Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 15
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December 15: First Day of Hanukkah (Judaism, 2025)
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Constantine VIII
- 1025 – Constantine VIII (depicted) became the sole Byzantine emperor, 63 years after being crowned co-emperor.
- 1890 – Sitting Bull, a Hunkpapa Lakota leader, was killed on Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in South Dakota by U.S. Indian agency police.
- 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.
- 1945 – The US-led occupying forces ordered the government of Japan to cease state support for Shinto.
- 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.
- David Teniers the Younger (bapt. 1610)
- Sarah Trimmer (d. 1810)
- Vallabhbhai Patel (d. 1950)
- Bob Feller (d. 2010)
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Emperor Hailingwang of Jin
The United States Constitution
Alamut besieged by Mongols
The Battle of Baia
Gone with the Wind film poster
F-22A Raptor
Sitting Bull
1906 GNP&BR poster
Replica of the Venera 7 descent vehicle
Adolf Eichmann on trial
Ella Stewart
Maolra Seoighe
American forces at the Battle of Arawe
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Galactic Tick Day (2021) | stub |
| Kingdom Day in Aruba, Curaçao, the Netherlands, and Sint Maarten (1954); | outdated |
| Zamenhof Day (Esperanto culture) | very little evidence in sources that this is still observed post-2018 |
| 533 – Forces led by Belisarius defeated Gelimer and the Vandals at the Battle of Tricamarum, completing the "Reconquest of North Africa" under Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. | refimprove |
| 1161 – Emperor Hailing of the Jin dynasty was assassinated in a military camp near the Yangtze River front following Jin losses in the Battle of Caishi. | unreferenced section |
| 1167 – Stephen du Perche, Chancellor of the Kingdom of Sicily, moved the royal court to Messina to prevent a rebellion. | refimprove |
| 1256 – The Hashshashin stronghold at Alamut in present-day Iran was captured and destroyed by Hulagu Khan and the Mongols. | cleanup section |
| 1467 – Troops under Stephen III of Moldavia defeated the forces of Matthias Corvinus of Hungary at the Battle of Baia (pictured) in present-day Romania. | Neutrality disputed tag |
| 1882 - Maolra Seoighe was wrongly convicted and hanged for the Maamtrasna murders following a trial in a language he could not understand. | Date not cited |
| 1964 – The six-month long Great Canadian Flag Debate effectively ended when the Canadian House of Commons voted to replace the de facto national flag of Canada, the Canadian Red Ensign, with an official one designed by historian George Stanley, the Maple Leaf Flag. | refimprove section; Flag of Canada already appears on February 15 |
| 1965 – The first space rendezvous took place when NASA spacecraft Gemini 6A maneuvered within 30 centimeters (12 inches) of Gemini 7. | Gemini 6A: refimprove section; Gemini 7: unreferenced/refimprove sections; Space rendezvous: too technical |
| 1973 – The American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its official list of mental disorders, the DSM-II. | refimprove section |
| 1994 – Netscape Navigator 1.0, the leading web browser in the 1990s, was first released. | refimprove section |
| 1995 – The European Court of Justice handed down the Bosman ruling, allowing footballers in the European Union to freely transfer from one UEFA Federation to another at the end of their contracts. | refimprove |
| 2005 – The F-22 Raptor, an early successful stealth fighter, entered into service despite a protracted and costly development period. | Date not cited in article |
| 2010 – A boat carrying around 90 asylum seekers, mostly from Iraq and Iran, crashed into rocks and sank off the coast of Christmas Island, Australia, killing 48 people. | outdated |
| Frankie Dettori |b|1970| | refimprove section; CN tags |
| Surya Bonaly |b|1973| | Too much unreferenced |
Eligible
- 687 – Sergius was elected pope, ending the last disputed period of sede vacante during the Byzantine Papacy.
- 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.
- 1791 – The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified.
- 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.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Union troops defeated the Army of Tennessee, one of the largest Confederate forces, at the Battle of Nashville.
- 1871 – Sixteen-year-old Ella Stewart sent the first telegraphed message from Arizona Territory.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1970 – The Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 touched down on the surface of Venus, making the first successful landing of a spacecraft on another planet.
- 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.
- 2013 – The South Sudanese Civil War began when three opposition leaders voted to boycott the meeting of the National Liberation Council in Juba.
- Born/died: | Izaak Walton |d|1683| Arthur Dehon Little |b|1863| Florence Jepperson Madsen |b|1886| J. Paul Getty |b|1892| Vibert Douglas |b|1894| Maurice Wilkins |b|1916| John Meurig Thomas |b|1932| Lee Jung-jae |b|1972| León Febres Cordero |d|2008| Saufatu Sopoanga |d|2020