Tukuk-OS📅 December 15
19 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on December 15? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2019 — Citizenship Amendment Act protests: 10 to 15 local women blockaded a major road in Delhi, India, to protest the exclusion of Muslims from the amended Citizenship Act.
- 2013 — The South Sudanese Civil War began when three opposition leaders voted to boycott the meeting of the National Liberation Council in Juba.
- 1981 — The Iraqi Shia Islamist group al-Dawa carried out one of the first modern suicide bombings, targeting the Iraqi embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, resulting in 61 deaths and at least 100 injuries.
Shia IslamIslamic Dawa Party1981 Iraqi embassy bombing in Beirut
- 1970 — The Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 touched down on the surface of Venus, making the first successful landing of a spacecraft on another planet.
- 1961 — Former Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death after being found guilty on fifteen criminal charges, including war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- 1946 — U.S.-backed Iranian troops brought an end to the Iran crisis when they marched on the breakaway Republic of Mahabad and recaptured the territory.
- 1945 — The US-led occupying forces ordered the government of Japan to cease state support for Shinto.
Supreme Commander for the Allied PowersShinto DirectiveGovernment of Japan
- 1943 — World War II: Australian and American forces (pictured) began the Battle of Arawe against Japanese forces on New Britain as a diversion before a larger landing at Cape Gloucester.
- 1939 — The American historical epic film Gone With the Wind, adapted from Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of the same name, premiered in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1906 — The Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway, a 14.17-kilometre (8.80 mi) long deep-level underground tube railway connecting Hammersmith and Finsbury Park, London, opened.
Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton RailwayHammersmithFinsbury Park
- 1890 — Sitting Bull, a Hunkpapa Lakota leader, was killed on Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in South Dakota by U.S. Indian agency police.
- 1871 — Sixteen-year-old Ella Stewart sent the first telegraphed message from Arizona Territory.
- 1864 — American Civil War: Union troops defeated the Army of Tennessee, one of the largest Confederate forces, at the Battle of Nashville.
American Civil WarUnion (American Civil War)Army of Tennessee
- 1796 — War of the First Coalition: The French navy launched an expedition to Ireland to assist the Society of United Irishmen in a rebellion against the British.
War of the First CoalitionFrench expedition to Ireland (1796)Society of United Irishmen
- 1791 — The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified.
List of amendments to the Constitution of the United StatesUnited States Bill of Rights
- 1778 — American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of St. Lucia, the Royal Navy prevented French Navy ships from reaching their garrison on Saint Lucia in the West Indies.
- 1025 — Constantine VIII (depicted) became the sole Byzantine emperor, 63 years after being crowned co-emperor.
- 687 — Sergius was elected pope, ending the last disputed period of sede vacante during the Byzantine Papacy.
- 533 — Byzantines led by Belisarius defeated the Vandal King Gelimer at the Battle of Tricamarum, completing the "Reconquest of North Africa" under Byzantine Emperor Justinian I.
Births
- 2000 — Kayvon Thibodeaux, American football player
- 1997 — Maude Apatow, American actress
- 1997 — Magdalena Fręch, Polish tennis player
- 1997 — Stefania LaVie Owen, New Zealand-American actress
- 1996 — Jenifer Brening, German singer
- 1996 — Oleksandr Zinchenko, Ukrainian footballer
- 1995 — Jahlil Okafor, American basketball player
- 1993 — Daniel Ochefu, American basketball player
- 1992 — Jesse Lingard, English footballer
- 1992 — Maximiliano Meza, Argentine footballer
- 1992 — Alex Telles, Brazilian footballer
- 1991 — Conor Daly, American race car driver
Deaths
- 2025 — William J. Bauer, senior United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago and previously a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, (born 1926)
William J. BauerUnited States federal judgeUnited States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- 2024 — Zakir Hussain, Indian tabla player, musical producer, film actor and composer (born 1951)
- 2020 — Saufatu Sopoanga, Tuvaluan politician, 8th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (born 1952)
- 2018 — Eryue He, Chinese historical fiction writer (born 1945)
- 2018 — Girma Wolde-Giorgis, President of Ethiopia (born 1924)
- 2017 — Heinz Wolff, scientist and TV presenter (born 1928)
- 2017 — Calestous Juma, academic (born 1953)
- 2016 — Craig Sager, American sports journalist (born 1951)
- 2015 — Harry Zvi Tabor, English-Israeli physicist and engineer (born 1917)
- 2014 — Donald Metcalf, Australian physiologist and immunologist (born 1929)
- 2014 — Fausto Zapata, Mexican journalist, lawyer, and politician, Governor of San Luis Potosí (born 1940)
- 2013 — Harold Camping, American evangelist, author, radio host (born 1921)
Observances & holidays
- Bill of Rights Day (United States) 2nd Amendment Day (South Carolina)
- Christian feast day: Drina Martyrs
- Christian feast day: Drostan (Aberdeen Breviary)
- Christian feast day:
John Horden and Robert McDonald (Episcopal Church (USA))
John HordenRobert McDonald (missionary)Episcopal Church (United States)
- Christian feast day: Maria Crocifissa di Rosa
- Christian feast day: Mesmin
- Christian feast day: Valerian of Abbenza
- Christian feast day: Virginia Centurione Bracelli
- Christian feast day: December 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Homecoming Day (Alderney)
- Kingdom Day (Netherlands), moves to December 16 if the 15th is on a Sunday
- Zamenhof Day (International Esperanto Community)
- World Turkic Language Family Day (UNESCO)
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