Sunday, December 15, 2013

On This Day in History - December 15. (Incomplete)

Once again, it should be reiterated, that this does not pretend to be a very extensive history of what happened on this day (nor is it the most original - the links can be found down below). If you know something that I am missing, by all means, shoot me an email or leave a comment, and let me know!

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history







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Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:


533 - Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Ticameron.

687 - St Sergius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Conon

1124 - Chancellor Haimeric selects pope (Lamberto becomes Honorius II)

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.

1488 - Bartholomeus Diaz returns to Portugal after sailing round Cape of Good Hope

1569 - Westmoreland flees to Scotland

1582 - Leidse university names Rembert Dodoens prof of botany/medicine

1582 - Spanish Netherlands/Denmark/Norway adopt Gregorian calendar

1586 - Laevinus Torrentius, becomes bishop of Antwerp

1593 - State of Holland grants patent on windmill with crankshaft

1612 - Simon Marius, is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope

1640 - Duke of Braganca crowned King Johan IV of Portugal

1660 - Philippines: Andres Malongs rebels plunders Bagnotan

1664 - English colonizing Connecticut

1667 - Brandenburg declares himself neutral in Devolutie War

1680 - Tax revolt on Terschelling due to tax on cereal

1688 - Lord Delamere sides with King James II [NS 12/25]

1745 - Battle at Kesseldorf: Prussia beats Saksen & Austria

1791 - 1st US law school established at University of Pennsylvania

1791 - Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval

1792 - 1st life insurance policy issued in US (Phila)

1794 - Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France

1810 - 1st Irish magazine in US, Shamrock, is published

1815 - Rossini gets assignment for Il barbiere di Siviglia

1820 - 1st General pharmacopoeia in US published, Boston

1836 - Patent Office burns in Wash, DC

1854 - 1st street-cleaning machine in US 1st used in Philadelphia

1859 - GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun

1863 - Skirmish at Bean's Station, Tennessee (Knoxville Campaign)

1863 - Romania is using for the first time a mountain railway (from Anina to Oravita).

1864 - Battle of Nashville, TN

1864 - Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon & Glade Springs, VA

1868 - Shogunate rebels found Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.

1874 - 1st reigning king to visit US (of Hawaii) received by Pres Grant

 Inventor Thomas Edison 1877 - Thomas Edison patents phonograph

1891 - James Naismith invents basketball (Canada)

1893 - Dvoráks "From the New World" premieres at Carnegie Hall NYC

1894 - Cricket day 2 1st T Aus v Eng Aus 586 (Gregory 201) England 3-130

1899 - Battle at Colenso, South Africa (Boers-British army)

1905 - The Pushkin House is established in St. Petersburg to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin

1909 - Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League

1913 - Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

1914 - Battle of Lodz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow

1914 - British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea

1914 - Serbian troops retake Belgrade in Austria-Hungary

1916 - French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun

1917 - Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia

1917 - World War I: An armistice is reached between the new Bolshevik government and the Central Powers.

1918 - American Jewish Congress holds it's 1st meeting

 Inventor James Naismith 1919 - Edna St Vincent Millay's "Aria da Capo," premieres in NYC

1919 - Fiume (Rijeka) declares it's Independence

1922 - IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague

1925 - 1st hockey game at Madison Sq Garden, Mont Candiens 3, NY Americans 1

1925 - 1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic

1926 - Facist national symbol elevated in Italy

1927 - Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads

1929 - Walter Mittelholzer flies as 1st about the Kilimanjaro

1930 - Don Bradman takes his 1st Test Cricket wicket (Ivan Barrow, WI, lbw)

1933 - Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15

1934 - Fokker F18 Snip flies to Neth West Indies

1935 - Detroit Lions win NFL championship

1935 - Max Euwe becomes world champ chess beating Alexander Alekhine

1936 - KVL-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KEEN (now KING)

1938 - Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC

1939 - "Gone With the Wind" premieres in Atlanta

1939 - 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware

1939 - Snip departs for 1st flight to Paramaribo/Curacao

1941 - Gas/electrical use restricted in Holland

1941 - German submarine U-127 sinks

1941 - Nazi's transfers 100 Czech citizens/Heinrich Himmler falls faint

1941 - North Africa: allied assault up Italians Gazala-posing

1941 - USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship

1941 - The American Federation of Labor adopts a no-strike policy in war industries.

