15 December

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.

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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

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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)

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