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Unforgettable Moments: December 15 in History
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On December 15 in history, some of the most memorable moments took place.
1488 Bartolomeu Dias returns to Portugal after becoming 1st known European to sail round the Cape of Good Hope
1569 Hunted by Queen Elizabeth I for treason in "The Rising of the North", Charles Neville, Earl of Westmorland, escapes to Scotland.
1593 State of Holland grants patent on windmill with a crankshaft
1612 German Astronomer Simon Marius is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope
1791 1st US law school established at University of Pennsylvania
1791 US Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gives its approval, becomes amendments 1-10 of the US constitution
1792 1st life insurance policy issued in US (Philadelphia)
1836 Patent Office burns in Washington, D.C.
1840 Napoleon Bonaparte receives a French state funeral in Paris 19 years after his death
1854 1st street-cleaning machine in the US used in Philadelphia
1874 1st reigning king to visit US is the King of Hawaii, received by President Grant
1874 Henry Bergh, Eldgridge Gerry, and philanthropist John D. Wright found the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the world's 1st anti-child abuse agency, in NYC (later known as The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NYSPCC)
1903 NY Wall Street vendor Italo Marchiony [Marcioni] granted patent for a mound for making ice cream cones
1939 "Gone With The Wind", drama film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh, premieres in Atlanta (Best Picture 1940, inflation not adjusted highest-grossing film of all time)
1939 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn in Seaford, Delaware
1941 The American Federation of Labor adopts a no-strike policy in war industries.
1941 USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship
1942 Massachusetts issues 1st US vehicular license plate tabs
1944 American bandleader Major Glenn Miller, lost over the English Channel
1944 US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star
1961 Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death for war crimes in Israel
1961 Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time
1961 Martin Luther King Jr. joins over 500 civil rights demonstrators in jail, arrested for protesting in Albany, Georgia
1961 US President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy visit Puerto Rico - last official sitting presidential visit until Obama in 2011
1965 Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7)
1966 Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus
1970 Illinois State Constitution is adopted at a special election
1970 Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
1984 USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
1992 Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year
1997 SF 49ers retire Joe Montana's #16
2001 The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean
2005 Introduction of the F-22 Raptor into USAF active service.
2006 First flight of the F-35 Lightning II.
2009 Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner makes its maiden flight from Seattle, Washington.
2013 China successfully lands its moon rover on the moon
2015 Mayor of Flint, Michigan declares state of emergency over contaminated water supplies amid calls for a criminal investigation
2021 Las Vegas' McCarran Airport officially changes name to Harry Reid International Airport
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