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🎂 Famous Historical Birthdays - December 15, 2025

1980 NY Yankee Dave Winfield becomes highest-paid player, 10 years $15M

1939 "Gone With the Wind" premieres in Atlanta

1969 Plastic Ono Band, play their only concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom

1939 1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware

1956 KGW TV channel 8 in Portland, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting

1941 USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship

1582 Spanish Netherlands/Denmark/Norway adopt Gregorian calendar

1864 Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon & Glade Springs, VA

1965 William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th commissioner of baseball

1909 Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League

1973 Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game

1988 Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks

1956 Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes

1916 French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun

1124 Chancellor Haimeric selects pope (Lamberto becomes Honorius II)

1986 150 killed during race riot in Karachi

1582 Leidse university names Rembert Dodoens prof of botany/medicine

1996 Tom Lehman & Duffy Waldoff wins Diner's Club PGA Golf Matches

1982 Roy Williams, Teamsters pres, & 4 others convicted of bribery

1954 Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands

1945 John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest

1979 Deposed Shah of Iran leaves US for Panama

1990 Rocker Rod Stewart marries super model Rachel Hunter

1964 American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded

1994 Liberia militia kills 48 inhabitants of Monrovia

1950 NYC's Port Authority opens

1933 Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15

1965 Bangladesh windstorm kills 10,000

1973 Golf Resort (Disney Inn) opens

1982 Bill Parcells becomes 12th head coach of NY Giants

1859 GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun

1956 WRAL TV channel 5 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (CBS) begins broadcasting

1612 Simon Marius, is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope

1964 Canada adopts maple leaf flag

1593 State of Holland grants patent on windmill with crankshaft

1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1970 S Korean ferry Namyong-Ho sinks in Strait of Korea, 308 killed

1925 1st hockey game at Madison Sq Garden, Mont Candiens 3, NY Americans 1

1927 Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads

1930 Don Bradman takes his 1st Test Cricket wicket (Ivan Barrow, WI, lbw)

1986 CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure

1586 Laevinus Torrentius, becomes bishop of Antwerp

1981 NASA launches Intelsat V

1863 Skirmish at Bean's Station, Tennessee (Knoxville Campaign)

1983 Wendy Wasserstein's "Isn't It Romantic," premieres in NYC

1993 Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns

1965 Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7)

1995 Playboy goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland

1993 British premier Major/Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination

1815 Rossini gets assignment for Il barbiere di Siviglia

1994 "Tuna Christmas" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 20 performances

1993 Y-12 crashes at Phonesavanh, Laos: 18 killed

1973 US Psychiatrist say homosexuals are not mentally ill

1874 1st reigning king to visit US (of Hawaii) received by Pres Grant

1919 Fiume (Rijeka) declares it's Independence

1640 Duke of Bragan‡a crowned King Johan IV of Portugal

1978 Test Cricket debut of Malcolm Marshall, v India at Bangalore

1991 Deb Richard wins JBP Cup LPGA Match Play Golf Championship

1938 Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC

1941 Gas/electrical use restricted in Holland

1959 Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me"

1982 Sao Tome & Principe constitution approved

1864 Battle of Nashville, TN

1488 Bartholomeus Diaz returns to Portugal after sailing round Cape of Good Hope

1939 Snip departs for 1st flight to Paramaribo/Cura‡ao

1982 Spain reopens border with Gibraltar

1569 Westmoreland flees to Scotland

1985 Sylvester Stallone & Brigitte Nielson wed

1974 A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees)

1944 US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star

1991 "Nick & Nora" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 9 performances

1997 SF 49ers retire Joe Montana's #16

1966 "Joyful Noise" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 12 performances

1965 D Heneker & J Taylor's musical "Charlie Girl," premieres in London

1962 Vaughn Meader's "1st Family," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 12 wks

1917 Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia

1981 4th Emmy Sports Award presentation

1966 John W Mecom Jr becomes 1st owner of New Orlean Saints

1914 Swedish troops over run Belgrade in Austria-Hungary

1936 KVL-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KEEN (now KING)

1986 Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift

1973 Pirates of Caribbean ride opens at Disneyland

1948 Former state dept official Alger Hiss indicted in NYC for perjury

1891 James Naismith invents basketball (Canada)

1877 Thomas Edison patents phonograph

1952 Christine Jorgenson is 1st person to undergo a sex-change operation

1899 Battle at Colenso, South Africa (Boers-British army)

0687 St Sergius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Conon

1992 Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportman of Year

1929 Walter Mittelholzer flies as 1st about the Kilimanjaro

1994 John Bruton becomes Ireland's premier

1950 Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone to retain heavyweight boxing title

