A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, December 15th!
| 1862 | Nathan B. Forrest crosses the Tennessee River at Clifton with 2,500 men to raid the communications around Vicksburg, Mississippi. |
| 1862 | In New Orleans, Louisiana, Union Major General Benjamin F. Butler turns his command over to Nathaniel Banks. The citizens of New Orleans hold farewell parties for Butler, “The Beast,” but only after he leaves. |
| 1864 | The battle at Nashville begins. |
| 1890 | As U.S. Army soldiers attempt to arrest Sitting Bull at his cabin in Standing Rock, South Dakota, shooting breaks out and Lt. Bullhead shoots the great Sioux leader. |
| 1903 | The British parliament places a 15-year ban on whale hunting in Norway. |
| 1916 | The French defeated the Germans in the World War I Battle of Verdun. |
| 1920 | China wins a place on the League Council; Austria is admitted. |
| 1924 | The Soviet Union warns the United States against repeated entry of ships into Soviet territorial waters. |
| 1938 | Washington sends its fourth note to Berlin demanding amnesty for Jews. |
| 1938 | Ground was broken for the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. |
| 1939 | The movie “Gone With the Wind” had its world premiere in Atlanta.httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mM8iNarcRc |
| 1944 | The battle for Luzon begins. |
| 1944 | Bandleader Glenn Miller’s U.S. Army plane disappeared over the English Channel. |
| 1946 | Vietnam leader Ho Chi Minh sends a note to the new French Premier, Leon Blum, asking for peace talks. |
| 1961 | Adolf Eichmann, the former German Gestapo official accused of a major role in the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews, is sentenced by a Jerusalem court to be hanged. |
| 1965 | The United States drops 12 tons of bombs on an industrial center near Haiphong Harbor, North Vietnam. |
| 1966 | Movie producer Walt Disney died at age 65. |
| 1967 | President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the meat bill in the presence of Upton Sinclair, the author of the controversial book The Jungle.  |
| 1972 | The Commonwealth of Australia orders equal pay for women. |
| 1989 | A popular uprising that led to the downfall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu began in Romania. |
| 2003 | The late Sen. Strom Thurmond’s family acknowledged Essie Mae Washington-Williams’ claim that she was Thurmond’s illegitimate mixed-race daughter. |
| 2004 | American telecommunications giants Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. announced they would merge in a $35 billion deal. |
| 2005 | Millions of Iraqis turned out to choose a parliament in a mostly peaceful election. |
| 2009 | The Washington, D.C. City Council voted to legalize same-sex marriage. |
| 2010 | The U.N. Security Council gave a unanimous vote of confidence to the government of Iraq by lifting 19-year-old sanctions on weapons and civilian nuclear power. |
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