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 349^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 16 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 2, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,765,756,800 seconds 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 ‘trihectatetracontaenneagon’ day.

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 64 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 4,742 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

December 15 Historical Events

• 1778 –
  American Revolutionary War: British and French fleets clash in the Battle of St. Lucia.
• 1868 –
  Shogunate rebels found Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
• 1913 –
  Nicaragua becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention.
• 1914 –
  A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hojyo coal mine, Kyūshū, Japan, kills 687.
• 1939 –
  Gone with the Wind receives its première at Loew’s Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
• 1960 –
  Richard Paul Pavlick is arrested for attempting to blow up and assassinate the U.S. President-Elect, John F. Kennedy only four days earlier.
• 1961 –
  In Jerusalem, Adolph Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.
• 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.
• 1967 –
  The Silver Bridge collapses, killing 46 people.
• 2005 –
  Latvia amends its constitution to eliminate possibility of same-sex couples being entitled to marry.

Who were born on December 15?

• 130 –
  Lucius Verus, Roman co-emperor (d. 169)
• 1852 –
  Henri Becquerel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1908)
• 1863 –
  Arthur Dehon Little, American chemist and chemical engineer (d. 1935)
• 1902 –
  Robert F. Bradford, 57th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1983)
• 1917 –
  Shan-ul-Haq Haqqee, linguist and writer of Pakistan (d. 2005)
• 1942 –
  Dave Clark, English musician (The Dave Clark Five)
• 1944 –
  Chico Mendes, Brazilian campaigner (d. 1988)
• 1949 –
  Don Johnson, American actor
• 1953 –
  J. M. DeMatteis, American comic book writer
• 1977 –
  Geoff Stults, American actor

Who died on December 15?

• 1715 –
  George Hickes, English minister and scholar (b. 1642)
• 1944 –
  Glenn Miller, American musician (presumed date of death) (b. 1904)
• 1950 –
  Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Indian politician (b. 1875)
• 1969 –
  Karl Theodor Bleek, German politician (b. 1898)
• 1971 –
  Paul Pierre Lévy, French mathematician (b. 1886)
• 1984 –
  Lennard Pearce, English actor (b. 1915)
• 1985 –
  Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Mauritian politician (b. 1900)
• 2000 –
  Haris Brkić, Bosnian basketball player (b. 1974)
• 2011 –
  Christopher Hitchens, Prolific Columnist (b. 1949)
• 2011 –
  Francis “Frank” X. McDermott, American Republican Party politician (b.1924)