THIS DAY IN HISTORY DEC 15
News: 100 years ago
1903 - Arrival of the Kumano Maru to Thursday Island.
Source:
http://www.blaxland.com/ozships/events/9/869.htm#4092
News:
50
years ago
1953 - The airline Aviatica
Curtiss C-46D-15-CU crashed into the Tecpan
Mountains (8000 ft) in Guatemala as it left from Brownsville, TX to
Guatemala City- La Aurora Airport.
Source:
http://aviation-safety.net/database/1953/531215-0.htm
News:
25 years ago
1978 -
Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James.
Source: http://www.brainyhistory.com/days/december_15.html
News: 10
years ago
1993 - Lee Aspen resigns as secretary of
defense.
Source:
http://www.brainyhistory.com/days/december_15.html
News:
5 years ago
1998 - At Microsoft's high-profile
antitrust trial, a Walt Disney executive said that Disney received an
online link in Windows only after the company agreed to create content
that could be viewed solely by Internet Explorer users.
Source:
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/all42day/history/h4dec/h4dec15.html
News: 1 year ago
2002- Christianity Today reported according to The Daily Telegraph,
London that schools 'failing to teach pupils basic message
of Christianity'.
Source:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/002/28.17.html
December 15th happenings in history!
Births:
0037 - Nero Claudius Augustus
Germanicus who became the 5th emperor of Rome (54-68) was born on
this day.
1832 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, the French engineer who designed the
Eiffel tower was born on this day.
1852 Antoine Henri Becquerel who discovered radioactivity and
winner of the 1903 Noble Peace Prize was born on this day.
Deaths:
1951 Eric Drummond, the
1st Secretary-General League of Nations from 1919-33, dies at 75 on this
day.
1966 Walt Disney, animator who put in suspended animation dies at
65 on this day.
1997 Lillian Disney, widow of Walt Disney, dies at 98 on this day.
Entertainment:
1939 - World premiere of "Gone With The Wind" in
Atlanta GA.
Inventions:
1877
- Thomas Edison patents phonograph.
1891 - James Naismith invents basketball (Canada)
News:
1664 -
English colonizing Connecticut.
1680
- Tax revolt on Terschelling due to tax on cereal.
1791
- Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval.
1791 - 1st US law school established at University of
Pennsylvania.
1792 - 1st life insurance policy issued in US (Philadelphia).
1836
- Patent Office burns in Washington DC.
1854 - 1st street-cleaning machine in US; 1st used in
Philadelphia.
1916 -
French defeat Germans in WWI Battle of Verdun.
1917 - Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia.
1918 - American Jewish Congress holds it's 1st meeting.
1938
- Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC.
1941
- USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship.
1941 - Gas/electrical use restricted in Holland.
1941
- Nazi's transfers 100 Czechoslovakian citizens/Heinrich Himmler
falls faint.
1942 -
Massachusetts issues 1st US vehicular license plate tabs.
1944
- Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms.
1944 - US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star.
1954
- Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of
Netherlands.
1961
- Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel.
1961 - Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting
time.
1964
- Canada adopts maple leaf flag.
1964 - 1st time 4 people in space.
1964 - Canada adopts maple leaf flag.
1964 - 1st time 4 people in space.
1973
- American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not
mental illness.
1979 - Deposed Shah of Iran leaves US for Panamá.
1979 -World
Court in Hague rules Iran should release all US hostages.
1993
- Lee Aspen resigns as Secretary of Defense.
1995
- Playboy goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland.
1997 -
San Francisco 49ers retire Joe Montana's #16.
Source:
http://www.scopesys.com/today
2000 - Operators shut down the
Chernobyl nuclear power plant with the flip of a switch, closing the
facility for good 14 years after it spawned the world's worst nuclear
accident.
2000 - The "School of the Americas", in
Fort Benning, Georgia, a US army facility critics have labeled a school
for dictators, torturers and assassins is being closed today under that
name, to reopen on 17 January 2001 as the “Western Hemisphere Institute
for Security Cooperation.”.
2001 - The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens to visitors (no more
than 30 at a time), after being closed since 1990, while its tilt was
being reduced from 4.50 meters to 4.09 meters.
Source:
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/all42day/history/h4dec/h4dec15.html
Religion:
1558 - Dutch Anabaptist reformer
Menno Simons wrote in a letter: 'Wherever there is a pulverized and
penitent heart, there grace also is, and wherever there is a voluntary
confession not gained by pressure, there love covereth a multitude of
sins.'
1739 - English revivalist George Whitefield wrote in a letter: 'My
brother, entreat the Lord that I may grow in grace, and pick up the
fragments of my time, that not a moment of it may be lost.'
1957 - British apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'May it
please the Lord that...faith unimpaired may strengthen us, contrition
soften us and peace make us joyful.'
1990 - More than 400 American Roman Catholic theologians charged
that the Vatican had been throttling church reforms and imposing "an
excessive Roman centralization." They contended that the Vatican had
undercut a greater role for women, slowed the ecumenical drive for
Christian unity and undermined the collegial functioning of national
conferences of bishops.
Source:
http://www.scopesys.com/today
Compiled by
Ramesh C. Reddy
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