1811 Earthquake hits New Madrid, Missouri

1993 John Williams final appearance as conductor of Boston Pops

1952 "Two's Company" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 90 performances

1688 Lord Delamere sides with King James II [NS 12/25]

1983 3 KC Royals suspended due to cocaine usage

1745 Battle at Kesseldorf: Prussia beats Saksen & Austria

1792 1st life insurance policy issued in US (Phila)

1949 Albert Camus' "Les Justes" premieres in Paris

1961 L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels

1820 1st General pharmacopoeia in US published, Boston

1791 Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval

1941 North Africa: allied assault up Italians Gazala-posing

1922 IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague

1996 Dottie Pepper & Juli Inkster win LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches

1935 Max Euwe becomes world champ chess beating Alexander Aljechin

1946 Chic Bears beat NY Giants 24-14 in NFL championship game

1965 Queen Juliana opens Zeeland Bridge to Oosterschelde

1967 Joe Garagiola joins Today Show panel

1946 Giants Filchock & Hapes suspended by NFL, didn't report bribe attempt

1925 1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic

1996 Jim Colbert & Bob Murphy wins Diner's Club Senior PGA Golf Matches

1952 KHON TV channel 2 in Honolulu, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting

1983 Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB

1914 Battle of Lўdz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow

1935 Detroit Lions win NFL championship

1967 Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again"

1961 JFK visits Puerto Rico

1854 1st street-cleaning machine in US 1st used in Philadelphia

1970 Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261

1794 Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France

1976 Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 m gallons of crude when ship ran aground

1680 Tax revolt on Terschelling due to tax on cereal

1978 Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James

1967 Silver Bay bridge (Oh-WV) collapes during afternoon rush hr, 34 die

1919 Edna St Vincent Millay's "Aria da Capo," premieres in NYC

1973 Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year

1810 1st Irish magazine in US, Shamrock, is published

1965 3rd cyclone of year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges River

1791 1st US law school established at University of Pennsylvania

1941 German submarine U-127 sinks

1960 King Boudouin of Belgium marries do¤a Fabiola de Mora y Aragon

1944 Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel

1980 Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena

1667 Brandenburg declares himself neutral in Devolutie War

1983 Last 80 US combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew

1664 English colonizing Connecticut

1984 USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet

1918 American Jewish Congress holds it's 1st meeting

1944 US troops lands on Mindoro

1954 Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons

1944 Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms

1893 Dvor ks "From the New World" premieres at Carnegie Hall NYC

1934 Fokker F18 Snip flies to Neth West Indies

1914 British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea

1993 Lee Aspen resigns as secretary of defense

1987 "Les Miserables" opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston

1964 1st time 4 people in space

1660 Philippines: Andres Malongs rebels plunders Bagnotan

1894 Cricket day 2 1st T Aus v Eng Aus 586 (Gregory 201) England 3-130

1970 Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)

1980 ZBZ Sangha registered after 5 yrs of administrative hassles in Warsaw

1966 Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus

1952 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientales Ecclesias

1836 Patent Office burns in Wash, DC

1979 World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all US hostages

1953 WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, FL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting

1942 Massachusetts issues 1st US vehicular license plate tabs

1992 WNew AM (1130) NYC resigns air, replaced by WBBR

1969 SF Fire Dept replaces leather helmets with plastic ones

1941 Nazi's transfers 100 Czech citizens/Heinrich Himmler falls faint

1926 Facist national symbol elevated in Italy

1976 Jamaica premier Manley wins elections

1973 American Psychiatric Assn declares homosexuality is not mental illness

1961 Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel

1993 C-130 flies into a Philippines hill & explodes, 16 killed

1961 Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time

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