1942 - Massachusetts issues 1st US vehicular license plate tabs

1944 - Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel

1944 - Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms

1944 - US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star

1944 - US troops lands on Mindoro

1945 - John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest

1946 - Chic Bears beat NY Giants 24-14 in NFL championship game

1946 - Giants Filchock & Hapes suspended by NFL, didn't report bribe attempt

1948 - Former state dept official Alger Hiss indicted in NYC for perjury

 Author Albert Camus 1949 - Albert Camus' "Les Justes" premieres in Paris

1950 - Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone to retain heavyweight boxing title

1950 - NYC's Port Authority opens

1952 - "Two's Company" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 90 performances

1952 - Christine Jorgenson is 1st person to undergo a sex-change operation

1952 - KHON TV channel 2 in Honolulu, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting

1952 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientales Ecclesias

1953 - WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, FL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting

1954 - Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons

1954 - Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands

1956 - Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes

1956 - KGW TV channel 8 in Portland, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting

1956 - WRAL TV channel 5 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (CBS) begins broadcasting

1959 - Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me"

1961 - Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel

1961 - Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time

1961 - JFK visits Puerto Rico

1961 - L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels

1962 - Vaughn Meader's "1st Family," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 12 wks

1964 - 1st time 4 people in space

1964 - American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded

1964 - Canada adopts maple leaf flag

1965 - 3rd cyclone of year kills 15,000 at the mouths of the Ganges River in Bangladesh

1965 - D Heneker & J Taylor's musical "Charlie Girl," premieres in London

1965 - Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7)

1965 - Queen Juliana opens Zeeland Bridge to Oosterschelde

1965 - William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th commissioner of baseball

1966 - "Joyful Noise" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 12 performances

1966 - Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus

1966 - John W Mecom Jr becomes 1st owner of New Orlean Saints

1967 - Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again"

1967 - Joe Garagiola joins Today Show panel

1967 - Silver Bay bridge (Oh-WV) collapes during afternoon rush hr, 34 die

1967 - The Silver Bridge collapses, killing 46 people.

1969 - Plastic Ono Band, play their only concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom

1969 - SF Fire Dept replaces leather helmets with plastic ones

1970 - Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261

1970 - S Korean ferry Namyong-Ho sinks in Strait of Korea, 308 killed

1970 - Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)

1970 - Illinois State Constitution is adopted at a special election.

1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1973 - American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not mental illness

1973 - Golf Resort (Disney Inn) opens

1973 - Pirates of Caribbean ride opens at Disneyland

1973 - Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year

1973 - Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game

1973 - US Psychiatrist say homosexuals are not mentally ill

1974 - A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees)

1976 - Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground

1976 - Jamaica premier Manley wins elections

1976 - Samoa becomes a member of the UN.

1978 - Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James

1978 - Test Cricket debut of Malcolm Marshall, v India at Bangalore

1979 - Deposed Shah of Iran leaves US for Panama

1979 - World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all US hostages

1980 - NY Yankee Dave Winfield becomes highest-paid player, 10 years $15M

1980 - Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena

1980 - ZBZ Sangha registered after 5 yrs of administrative hassles in Warsaw

1981 - 4th Emmy Sports Award presentation

1981 - NASA launches Intelsat V satellite, no. 503

1982 - Bill Parcells becomes 12th head coach of NY Giants

1982 - Roy Williams, Teamsters pres, & 4 others convicted of bribery

1982 - Sao Tome & Principe constitution approved

1982 - Spain reopens border with Gibraltar

1983 - 3 KC Royals suspended due to cocaine usage

1983 - Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB

1983 - Last 80 US combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew

1983 - Wendy Wasserstein's "Isn't It Romantic," premieres in NYC

1984 - USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet

 Actor/Director Sylvester Stallone 1985 - Sylvester Stallone & Brigitte Nielson wed

1986 - 150 killed during race riot in Karachi

1986 - CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure

1986 - Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift

1987 - "Les Miserables" opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston

1988 - Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks

1991 - "Nick & Nora" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 9 performances

1991 - Deb Richard wins JBP Cup LPGA Match Play Golf Championship

1992 - Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportman of Year

1992 - WNew AM (1130) NYC resigns air, replaced by WBBR

1993 - C-130 flies into a Philippines hill & explodes, 16 killed

1993 - Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns

1993 - John Williams final appearance as conductor of Boston Pops

1993 - Lee Aspen resigns as secretary of defense

1993 - Y-12 crashes at Phonesavanh, Laos: 18 killed

 Heavyweight Boxing Champion Mike Tyson 1993 - British premier Major/Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination

1994 - "Tuna Christmas" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 20 performances

1994 - John Bruton becomes Ireland's premier

1994 - Liberia militia kills 48 inhabitants of Monrovia

1994 - Palau becomes a member of the UN.

1995 - Playboy goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland

1995 - The European Communities Court of Justice hands down the "Bosman ruling", giving EU footballers the right to a free transfer at the end of their contracts, with the provision that they are transferring from one UEFA Federation to another.

1996 - Dottie Pepper & Juli Inkster win LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches

1996 - Jim Colbert & Bob Murphy wins Diner's Club Senior PGA Golf Matches

1996 - Tom Lehman & Duffy Waldoff wins Diner's Club PGA Golf Matches

1997 - SF 49ers retire Joe Montana's #16

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.

2005 - Argentina's president Néstor Kirchner announces the early repayment of its external debt to the IMF.

2005 - Introduction of the F-22 Raptor into USAF active service.

2005 - The 2005 Atlantic Power Outage began.

2006 - First flight of the F-35 Lightning II.

2009 - Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner makes its maiden flight from Seattle, Washington.

2012 - 18 Asylum seekers drown in the Aegean Sea on the way to Greece from Turkey










The following links are to web sites that were used to complete this blog entry:

http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php

http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/dec15.htm

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory

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