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What happened in history on this day: December 15?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On December 15 in ...
- 1983 - In the 1:00 AM sign-off slot of KMVT television station in Twin Falls, Idaho, Apple Computer runs its 1984 Macintosh ad, solely to make the ad eligible for awards during 1984. Cost of running the ad: $10.
- 1999 - Microsoft releases Windows 2000 to computer manufacturers.
- 1923 - Disney ships the film Alice's Day at Sea to M.J. Winkler Productions.
- 1924 - M.J. Winkler Productions releases the Alice Comedy film Alice the Piper to theaters.
- 1925 - M.J. Winkler Productions releases the Alice Comedy film Alice in the Jungle to theaters.
- 1932 - Disney publishes the last issue of the Official Bulletin of the Mickey Mouse Club.
- 1934 - The Mickey Mouse film Two-Gun Mickey is released to theaters. Minnie Mouse also appears.
- 1938 - Walt Disney meets with Sidney Franklin, holder of rights to the Bambi story for an extended story session. Then Disney makes an announcement to press postponing the film, doing Pinocchio in its place.
- 1950 - The Donald Duck film Out on a Limb is released. Chip 'n' Dale also appear.
- 1954 - The ABC TV network airs the Disneyland TV show, featuring the first "Davy Crockett" episode, Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter.
- 1958 - The Junior Autopia attraction at Disneyland closes for major remodelling.
- 1963 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, featuring Pollyanna, part three.
- 1966 - At 9:30 AM in St. Joseph's Hospital, Walt Disney dies of acute circulatory collapse, caused by lung cancer, at age 65. He had won more than 950 honors and citations worldwide, including 31 Oscars and seven Emmys.
- 1966 - Roy O. Disney, president of Walt Disney Productions, is named chairman. Donn Tatum becomes president, and Card Walker is appointed executive vice president for operations.
- 1968 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, entitled The Owl That Didn't Give a Hoot.
- 1972 - Construction begins on the Space Mountain attraction at Walt Disney World.
- 1973 - The Pirates of the Caribbean attraction opens in Adventureland in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World.
- 1985 - Michael Eisner and French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius sign a letter of intent to build a Disney theme park on 4400 acres at Marne-la-Vallée, twenty miles east of Paris, France.
- 1987 - The film Magic Journeys opens in the Fantasyland Theater in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World.
- 1989 - The Star Tours attraction opens in the Disney-MGM Studios park.
- 1992 - St. Vincent issues 28 postage stamps depicting scenes from Beauty and the Beast.
- 1992 - St. Vincent issues eleven postage stamps depicting scenes from Symphony Hour.
- 1992 - St. Vincent issues eleven postage stamps depicting scenes from The Small One.
- 1992 - St. Vincent issues eleven postage stamps depicting scenes from The Three Little Pigs.
- 1992 - St. Vincent issues eleven postage stamps depicting scenes from How to Play Football.
- 1992 - St. Vincent issues eleven postage stamps depicting scenes from Rescue Rangers.
- 1992 - St. Vincent issues ten postage stamps depicting scenes from Darkwing Duck.
- 1992 - St. Vincent issues eleven postage stamps depicting scenes from Clock Cleaners.
- 1992 - St. Vincent issues eleven postage stamps depicting scenes from The Art of Skiing.
- 1992 - St. Vincent issues eleven postage stamps depicting scenes from Orphan's Benefit.
- 1992 - St. Vincent issues eleven postage stamps depicting scenes from Thru the Mirror.
- 1992 - The Grenadines of St. Vincent issues 66 postage stamps depicting Disney characters in classic fairy tales.
- 1992 - The Grenadines of St. Vincent issues eleven postage stamps depicting scenes from Duck Tales.
- 1992 - The Grenadines of St. Vincent issues eleven postage stamps depicting scenes from Darkwing Duck.
- 1992 - The Grenadines of St. Vincent issues eleven postage stamps depicting scenes from The Great Mouse Detective.
- 1992 - The Grenadines of St. Vincent issues eleven postage stamps depicting scenes from Oliver & Company.
- 1992 - The Grenadines of St. Vincent issues eleven postage stamps depicting scenes from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
- 2000 - Disney releases the Walt Disney Pictures animated feature film The Emperor's New Groove to theaters in the US. The film was originally called Kingdom of the Sun.
- 2000 - The Agrabah Bazaar marketplace opens in Adventureland in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World.
- 2002 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US.
- The episode title "The Great Louse Detective" is a reference to the Disney film The Great Mouse Detective.
- A mother says a prison isn't a good place to bring children. A child says "It still beats Disney's California Adventure". The other family members agree.
- 2003 - The Mary Poppins stage show opens in London, England.
- 2009 - Disney releases The Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie on DVD in the US.
- 2009 - The D Street shop opens at Downtown Disney District at Disneyland.
