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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 2019 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, 2019 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 26,272,800 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 41 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 2,550 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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December 15 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1941 –Holocaust: German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobitsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine.
- 1994 –Palau becomes a member of the United Nations.
- 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?
- 1926 –Nikos Koundouros, Greek film director
- 1947 –Rodney Bingenheimer, American radio personality
- 1967 –Mo Vaughn, American baseball player
- 1979 –Adam Brody, American actor
- 1985 –Diogo Fernandes, Brazilian footballer
Who died on December 15?
- 1230 –King Otakar I of Bohemia (b. 1155)
- 1855 –Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (b. 1803)
- 1985 –Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Mauritian politician (b. 1900)
- 2003 –Keith Magnuson, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1947)
- 2008 –León Febres Cordero, Ecuadorian politician (b. 1931)
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