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December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 16 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 533 – ...
Current events/2009 December 15. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Danish hosts urge countries on to compromise to salvage agreement on a new U.N. pact aimed at averting dangerous climate change and global warming. P:GW (Reuters)
October 7 – The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers, 4 games to 3, to win their 15th World Series Title. October 12 – The Gamma Sigma Sigma National Service Sorority is founded in New York City at Panhellenic Tower. October 14 – The United Nations begins work in the new headquarters of the United Nations in New York City.
Disasters and accidents A truck drives into a restaurant in Ningxia, China, killing seven people. (China Daily) Law and crime Police in Bahrain detain prominent blogger Zainab Alkhawaja during a protest near the capital Manama. (BBC) The United Nations calls for the protection of LGBT rights worldwide, in its first report on the issue. (Reuters) Former President of France Jacques Chirac is ...
December 1, 1969: Congressman Pirnie drawing the first number. The first draft lottery in the United States since 1942 (and the first in peacetime) was held, and September 14 was the first of the 366 days of the year selected, with Congressman Alexander Pirnie of New York making the first selection. [1]
December 27, 1946 (Friday) At Melbourne, the United States won the finals of the first Davis Cup tournament to be held since 1939. Technically, the event was the very first Davis Cup, after having officially been called the International Lawn Tennis Challenge since 1939.
2015 in various calendars. 2015 ( MMXV) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2015th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 15th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2010s decade.
Wednesday, December 18, 1929. The cruise ship RMS Fort Victoria was hit by the ocean liner SS Algonquin while sailing in a dense fog in the Ambrose Channel between the U.S. states of New York and New Jersey. All on board the Fort Victoria were rescued before the ship sank, and the Algonquin survived the collision.