On This Day December 15th

 December 15th is the three-hundred-forty-ninth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 16 days remaining until the end of the year.



Events

 533 – Vandalic War: Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Tricamarum


 1256 – Mongol forces under Hulagu enter and dismantle the Nizari Ismaili (Assassin) stronghold at Alamut Castle (present-day Iran) as part of their offensive on Islamic southwest Asia.


1651 – Castle Cornet in Guernsey, the last stronghold that supported the King during the Third English Civil War, surrendered.


1778 – American Revolutionary War: British and French fleets clash in the Battle of St. Lucia.


1791 – The United States Bill of Rights becomes law when ratified by the Virginia General Assembly.


1871 – Sixteen-year-old telegraphist Ella Stewart keys and sends the first telegraphed message from Arizona Territory at the Deseret Telegraph Company office in Pipe Spring.


1903 – Italian American food cart vendor Italo Marchiony receives a U.S. patent for inventing a machine that makes ice cream cones.


1945 – Occupation of Japan/Shinto Directive: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as the state religion of Japan.


1965 – Project Gemini: Gemini 6A, crewed by Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford, is launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida. It achieved the first space rendezvous in four orbits later with Gemini 7.

1993 – The Troubles: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.


2001 – The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years, and $27,000,000 was spent to stabilize it without fixing its famous lean.







Birthdays


AD 37 – Nero, Roman emperor (d. 68)


1610 – David Teniers the Younger, Flemish painter (d. 1690)


1832 – Gustave Eiffel, French architect, and engineer, co-designed the Eiffel Tower (d. 1923)


1860 – Niels Ryberg Finsen, Faroese-Danish physician and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1904)


1861 – Charles Duryea, an American engineer and businessman, co-founded the Duryea Motor Wagon Company (d. 1938)


1891 – A.P. Carter, American country singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1960)


1892 – J. Paul Getty, an American-English businessman and art collector, founded Getty Oil (d. 1976)


1919 – Max Yasgur, American dairy farmer and host of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair (d. 1973)


1933 – Tim Conway, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2019)


1949 – Don Johnson, American actor


1967 – Mo Vaughn, American baseball player


1989 – Nichole Bloom, American actress and model





 


 Holiday Highlight


 BILL OF RIGHTS DAY


The Bill of Rights, ratified on December 15, 1791, consists of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, safeguarding fundamental freedoms like speech, religion, the press, protest, and protections against government overreach. To honor its 150th anniversary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared December 15 as Bill of Rights Day in 1941, shortly after the Pearl Harbor attack. In his radio address, Roosevelt praised its global impact on liberty and denounced dictators like Hitler for suppressing freedoms.


President Truman reaffirmed the observance in 1946, later proclaiming it an annual event starting in 1952, often tied to Human Rights Day. In 2019, President Trump continued the tradition, calling on Americans to celebrate the Bill of Rights’ protection of their God-given liberties.


 

Holidays And Observance 


Bill of Rights Day 

Cat Herders Day 

International Tea Day 

National Cupcake Day

National Lemon Cupcake Day 

National Wear Your Pearls Day

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