37 The emperor Nero was born in December 15, 37 in Antium (modern Anzio and Nettuno), near Rome. He was the only son of Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus and Agrippina the younger, sister and reputed lover of Caligula. His full name at birth was not Nero but Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus. When he was 11 his mother married the emperor Claudius who then officially adopted Lucius as Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus.
1782 The eighth President of the United States, Martin Van Buren, was born on in Kinderhook, a town in upper state New York. Ten days later, he was baptised as Maarten Van Buren at Kinderhook Dutch Reformed Church on December 15, 1782. Because he was raised in a Dutch family, Martin spoke Dutch as his first language.
1791 The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified on December 15, 1791. There are several original engrossed copies of the Bill of Rights still in existence. One of these is on permanent public display at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
1836 The first 10,280 patents issued in the US between 1790 and 1836 were destroyed by a fire on December 15 1836; fewer than 3,000 of those have been recovered and re-issued with numbers that include an "X".
1890 In 1890 the arrest of Hunkpapa Lakota tribal chief Sitting Bull was ordered as the US government feared he was an instigator of the Ghost Dance, a religious movement among Indians. During the ensuing struggle on December 15, 1890. between Sitting Bull's followers and the agency police, the Native American leader was shot in the side and head by two Native-American policemen. Sitting Bull dropped to the ground and died.
1910 A Gräf & Stift Bois de Boulogne Double Phaeton luxury limousine fitted with a four-cylinder engine delivering 32 PS was purchased by Count Franz von Harrach on December 15, 1910. The car became famous when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated driving it in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. This was the casus belli of World War 1.
1923 The first organized speedway was created at Maitland, New South Wales, Australia on December 15, 1923 when New Zealand-born rider "Johnny" S. Hoskins organised a sports charity carnival called the Electric Light Carnival, staged on the Maitland Showground. It included a race between a couple of young, local motorcyclists on a dirt-track.
1933 The first-ever cricket Test match in India was played at the Bombay Gymkhana ground between England and India on December 15 to December 19, 1933. Temporary stands were put up at the ground to accommodate a record crowd of 50,000 people, with tickets selling at five times their usual price. England won by nine wickets.
1939 The Gone With The Wind movie premiered at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta to cheering crowds on December 15, 1939. There was a parade before the movie premiere. There were also three days of parties in which the stars of the movie wore costumes and many stores in the city were re-decorated to look like they would have been in the Civil War.
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| Nero and Agrippina. Agrippina crowns her young son Nero with a laurel wreath |
1782 The eighth President of the United States, Martin Van Buren, was born on in Kinderhook, a town in upper state New York. Ten days later, he was baptised as Maarten Van Buren at Kinderhook Dutch Reformed Church on December 15, 1782. Because he was raised in a Dutch family, Martin spoke Dutch as his first language.
1791 The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified on December 15, 1791. There are several original engrossed copies of the Bill of Rights still in existence. One of these is on permanent public display at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
1836 The first 10,280 patents issued in the US between 1790 and 1836 were destroyed by a fire on December 15 1836; fewer than 3,000 of those have been recovered and re-issued with numbers that include an "X".
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| Blodget's Hotel, built 1793, later (from 1802 to 1836) the U.S. Patent Office. |
1890 In 1890 the arrest of Hunkpapa Lakota tribal chief Sitting Bull was ordered as the US government feared he was an instigator of the Ghost Dance, a religious movement among Indians. During the ensuing struggle on December 15, 1890. between Sitting Bull's followers and the agency police, the Native American leader was shot in the side and head by two Native-American policemen. Sitting Bull dropped to the ground and died.
1910 A Gräf & Stift Bois de Boulogne Double Phaeton luxury limousine fitted with a four-cylinder engine delivering 32 PS was purchased by Count Franz von Harrach on December 15, 1910. The car became famous when Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated driving it in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914. This was the casus belli of World War 1.
1923 The first organized speedway was created at Maitland, New South Wales, Australia on December 15, 1923 when New Zealand-born rider "Johnny" S. Hoskins organised a sports charity carnival called the Electric Light Carnival, staged on the Maitland Showground. It included a race between a couple of young, local motorcyclists on a dirt-track.
