Not all that much of interest happening today, in 2010, but there were some interesting events on December 15 in other years.
1791--The Bill of Rights took effect with Virginia's ratification of it.
1890--Sioux Indian chief Sitting Bull was killed by Native American police.
1916--The French defeated the Germans in the Battle of Verdun.
1939--The movie Gone With the Wind premiered in Atlanta, Georgia.
1944--Band leader Glenn Miller disappeared in a plane crash over the English Channel.
1961--Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death by an Israeli court for organizing the deportation of Jews to concentration camps.
1964--Canada adopted its national flag, a red maple leaf on a white background.
1966--Animated-cartoon pioneer and movie producer Walt Disney died in Los Angeles.
1989--A demonstration that turned into a popular uprising in Romania began the downfall of Nicolae Ceausescu.
4 comments:
I was raised in Canada and we were taught in school that our flag was red with a white square, not white with only a red maple leaf. Just saying.
"Sioux Indian chief Sitting Bull was killed by Native American police"
native american or indian?
Abba,
Native Americans to use the general term (and yes, to be pc as well) and Native Sioux Indians employed by the "white man" as police officers if you want to be specific. Or as one source put it, "the government killed Sitting Bull," leaving out any mention of the ethnicity of the police officers involved. And left out that the officers volunteered to go arrest Sitting Bull precisely because as Sioux they disagreed with his philosophy.
"1961--Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death by an Israeli court for organizing the deportation of Jews to concentration camps."
If you haven't read "The House on Garibaldi Street" I'd definitely recommend it. It's about how the Mossad tracked down, caught, and brought Eichmann to Israel to stand trial. Fascinating read in my opinion.
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