15 December

The **15t o December** is the 349t day o the year (350t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 16 days bidin.

## Events

* 687 - St. Sergius I becomes Pape.
* 1791 - The Unitit States Bill o Richts is passed.
* 1881 - The El Habra dam break in Algerie kills 250 fowk.
* 1890 - Native American Hunkpapa Lakota chief Sitting Bull is shot deed bi a reserve polisman in North Dakota.
* 1905 - The Alexander Pushkin Hoose is established in Saunt Petersburg.
* 1916 - Warld War I: French forces defeat German forces at Verdun.
* 1941 - The Holocaust: German troops murther aroond 15,000 Jews at Drobytsky Yar, sootheast o Kharkiv, Ukraine.
* 1954 - The chairter o the Netherlands goes intae effect.
* 1961 - An Israeli coort sentences Nazi politeecian Adolf Eichmann tae daith.
* 1965 - Spacecrafts "Gemini 6A" an "Gemini 7" meet in space.
* 1967 - The Silver Brig ower the Ohio River collapses, killin 46 fowk.
* 1970 - The Soviet Union's spacecraft "Venera 7" launds on Venus.
* 1970 - Sooth Korean ferry "Namyong Ho" capsizes in the Korea Strait, killin 308 fowk.
* 1976 - Samoa jyns the Unitit Naitions.
* 1978 - US Preses Jimmy Carter switches frae recognition o the Republic o Cheenae (Taiwan) tae recognition o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae.
* 1979 - The baird gemme Trivial Pursuit is creatit bi Canadians Chris Haney an Scott Abbott.
* 1994 - Palau jyns the Unitit Naitions.
* 1999 - Landslides in Venezuela kill hundreds o fowk.
* 2001 - The Leanin Touer o Pisa re-opens efter a 12-year renovation.
* 2013 - The funeral o Nelson Mandela taks place.
* 2013 - Michelle Bachelet is electit Preses o Chile for a seicont time.

## Births

* 37 - Nero, Roman Emperor (d. 68)
* 130 - Lucius Verus, Roman Emperor (d. 169)
* 1832 - Gustave Eiffel, French ingineer (d. 1923)
* 1852 - Henri Becquerel, French pheesicist (d. 1908)
* 1859 - L. L. Zamenhof, Pols creator o Esperanto (d. 1917)
* 1860 - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Faroese medicinar (d. 1904)
* 1861 - Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, Preses o Finland (d. 1944)
* 1871 - John Stewart-Murray, 8t Duke o Atholl, Scots sodger an politeecian (d. 1942)
* 1899 - Harold Abrahams, Inglis athlete (d. 1978)
* 1907 - Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian airchitect (d. 2012)
* 1916 - Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-Breetish biochemist (d. 2004)
* 1928 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrick airtist (d. 2000)
* 1933 - Tim Conway, American actor an comedian (d. 2019)
* 1949 - Don Johnson, American actor, director, producer an sangster
* 1951 - Joe Jordan, Scots fitbawer
* 1979 - Adam Brody, American actor
* 1979 - John Potter, Scots fitbawer
* 1980 - Serge Pizzorno, Inglis sangster (Kasabian)
* 1981 - Roman Pavlyuchenko, Roushie fitbawer
* 1984 - Martin Skrtel, Slovak fitbawer
* 1986 - Keylor Navas, Costa Rican fitbawer
* 1988 - Steven Nzonzi, French fitbawer
* 1992 - Jesse Lingard, Inglis fitbawer
* 1993 - Kyle Waddell, Scots curler

## Daiths

* 1611 - Walter Scott, 1st Laird Scott o Buccleuch, Scots nobleman (b. 1565)
* 1675 - Johannes Vermeer, Dutch penter (b. 1632)
* 1819 - Daniel Rutherford, Scots medicinar, chemist an botanist (b. 1749)
* 1839 - Alexander Gerard, Scots splorer (b. 1792)
* 1841 - David Don, Scots botanist (b. 1799)
* 1890 - Sitting Bull, leader o the Hunkpapa Lakota fowk
* 1900 - Charles Stuart, 12t Laird Blantyre, Scots politeecian an laundawner (b. 1818)
* 1944 - Glenn Miller, American muisicker (b. 1904)
* 1950 - Vallabhbhai Patel, Indie politeecian (b. 1875)
* 1956 - William Wright Smith, Scots botanist (b. 1875)
* 1958 - Wolfgang Pauli, German pheesicist (b. 1900)
* 1962 - Charles Laughton, Inglis-American actor, director an producer (b. 1899)
* 1966 - Walt Disney, American animator, director an producer (b. 1901)
* 2011 - Christopher Hitchens, Inglis-American writer an creetic (b. 1949)
* 2013 - Joan Fontaine, Inglis-American actress (b. 1917)

## Halidays

* Eat day o St. Valerian, mairtyred in 457
* Zamenhof Day (Esperanto muivement)
* Kinrick Day (Netherlands)