1933 The first-ever cricket Test match in India was played at the Bombay Gymkhana ground between England and India on December 15 to December 19, 1933. Temporary stands were put up at the ground to accommodate a record crowd of 50,000 people, with tickets selling at five times their usual price. England won by nine wickets.
1939 The Gone With The Wind movie premiered at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta to cheering crowds on December 15, 1939. There was a parade before the movie premiere. There were also three days of parties in which the stars of the movie wore costumes and many stores in the city were re-decorated to look like they would have been in the Civil War.
1949 Birdland was a popular jazz club that started in New York City on December 15, 1949. Located at 1678 Broadway, just north of West 52nd Street in Manhattan, it was popular with many of the writers of the Beat generation. The name was adopted to capitalize on the popularity of their regular headliner Charlie "Bird" Parker.
1952 British mathematician, historian and political activist Bertrand Russell married his fourth wife, American writer and biographer Edith Finch on December 15, 1952. They had known each other since the 1930s after being introduced through her close friend and housemate Lucy Martin Donnelly, who was a friend of Russell's first wife, Alys. By all accounts, their relationship was very close and loving throughout their marriage.
1966 Walt Disney died of lung cancer on December 15, 1966. He was 65 and a chain smoker.
He was cremated, and his ashes interred at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Los Angeles. There is an urban legend about Walt Disney's body being cryogenically frozen and buried beneath the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland.
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| Walt Disney |
1966 The much loved animated movie version of The Jungle Book was the final film to be personally supervised by Walt Disney himself - he died during production on December 15, 1966. In Germany, Disney's The Jungle Book is the biggest movie of all time—the original theater run sold 27.3 million tickets.
1970 On December 15, 1970 Venera 7 successfully landed on Venus becoming the first successful soft landing on another planet and send information back to earth. The probe transmitted information back home for 53 minutes, which included 23 minutes from the surface before succumbing to heat and pressure.
1973 Sixteen-year-old John Paul Getty III, the grandson of oil tycoon Jean Paul Getty, was kidnapped by an Italian gang in July 1973. After two ransom notes were ignored an envelope containing a lock of hair and a human ear was delivered to a daily newspaper with a threat of further mutilation of Paul. At this point Getty Sr. agreed to pay up and get his grandson back for about $2.9 million. Getty III was found alive in a filling station of Lauria, near Naples, on December 15, 1973.
1973 The American Psychiatric Association reversed a long standing position and voted 13–0 on December 15, 1973 to remove homosexuality from its official list of psychiatric disorders, the DSM-II. The removal of homosexuality from the DSM-II reflected a growing recognition within the mental health community that being homosexual is not a mental illness.
1985 The US Marshals caught more than 100 Washington DC criminals in a massive sting by mailing them all free (fake) tickets to a Redskins game. When they arrived to pick up the tickets on the morning of December 15, 1985 they were apprehended. Operation Flagship remains one of the most successful stings in law enforcement history.
2001 The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopened on December 15, 2001 after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to fortify it. The tower was leaning at an increasingly precarious angle due to a poorly laid foundation and soft ground. To prevent the tower from toppling over, engineers undertook extensive work to stabilize the structure without completely correcting its tilt. The restored Tower of Pisa leans at a 3.97 degree angle.
2006 Prince William graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst on December 15, 2006. With his rank obtained, the Prince, using the name of William Wales, followed his younger brother Harry into the Blues and Royals as a troop commander in an armoured reconnaissance unit.
William went on to train as a pilot, which he completed at the Royal Air Force College Cranwell, earning his wings in 2008.
2010 On December 15, 2010, NASA's Mars Odyssey broke the record for longest serving spacecraft at Mars, with 3,340 days of operation. It is currently the longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth. The spacecraft is currently in a polar orbit around Mars with an altitude of about 3,800 km or 2,400 miles.
2013 The Museu CR7 in Funchal, Maderia, Portugal opened on December 15, 2013. It is a museum dedicated to the footballer Cristiano Ronaldo and contains his rare photos, medals, trophies and other items related to him.
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