta
15/12/1939 - 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware
15/12/1939 - Snip departs for 1st flight to Paramaribo/Cura‡ao
15/12/1941 - USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship
15/12/1941 - North Africa: allied assault up Italians Gazala-posing
15/12/1941 - Nazi's transfers 100 Czech citizens/Heinrich Himmler falls faint
15/12/1941 - German submarine U-127 sinks
15/12/1941 - Gas/electrical use restricted in Holland
15/12/1942 - Massachusetts issues 1st US vehicular license plate tabs
15/12/1944 - US troops lands on Mindoro
15/12/1944 - US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star
15/12/1944 - Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms
15/12/1944 - Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel
15/12/1945 - John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest
15/12/1946 - Chic Bears beat NY Giants 24-14 in NFL championship game
15/12/1946 - Giants Filchock and Hapes suspended by NFL, didn't report bribe attempt
15/12/1948 - Former state dept official Alger Hiss indicted in NYC for perjury
15/12/1949 - Albert Camus' "Les Justes" premieres in Paris
15/12/1950 - Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone to retain heavyweight boxing title
15/12/1950 - NYC's Port Authority opens
15/12/1952 - "Two's Company" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 90 performances
15/12/1952 - Christine Jorgenson is 1st person to undergo a sex-change operation
15/12/1952 - KHON TV channel 2 in Honolulu, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
15/12/1952 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientales Ecclesias
15/12/1953 - WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, FL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
15/12/1954 - Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands
15/12/1954 - Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons
15/12/1956 - Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes
15/12/1956 - KGW TV channel 8 in Portland, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting
15/12/1956 - WRAL TV channel 5 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (CBS) begins broadcasting
15/12/1959 - Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me"
15/12/1960 - King Boudouin of Belgium marries do¤a Fabiola de Mora y Aragon
15/12/1961 - Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel
15/12/1961 - Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time
15/12/1961 - JFK visits Puerto Rico
15/12/1961 - L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels
15/12/1962 - Vaughn Meader's "1st Family," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 12 wks
15/12/1964 - 1st time 4 people in space
15/12/1964 - American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded
15/12/1964 - Canada adopts maple leaf flag
15/12/1965 - William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th commissioner of baseball
15/12/1965 - Queen Juliana opens Zeeland Bridge to Oosterschelde
15/12/1965 - Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7)
15/12/1965 - D Heneker and J Taylor's musical "Charlie Girl," premieres in London
15/12/1965 - Bangladesh windstorm kills 10,000
15/12/1965 - 3rd cyclone of year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges River
15/12/1966 - John W Mecom Jr becomes 1st owner of New Orlean Saints
15/12/1966 - Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus
15/12/1966 - "Joyful Noise" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 12 performances
15/12/1967 - Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again"
15/12/1967 - Joe Garagiola joins Today Show panel
15/12/1967 - Silver Bay bridge (Oh-WV) collapes during afternoon rush hr, 34 die
15/12/1969 - Plastic Ono Band, play their only concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom
15/12/1969 - SF Fire Dept replaces leather helmets with plastic ones
15/12/1970 - Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
15/12/1970 - S Korean ferry Namyong-Ho sinks in Strait of Korea, 308 killed
15/12/1970 - Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261
15/12/1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
15/12/1973 - US Psychiatrist say homosexuals are not mentally ill
15/12/1973 - Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game
15/12/1973 - Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year
15/12/1973 - Pirates of Caribbean ride opens at Disneyland
15/12/1973 - Golf Resort (Disney Inn) opens
15/12/1973 - American Psychiatric Assn declares homosexuality is not mental illness
15/12/1974 - A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees)
15/12/1976 - Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground
15/12/1976 - Jamaica premier Manley wins elections
15/12/1978 - Test Cricket debut of Malcolm Marshall, v India at Bangalore
15/12/1978 - Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James
15/12/1979 - Deposed Shah of Iran leaves US for Panama
15/12/1979 - World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all US hostages
15/12/1980 - ZBZ Sangha registered after 5 yrs of administrative hassles in Warsaw
15/12/1980 - Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena
15/12/1980 - NY Yankee Dave Winfield becomes highest-paid player, 10 years $15M
15/12/1981 - 4th Emmy Sports Award presentation
15/12/1981 - NASA launches Intelsat V
15/12/1982 - Spain reopens border with Gibraltar
15/12/1982 - Sao Tome and Principe constitution approved
15/12/1982 - Roy Williams, Teamsters pres, and 4 others convicted of bribery
15/12/1982 - Bill Parcells becomes 12th head coach of NY Giants
15/12/1983 - Wendy Wasserstein's "Isn't It Romantic," premieres in NYC
15/12/1983 - Last 80 US combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew
15/12/1983 - Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB
15/12/1983 - 3 KC Royals suspended due to cocaine usage
15/12/1984 - USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
15/12/1985 - Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielson wed
15/12/1986 - 150 killed during race riot in Karachi
15/12/1986 - CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure
15/12/1986 - Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift
15/12/1987 - "Les Miserables" opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston
15/12/1988 - Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks
15/12/1990 - Rocker Rod Stewart marries super model Rachel Hunter
15/12/1991 - "Nick and Nora" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 9 performances
15/12/1991 - Deb Richard wins JBP Cup LPGA Match Play Golf Championship
15/12/1992 - Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportman of Year
15/12/1992 - WNew AM (1130) NYC resigns air, replaced by WBBR
15/12/1993 - British premier Major/Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination
15/12/1993 - Y-12 crashes at Phonesavanh, Laos: 18 killed
15/12/1993 - Lee Aspen resigns as secretary of defense
15/12/1993 - John Williams final appearance as conductor of Boston Pops
15/12/1993 - Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns
15/12/1993 - C-130 flies into a Philippines hill and explodes, 16 killed
15/12/1994 - Liberia militia kills 48 inhabitants of Monrovia
15/12/1994 - John Bruton becomes Ireland's premier
15/12/1994 - "Tuna Christmas" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 20 performances
15/12/1995 - Playboy goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland
15/12/1996 - Dottie Pepper and Juli Inkster win LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
15/12/1996 - Jim Colbert and Bob Murphy wins Diner's Club Senior PGA Golf Matches
15/12/1996 - Tom Lehman and Duffy Waldoff wins Diner's Club PGA Golf Matches
15/12/1997 - SF 49ers retire Joe Montana's #16





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