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Notable anniversaries in history for today: December 15
- 900th: 1124 - Chancellor Haimeric selects pope (Lamberto becomes Honorius II).
- 150th: 1874 - First reigning king to visit US (of Hawaii) is received by President Ulysses Grant.
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Ida Haendel; Polish violinist/author (Woman with Violin).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Stan Bahnsen; New York Yankees pitcher (1968 American League Rookie-of-year).
- 80th: 1944 - Death of bandleader/composer Glenn Miller ("Chattanooga Choo-Choo"), at age 40, in a plane crash between London and Paris.
- 80th: 1944 - Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms.
- 80th: 1944 - US Congress gives General Dwight Eisenhower his fifth star.
- 80th: 1944 - US troops lands on Mindoro.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Alex Cox; director (Repo Man).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Felicity LaFortune in Oak Park, Illinois, USA; actress (Ryan's Hope).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Justin Ross in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Sinatra, Chorus Line, Fan, Quick Change).
- 70th: 1954 - Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons.
- 70th: 1954 - The ABC TV network airs the Disneyland TV show, featuring the first "Davy Crockett" episode, Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter.
- 60th: 1964 - First time four people in space.
- 60th: 1964 - American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Carlton Bailey; NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Jerry Ball; NFL defensive tackle (Oakland Raiders, Minnesota Vikings).
- 50th: 1974 - Oakland Athletics' Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with New York Yankees).
- 50th: 1974 - Birth of Jeffrey van der Stone; soccer player (RKC).
- 50th: 1974 - Harry Hershfield, cartoonist (Can You Top This?), dies at age 89.
- 40th: 1984 - Avon Long, actor (Roots: The Next Generation), dies at age 74.
- 40th: 1984 - USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet.
- 30th: 1994 - The web browser Netscape Navigator 1.0 is released.
- 30th: 1994 - Diane Modahl banned from athletics for drug use, in the United Kingdom.
- 30th: 1994 - Hans de Jong, musician/conductor (Amsterdams Vrouwenkoor), dies at age 86.
- 30th: 1994 - Henry Phelps Brown, historian/economist, dies at age 88.
- 30th: 1994 - John Bruton becomes Ireland's premier.
- 30th: 1994 - Liberia militia kills 48 inhabitants of Monrovia.
- 30th: 1994 - Mollie Doreen Phillips, British figure skater (Europe-bronze-1933), dies at age 87.
- 25th: 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.
- 20th: 2004 - Albanian terrorists take a bus and its passengers hostage in Athens, Greece and demand one million euros in ransom money.
- 15th: 2009 - US television evangelist Oral Roberts dies in Newport Beach, California at age 91 from complications from pneumonia.
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