December 15 holidays, events, history
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 International Tea Day.
🌏 Zamenhof Day (Esperanto holiday).
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇸 USA – Bill of Rights Day.
🇳🇱 Netherlands – Royal Day.
🇮🇩 Indonesia – Indonesian Army Day.
🇺🇦 Ukraine – Judicial Officers Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1055 – With the official consent of the Caliph al-Qaim, the Seljuk Turks led by Togrul Beg solemnly entered Baghdad.
– 1256 – Hulagu’s army launched an attack on Alamut.
– 1762 – Catherine II signed a manifesto allowing foreigners and fugitives, except Jews, to enter Russia.
– 1791 – The Bill of Rights, which introduced the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution, came into force.
– 1821 – The French Geographical Society was founded.
– 1875 – Jules Verne’s novel The Mysterious Island was published.
– 1899 – The Battle of Colenso.
– 1905 – The Pushkin House was founded in St. Petersburg.
– 1917 – The Moldavian People’s Republic (MPR) was proclaimed in Chisinau.
– 1923 – The emblem of the Skoda automobile company was registered.
– 1930 – A military coup against the government in Spain failed.
– 1937 – The NKVD’s Greek operation begins – mass repressions against Greeks in the Soviet Union.
– 1939 – Premiere of the film My Feelings Left in the Winds.
– 1941 – Holocaust: Thousands of Jews are shot in Drobiy Yar.
– 1966 – French astronomer Audouin Dollfuss discovers Saturn’s 10th moon and names it Janus.
– 1970 – The Soviet Union’s Venera-7 interplanetary station lands on Venus.
– 1972 – The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is founded.
– 1976 – The Independent State of Samoa is admitted to the UN.
– 1989 – The start of the revolution in Romania.
– 1990 – The Supreme Soviet of the Kyrgyz SSR adopts the Declaration of Sovereignty of Kyrgyzstan.
– 2000 – Unit 3 of the Chernobyl NPP is shut down. The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is completely dismantled.
