What are the important events that happened on December 15? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
December 15: Facts & Myths About This Day
December 15 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 2, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,903,680 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectapentacontagon’ day.
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Sagittarius is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,377 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 15 Historical Events
- 1167 –Sicilian chancellor Stephen du Perche moves the royal court to Messina to prevent a rebellion.
- 1906 –The London Underground’s Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.
- 1917 –World War I: An armistice is reached between the new Bolshevik government and the Central Powers.
- 1942 –The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse begins during the Guadalcanal campaign.
- 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.
- 1993 –History of Northern Ireland: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.
- 2000 –The 3rd reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
- 2006 –First flight of the F-35 Lightning II.
- 2010 –A boat carrying 90 asylum seekers crashes into rocks off the coast of Christmas Island, Australia, killing at least 30 passengers.
Who were born on December 15?
- 1902 –Robert F. Bradford, 57th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1983)
- 1911 –Nicholas P. Dallis, American psychiatrist and comic strip writer (d. 1991)
- 1918 –Jeff Chandler, American actor (d. 1961)
- 1923 –Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer (d. 2002)
- 1939 –Cindy Birdsong, American singer (The Supremes)
- 1945 –Thaao Penghlis, Australian actor
- 1957 –Tim Reynolds, Musician (Dave Matthews Band,TR3)
- 1960 –Walter Werzowa, Austrian composer
- 1963 –Helen Slater, American actress
- 1983 –René Goguen, Canadian professional wrestler
Who died on December 15?
- 1855 –Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (b. 1803)
- 1943 –Fats Waller, American musician (b. 1904)
- 1947 –Arthur Machen, Welsh author (b. 1863)
- 1950 –Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian politician (b. 1875)
- 1958 –Wolfgang Ernst Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
- 1980 –Komninos Pyromaglou, Greek educator and politician (b. 1899)
- 1980 –Kostas Biris, Greek architect, city planner and folklorist (b. 1899)
- 1984 –Lennard Pearce, English actor (b. 1915)
- 2003 –George Fisher, American political cartoonist (b. 1923)
- 2010 –Blake Edwards, American film director (b. 1922)
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