- 2009 - Disney releases G-Force on DVD in the US.
- 1939 - Finns wreck metal mines and withdraw from Salmijärvi.
- 1940 - British forces drive Italians out of Egypt, and invade Libya.
- 1941 - American submarine Swordfish sinks Japanese ship Atsutasan Masu off Hainan Island.
- 1941 - As part of Mediterranean Convoy HG76, Australian destroyer Nestor sinks German submarine U127 off Cape St. Vincent.
- 1943 - (1200 hours) In Italy, sixteen American tanks attempt to advance into San Pietro. A few hours later, four surviving tanks withdraw. Seven were destroyed, five immobilized.
- 1944 - (evening) 341 British bombers attack Ludwigshafen, Germany, inflicting great damage.
- 1995 - Philippines issues five postage stamps marking the 50th anniversary of various events at the end of the war in the Philippines.
- 2005 - Bosnia & Herzegovina issues a postage stamp commemorating the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Jasenovac concentration camp.
- 1988 - Christer Pettersson is charged with the murder of Olof Palme.
- 1977 - The Royal Canadian Mint produces a 16 mm diameter one-cent test token. It is soon discovered to be interchangeable with a higher valued Toronto Transit Commission token.
- 1795 - US Senate confirms appointment of Elias Boudinot as Mint Director.
- 1851 - US Senate passes legislation to establish a Branch Mint in San Francisco.
- 1882 - Philadelphia Mint superintendent Snowden sends 25 5-cent pattern coins to Mint Director Horatio Burchard. The designs include head of Liberty, USA, and date on one side, and wreath "V" and motto on other.
- 1912 - Philadelphia Mint Superintendent John Lands receives a letter from Mint Director George Roberts instructing that 1913 5-cent coinage would be exclusively Buffalo/Indian designs, no Liberty Head type permitted.
- 2006 - US Treasury imposes a ban on melting 1-cent and 5-cent coins.
- 2008 - US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson unveils the designs to be used on the 2009 quarter dollar coins honoring the District of Columbia and the five territories.
- 2011 - Representative Steve Stivers of Ohio introduces H.R. 3693, the "Cents and Sensibility Act", in the House of Representatives, calling for the one-cent coin to be made of steel.
- 2011 - Representative Steve Stivers of Ohio introduces H.R. 3694, the "Saving Taxpayer Expenditures by Employing Less Imported Nickel Act", in the House of Representatives, calling for the five-cent coin to be made of steel.
- 1891 - James Naismith invents basketball (Canada).
- 1894 - Cricket day two first T Australia versus England; Australia 586 (Gregory 201) England 3-130.
- 1909 - Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League.
- 1925 - First hockey game at Madison Square Garden, Montreal Canadiens 3, New York Americans 1.
- 1930 - Donald Bradman takes his first Test Cricket wicket (Ivan Barrow, West Indies, lbw).
- 1933 - Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15.
- 1935 - Detroit Lions win NFL championship.
- 1946 - Chicago Bears beat New York Giants 24-14 in NFL championship game.
- 1946 - New York Giants' Frank Filchock and Merle Hapes are suspended by NFL, because they didn't report bribe attempt.
- 1950 - Ezzard Charles knocks out Nick Barone to retain heavyweight boxing title.
- 1954 - Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons.
- 1965 - William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as fourth commissioner of baseball.
- 1966 - John W Mecom Junior becomes first owner of the New Orlean Saints.
- 1973 - Sandy Hawley becomes first jockey to win 500 races in one year.
- 1973 - Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game.
- 1974 - Oakland Athletics' Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with New York Yankees).
- 1978 - Test Cricket debut of Malcolm Marshall, versus India at Bangalore.
- 1980 - New York Yankees' Dave Winfield becomes highest-paid player, ten years $15 million.
- 1982 - Bill Parcells becomes the 12th head coach of the New York Giants.
- 1983 - Three Kansas City Royals' players suspended due to cocaine usage.
- 1991 - Deb Richard wins JBP Cup LPGA Match Play Golf Championship.
- 1992 - Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportman of Year.
- 1994 - Diane Modahl banned from athletics for drug use, in the United Kingdom.
- 1995 - The European Court of Justice rules that all EU football players have the right to a free transfer between European Union member states at the end of their contracts.
- 1996 - Dottie Pepper and Juli Inkster win LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches.
- 1996 - Jim Colbert and Bob Murphy win Diner's Club Senior PGA Golf Matches.
- 1996 - Tom Lehman and Duffy Waldoff win Diner's Club PGA Golf Matches.
- 1997 - San Francisco 49ers retire Joe Montana's #16.
- 2021 - At Honda Center in Anaheim, California, USA, NHL regular season game: Anaheim Ducks beats Seattle Kraken by score 4-1.
- 2021 - At Gila River Arena in Glendale, Arizona, USA, NHL regular season game: New York Rangers beats Arizona Coyotes by score 3-2.
