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 349th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 16 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is December 2, 2023 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,376,640 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 ‘trihectatetracontaenneagon’ 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 57 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 4,011 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 15 Historical Events
- 1864 –In the Battle of Nashville, Union forces under George H. Thomas almost completely destroy the Army of Tennessee under John B. Hood.
- 1941 –Holocaust: German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobitsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine.
- 1970 –South Korean ferry Namyong Ho capsizes off Korean Strait killing 308.
- 1973 –The American Psychiatric Association votes 13–0 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-II.
- 1976 –The oil tanker MV Argo Merchant runs aground near Nantucket, Massachusetts, causing one of the worst marine oil spills in history.
- 2005 –Introduction of the F-22 Raptor into USAF active service.
- 2006 –First flight of the F-35 Lightning II.
- 2009 –Boeing’s new Boeing 787 Dreamliner makes its maiden flight from Seattle, Washington.
- 2010 –A boat carrying 90 asylum seekers crashes into rocks off the coast of Christmas Island, Australia, killing at least 30 passengers.
- 2011 –American forces withdraw from Iraq after a 9-year long campaign.
Who were born on December 15?
- 1860 –Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1904)
- 1878 –Hans Carossa, German writer (d. 1956)
- 1899 –Harold Abrahams, English sprinter (d. 1978)
- 1912 –Ray Eames, American designer (d. 1988)
- 1925 –Sam Pollock, Canadian ice hockey general manager (d. 2007)
- 1940 –Nick Buoniconti, American football player
- 1943 –Lucien den Arend, Dutch artist
- 1953 –J. M. DeMatteis, American comic book writer
- 1960 –Walter Werzowa, Austrian composer
- 1986 –Xiah, South Korean singer (TVXQ)
Who died on December 15?
- 1673 –Margaret Cavendish, English writer (b. 1623)
- 1715 –George Hickes, English minister and scholar (b. 1642)
- 1855 –Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (b. 1803)
- 1878 –Alfred Bird, chemist (b. 1811)
- 1947 –Arthur Machen, Welsh author (b. 1863)
- 1980 –Dimitrios Partsalidis, Greek politician (b. 1905)
- 1980 –Kostas Biris, Greek architect, city planner and folklorist (b. 1899)
- 1989 –Edward Underdown, English actor (b. 1908)
- 2010 –Bob Feller, American baseball player (b. 1918)
- 2011 –Bob Brookmeyer, American jazz musician (b.1929)
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