- 2021 - At United Center in Chicago, Illinois, USA, NHL regular season game: Chicago Blackhawks beats Washington Capitals by score 5-4.
- 1612 - Simon Marius, is first to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope.
- 1859 - GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun.
- 1964 - First time four people in space.
- 1965 - Gemini 6 launched; will make first rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7).
- 1966 - Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus.
- 1970 - Soviet Venera 7 is first spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus).
- 1981 - NASA launches Intelsat V.
- 1984 - USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet.
- 1965 - Third cyclone of year kills another 10,000 at mouth of Ganges River, Bangladesh.
- 1999 - Torrential rains cause catastrophic floods and mudslides in the coastal regions of Venezuela, killing an estimated 25,000 people and leaving 100,000 others homeless.
- 2018 - At the Katowice Climate Change Conference, nearly 200 nations agree to rules on implementing the 2015 Paris agreement.
- 1791 - First US law school established at University of Pennsylvania.
- 1791 - US Bill of Rights (first 10 Amendments to Constitution) is ratified as Virginia gives its approval.
- 1792 - First life insurance policy issued in US (Philadelphia).
- 1795 - US Senate confirms Elias Boudinot as US Mint director.
- 1810 - First Irish magazine in US, The Shamrock, is published.
- 1826 - William Browser, revolting slave, is executed in New York City, New York.
- 1836 - Patent Office burns in Washington DC.
- 1851 - US Senate passes legislation to establish a Branch Mint in San Francisco.
- 1854 - First street-cleaning machine in US first used in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1863 - Skirmish at Bean's Station, Tennessee (Knoxville Campaign).
- 1864 - Battle of Nashville, Tennessee.
- 1864 - Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon and Glade Springs, Virginia.
- 1872 - Near Lake Chelan, Washington, USA, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs.
- 1874 - First reigning king to visit US (of Hawaii) is received by President Ulysses Grant.
- 1877 - Thomas Edison patents phonograph.
- 1890 - In South Dakota, Pine Ridge reservation police kill Sioux chief Sitting Bull Hunkpapa, while trying to arrest him.
- 1914 - American Radio Relay League (organization for ham radio operators) founded by Hiram Percy Maxim.
- 1918 - American Jewish Congress holds its first meeting.
- 1925 - First road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic.
- 1938 - Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC.
- 1939 - First commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Deleware.
- 1939 - World premiere of film Gone With the Wind in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1941 - USS Swordfish becomes first US submarine to sink a Japanese ship.
- 1942 - Massachusetts issues first US vehicular license plate tabs.
- 1944 - US Congress gives General Dwight Eisenhower his fifth star.
- 1944 - US troops lands on Mindoro.
- 1948 - Former state department official Alger Hiss indicted in New York City for perjury.
- 1950 - New York City's Port Authority opens.
- 1961 - Equal access rule in US, political parties get TV broadcasting time.
- 1964 - American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded.
- 1965 - Gemini 6 launched; will make first rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7).
- 1966 - At 9:30 AM in St. Joseph's Hospital, Walt Disney dies of acute circulatory collapse, caused by lung cancer, at age 65. He had won more than 950 honors and citations worldwide, including 31 Oscars and seven Emmys.
- 1967 - Silver Bay bridge (Ohio-West Virginia) collapses during afternoon rush hour, 34 die.
- 1973 - American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not mental illness.
- 1973 - Pirates of the Caribbean ride opens at Disneyland, Anaheim, California.
- 1976 - Liberian oil tanker Argo Merchant runs aground off Massachusetts' Nantucket coast, spilling 28 million litres of crude oil, causing a 160km by 97km oil slick.
- 1978 - Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first major American city to go into default since the Great Depression, under Mayor Dennis Kucinich.
- 1979 - Deposed Shah of Iran leaves US for Panamá.
- 1979 - World Court in Hague rules Iran should release all US hostages.
- 1982 - Roy Williams, Teamsters' president, and four others convicted of bribery.
- 1983 - Last 80 US combat soldiers in Grenada withdraw.
- 1986 - US Central Intelligence Agency director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure.
- 1986 - Carnegie Hall reopens after a US$50 million facelift.
- 1995 - Because of the "quadruple-witching" option expiration, volume on the New York Stock Exchange hits 638 million shares, the highest single-day volume since October 20, 1987.
- 2006 - Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter successfully flies for the first time.
- 2006 - US Treasury imposes a ban on melting 1-cent and 5-cent coins.
- 2011 - The United States formally declares an end to the Iraq War.
Other history:
- 1891 - James Naismith invents basketball (Canada).
- 1916 - French defeat Germans in World War I Battle of Verdun.
- 1944 - Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms.
- 1964 - Canada adopts maple leaf flag.
- 1965 - Third cyclone of year kills another 10,000 at mouth of Ganges River, Bangladesh.
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